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articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian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.
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.
ENDANGER - Threatened
Species in Australia: A Select Bibliography
1960-; updated biannually. ENDANGER indexes material on
threatened Australian fauna and flora. Books, chapters in books, periodicals,
newspapers, conference proceedings, theses, and some non-book material (videos,
charts, posters etc), are included. The database is produced by the School of
Aquatic Sciences & Natural Resources Management, Deakin University, Rusden
Campus.
EVA - Environmental
Abstracts - Archive only (1987 - Oct 2011)
EVA (formerly EPIC), was produced by the EPA Victoria
Library, was a bibliographic database on the environment and related fields.
Source documents were selected journal articles from approximately 600 journals
published in Australia and overseas.
VPI&E Catalogue
ELIXIR
Victorian Primary Industries and Environment (Library)
Catalogue - covers agriculture, mineral resources, conservation, land
management, and planning and is produced by the Knowledge and Information
Branch of the Victorian DPI.
Streamline - 1982-2004
only
An Australian natural resources database - it was
continued by a web-based resource, AANRO, which was shut down in 2007.
Agricola
US open access database from the National Agricultural
Library. Applied life sciences - including ecology, fisheries, aquaculture,
natural resources and environment.
Biosis Previews
Biosis indexes the journal literature in experimental,
pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical
sciences.
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
and other databases listed above.