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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Urbadoc

Avery index to architectural periodicals

Brisbane cityscope online

RP Data

APA FT

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.

inSPIRE

High energy physics literature database

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.

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

• ACM Digital Library
  Full text of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
• Google Scholar - find scholarly peer-reviewed articles, theses, conference papers, books and patents from academic publishers.
• 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.

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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'.