Youth Studies Australia
ISSN: 1038-2569
Youth Studies Australia, issued quarterly by the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, is a peer-reviewed journal providing interdisciplinary, research-based information and analysis on the issues affecting Australians from early adolescence to young adulthood.
Aimed at practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and workers in the youth field, Youth Studies Australia is also accessible and relevant to senior secondary students.
Each issue contains at least five feature articles on subjects such as education, training, health, housing, juvenile justice, employment, culture and subcultures.
Besides its feature articles, each issue also includes:
- Youth Monitor, an extensive roundup, in précis form, of Australian press reports on youth issues
- Youth Initiatives, a column of news about programs and initiatives nationally;
- Book reviews;
- Abstracts of recent research papers from other youth-related scholarly journals in Australia and overseas, selected for their relevance and interest to Australian readers.
Abstracting and indexing information
Youth Studies Australia content is covered in the following international and Australian abstracting and indexing databases:
- Elsevier Bibliographic Databases: includes the Scopus abstract and citation database of research literature (as of January 2008);
- EBSCOhost: includes Academic Search Elite, MasterFILE, SocINDEX with Full Text, World Magazine Bank, ANZRC (Australia New Zealand Reference Centre);
- CAB Abstracts;
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS, US Department of Justice);
- Thomson Gale (Gale Group; includes Expanded Academic ASAP (with Ingenta) and InfoTrac OneFile (with Ingenta);
- Informit: Australian Education Index (ACER), Australian Public Affairs-Full Text (National Library of Australia), AUSPORT (Australian Sport Database), Family and Society Plus (Australian Institute for Family Studies) and MAIS (Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Library).
Ask about access to the above databases at your nearest academic library.
Rights and permissions
Apart from fair dealing for educational purposes, the contents of Youth Studies Australia may be reproduced only with the prior permission of the editor and the authors concerned, with appropriate acknowledgments.
The views expressed are those of the individual authors, not the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies or the Australian Government Department of Familes, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Contributors to Youth Studies Australia retain copyright of their original work. Youth Studies Australia/Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies holds copyright of the published version and reserves the right to reproduce all Youth Studies Australia material on the web site of the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies and to collect copying fees in relation to all or part of any Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies publication.