Informit Admin is the administrative module for users of Informit and allows you to change your:
Informit Admin allows you to see:
Note: any changes made here will apply across your entire organisation and its branches.
Informit Admin can be viewed at https://admin.informit.com.au. To log in, you will need your username, password and PIN code.
Note: access to Informit Admin will initially be given to only one person within your organisation, referred to as the nominated administrator.
Call our Customer Support Team on +61 3 9925 8210 or email us at support.informit@rmit.edu.au.
These details will appear in the bottom right-hand corner of the Search screen. To request changes to these details, contact your organisation’s nominated administrator.
Log in to Informit Admin and enter the name of your organistion next to the Display Name. To request changes to these details, contact your organisation's nominated administrator.
If your library catalogue is web enabled, i.e. has a web based search interface, your organisation can configure Informit to show a Check Local Holdings button next to each record displayed (if the record has an ISSN or ISBN).
Clicking on this button opens a separate window and searches your library catalogue.
Note: if you are unsure about what these links should be, contact your own technical support facility and/or email our Customer Support Team at support.informit@rmit.edu.au.
These reports, available through Informit Admin, are COUNTER compliant:
Options in Informit are set at three levels—System default, Organisation and User.
Yes. OpenURL enables your library to search across all of your digital subscriptions, to see if you are currently holding a full text version of a specific article.
You need to enter your details into Informit Admin.
Note: ensure Web holdings active is set to No.
These are the methods of authentication available for Informit.
Username and password
IP authentication
Referring URL authentication
Embedded username and password
Barcode authentication
An example is:
search.informit.org/login;barcode=true;org=XXXXX
where XXXXX is the Informit username for your organisation. You will be logged into Informit, as long as the barcode entered is valid.
Shibboleth authentication
If Informit is not used for a period of time it will log out. The timeout default is set at 15 minutes; however, your site might have a different timeout setting. Email support.informit@rmit.edu.au for assistance.
Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Yes. Links can be made to all Informit databases including TVNews.
You may also link directly to program home pages, or to individual items, such as a news story. All links will continue to resolve for the life of Informit TVNews.
To include the ezproxy address in your link, access the page via your library’s ezproxy address and copy the URL.
Yes. Informit has been tested with EZ Proxy.
Informit requires SSL Configuration and the following database stanza in config.txt:
Title Informit Search
AnonymousURL -RE -CS +http://search\.informit\.com\.au/.*/[A-Z0-9]+\.mp4
URL https://search.informit.com.au
H http://search.informit.com.au
HJ search.informit.com.au
DJ informit.com.au
AnonymousURL -*
Title Informit EduTV
URL https://edutv.informit.com.au
H http://edutv.informit.com.au
DJ edutv.informit.com.au
Two dropdown menus are available on the Search Results display screen that allow users to customise display options—Sort and View.
Available export options that you can select are:
Yes. Limits are set for the duration of a session only.
Marked records are active for the duration of a session only. To retain marked records you need to save, email or print them before logging out of Informit Search.
Note: if your session times out, your marked records will be lost.
Yes. EndNote connection files are available from each database information page. From the Products menu select the database you require the connection file for, then click on the link to the Database field information page under Resources.
Follow these steps to use the connection file:
Yes. There are two methods for transferring bibliographic records from Informit into EndNote.
Yes. Bibliographic records can be exported from Informit into either your RefWorks or ProQuest Flow online library by following these steps:
Your selected records will be imported into your RefWorks online library (you may need to log in); if you have accessed your ProQuest Flow library from your browser, your records will automatically be redirected there.
No—there is no embargo on content cleared by Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) for Informit.
Yes. RSS title feeds and table of contents feeds are available for Informit Collections databases.
For more information, watch the tutorial or see the Setting up RSS feeds how to guide.
Alerts can be created on searches against any alert enabled database and saved on Informit for 3, 6 or 12 months. As new records are added to any database specified in an alert, Informit will automatically email you records that match your saved search query.
For more information, watch the tutorial or see the Creating email alerts how to guide.
Expired alerts are retained on Informit for 12 months.
To re-use and combine searches, use My Search History.
For current searches:
For previously saved searches:
Yes, Informit is run on a fully compliant Z39.50 database server.
Yes. Informit databases are held on a fully compliant Z39.50 database server.
Configure your client to point to:
Server: <z3950.informit.com.au>
Port: 210
Informit is Z39.50 compliant and has been tested successfully with Exlibris MetaLib and Serials Solutions 360 Search.
Server: <z3950.informit.com.au>
Port: 210
Username: same as for Informit
Password: same as for Informit
A list of database names is available at https://www.informit.org/index-databases: Informit interface database codes.
Attributes in use generally follow the bib-1 standard with extra attributes we have created.
Records can be retrieved in both MARC and SUTRS formats.
Please contact Screenrights directly to check whether you have a Screenrights licence.
All users within the subscribing institute’s IP range have unmediated access to all content on Informit EduTV. Users can also register with a username and password for access outside the institute’s IP range.
Click the Register link at the top of the Informit EduTV screen and enter your details (Make sure you use your institutional email address and not your private email address). If you would like to subscribe to EduTV, you can request a free trial and quote here.
Yes. Access off campus is available to individual users that belong to a subscribing institute and have registered with their institutional email address. Go to Informit EduTV, click on Register in the top right-hand corner and enter your details.
After 3 hours of no activity, logged in users will be timed out.
User logins are valid for 6 months. After this period, a password reset will be emailed to the user once an attempt is made to sign in. If a user does not sign in after a 12 month period, their account will be deleted.
No. Informit EduTV is accessed via any browser on an internet enabled computer.
No. However, Informit EduTV will use Adobe Flash player if it is installed.
Yes. Video playback is supported by all iOS and Android devices.
Yes.
Note: iPhones play video in full-screen which obscures the clip point markers. You will need to exit full-screen in order to select clip points. You can create clips on an iPad.
To exit full-screen mode on an Android device:
Use the video links generated in the share buttons to create a video link.
For example, this link contains proxy server details and will authenticate via the user’s institutional login:
The interface allows the user to share video links via email, Facebook and Twitter.
You need to be logged in with your username to see the My Favourites and My Clip Playlist tabs.
A simple search will look for any of the search terms in the program record. All fields are searched, including captions. By default, the results will be sorted by relevance.
An advanced search provides additional options to focus your search. Here you may search for exact phrases. You may limit your search to a specific subject area and broadcast date, and you can specify what metadata fields are searched, i.e. title, description, captions.
The creation of the graphic thumbnail is an automated process that captures an image a few seconds into a program. In some cases a black screen is captured.
Closed captions are available for most programs from free to air channels. Look for the CC symbol.
Closed captions are not available for programs from Foxtel channels.
For programs that were not broadcast with Closed Captions, Informit can create Captions on request.
Note: this may incur an extra charge. Please contact the Customer Support team: support.informit@rmit.edu.au.
Logging in as an administrator gives you the option to view all registered users of Informit EduTV from your institution. You can directly add registered users and email individuals their login details or reset passwords. You can also email yourself all user details in CSV format. You can also analyse video usage on your site, via the Analytics link.
Only administrators have access to usage statistics. Log in with your admin username and password and select Analytics in the main toolbar.
Please log in to Informit Admin and make changes using the Custom Collections option.
Jumpstart links can be created by using the linking syntax shown below. You will need to replace XXXXX with the relevant Database Code.
The syntax for jumpstarting directly to a single database in Informit is as follows:
search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX
For multiple databases use search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX,YYYYY
Jumpstart links can be created by using the linking syntax shown below. You will need to replace XXXXX with the relevant Database Code and YYYY-YYYY with the relevant title's ISSN.
Journal Home Pages are available for all titles within Informit full text databases:
search.informit.org/browseJournalTitle;res=XXXXX;issn=YYYY-YYYY
Pre-formatted searches allow you to jumpstart to Informit and produce a list of articles that have been indexed for a particular journal title using the following syntax:
search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX;search=IS=YYYY-YYYY
For example: search.informit.org/search;res=APAIS;search=IS=0001-3072
Pre-formatted searches allow you to log in to Informit and jumpstart to a particular database and retrieve results automatically.
The syntax is search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX;search=YYYYY where XXXXX is the database you wish to search and YYYYY is the search term, e.g. to find all articles in a database where a Plus Text PDF is available, this is the syntax required:
When you are viewing the search screen, the black Informit toolbar shows a link on the left-hand side indicating the number of databases you are searching.
For more information about the databases you are searching, click on the link. This opens a window with information. When more than one database is in use, a dropdown menu lists all available databases. Click on any of these databases to view further information, including lists of journals covered.
When you view the results of searches, they can be sorted by the options displayed in a dropdown menu at the top right of your result set. By default the records are sorted by relevance. Changes made in this area apply only to your current session.
Click the Advanced Search tab. Use the Limit Search option to select your preferred publication years. Enter a date range and perform your search.
The number of records that can fit on one screen depends on:
Yes. You can search concurrently across as many databases as you wish. Field structures have been standardised across our entire database range to allow for this.
Check the tick box Full Text Only which appears under the search box.
If you have been charged for an article you will have been sent a receipt from us via email, listing your receipt number and article information. Please forward this email to support.informit@rmit.edu.au. We can then attach and return the PDF to you. Otherwise please contact our Customer Support Team.
All programs are viewed as progressive downloads. Video files may also be saved to a specific location. To save a video, use the Save As function.
MP4 files may be played with most players that have the h264 codec installed.
Your browser can play TVNews MP4 files. You can also save the MP4 file locally and play it with your favourite media player.
Registering allows you to add programs to your favourites list and create clips. It also allows you to log in to Informit EduTV remotely without having to go through your library.
You can access EduTV anywhere.
If you access Informit EduTV through your library you will be automatically logged in and have full access to the videos.
In order to access EduTV off-campus, you are required to register:
Yes. Access off campus is available to individual users that belong to a subscribing institute and have registered with their institutional email address. Go to Informit EduTV, click on Register in the top right-hand corner and enter your details.
User logins are valid for 6 months. After this period, a password reset will be emailed to the user once an attempt is made to sign in. If a user does not sign in after a 12 month period, their account will be deleted.
No. Informit EduTV is accessed via any browser on an internet enabled computer.
You need to be logged in with your username to see the My Favourites and My Clip Playlist tabs.
A simple search will look for any of the search terms in the program record. All fields are searched, including captions. By default, the results will be sorted by relevance.
An advanced search provides additional options to focus your search. Here you may search for exact phrases. You may limit your search to a specific subject area and broadcast date, and you can specify what metadata fields are searched, i.e. title, description, captions.
The creation of the graphic thumbnail is an automated process that captures an image a few seconds into a program. In some cases a black screen is captured.
Yes. Clips and projects can be shared via the share buttons below the video player.
Note: links to clips and projects can only be created and shared by registered users of Informit EduTV. (Copying the URL from the browser and sharing the link will not work. Please use the share buttons.)
Yes. Please use the links generated by the share buttons. Do not copy the URL from the browser.
Use the following URL format to link directly to a particular article:
https://search.informit.org/documentSummary;res=[Database Code];dn=[Document Number]
For example, to jump to the article title, ‘Privatised immigration detention centres: Challenges and opportunities for implementing human rights’ by Tania Penovic in the journal Law in Context, Volume 31, 2014:
https://search.informit.org/documentSummary;res=IELHSS;dn=637331965521338
This table contains a list of all databases on Informit and their associated database code. You can create a link directly to any single database with the following syntax (replace XXXXX with the relevant database code):
search.informit.org/search;
For multiple databases use search.informit.org/search;
Please contact your library or institution to obtain a copy of the relevant licence terms.
Yes. Please use the 'Embed' button to generate the code to insert into your LMS.
All programs are viewed as progressive downloads. Video files may also be saved to a specific location. To save a video, use the Save As function.
It is recommended to download large files on a PC rather than a mobile device, and on campus rather than off campus.
All TVNews video files are in MP4 format.
MP4 files may be played with most players that have the h264 codec installed.
From 20 April 2013, nationally broadcast television programs are sourced from the Sydney broadcaster. State ABC news programs will continue to be sourced from the local broadcasters. Videos prior to 20 April 2013 were sourced from Melbourne broadcasters.
No, closed captions are currently not available for TVNews.
Average Percentage Watched = (sum of total duration watched by all starts / number of starts X duration of the video ) X (1/100)
If a video is restarted or parts of it rewatched by using the progress slider during a session, the duration may end up being greater than the total length of the video. This can lead to the Average Percentage Watched being greater than 100%.
Search results can be limited to peer reviewed journals for Informit Collections ONLY. This functionality has changed over time. Currently, the filter must be entered manually.
Example: diabetes AND PRAI=yes PRAI stands for Peer Reviewed Article Indicator.
View the recommended syntax for linking to Informit content. This guide covers individual items (Article; Conference paper; Book item) and bundled items (Journal issue; Journal title; Book; Conference proceeding; Database).
If you are unable to play EduTV videos with an Android device and you are using Chrome, follow these steps:
On Screen Report Output
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Report name: Description: Username: Report Date: Start Date & End Date: Total Web Interface: Total Z39.50 logins: Total Dbase usage: Total Turnaways: Total Searches: Total Full Text Docs: |
Displays the name you entered for the report in the Informit Statistic module Displays the description details entered in the module Automatically displays your Username Automatically displays the date the report was created Displays the selected dates nominated to generate the report Displays the amount of times users have logged into the Informit Search interface Displays the number of times users have logged into Informit Search via an external Z39.50 client Displays the total amount of times all Informit databases have been accessed Displays the “total number” of times users were unable to access all Informit databases due to maximum number of allocated licenses being exceeded Displays the total number of searches for all subscribed databases Displays the total number of PDF documents retrieved from Plus Text databases |
Database Usage
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Database: Total usage: Max Usage: Max Usage Time: Searches: Turnaways: Full Text document |
Lists the Informit databases subscribed to Total number of times databases have been accessed Maximum number of concurrent users within the report period The date and time the database was most heavily accessed The number of searches conducted in each database The number of times users were unable to access a particular database due to the maximum number of allocated licenses being exceeded Displays the total number of PDF documents retrieved from a Plus Text database |
Statistical reports can now be generated at any time of the day or night.
No results found.
No results found.
See tips on how to search Informit on Search Hints page
Find more information on Informit Support page
Informit Admin is the administrative module for users of Informit and allows you to change your:
Informit Admin allows you to see:
Note: any changes made here will apply across your entire organisation and its branches.
Informit Admin can be viewed at https://admin.informit.com.au. To log in, you will need your username, password and PIN code.
Note: access to Informit Admin will initially be given to only one person within your organisation, referred to as the nominated administrator.
Call our Customer Support Team on +61 3 9925 8210 or email us at support.informit@rmit.edu.au.
These details will appear in the bottom right-hand corner of the Search screen. To request changes to these details, contact your organisation’s nominated administrator.
Log in to Informit Admin and enter the name of your organistion next to the Display Name. To request changes to these details, contact your organisation's nominated administrator.
If your library catalogue is web enabled, i.e. has a web based search interface, your organisation can configure Informit to show a Check Local Holdings button next to each record displayed (if the record has an ISSN or ISBN).
Clicking on this button opens a separate window and searches your library catalogue.
Note: if you are unsure about what these links should be, contact your own technical support facility and/or email our Customer Support Team at support.informit@rmit.edu.au.
These reports, available through Informit Admin, are COUNTER compliant:
Options in Informit are set at three levels—System default, Organisation and User.
Yes. OpenURL enables your library to search across all of your digital subscriptions, to see if you are currently holding a full text version of a specific article.
You need to enter your details into Informit Admin.
Note: ensure Web holdings active is set to No.
These are the methods of authentication available for Informit.
Username and password
IP authentication
Referring URL authentication
Embedded username and password
Barcode authentication
An example is:
search.informit.org/login;barcode=true;org=XXXXX
where XXXXX is the Informit username for your organisation. You will be logged into Informit, as long as the barcode entered is valid.
Shibboleth authentication
If Informit is not used for a period of time it will log out. The timeout default is set at 15 minutes; however, your site might have a different timeout setting. Email support.informit@rmit.edu.au for assistance.
Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Yes. Links can be made to all Informit databases including TVNews.
You may also link directly to program home pages, or to individual items, such as a news story. All links will continue to resolve for the life of Informit TVNews.
To include the ezproxy address in your link, access the page via your library’s ezproxy address and copy the URL.
Yes. Informit has been tested with EZ Proxy.
Informit requires SSL Configuration and the following database stanza in config.txt:
Title Informit Search
AnonymousURL -RE -CS +http://search\.informit\.com\.au/.*/[A-Z0-9]+\.mp4
URL https://search.informit.com.au
H http://search.informit.com.au
HJ search.informit.com.au
DJ informit.com.au
AnonymousURL -*
Title Informit EduTV
URL https://edutv.informit.com.au
H http://edutv.informit.com.au
DJ edutv.informit.com.au
Two dropdown menus are available on the Search Results display screen that allow users to customise display options—Sort and View.
Available export options that you can select are:
Yes. Limits are set for the duration of a session only.
Marked records are active for the duration of a session only. To retain marked records you need to save, email or print them before logging out of Informit Search.
Note: if your session times out, your marked records will be lost.
Yes. EndNote connection files are available from each database information page. From the Products menu select the database you require the connection file for, then click on the link to the Database field information page under Resources.
Follow these steps to use the connection file:
Yes. There are two methods for transferring bibliographic records from Informit into EndNote.
Yes. Bibliographic records can be exported from Informit into either your RefWorks or ProQuest Flow online library by following these steps:
Your selected records will be imported into your RefWorks online library (you may need to log in); if you have accessed your ProQuest Flow library from your browser, your records will automatically be redirected there.
No—there is no embargo on content cleared by Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) for Informit.
Yes. RSS title feeds and table of contents feeds are available for Informit Collections databases.
For more information, watch the tutorial or see the Setting up RSS feeds how to guide.
Alerts can be created on searches against any alert enabled database and saved on Informit for 3, 6 or 12 months. As new records are added to any database specified in an alert, Informit will automatically email you records that match your saved search query.
For more information, watch the tutorial or see the Creating email alerts how to guide.
Expired alerts are retained on Informit for 12 months.
To re-use and combine searches, use My Search History.
For current searches:
For previously saved searches:
Yes, Informit is run on a fully compliant Z39.50 database server.
Yes. Informit databases are held on a fully compliant Z39.50 database server.
Configure your client to point to:
Server: <z3950.informit.com.au>
Port: 210
Informit is Z39.50 compliant and has been tested successfully with Exlibris MetaLib and Serials Solutions 360 Search.
Server: <z3950.informit.com.au>
Port: 210
Username: same as for Informit
Password: same as for Informit
A list of database names is available at https://www.informit.org/index-databases: Informit interface database codes.
Attributes in use generally follow the bib-1 standard with extra attributes we have created.
Records can be retrieved in both MARC and SUTRS formats.
Please contact Screenrights directly to check whether you have a Screenrights licence.
All users within the subscribing institute’s IP range have unmediated access to all content on Informit EduTV. Users can also register with a username and password for access outside the institute’s IP range.
Click the Register link at the top of the Informit EduTV screen and enter your details (Make sure you use your institutional email address and not your private email address). If you would like to subscribe to EduTV, you can request a free trial and quote here.
Yes. Access off campus is available to individual users that belong to a subscribing institute and have registered with their institutional email address. Go to Informit EduTV, click on Register in the top right-hand corner and enter your details.
After 3 hours of no activity, logged in users will be timed out.
User logins are valid for 6 months. After this period, a password reset will be emailed to the user once an attempt is made to sign in. If a user does not sign in after a 12 month period, their account will be deleted.
No. Informit EduTV is accessed via any browser on an internet enabled computer.
No. However, Informit EduTV will use Adobe Flash player if it is installed.
Yes. Video playback is supported by all iOS and Android devices.
Yes.
Note: iPhones play video in full-screen which obscures the clip point markers. You will need to exit full-screen in order to select clip points. You can create clips on an iPad.
To exit full-screen mode on an Android device:
Use the video links generated in the share buttons to create a video link.
For example, this link contains proxy server details and will authenticate via the user’s institutional login:
The interface allows the user to share video links via email, Facebook and Twitter.
You need to be logged in with your username to see the My Favourites and My Clip Playlist tabs.
A simple search will look for any of the search terms in the program record. All fields are searched, including captions. By default, the results will be sorted by relevance.
An advanced search provides additional options to focus your search. Here you may search for exact phrases. You may limit your search to a specific subject area and broadcast date, and you can specify what metadata fields are searched, i.e. title, description, captions.
The creation of the graphic thumbnail is an automated process that captures an image a few seconds into a program. In some cases a black screen is captured.
Closed captions are available for most programs from free to air channels. Look for the CC symbol.
Closed captions are not available for programs from Foxtel channels.
For programs that were not broadcast with Closed Captions, Informit can create Captions on request.
Note: this may incur an extra charge. Please contact the Customer Support team: support.informit@rmit.edu.au.
Logging in as an administrator gives you the option to view all registered users of Informit EduTV from your institution. You can directly add registered users and email individuals their login details or reset passwords. You can also email yourself all user details in CSV format. You can also analyse video usage on your site, via the Analytics link.
Only administrators have access to usage statistics. Log in with your admin username and password and select Analytics in the main toolbar.
Please log in to Informit Admin and make changes using the Custom Collections option.
Jumpstart links can be created by using the linking syntax shown below. You will need to replace XXXXX with the relevant Database Code.
The syntax for jumpstarting directly to a single database in Informit is as follows:
search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX
For multiple databases use search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX,YYYYY
Jumpstart links can be created by using the linking syntax shown below. You will need to replace XXXXX with the relevant Database Code and YYYY-YYYY with the relevant title's ISSN.
Journal Home Pages are available for all titles within Informit full text databases:
search.informit.org/browseJournalTitle;res=XXXXX;issn=YYYY-YYYY
Pre-formatted searches allow you to jumpstart to Informit and produce a list of articles that have been indexed for a particular journal title using the following syntax:
search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX;search=IS=YYYY-YYYY
For example: search.informit.org/search;res=APAIS;search=IS=0001-3072
Pre-formatted searches allow you to log in to Informit and jumpstart to a particular database and retrieve results automatically.
The syntax is search.informit.org/search;res=XXXXX;search=YYYYY where XXXXX is the database you wish to search and YYYYY is the search term, e.g. to find all articles in a database where a Plus Text PDF is available, this is the syntax required:
When you are viewing the search screen, the black Informit toolbar shows a link on the left-hand side indicating the number of databases you are searching.
For more information about the databases you are searching, click on the link. This opens a window with information. When more than one database is in use, a dropdown menu lists all available databases. Click on any of these databases to view further information, including lists of journals covered.
When you view the results of searches, they can be sorted by the options displayed in a dropdown menu at the top right of your result set. By default the records are sorted by relevance. Changes made in this area apply only to your current session.
Click the Advanced Search tab. Use the Limit Search option to select your preferred publication years. Enter a date range and perform your search.
The number of records that can fit on one screen depends on:
Yes. You can search concurrently across as many databases as you wish. Field structures have been standardised across our entire database range to allow for this.
Check the tick box Full Text Only which appears under the search box.
If you have been charged for an article you will have been sent a receipt from us via email, listing your receipt number and article information. Please forward this email to support.informit@rmit.edu.au. We can then attach and return the PDF to you. Otherwise please contact our Customer Support Team.
All programs are viewed as progressive downloads. Video files may also be saved to a specific location. To save a video, use the Save As function.
MP4 files may be played with most players that have the h264 codec installed.
Your browser can play TVNews MP4 files. You can also save the MP4 file locally and play it with your favourite media player.
Registering allows you to add programs to your favourites list and create clips. It also allows you to log in to Informit EduTV remotely without having to go through your library.
You can access EduTV anywhere.
If you access Informit EduTV through your library you will be automatically logged in and have full access to the videos.
In order to access EduTV off-campus, you are required to register:
Yes. Access off campus is available to individual users that belong to a subscribing institute and have registered with their institutional email address. Go to Informit EduTV, click on Register in the top right-hand corner and enter your details.
User logins are valid for 6 months. After this period, a password reset will be emailed to the user once an attempt is made to sign in. If a user does not sign in after a 12 month period, their account will be deleted.
No. Informit EduTV is accessed via any browser on an internet enabled computer.
You need to be logged in with your username to see the My Favourites and My Clip Playlist tabs.
A simple search will look for any of the search terms in the program record. All fields are searched, including captions. By default, the results will be sorted by relevance.
An advanced search provides additional options to focus your search. Here you may search for exact phrases. You may limit your search to a specific subject area and broadcast date, and you can specify what metadata fields are searched, i.e. title, description, captions.
The creation of the graphic thumbnail is an automated process that captures an image a few seconds into a program. In some cases a black screen is captured.
Yes. Clips and projects can be shared via the share buttons below the video player.
Note: links to clips and projects can only be created and shared by registered users of Informit EduTV. (Copying the URL from the browser and sharing the link will not work. Please use the share buttons.)
Yes. Please use the links generated by the share buttons. Do not copy the URL from the browser.
Use the following URL format to link directly to a particular article:
https://search.informit.org/documentSummary;res=[Database Code];dn=[Document Number]
For example, to jump to the article title, ‘Privatised immigration detention centres: Challenges and opportunities for implementing human rights’ by Tania Penovic in the journal Law in Context, Volume 31, 2014:
https://search.informit.org/documentSummary;res=IELHSS;dn=637331965521338
This table contains a list of all databases on Informit and their associated database code. You can create a link directly to any single database with the following syntax (replace XXXXX with the relevant database code):
search.informit.org/search;
For multiple databases use search.informit.org/search;
Please contact your library or institution to obtain a copy of the relevant licence terms.
Yes. Please use the 'Embed' button to generate the code to insert into your LMS.
All programs are viewed as progressive downloads. Video files may also be saved to a specific location. To save a video, use the Save As function.
It is recommended to download large files on a PC rather than a mobile device, and on campus rather than off campus.
All TVNews video files are in MP4 format.
MP4 files may be played with most players that have the h264 codec installed.
From 20 April 2013, nationally broadcast television programs are sourced from the Sydney broadcaster. State ABC news programs will continue to be sourced from the local broadcasters. Videos prior to 20 April 2013 were sourced from Melbourne broadcasters.
No, closed captions are currently not available for TVNews.
Average Percentage Watched = (sum of total duration watched by all starts / number of starts X duration of the video ) X (1/100)
If a video is restarted or parts of it rewatched by using the progress slider during a session, the duration may end up being greater than the total length of the video. This can lead to the Average Percentage Watched being greater than 100%.
Search results can be limited to peer reviewed journals for Informit Collections ONLY. This functionality has changed over time. Currently, the filter must be entered manually.
Example: diabetes AND PRAI=yes PRAI stands for Peer Reviewed Article Indicator.
View the recommended syntax for linking to Informit content. This guide covers individual items (Article; Conference paper; Book item) and bundled items (Journal issue; Journal title; Book; Conference proceeding; Database).
If you are unable to play EduTV videos with an Android device and you are using Chrome, follow these steps:
On Screen Report Output
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Report name: Description: Username: Report Date: Start Date & End Date: Total Web Interface: Total Z39.50 logins: Total Dbase usage: Total Turnaways: Total Searches: Total Full Text Docs: |
Displays the name you entered for the report in the Informit Statistic module Displays the description details entered in the module Automatically displays your Username Automatically displays the date the report was created Displays the selected dates nominated to generate the report Displays the amount of times users have logged into the Informit Search interface Displays the number of times users have logged into Informit Search via an external Z39.50 client Displays the total amount of times all Informit databases have been accessed Displays the “total number” of times users were unable to access all Informit databases due to maximum number of allocated licenses being exceeded Displays the total number of searches for all subscribed databases Displays the total number of PDF documents retrieved from Plus Text databases |
Database Usage
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Database: Total usage: Max Usage: Max Usage Time: Searches: Turnaways: Full Text document |
Lists the Informit databases subscribed to Total number of times databases have been accessed Maximum number of concurrent users within the report period The date and time the database was most heavily accessed The number of searches conducted in each database The number of times users were unable to access a particular database due to the maximum number of allocated licenses being exceeded Displays the total number of PDF documents retrieved from a Plus Text database |
Statistical reports can now be generated at any time of the day or night.
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