Databases for Science

Computing, information technology, networking, artificial intelligence and human-machine interaction. International.

1985 - present

Conditions of use

ACM Portal

Chemistry and related areas, such as toxicology and chemical engineering. International.

First issues - present

Terms and Conditions (pdf)

ACS website

 Current and archive content on this site

AIP website. AIP is a society of several societies in the physical sciences area

Current and archive content to journals of this publisher

APS Website

Analytical chemistry

1980 - present

RSC website

Sciences and social sciences

Conditions of use

Annual reviews

Law, including administrative law, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright, criminal law, environmental law, family law. Australian.

Indexing 1975 - present Fulltext 1999 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Law, legislation and case law. Australia. Commonwealth and state jurisdictions plus New Zealand and South Pacific.

Starting dates vary

Conditions of use

AustLII website.

Statistical data of Australia, the States and smaller regions. ABS' full standard product range on-line. Australian.

publications 1988 - present, with older time series

This is a free site but there are some conditions of use specified on the ABS website

ABS website

National parks; endangered species; coasts; forests; wetlands; rivers; geological features; wilderness areas; world heritage sites Australian.

1987 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. APAIS with some fulltext. Australian.

Index 1978 - present Fulltext 1995 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Biological and medical research. Clinical studies, new organisms. agriculture biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. International.

1969- 2003

Access to later material is available through Biosis Previews

Conditions of use

Ovid

Biological and medical research. Clinical studies, new organisms. agriculture biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. International.

2002 -

Access to earlier material is through Biological Abstracts

Conditions of use

Ovid

Sciences, social sciences, and humanities

Conditions of use

Cambridge journals website

Graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis.

International

2002 - present

Royal Society of Chemistry

Chemical hazards, safety, toxicology

Current

Chemistry dictionaries and handbooks International.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Chemical substances, properties of compounds. International.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Chemical transformations, organic synthesis, functional groups

Up to 1995

ScienceDirect

Chemical transformations, organic synthesis, functional groups

1995 - 2005

ScienceDirect

Scientific research. Fulltext access to UOW subscriptions only. Australian.

1997 - present

CSIRO website.

Current information in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, technology and medical science. International.

Conditions of use

ISI Web of Knowledge

25,000 most commonly cited compounds in Chemical Abstracts. International.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Drugs and pharmacological agents. International.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Evidence- based medicine. International.

1991 - present

Conditions of use

Ovid

Clinical medicine, trials. International.

Not date limited

Conditions of use

Ovid

Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International.

1991 - present

Conditions of use

Ovid.

Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International.

Date is latest update for whole database

Conditions of use

Ovid

The nature and diversity of archaeology as a scientific discipline, the practice of archaeology, archaeology in the everyday world, and the future of the discipline.

International

Conditions of use

ScienceDirect

Biochemistry, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, history of life sciences. International.

Published 2001 with continual updates

Wiley

Material science. International.

Published 2001 with continual updates

ScienceDirect

All aspects of nanoscale science and technology dealing.

Published 2004

American Scientific Publishers, accessed on IngentaSelect

Environmental science and engineering e-books

Conditions of use

CRCnetBASE

Suggested browser Netscape or Mozilla. The site also suggests IE but problems have been encountered with this browser from campus

General Database with information in arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. International.

1980 - present

Conditions of use

Gale InfoTrac

Georef 1785 -

Georef 2002 -

Geosciences. North American until 1933 then international.

1785 - present

Ovid.

Scientific data for chemistry and physics. International.

83rd ed. 2003

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences. International

Archive site, dates vary, latest issues usually embargoed.

Stanford U. P.

Electrical and electronic engineering. International.

1988 - present

Conditions of use

IEEExplore website

Over 1000 journals in many disciplines. Strengths in Social Sciences and Humanities. International.

Conditions of use

Physics and its subdisciplines, such as quantum physics, superconductors, semiconductors, nanotechnology and astrophysics and nuclear physics.

First volumes to present

IOP website

Legal resources. International law.

Various dates

Lexis

Medline 1966-

Medline 1996-

Medline Daily update

Premedline - In-process records

Old medline 1948-1965

Medicine. Anatomy, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology and health care. International.

1950 - present, in several files

Conditions of use

Ovid

Mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy. International.

1982 - present

Mineralogical Society

Developments in natural product chemistry

International

1999 - present

Royal Society of Chemistry

Tips

Science research. International

Nature Publishing Group

Please consult the Info link for subscribed titles and their links. Individual titles also listed in the Library catalogue

Classical optics plus latest applications, including optical sensing and metrology, biomedicine, optical components and systems

International

Conditions of use

Wiley

Physical properties of polymers, scientific and trade information. International

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. International.

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Information in most topic areas. Several databases which may be searched either individually or in combinations. International.

Various dates

Conditions of use

Proquest.

Chemistry. International

All issues of the available titles

Possible to restrict to the archive or later years

Conditions of use

Royal Society of Chemistry

Virtually all journals published by SAGE. This publisher publishes in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. International

SAGE

Note: SAGE Journals Online includes the Nursing and Psychology collections which have been available on the CSA platform. These are still available on the CSA platform as well as on the SAGE platform

Standards of Standards Australia plus index to standards of other bodies. Australian.

Current and draft standards.

International standards may be unlocked and made available.

Preferred browser Internet Explorer

Conditions of use

Standards Australia website.

Index to significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a range of science and technology disciplines.

Subset of ISI Proceedings, select when logged on

International

2002- present

Conditions of use

Thomson Scientific (ISI)

Life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. International.

1995 - present, some earlier

Conditions of use

ScienceDirect website

SciFinder Scholar / Chemical Abstracts

Web version access (once you have registered) 

Chemistry and many other science and technology applications.

International.

1907 - present

Now available, Scifinder Scholar Web version. 

Please email ngrant@uow.edu.au for registration details. The link previously here has been removed temporarily. Please accept our apologies

Note: Web version uses secure http. This can cause security certificate warnings when using IE because the University's generic security certificate can appear as a mismatch with the EZproxy server. It is OK to use the link that states "Continue to this website (not recommended)." 

Users who are using an IE browser will be able to get ready access if they uncheck the option to "Warn about certificate address mismatch". This warning is designed to alert users that the security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website’s address. In this instance, it is because the University uses generic security certificates so they do not exactly match the servers the traffic is coming from and so cause the error message.  Go into: Tools->Internet Options->Advanced->”Warn about certificate address mismatch” uncheck the box and restart your browser. You might like to revert to having the warning once you have finished using Scifinder Scholar.

When using reaction or substance search problems will be encountered if you do not have the Java 6 installed.  More information about browsers and Java requirements

CAS Website

All aspects of water and wastewater analysis techniques.

Latest edition

Standard Methods website

Journal of the publisher Springer-Verlag. International with strengths in Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Material Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Mathematics, Medicine, and Physics & Astronomy.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Springerlink

Geochemistry

Conditions of use

ScienceDirect website

Portal for Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, JCR Web

Dates vary for each database

Conditions of use

ISI Web of Knowledge

Citation indexes, which allow searching by cited references. Science Citation Index, Social Science citation Index 1965 - present, Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - present

Conditions of use

ISI Web of Knowledge

Journals published by Wiley, including sciences, life sciences, technology, business and finance and behavioural sciences. International.

Dates vary according to title

Conditions of use

Wiley

Agriculture and Natural Resources Index (ANR-Index)

Agriculture and natural resources including sustainable agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries, water and natural resources. Australian

2000 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

[formerly ABOA and STREAMLINE]

Agriculture and natural resources including sustainable agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries, water and natural resources. Australian

1975 - 2000

Conditions of use

Informit

[formerly ABOA and STREAMLINE]

Current and recently completed research projects across the agriculture and natural resources areas including sustainable agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries, water and natural resources. Australian

Research in progress

Conditions of use

Informit

[formerly ARRIP]

Completed research projects across the agriculture and natural resources areas including sustainable agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries, water and natural resources. Australian

1984 - present, updated twice per year

Conditions of use

Informit

[formerly CARRP]

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and related topics. Asia and Pacific.

1990 approx. - present

Conditions of use

Informit

General and educational. Australian focus.

1986 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Architects, architecture, building, interior design and landscape architecture. Australian.

1980 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Criminal law and justice. Australian.

1968 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

A list of paper-based historical records held in private hands in Australia.

1788 - 1988.

Conditions of use

Informit

Nuclear science research and development, with special emphasis on its peaceful applications. Australian.

1970 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and travel. Australian.

1982 - 2000

Conditions of use

Informit

Politics, government, economy, political culture and demography. Indonesia.

1965 - October 1998

Conditions of use

Informit .

Chemical engineering. Australian.

1956 - present

Conditions of use

Informit.

Current and historical events. Australian.

1992- plus historical material

Conditions of use

Informit.

Engineering and technology. International.

1969 - present

Engineering Village website

Consumer economics. Australian.

1988 - 2001

Conditions of use

Informit

Naturally occuring chemicals. International.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Management, environmental, packaging and building. Australian.

1985 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Agriculture, mineral resources, conservation and land management. Australian

1990 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Threatened flora and fauna. Australian.

1960 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

All branches of engineering. Australian.

1980 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Environment

Informit

Newspaper and company information

Factiva

Preferred browser Internet Explorer v. 5.5+, Firefox (Windows) and Safari (Macintosh).

The site uses secure http. The certificate on the Library's EZproxy server can cause an error. If you are warned about a security error and recommended not to proceed it is OK to do so in this instance. It is possible with IE browsers to turn off the warning about certificate mismatches but it can be a valid warning, so take this option with care.

Issues about, or of relevance to families. Australia.

Fulltext 2000 - present. Index 1980 - present

This is Family database with selected fulltext added

Conditions of use

Informit

Indigenous issues, local history, environment, biography. Far North Queensland and Torres Strait.

Records up to 1999.

Conditions of use

Informit

Great Barrier Reef and the activities associated with the Marine Park.

1982 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Health policy services and issues. Australian. Subset of Family.

1980 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Health information for nursing, public health, nutrition, psychology. International.

Current year plus previous four years

Conditions of use

Gale InfoTrac

Australian Indigenous studies.

1990 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

A comprehensive collection of academic and professional research articles online. Fulltext is available to titles subscribed to by the Library. Other fulltext may be purchased

International

Various dates

Ingenta.

Physics, electrical engineering, electronics,communications, information technology. International.

1969 - present

Conditions of use

Ovid

Industrial conflict, wages and conditions, labour market economics, equal employment opportunity, labour law, occupational health and safety, workplace reform. Australian.

1983 - 2000

Conditions of use

Informit

General reference. Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, or South-East Asia as a whole and ASEAN.

1990 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Major corporations, international economy, Australian economy and government policy. Australian focus.

1985 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Current events and news items. Australian focus.

1991 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Immigration, emigration, multiculturalism, ethnicity, racism, multicultural education, migrant health, refugees and aboriginal studies. Australian.

1988 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Philosophy and related fields. International.

1940 - present

Conditions of use

Ovid.

Rural and remote area health issues and care, and the practice and educational needs of health providers Australian

1966 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Science and more general information. Australian focus

Mid 1980s - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Computing, networks, web, applications, security. books from several key publishers.

Usually latest editions

Conditions of use

Safari Proquest

Science and technology policy, R&D management, social and economic issues of R&D. Australian focus.

1973 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Sociology and related disciplines. International.

1963 - present Records after 1974 include abstracts

Conditions of use

CSA.

Journal of the publisher Springer-Verlag. International with strengths in Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Material Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Mathematics, Medicine, and Physics & Astronomy.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Springerlink