Australian business

ABIX is an indexing service providing subject access to business information contained in the periodical literature of Australia and New Zealand, including key industry journals and newspapers. More than 200 titles are indexed dating from 1994 to the present.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database. Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

AUSTGUIDE contains all the GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES data from January 1986 onwards.

GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES give complete subject access to the contents of more than 120 periodicals, of both general and educational interest. The majority of these periodicals are Australian, but there are a considerable number of overseas publications indexed, such as 'Scientific American', 'History Today', 'Far Eastern Economic Review' and 'Unesco Courier'. A complete listing of the periodicals indexed is included in the AUSTGUIDE on-screen guide.

The Annual Report Collection contains a selection of annual reports from the top 500 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Companies are chosen based on market capitalisation. Each report includes a Corporate Directory, Executive Officer Statements, Company Review, Financial Statements and Notes to the Accounts. Reports can be accessed individually or all of the information can be cross-referenced. Updated information is available from the Connect 4 Australian Company Information Web site - click here to access that site.

Comprehensive financial information on ASX listed companies updated daily. Corporate details, Share market data, Company & operational history, dividend history, current capital table & growth of capital history, substantial shareholders, directors' interest, company financials for 10 years and full reports on all companies that have been delisted since 1990.

This site provides a database of Australian companies, their products and services and contact details. Also provided is information on Austrade's services, getting ready to export, export assistance and Internet marketing advice.

The Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre contains Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books, biographies, photographs, maps and flags.

Titles include: Architecture Australia, Australian Geographic, Australian Women's Weekly, Inside Rugby, The Australian (National), The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), Encyclopedia of Australia, History of Australia, etc.

Complete title coverage list available on EBSCOhost website.

The ACCC promotes and enforces competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws. This site contains information and news about consumer rights, industry regulation and price monitoring.

The inflation calculator uses data on consumer and retail prices to calculate changes in the cost of purchasing a representative basket of goods and services. This calculator is provided by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

This site provides basic information about business organisations. Search by company name, business, association, ACN or ARBN. Results of searches display information such as company classification, locality of office and a list of documents lodged.

This online database contains the full text of Australian and New Zealand standards,as well as indexing standards from the International Standards Organization (ISO, British Standards and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) records. Search by Standard title, number, keywords or phrases.

This site provides information about the stock exchange including links to fee-based company information.

This is an Australian government website for businesses. It got a lot of very useful links to different government business web pages. It also has a section on 'Doing business with Australia'.

A national Indigenous business and community enterprise directory. As well as providing a comprehensive national listing of Indigenous businesses, community enterprises and services, Black pages aims to be a central communication portal to promote Australia's Indigenous culture and facilitate community and socio-economic development. Links to Government and other information relating to Indigenous affairs are listed in the Smart links section.

Laws and standards for all aspects of construction in Australia.

Business Source Complete provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Also includes country reports, company and industry profiles and market research reports.

This online database provides information on Australian public and private companies including company activities, contact details, company directors, branches, subsidiaries, company websites, tradenames and agencies. The company information is fully searchable which allows you to locate information such as companies within specific industries, companies by region or see who sits on which boards.

The Business entry point (BEP) is an initiative of the Australian Federal Government. The site provides information on running a business, the ability to register with the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as well as access to detailed information related to specific business topics.

This site is useful for people wanting to find out what has happened to companies that are no longer listed on the ASX, and especially shareholders in failed companies who need to establish if they can claim a capital loss against their income tax.

Factiva is a full-text news and financial information database of publications from Australian and international sources in 22 languages from 118 countries including newspapers, magazines, company and industry reports, newswires, pictures, and websites. Searches may be limited by keywords, subject, region, industry, company, language etc. but personal notices and advertising are not included.

A guide to locations of historical records of Australian companies, currently encompassing 2,337 entities with references to 1,396 archival resources and 894 published resources. Changes of company name are provided for some companies.

There is an alphabetical Browse List of all entities or through one of the following 7 categories : Corporate Bodies; Industry Bodies; Partnerships; Pastoral Stations; People; Statutory Authorities; Repositories.

The repository browse allows you to see which business records are held in a particular archive, including Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

This Internet database, which can be searched in several languages, provides information on over 1.5 million companies involved in manufacturing, distributing, importing and exporting worldwide.

Includes Kompass Australia and Kompass New Zealand

ProQuest Australia and New Zealand Newsstand is an online news service that includes the full text (not personal notices or advertising) of major Australian, New Zealand (14), Fijian (2) and Papua New Guinea (1) newspapers, transcripts from the ABC and BBC and Australian Associated Press (AAP) News Wires.

Full text Australian newspapers covered up to the current issue include : the Australian and the Weekend Australian (from 2001); the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald (from 1996); the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph (from 2001); Wollongong's Illawarra Mercury (from 1997); Newcastle's Herald (from 1997); Newcastle's Central Coast Herald (from 1997 to 2004); Gosford's Central Coast Express Advocate (from 2004); Melbourne's Age and Sunday Age (from 1996); Melbourne's Herald Sun (from 2001); Brisbane's Courier Mail and the Sunday Mail (from 2001); The Gold Coast Bulletin, the Townsville Bulletin and the Cairns Post (from 2004); Adelaide's Advertiser and the Sunday Mail (from 2001); The Canberra Times (from 2007); Perth's Sunday Times (from 2004); Hobart's Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian (from 2001); Darwin's NT Business Review (from 2005) and its Sunday Territorian (from 2001); and Alice Spring's Northern Centralian Advocate (from 2004).

Dun and Bradstreet database of companies registered with B2nB searchable by various categories eg product, brand name, personnel, post code, business code , manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer. (Formerly known as Business to any Business)

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is responsible for printing and issuing Australian currency notes and this site provides information about the Australian notes including a counterfeit detection guide. Media releases and recent articles from the RBA Bulletin are also available.

SNIPER, produced by the Library at IP Australia, is a bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property. It provides a knowledge base to support policy, awareness and research in intellectual property matters.

This site provides access to reports prepared by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Subjects covered include imports and exports, major trading partners and major economic indicators.

A browsable and searchable database of biographies of prominent Australians. It includes various categories like Nobel Prize Winners, Diplomats in Australia and more.