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 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.