Key Databases

AHB - Australian Heritage Bibliography (previously HERA)

Australia's natural and cultural environment - journal articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian sources.

Biosis Previews

Biosis indexes the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences

Environmental sciences and pollution management collection

Includes databases on aquatic pollution, engineering, safety, toxicology, risk, pollution and ecology

CAB Abstracts

Worldwide coverage of applied life sciences including ecology, natural resources and environment. Indexes 10,000 journals plus books.

Geobase

Indexes physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. Covers 2,000 international journals in addition to books, monographs, reports, and theses.

Other Databases

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary databases covering experimental and applied science, incorporating Science citation index and Social sciences citation index.

APA FT (Australian Public Affairs - Full Text)

Indexes articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books on Australian public affairs - see also APA Full Text

AANRO

Australian agriculture and natural resources online

Streamline - 1982-2004 only, for later see AANRO

Australia's natural resources database

Agricola (free from NAL)

US applied life sciences - including ecology, fisheries, aquaculture, natural resources and environment

World database on protected areas

Foundation dataset for conservation decision making, ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis, and is increasingly used for private sector decision-making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats

CSI (Consumer Sciences Index)

CSI indexes Australian and international journals in consumer health, economics, housing and related matters

ATI (Australian Tourism Index)

ATI covers Australian material on tourism, hospitality from newsletters, journals, reports, unpublished material and government documents. Until 1988 ATI also indexed material on sport and recreation

NTIS - US National Technical Information (via EI Engineering Village)

Both U.S. sponsored and non-U.S. research - engineering, biotechnology, the environment, health & safety, business, as well as the physical, biological, and social sciences

ARCH

Indexes articles on Australian and NZ architecture and building collected by the Stanton Library, Municipality of North Sydney.