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You have your assignment - where do you start?

Have you found the Subject guides on your My Library page? They are just under the list of your courses.

The guides are a great place to start with lists of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, places to look on the library shelves and other helpful information.

As well as the guides on your My Library page there is a full list of Subject guides on the Library's website.

Have a look at our updated and revised Subject Guides

The Subject Guides have undergone a revision this year. If you haven't looked at the Subject Guide for your area in a while have a look now. Many have further helpful information.

Save research time with the Library' Subject Guides

Did you know that the librarians at UQ maintain subject guides for research in different areas of law?

Each guide gets you started with finding books, journal articles, databases, relevant Internet resources and specialised information in your subject area. Subject guides are available for:

Nutrition

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

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: 

PubMed

It includes citations for biomedical articles and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.

Medline (via Ebscohost)

EBSCOHost version of Medline. Contains citations and abstracts covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.

CINAHL

Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals. Also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.

CAB Abstracts

Bibliographic database covering international research and development literature in agriculture, animal health, forestry, human health and nutrition, and management and conservation of natural resources. Includes fulltext of selected conference proceedings, reports and journals.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts

It provides coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition. FSTA covers the complete food manufacturing cycle, from initial market research to final packaging.

Web of Science

Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching.

Scopus

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.

Journals
Web Sites

Property Studies

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Case Law
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: 

ABI Inform Global This database contains worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and companies.

ACCOUNT (formerly called Australian Accounting & Taxation Database) ACCOUNT is prepared by the Institute of Chartered Accountants. It contains abstracts of published material sourced from leading journals and magazines, in addition to the Institute's own publications and conference papers, plus the Taxation Institute of Australia conference papers.

APA FT Australian Public Affairs - Full Text APA-FT is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. It includes all the journal indexing from the Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) database, which is produced by the National Library of Australia and published by RMIT Publishing.

Business Source Premier Provides full text for scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business

ARCH: ARCH indexes and abstracts articles in the Australian and New Zealand architecture and building information collection held by the Stanton Library, Municipality of North Sydney.

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Rawlinsons Australian construction handbook 2011 for building specifications and estimates. Updated yeary.

RP Data Provides access to 7 property-related databases relevant to the Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Ipswich regions. Information provided on: current property ownership records, historical sales, electronic maps, property improvements and photographs. Request access at the Architecture and Music Library Information Desk.

Brisbane Cityscope Online Provides property information covering the Brisbane CBD area, roughly bordered by North Quay, Queens Wharf Road, the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane River, Boundary Street, Turbot Street, Roma Street and Saul Street.

Standards
Standards: 

SAI Global on-line premium (formerly Australian standards online) Search for Australian Standards by Standard number or keyword. Full text standards are in PDF format. Printing requires Acrobat Reader 4.5 or later.

Statistics
Statistics: 

Real estate services industry, Australia Information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about the real estate industry. Data include : income and expenditure, employment, State information, selected performance ratios, and selected characteristics about the real estate industry. Income, expenditure, and employment data are also provided for Valuers-General.

Buidling activity, Australia provides access to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Series service, all ABS publications and Census Basic Community Profiles to the Statistical Local Area (SLA) level.

CDATA 2001 Australian Bureau of Statistics Coverage Release 1, 2001 Census

Web Sites

Media Law

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Dictionaries: 

Butterworths concise Australian legal dictionary, 3rd ed

Encyclopaedic Australian legal dictionary

Contact Librarians

Angela Allen / Rebecca Carter

bel@library.uq.edu.au

3346 3553

Help for Researchers & Postgraduate Students

Thomas Palmer

t.palmer@library.uq.edu.au

3346 3693

Help for Undergraduate students

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.

Journals
News
News: 

Factiva Search the full text of hundreds of newspapers from Australia and around the world. Full text is usually available back to the 1990s. No images or full-page views.

Press Display Shows page layout views of newspapers, showing the stories exactly as published. Only the last 60 days of publication available.

Informit TVNews Videoclips of news broadcasts from Australian television stations from 2007 onwards.

Specialised Resources
Web Sites

Olympics

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Year book Australia (the 2000 issue includes articles about sporting Australians, Sydney's Stadium Australia and the climate of Sydney. The 2002 issue contains a look back at the Sydney Olympics and Paralmpics)

Image Collections
Image Collections: 

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Andrew Mewing, Swimming

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Mark McNee, Speed Skating

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Melanie Kleeberg, Athletics

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Natalie Cook, Beach Volleyball

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: 

SPORTDiscus: A resource for both practical and research literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. Records cover sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and other sport- and fitness-related topics. The database also includes citations from Atlantes, Heracles and Catalog du Musee Olympique

Sociological Abstracts (Sociofile): Provides access to findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Abstracts approximately 2500 journals, covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.

PsycINFO: PsycINFO database covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. It includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. PsycINFO provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports

ERIC: A bibliographic database covering the literature of education, this version of ERIC includes direct links to the electronic full-text of over 100,000 documents.

Scopus: Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.

Browse all databases for Human Movement Studies

Journals
Multimedia
Music
News
News: 

Factiva - A global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.

Informit TVNews - indexes the majority of TV news stories, current affairs and documentary series broadcast on Australian television. Individual stories may be downloaded to the desktop in a compressed video format.

UQ NEWS:

UQ Graduate Earns Gold and Silver at London Olympics

UQ Student Makes it Three in a Row

UQ Students Aim High

Olympics Honour Board

Web Sites

Criminology

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

21st century criminology: a reference handbook (online).

The Cambridge handbook of Australian criminology.

The Oxford handbook of criminology.

The SAGE handbook of criminological theory (online).

Browsing the shelves

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-

* HM811-821 Deviant behavior. Social deviance
* HV6001-7220.5 Criminology
* HV7231-9960 Criminal justice administration
* HV7428 Social work with delinquents and criminals
* HV7431 Prevention of crime, methods, etc.
* HV8301-9920.7 Penology. Prisons. Corrections

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: 

CINCH - Australian Criminology Database. Covers all aspects of crime & criminal justice including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime & is produced by the JV Barry Library, Australian Institute of Criminology.

Monitoring reports (Australian Institute of Criminology) (online ).

NCJRS- National Criminology Justice Reference Service - covers research, policy & practice related to criminal & juvenile justice & drug control, this database contains summaries of U.S. & international publications.

Sociological Abstracts - abstracts & indexes literature in sociology & related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences.

Related Guides
Specialised Resources
Statistics
Web Sites

Marine Science

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

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: 

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

ASFA 1, Biological sciences and living resources

ASFA 3, Aquatic pollution and environmental quality

ASFA Aquaculture abstracts

ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts

ASFA 2, Ocean technology, policy and non-living resources

REEF - Great Barrier Reef database

Oceanic Abstracts (online 1981- ; print 1972 -)

Biosis Previews

Zoological Record

Web of Science

Scopus

Australian heritage bibliography (AHB, formerly HERA)

US National Sea Grant Library

Provides global access to over 15,000 full-text digital documents through the 40,000-record, searchable publications database of over 30 US government Sea Grant-funded programs and projects in oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic nuisance species, coastal hazards, seafood safety, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation, and law.

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.

Maps
Maps: 

Redmap

Redmap, a new and interactive website, invites the Australian community to spot, log and map marine species that are uncommon in Australia, or along particular parts of our coast.

PILOT - Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities

Australian Marine Spatial Information System

Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project

Reefbase

Coral Triangle Atlas

Ningaloo Atlas

NASA Ocean Color

Data from remote sensing of ocean colour from space made available for search, browse and download for many parameters and time periods - ocean color, sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity data sets in PNG images or digital data in HDF format. (NB: Reference color bars)

NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center - Giovanni Ocean Portals

Giovanni is a web-based application developed by the GES DISC that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data.

GlobColour Project

European node for global ocean colour. Merged data inclusive of European Space Agency MERIS satellite.

Ocean Productivity

The UN Atlas of the Oceans

Provides information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans. It is designed for policy-makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues.

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Integrated Marine Observing System (CSIRO)

IMOS is designed to be a fully integrated national array of observing equipment to monitor the open oceans and coastal marine environment around Australia, covering physical, chemical and biological variables. All IMOS data is freely and openly available through the IMOS Ocean Portal (see Australian Ocean Data Network Portal) for the benefit of Australian marine and climate science as a whole. Covers multi-decadal ocean change, climate variability and weather extremes, major boundary currents and interbasin flows, continental shelf processes and ecosystem responses.

MarLIN - CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Laboratories Information Network

MarLIN is designed to hold descriptions of datasets collected by, or currently held within, the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research plus its predecessors (Divisions of Marine Research, Atmospheric Research, Fisheries, Oceanography, and Fisheries & Oceanography).

Australian Marine Zooplankton: a taxonomic guide and atlas

Pacific Ocean Library - Center for Ocean Solutions

The Pacific Ocean Library houses scientific articles, reports, government publications and gray literature on the Pacific Ocean's greatest threats, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and potential solutions for the region.

FishBase : a global information system on fishes

NB: Why there may be discrepancies between Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes

State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA)

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC)

RRRC was established in 2006 to implement the Australian Government's Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF), a major component of the four-year $100 million Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) programme. RRRC now manages the National Environmental Research Program - Tropical Ecosystems Hub (NERP TE Hub) which is examining emerging biodiversity and environmental issues across the Great Barrier Reef, Wet Tropics and the Torres Strait. RRRC also coordinates the Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. NERP is the successor to CERF and oversees four other Hubs across Australia including the Marine Biodiversity Hub.

NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) - Ocean

Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program

EHMP is a freshwater, estuarine and marine monitoring programme for South East Queensland.

Coralwatch

CoralWatch is a non-profit organization, built on a research project at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. It aims to provide hands-on monitoring and education tools to increase awareness of reef threats.

Reef Check

A global network of volunteer teams that regularly monitors and reports on reef health and takes local community action to protect remaining pristine reefs and rehabilitate damaged reefs worldwide.

Reefbase

A large body of information has been compiled in technical reports, which are generally for limited distribution. ReefBase gathers available knowledge about coral reefs into one information repository. It is intended to facilitate analyses and monitoring of coral reef health and the quality of life of reef-dependent people, and to support informed decisions about coral reef use and management.

Coral Reef Watch (NOAA)

Uses remote sensing and in situ tools for near-real-time and long term monitoring, modeling and reporting of physical environmental conditions of world coral reef ecosystems, include coral bleaching risks.

Global Coral Disease Database

NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program

e-Reefs (Great Barrier Reef Foundation)

Australian Marine Mammal Centre

US National Marine Mammal Laboratory

AlgaeBase

A database of information on terrestrial, marine and freshwater algae.

FAO Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species (DIAS)

Hexocorallians of the World

A compilation of publications concerning taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic distribution of extant hexacorallians - members of cnidarian orders Actiniaria (sea anemones in the strict sense), Antipatharia (black corals), Ceriantharia (tube anemones), Corallimorpharia (sea anemones in the loose sense), Ptychodactiaria (sea anemones in the loose sense), Scleractinia (hard or stony corals), and Zoanthidea (sea anemones in the loose sense).

MarLIN - Marine Life Information Centre

North East Atlantic. From the Marine Biological Association of the UK.

World Biodiversity Database projects

Includes taxonomic data on marine mammals, turtles, Indo-Malayan corals, Chaetognatha, lobsters, and North Sea marine groups, plus a search interface across all projects (including freshwater and terrestrial species).

Statistics
Web Sites
Web Sites: 

AUSTRALIA

e-atlas - Australian Institute of Marine Science

The e-Atlas is a partnership between many research providers in order to develop a portal to information about Australia's tropical (GBR, its catchments, the Wet Tropics and the Torres Strait regions) terrestrial and marine environments featuring maps, reports, scientific papers, data, and interactive maps of environmental conditions, biodiversity, risks and hotspots of environmental concern. E-atlas provides high capacity storage, custom-developed open-source software for data processing and display and data access to the public and/or registered users.

Atlas of Living Australia

Provides linkages between all forms of information about Australian plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity information includes reference lists of species in different groups; databases of information on specimens held in natural history collections; databases of field observations from ecologists, naturalists and others; images and other multimedia; published literature (including digital versions); molecular data sets; identification keys; and a wide range of other databases and web sites.

International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) - UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - See OBIS Australia below.

IODE is responsible for:- Data: Ocean Data Portal; People: OceanExpert; Publications: OceanDocs; Journals: OpenScienceDirectory; Education: OceanTeacher; Biodiversity: OBIS; Video: OceanTeacher-Vimeo. Further links under GENERAL.

OBIS AUSTRALIA

Australian Ocean Data Network Portal

Australia's digital ocean commons: an interoperable, online network of marine and coastal data resources, including data from the six Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility partner agencies.

OzCoasts - Australian online coastal information

Australian Institute for Marine Science

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Fisheries

Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - Coasts and Marine

GENERAL

International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) - UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission see also OBIS Australia (above):

Ocean Portal

OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System)

Ocean Expert

OceanDocs

Aquatic Commons

A thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments from International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC). It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects. It is complementary to OceanDocs (see above).

Census of marine life

MarineBio - marine conservation

The WorldFish Center

International Coral Reef Initiative

Coral Reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for Management Program

Center for Ocean Solutions

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department