These online databases are governed by licence agreements and are for personal use by Veech Library members only. Specific licence conditions for use of individual databases can be found within that database under headings such as “terms of use, “legal Information”, “conditions of use” or similar. It is important you read and observe these terms and conditions.
PLEASE NOTE: Every second Monday of the month, from 9pm – 11pm, Sydney time, server updates will be run at the Veech Library. Access to e-resources may be unavailable or intermittent during these hours.
A-Z EJOURNAL SEARCH
Searches all the electronic journals held in the Veech Library.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Plus
AULOTS
AULOTS is a database of the serials holdings of theological and religious libraries in Australia and New Zealand. It contains holdings for 5256 serial titles held in 96 libraries.
CATHOLIC AUSTRALIA
Local, Australian & World Catholic News Info & Resources.
CATHOLIC PERIODICAL LITERATURE INDEX
Provides indexing of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism. (Note: material is now accessed via the ATLA database).
EBSCO eBook Religion Collection
EBSCO Religion and Philosophy Collection
ETHICSFINDER
EthicsFinder is an easily useable, expertly curated ethics search engine database hosted by Australian Catholic University. Gathering and displaying thousands of links to existing high-quality articles, books and videos from across the web, it is a comprehensive and continually updated ‘one-stop shop’ for anyone interested in a broad range of ethical, philosophical, cultural and social issues and, in particular, Catholic approaches.
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Veech Library full-text resources can be discovered and linked via your Google Scholar search. If you are using Google Scholar within CIS, just click here. If you are outside CIS, click on this link> click on the three bars in the top left-hand corner > go to Settings > Library Links > Search for “Veech” in the search box > Tick it > Save the setting.
JSTOR
The JSTOR Religion and Theology Collection covers the history and philosophy of religious thought spanning traditions, periods, and critical approaches. The collection contains more than 80 titles, drawn exclusively from existing JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections.
MARIST AND PACIFIC MISSION LIBRARY
This digital library makes available books on the history of various missions in the Western Pacific (Oceania), particularly those initially evangelised by the various branches of the Marist religious congregations. Print editions have been scanned into PDF.
OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE
ORO gives access to a broad range of Oxford University Press reference resources and dictionaries, for example The Oxford
SHARING THE WORD ONLINE LIBRARY
The Sharing the Word eLibrary provides full text and free online access to a wide array of English language resources in the areas of Catholic faith, living and spirituality, history and culture.
THESES RESEARCH
EBSCO Open Dissertations
Open Dissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
This database searches a large number of international electronic theses/dissertations from selected universities. Includes useful links to the international theses repositories.
TROVE (Australasian)
To search theses, select the Advanced Search and limit the Format to Thesis. For help click here. Formally ADT Australasian Digital Theses program.