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Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

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Australia's natural and cultural environment - journal articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian sources.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

Web of Science

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

Scopus

Multidisciplinary database covering experimental and applied science.

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.

Streamline - 1982-2004 only

Australia's natural resources database.

Agricola (free from NAL)

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

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ATI covers Australian material on tourism, hospitality from newsletters, journals, reports, unpublished material and government documents.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.

Scirus

Like Google Scholar but specific to science. As in Google Scholar, you can go to Preferences to enable full text connections to University of Queensland Library subscribed resources. (Note: Not all UQL full text will be available from Scirus results displays. Some will require access via the library network.)

WorldWideScience

Similar to Google Scholar but, unlike GS and Scirus (above), based on multilateral partnerships to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals, with approaching 100 participants. In Advanced Search you can turn on or off databases. In search results you can choose format tabs (papers, data, multimedia), or topic and other options to refine results. Not all results are open access resources and UQ Library subscriptions are not recognised, as they may be in Google Scholar and Scirus, and as they will be in Web of Knowledge, ASFA and other databases listed above.

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources: 

Atlas of Living Australia

EDGAR (JCU and ALA) - mapping bird species and climate change

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.

Environmental Fate Database

Several databases on persistent chemicals.

Australian Policy Online - Environment

Institute for Sustainable Futures

Solutions that consider the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability.

Rocky Mountain Institute

RMI's strategic focus is mapping and driving the business-led transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewable energy, with a focus on the transportation, building, industrial and electricity sectors.

Breakthrough Institute

Politics and the environment. Breakthrough Institute was founded in 2003 'on the premise that the complaint-based, interest group liberalism born in the 1960s and 1970s was failing to achieve the broad social and ecological transformations America and the world need.'

Australia's Dynamic Land Cover

The National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset of Australia is the first nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference for Australia.

Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) - Queensland

Australian Soil Resource Information System - ASRIS

Forests Australia

PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions.

Statistics

Web Sites

Web Sites: 
Key Internet Sites

Australian Natural Resources Atlas

Pre-2003 data.

Land and Water Australia

Pre-2009 data.

Geoscience Australia

Current data.

Australian Natural Resources Data Library

Current and historical data

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

TERN collects and integrates ecosystem data across broad spatial and temporal scales; enables storage, access, sharing and management of research data; enables collaboration; enables multidisciplinary, national-scale contributions to addressing key problems in Australian ecosystem science and environmental management.

Environment Portal - information from Australian governments

Caring for Country

Caring for Country absorbs earlier programmes: National Heritage Trust, National Landcare Program, Environmental Stewardship Program, Working on Country.

Collaborative Protected Area Database

See also Parks Australia web site link.

Biodiversity summaries and species lists for NRM regions

GENERIC SITES

Ecology WWW page

Global Change Master Directory

Envirolink Network - environmental news

EarthTrends - The environmental information portal

The Directory of Environmental Web Sites - online abridged edition 2012

Directory of Web Sites of Environmental Agencies of the World

The Environment Directory

World Environmental Oganization - Top 1000 Web Sites

World Conservation Union (IUCN)

QUEENSLAND

Queensland Dept. of Environment and Heritage Protection

Queensland Depts Natural Resources and Mines, Energy and Water Supply, Science etc - joint web entry point

Queensland Dept. of National Parks - Managing Protected Areas

OTHER

Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA)

Global warming web site

CSIRO Sustainability

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Convention on Biological Diversity