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Physiotherapy

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Evidence Based Practice
Evidence Based Practice: 
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.

Multimedia
Multimedia: 
Web Sites

Chemical Engineering

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Handbooks: 

knovel_smaller.jpg Knovel is an online reference library for engineering; it provides access to hundreds of handbooks which include properties, formulas and equations.

Dictionaries: 
  1. Dictionary of environmental science and technology
  2. Hawley's condensed chemical dictionary

Browse the shelves:

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

  • TP Chemical Technology
  • TP155 - 156 Chemical Engineering
  • TP370 Food Processing
  • TP1080 - 1185 Polymers
  • TA170-171 - Environmental Engineering
How-to Guides: 

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Teaching and Learning Service

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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: 

Summon (Library homepage) provides access to the UQ Library collection of print and online books, journals, theses, newspapers, conference proceedings and more.

Specialised research databases:

1. Engineering and Technology

2. Health and Biomedical Sciences

3. Chemical Databases

  • Reaxys - chemistry physical properties database
  • SciFinder- CAS databases that contain literature from biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science and more.

4. Citation Databases

The most widely used citation databases are:

5. Patent Databases

Access to all databases for Chemical Engineering.

Journals
Journals: 

Journal tools

Journal rankings

Collection news

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Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 
Chemical Prices
Minerals Information
Patents
  • Derwent Innovations Index - over 20 million patents from 40 patent issuing authorities worldwide from 1963.
  • eSpacenet - free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836.
  • PatentLens- worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.
  • SciFinder - covers patents from 9 of the major patent offices worldwide.

Patents - How-to guide

Theses
Tables, Formulas, Statistics
Search for chemicals

Standards
Standards: 
  1. SAI Global on-line premium
    Full-text access to all current Australian standards
  2. IEEE xplore digital library
    Full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) standards
  3. Annual book of ASTM standards

For further information see our Standards How-to guide

What's New
What's New: 

1. UQ Library news blogs

2. Collection Development

3. Science and Technology news

4. Media Releases

  • Factiva - news and media transcripts from overseas and Australian news media sources.
  • TVNews - indexes the majority of TV news stories, current affairs and documentary series broadcast on Australian television.
  • News and Newspapers - UQ Library How-to guide.
  • ScienceAlert: Australia and New Zealand

Earth Sciences

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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: 

Geobase

A multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. Interdisciplinary coverage makes it an suitable file for searching environmental and green issues.

GeoRef

This contains world literature in geology and the geosciences. Covers the geology of North America since 1693 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. From Nov 2003, includes indexed material from Geoscience Australia. Includes journals, books, dissertations, maps, reports, and most U.S. Geological Survey publications. Accessed via the EI Engineering Village platform.

SciFinder web

Allows access to the full Chemical Abstracts database and the CAS Registry file via the internet. The Chemical Abstracts database contains documents from the literature from 1907 to the present. It covers technical and scientific literature in biochemistry, physical, inorganic, organic, analytical, macromolecular and applied chemistry, as well as chemical engineering. References are in the form of journals, patents, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings and books. The CAS Registry file provides access to more than 22 million different specific chemical substances. From these you can access structure diagrams, names, molecular formulae. SciFinder Scholar includes links to Internet resources and access to full-text electronic documents if available.

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.

Web of Science (via Web of Knowledge)

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

Journals
Journals: 

GeoRef Information Services open-access journals/series - American Geological Institute

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. This site lists the open access journals and related publications that are indexed in GeoRef. It includes geological journals and series, journals from related disciplines, newsletters, geological survey and government agency publications, meeting and conference proceedings and abstracts

GSA publications - Geological Society of America

Established in 1888, The Geological Society of America publishes a number of journals

Lyell collection - Geological Society of London

The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online earth science literature available. It brings together the Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly journal of engineering geology and hydrogeology, Special publications and key book series on a single electronic platform

USGS publications warehouse - United States. Geological Survey

The Warehouse contains bibliographic citations to USGS publications issued since 1880. Full text content is provided to around half of the citations. Full text is delivered in a number of formats including PDF and DJVU

Wiley online library - Earth Sciences Collection

Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources including the wealth of resources produced by the AGU (American Geophysical Union). Seamless integrated access to earth science related articles from journals, books, and reference works, laboratory protocols and databases can be found under the Earth Sciences subject heading. The AGU (American Geophysical Union) provides access to nearly 100 years of earth and space sciences research from AGU's journals including the titles Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems, Geophysical research letters, Global biogeochemical cycles, Journal of Geophysical research, Paleoceanography, Radioscience, Reviews of geophysics, Tectonic, and Water resources research.

Related Guides
Related Guides: 

Map information

Where do I find maps? What does the map scale mean? Which scale is best? How do I find a map or atlas in the Library Catalogue? What if I still can't find the map I want? Where in the world is ....? Internet resources. Digital Data.

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

American Mineralogist crystal structure database

An interface to a crystal structure database that includes every structure published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, as well as selected datasets from other journals. The database is maintained under the care of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Mineralogical Association of Canada.

CHRONOS

A tool and data portal for geosciences.

Crystallography open database

The Geologic Time Scale

Chronological list of geological periods, linked to a glossary prepared by USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory.

Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia provides high quality geoscientific information.

Map information

Where do I find maps? What does the map scale mean? Which scale is best? How do I find a map or atlas in the Library Catalogue? What if I still can't find the map I want? Where in the world is ....? Internet resources. Digital Data.

Mineralogy database

Minerals yearbook

Produced by the USGS, the Minerals Yearbook is an annual publication that reviews the mineral and material industries of the United States and foreign countries. The Yearbook contains statistical data on materials and minerals and includes information on economic and technical trends and development. The Minerals Yearbook includes chapters on approximately 90 commodities and over 175 countries.

Paleobiology database

Provides global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data.

Physics and Astronomy

Getting Started

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

Dictionaries: 

A dictionary of physics

Dictionary of pure and applied physics

Browse the shelves:

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

  • QB1-991.999 Astronomy
  • QC1-999 Physics
  • QC350-467 Optics, Light
  • QC501-766 Electricity and Magnetism
  • QC770-798 Nuclear and Particle Physics, Atomic Energy, Radioactivity
  • QC811-849 Geomagnetism
  • QC851-999 Meteorology, Climatology
How-to Guides: 

Science information skills - Online tutorial


Contact Librarians

Gisela Possin

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Research Information Service

Miranda Mariette

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Teaching and Learning Service

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: 

Summon (Library homepage) provides access to the UQ Library collection of print and online books, journals, theses, newspapers, conference proceedings and more.

arXiv

ArXiv is an archive and distribution server for research papers in the areas of physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.

ADS (Astrophysics Data System) abstract service

A NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which includes four sets of abstracts. They include abstracts from all major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, NASA reports, and many PhD theses. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words.

Inspec

Provides access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.

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.

Web of Science (via the Web of Knowledge)

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

Journals
Journals: 

IOP (Institute of Physics)

  • Full text access (with maths and graphics) to journal titles subscribed to by UQ Library

AIP (American Institute of Physics) journals online

Related Guides
Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Lecture notes in physics online

Web site providing access to full text versions of titles in the Springer series Lecture notes in physics

SpringerMaterials

SpringerMaterials is based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, a data collection covering all areas of physical sciences and engineering. The database is expanded and updated on a quarterly basis and offers advanced search & navigation functionalities.

Tables, Formulas
Tables, Formulas: 

For some topics in physics, you'll need to consult specialised information resources such as the ones below.

Dictionary of units

Provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I.

The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty

This site prepared by the Fundamental Constants Data Center of the NIST Physics Laboratory, provides data on constants and related precision measurements

Physics and astronomy classification scheme (PACS)

An internationally adopted, hierarchical subject classification scheme, designed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to classify and categorize the literature of physics and astronomy.

Smithsonian physical tables

Tables of physical data

Web Sites
What's New

Computer Science

Getting Started

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

How-to Guides: 

Browse the Collections

  • QA75.5 - 76.95 Electronic computers; Computer science
  • QA76.75 - 76.765 Computer software
  • TK7885 - 8360 Computer engineering; Computer hardware

Contact Librarians

Phil Yorke-Barber

p.yorke-barber@library.uq.edu.au

3346 4392

Research Information Service

Miranda Mariette

m.mariette@library.uq.edu.au

3346 3502

Teaching and Learning Service


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: 

Access to all databases is via the Library's Database Page

  • ACM Digital Library
    Full text of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
  • IEEE Xplore digital library
    Provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and current IEEE Standards.
  • Inspec
    Provides access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.
  • Scopus
    Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.
  • Web of Science
    Access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.
Related Guides
Related Guides: 
Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 
Patents & Theses

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Standards
Standards: 

For further information see our Standards How-to guide

What's New
What's New: 

UQ Library news blogs:

Science and Technology news

IEEE

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Animals and Wildlife

Getting Started

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

Journals
Journals: 

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.

Web of Knowledge - includes Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts and Zoological Record

Science Direct

CSIRO Online journals

Informit - includes ANR (Agriculture and natural resources index), ENDANGER (threatened species in Australia), SAGE (environmental sciences and ecology), STREAMLINE : Australia's natural resources database

IUCN red list of threatened species

Browse all databases for Agricluture

Browse all databases for Veterinary Science

Browse all databases for Zoology

Statistics
Web Sites

Veterinary Science

Getting Started

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

Drugs
Evidence Based Practice
Image Collections
Image Collections: 

Anatomically correct - online cat dissection

Images4u - veterinary anatomy

University of Minnesota. College of Veterinary Medicine - carnivore anatomy

Veterinary ImageScope slides only on Gatton Library computers - click link for more details

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

ScienceDirect

Scopus

Web of Science

Web of Knowledge - includes Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, MEDLINE and Zoological Record

Other databases for veterinary science

Peer-reviewed journals

To check whether a journal is 'peer reviewed', go to Ulrichs Periodicals Directory and do a search on the journal name. If the journal is peer reviewed, there will be a black and white referee's jersey next to the journal title. If you click on the title, there will be a field 'Refereed: Yes'.

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Links to popular veterinary ebooks:

General

Equine

Large animal

Small animal

The vet laptop:
At the Gatton Library, there is a laptop containing the following software:

  • * Clinical pathology for the veterinary team
  • * Equine internal medicine (image gallery for chapters 10 and 12)
  • * Glass horse - equine colic
  • * Glass horse - equine distal limb
  • * Interactive physiology (accompanies 'Human physiology: an integrated approach')
  • * Passing a nasogastric tube in the horse
  • * Teat condition portfolio
  • * SBLi player

ZenWorks resources:
At the Gatton Library, all the workstations have a ZenWorks window containing the following software:

  • * Art of bovine auscultation
  • * Art of equine auscultation
  • * CLIVE project
  • * Glass horse - equine colic
  • * InfoPest - AgVet & MSDS
  • * MIMS-IVS
  • * Toxicology for Australian veterinarians
  • * Veterinary ImageScope slides
  • * Virtual microscope
Web Sites