Database Platforms

Informit

Address

PO BOX 12058
A'Beckett Street
Melbourne VIC 8006
AUSTRALIA

URL

Informit Service - http://search.informit.com.au
Informit product information website - http://www.informit.com.au

Contact Email

info@rmitpublishing.com.au

Contact Tel

+61 3 9925 8100

Databases

Informit e-Library

Humanities and Social Science Collection
Business Collection
Engineering Collection

Informit Plus Text databases

Australian Public Affairs Full Text
A+ Education
AGIS Plus Text
Meditext
Family & Society Plus

Summary

RMIT Publishing's Informit databases provide access to full text articles from 1,000+ journals, originating from 600+ publishers. The Informit e-Library and Plus Text databases cover a broad subject range including, education, business, engineering, law, medical, humanities and social science.

Credible research institutions worldwide use RMIT Publishing's Informit databases to complement and broaden their existing collections. Informit is the premier source of scholarly research generated from the Australia/Asia Pacific region.

RMIT Publishing's Informit products offer:

• Unique content (not available electonically elsewhere)
• Authoritative research across a broad range of subject areas
• A single point of access to research generated from the Australasia and Asia Pacific region

Content

Restrictions

Information not provided

Embargo Rules

RMIT Publishing seeks to minimise embargo periods. Embargos are subject to partner and publisher agreements and can vary. The vast majority of content has a maximum embargo of 2 months.

Update Frequency

Frequency of databases varies across the premium Informit e-Library and Informit Plus Text databases. Updates range from daily to twice a month.

Content Classification

The Informit databases are broken down into various product groups. For the UK and Europe markets the main product groups are:

Informit Plus Text databases
Informit e-Library resources

Access Control

Authentication

• Username/Password

Notes

RMIT Pubilshing offers five different authentication methods when subscribing to the Informit service.

Username and Password
Go to: http://search.informit.com.au
Users must type their username and password in the boxes provided and click on Login.

IP Authentication
Provide your IP address ranges to RMIT Publishing to enter into Informit Admin.
Go to: http://search.informit.com.au
Users will automatically be logged into Informit; as long as your computer's IP address is part of the range provided.

Referring URL Authentication
Provide a referring URL to RMIT Publishing to enter into Informit Admin.
Link to: http://search.informit.com.au from that referring URL.
Users will automatically be logged into Informit; as long as they link from the referring page provided.

Embedded Username and Password
Link to: http://search.informit.com.au/databases;username=XXXXX;password=YYYYY
Where XXXXX and YYYYY are the Informit username and password for your organisation.
Users will automatically be logged into Informit.

Barcode Authentication
Barcode authentication allows remote users of small libraries to access Informit by using their library card barcode or member number details.
Provide RMIT Publishing your barcode ranges which are unique to your organisation, along with a referring URL.
You can link to any Informit Search page from your webpage as long as it ends with barcode=true;org=XXXXX

Concurrency Limit

Concurrency limits are based on the institute's subscription to databases.

Restrictions

No major restrictions on access, subject to the terms of the the Informit Licence Agreements.

Free Trials

A free 14 day trial is available to any of the Informit databases by registering at [[http://www.informit.com.au/trial.html]

Free access to the Informit e-Library 'metadata' is available for searching at http://search.informit.com.au

Search

Features

• Advanced Search
• Boolean AND
• Boolean NOT
• Boolean OR
• Exact Phrase
• Keywords
• Search by Author
• Search by Citation
• Search by Content Type
• Search by Date
• Search by Subject
• Search by Title
• Simple Search
• Wildcards

Notes

Ways to search Informit

• Basic searching allows the user to do a keyword or phrase search or to easily construct complex searches using drop-down lists to indexes of important fields (Title, Author, Subject, Abstract, Journal Title, ISSN, etc.).

• Advanced searching is available using the ISO 8777 compliant Informit Query Language and the option to search in any field.

• Full text Publication browsing is available for Informit e-Library Collections and Plus Text databases providing a user-friendly and intuitive way to locate articles and publications. Browsable pages available: Publication Title, Table of Contents (e-books, conference proceedings), List of Issues (journals). Additionally, Document Summary pages are available for all complete item Titles (e.g. books, reports) and component item Titles (e.g. journal articles, book chapters) listing Title, Authors, Subjects, ISSN/ISBN, Abstract, Document Type, Imprint, Series and the item Citation. Browsing of Titles can also be done via Publication Type, Subject and Publishers. Coverage dates of journals are provided. Full text Publication browsing is associated with fully searchable index database(s) and you can switch easily between Publication browsing and searching the associated index database. Similar full content browsing functions and associated index database searching are available for Informit Media databases.

Additional Search Features

• Restoration marks: To escape a reserved term (e.g. OR) or character
• Boolean XOR
• WITH operator: Search for terms in the same paragraph
• NEAR operator: Search for terms in the same sentence
• Ranging operators (in year or number type fields, e.g. ‘Publication Year’)
• Truncation Search
• Proximity searching: Unordered adjacency search, Ordered adjacency search, Unordered proximity search, Ordered proximity search
• Field Search: Single term, Phrase and Multiple fields (search several fields at once)
• Parentheses: May be used to override normal precedence rules
• Stemming Search
• Fuzzy Search
• Combine previous searches to refine or expand the search query
• Search Full Text of Articles (Informit e-Library Collections and Plus Text databases only)
• Thesaurus Browse and Search (Plus Text databases only)

Special cross-search fields

• ‘AUTHOR’ to search all author fields in database(s): personal and corporate authors are searched.
• ‘SUBJECT’ to search all subject fields in database(s): controlled, uncontrolled and identifier fields are searched.

Searchable fields

• Available for all important fields, where included in a database, e.g.: Author, Subject, Abstract, Document Type, Journal Title, ISBN, ISSN, Publication Year, etc.
• Single term searching: Enter term in Search Query box and choose Field to find records listing the term
• Multiple term searching: Enter terms in multiple Search Query boxes and combine multiple chosen Fields using Boolean operators to find records listing the terms

Browsable indexes

• Available for all important fields, where included in a database: Author, Subject, Document Type, Journal Title, Publication Year, etc.
• Single term searching using links: Click any listed index term to find records listing the term
• Multiple term searching: Select multiple terms via check boxes to find records listing terms

Links within records are available for all important Author, Subject, ISBN, ISSN, Journal Title and other host title fields.

Indexing

Informit e-Library Collections

Indexed in-house by Informit: to international standards with abstracts, Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and Identifiers.

Informit Plus Text databases

Indexed by third party hosted content providers, each with its’ own controlled vocabulary thesaurus (e.g. MeSH), Identifiers and indexing policies. Additional subject fields are available in many databases, e.g. ‘Personal Name as Subject’, etc.

All other databases are either indexed in-house or by third party hosted content providers and have either a thesaurus, controlled subject list or subject keywords.

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) or International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is provided for items in most databases.

Cross Database Search

Cross-database searching is supported via the native interface and via z39.50.

Web Search

Informit provides a native web based searching interface.

Saved Searches

Users are able to save and re-load search histories.

Search Tips

Online Support documentation is available through the Informit interface (http://search.informit.com.au) along with a Quick Reference Card which provides users with handy search tips.

Additional information can also be found on the Informit support page - http://www.informit.com.au/support.html

Search Results

Features

• Include Abstracts
• OpenURL linking

Notes

Fields shown can be limited to Brief Citation, Citation and Abstract or Complete Record. The number of records shown per results page may be changed.

Ordering

Search results may be sorted by Publication Date (newest or oldest first), Database, Author, Source or Article Title. By default the records are sorted by Publication Date.

Exporting

Search results can be exported.

File formats include:

• HTML
• Plain Text
• Endnote
• Endnote Direct
• Refworks Direct
• XML

Other Functionality

Citation Linking

No.

Full Text Linking

Informit is OpenURL compliant. Source and Target linking are available.

Help Information

Help Information is available when using the interface. The link is located on the top right hand side of the page.

Interface Customisation

Informit Admin is the administrative module for Informit and allows organisations to change:

• Password or PIN code
• Display preferences
• Export preferences
• Sort options
• Branding options (Organisation Name)
• Logout URL
• Database selection defaults – Product View / Subject View etc
• Web holdings preferences
• OpenURL preferences
• Local support options
• Session timeout
• Pay per View preferences

Alerting

Alerts are

Plus Text databases

Usage Stats

• Available Online

The Informit Admin module allows clients to generate statistical reports.

Technical Integration

Informit is fully z39.50 compatible for federated search integration. OpenURL linking is available for full text.

VLE Integration

No.

Social Bookmarking

No.

Language Support

English only.

Other

Information not provided

Accessibility

W3C Compliance

Information not provided

Browser Compatibility

Informit works on a variety of browsers and platforms. Supported browsers include:
PC - Firefox 2, Firefox 3, IE6, IE7
Mac - Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3

Plugins Required

No browser plugins are required.

Availability & Uptime

24/7 Uptime

Informit subscribers are able to access the Informit interface 24/7.

Downtime (as specified in service level agreements)

No regular downtime. Clients are notified in advance if downtime is required. ie. for version changes

Mirror Sites

No