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Databases to try first
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ACM Digital Library
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Computing, information technology, networking, artificial intelligence and human-machine interaction. International.
1985 - present
Conditions of use
ACM Portal
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American Chemical Society Publications
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Chemistry and related areas, such as toxicology and chemical engineering. International.
First issues - present
Terms and Conditions (pdf)
ACS website
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| American Institute of Physics Journals |
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Current and archive content on this site
AIP website. AIP is a society of several societies in the physical sciences area
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| American Physical Society Journals |
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Current and archive content to journals of this publisher
APS Website
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Analytical Abstracts online (Analytical WebBase)
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Analytical chemistry
1980 - present
RSC website
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Annual Reviews
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Sciences and social sciences
Conditions of use
Annual reviews
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Attorney-General's Information Service (AGIS) Plus Text
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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
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AUSTLII
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Law, legislation and case law. Australia. Commonwealth and state jurisdictions plus New Zealand and South Pacific.
Starting dates vary
Conditions of use
AustLII website.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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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
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Australian Heritage Bibliography (AHB)
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National parks; endangered species; coasts; forests; wetlands; rivers; geological features; wilderness areas; world heritage sites Australian.
1987 - present
Conditions of use
Informit
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Australian Public Affairs - full text APAFT
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Business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. APAIS with some fulltext. Australian.
Index 1978 - present Fulltext 1995 - present
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Informit
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Biological Abstracts
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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
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Biosis Previews
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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
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Cambridge Journals Online
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Sciences, social sciences, and humanities
Conditions of use
Cambridge journals website
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Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions
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Graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis.
International
2002 - present
Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem Alert
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Chemical hazards, safety, toxicology
Current
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CHEMnetBASE
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Chemistry dictionaries and handbooks International.
Dates vary
Conditions of use
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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CLIB2001, CLIB96 & CLIB91
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Statistics from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Stand alone CD ROM ask at Research Help.
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Combined Chemical Dictionary
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Chemical substances, properties of compounds. International.
Dates vary
Conditions of use
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations
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Chemical transformations, organic synthesis, functional groups
Up to 1995
ScienceDirect
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Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II
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Chemical transformations, organic synthesis, functional groups
1995 - 2005
ScienceDirect
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CSIRO Online
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Scientific research. Fulltext access to UOW subscriptions only. Australian.
1997 - present
CSIRO website.
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Current Contents Connect
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Current information in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, technology and medical science. International.
Conditions of use
ISI Web of Knowledge
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Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
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25,000 most commonly cited compounds in Chemical Abstracts. International.
Dates vary
Conditions of use
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Dictionary of Drugs
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Drugs and pharmacological agents. International.
Dates vary
Conditions of use
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club
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Evidence- based medicine. International.
1991 - present
Conditions of use
Ovid
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EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
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Clinical medicine, trials. International.
Not date limited
Conditions of use
Ovid
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EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
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Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International.
1991 - present
Conditions of use
Ovid.
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EBM Reviews - Dare
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Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International.
Date is latest update for whole database
Conditions of use
Ovid
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Ecodisc
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Ecology and the ecosystem, conservation. International.
1990 - present
Silverplatter Webspirs
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| Encyclopedia of Archaeology |
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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
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ScienceDirect
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
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Biochemistry, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, history of life sciences. International.
Published 2001 with continual updates
Wiley
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Encyclopedia of Materials
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Material science. International.
Published 2001 with continual updates
ScienceDirect
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Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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All aspects of nanoscale science and technology dealing.
Published 2004
American Scientific Publishers, accessed on IngentaSelect
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ENVIROnetBASE
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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
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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General Database with information in arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. International.
1980 - present
Conditions of use
Gale InfoTrac
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Georef 1785 -
Georef 2002 -
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Geosciences. North American until 1933 then international.
1785 - present
Ovid.
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Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
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Scientific data for chemistry and physics. International.
83rd ed. 2003
Conditions of use
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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HighWirePress
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Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences. International
Archive site, dates vary, latest issues usually embargoed.
Stanford U. P.
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IEEExplore
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Electrical and electronic engineering. International.
1988 - present
Conditions of use
IEEExplore website
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| Informaworld |
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Over 1000 journals in many disciplines. Strengths in Social Sciences and Humanities. International.
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Institute of Physics - Journals
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Physics and its subdisciplines, such as quantum physics, superconductors, semiconductors, nanotechnology and astrophysics and nuclear physics.
First volumes to present
IOP website
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Lexis.com
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Legal resources. International law.
Various dates
Lexis
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Medline 1966-
Medline 1996-
Medline Daily update
Premedline - In-process records
Old medline 1950-1965
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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
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Mineralogical Abstracts (Minabs Online)
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Mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy. International.
1982 - present
Mineralogical Society
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NANOnetBASE
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Nanoscience and nanotechnology 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
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Natural Product Updates
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Developments in natural product chemistry
International
1999 - present
Royal Society of Chemistry
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Nature Journals Online
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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
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| Optics Encyclopedia |
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Classical optics plus latest applications, including optical sensing and metrology, biomedicine, optical components and systems
International
Conditions of use
Wiley
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Polymers: A Property Database
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Physical properties of polymers, scientific and trade information. International
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Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Properties of Organic Compounds
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Organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. International.
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Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Proquest 5000
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Information in most topic areas. Several databases which may be searched either individually or in combinations. International.
Various dates
Conditions of use
Proquest.
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chemistry. International
All issues of the available titles
Possible to restrict to the archive or later years
Conditions of use
Royal Society of Chemistry
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| Sage Journals Online |
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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
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SAI Global
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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.
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Science & Technology Proceedings on ISI Proceedings
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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)
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ScienceDirect
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Life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. International.
1995 - present, some earlier
Conditions of use
ScienceDirect website
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SciFinder Scholar / Chemical Abstracts
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Chemistry and many other science and technology applications. Requires SciFinder Scholar 2006 client software:
Existing users: replace older versions by installing in the existing directory. The install wizard should do this for you.
First time users: The SciFinder Scholar client will not run without a specific file. If installing the client for the first time, please contact Neil Grant (02-4221 3547) to obtain the required file.
Access from on campus only. Requires border authentication
International.
1907 - present
Details on website
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| Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater |
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All aspects of water and wastewater analysis techniques.
Latest edition
Standard Methods website
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Springerlink
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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
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Springerlink
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SpringerLink Reference Works
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Reference titles with fulltext
International
Dates Vary
Conditions of use
SpringerLink
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Treatise on Geochemistry
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Geochemistry
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ScienceDirect website
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Web of Knowledge
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Portal for Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, JCR Web
Dates vary for each database
Conditions of use
ISI Web of Knowledge
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Web of Science
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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
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Wiley Interscience
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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
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