Index to articles in Youth Studies Australia

Youth Studies Australia was the refereed journal of the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies. Its article index is the fastest way into the body of work the journal published: everything that appeared in it, listed so that a reader who has an author, a subject or a half-remembered title can find the piece and then find the issue it belongs to.

What the journal published

The material falls into a few recognisable kinds. Refereed research papers report studies of young people in Australia and, less often, comparisons abroad. Practice papers come from people working in youth services and describe programmes and what happened when they ran. Reviews cover books, resources and reports. Shorter items track policy as it moved, which is why the run of the journal also works as a record of how youth policy in this country was argued about over decades.

How the index is organised

The index is arranged so it can be read three ways. By author, for following one researcher's work across issues. By subject, which is where most readers start: education, employment, health, mental health, drugs and alcohol, justice, homelessness, sexuality, Indigenous youth, rural and regional youth, participation. And by issue, which is what you need once you have a citation and want the rest of the papers that appeared alongside it.

Subject terms are the part worth learning. Vocabulary in this field shifted over the life of the journal, and a search that fails under a current term often succeeds under the one in use when the paper was written.

Finding a paper now

The clearinghouse has closed, and that changes the practicalities rather than the availability. Start from the index entry to get the exact title, author and issue. With that citation, a paper can usually be traced through a university library catalogue, through the national library's holdings, or through the scholarly databases that indexed the journal. Public libraries can request a copy of a single article on behalf of a reader.

Citing an article

Cite what is printed: author, title, the journal's own name, the volume and issue as they appear on the item, and the page range. Where a copy has been obtained through a database, the citation still points at the journal, not at the database. If a piece was a practice report or a review rather than a refereed paper, saying so in the citation is honest and saves the next reader a wasted retrieval.

This page exists because links to the index are still followed from elsewhere, and a reader who arrives should find the description and the route to the material rather than an error.

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