Approved staff of PIRSA/SARDI must register for a Library card (and barcode) to request document delivery services or to access electronic resources such as journals and databases.

Apply for registration during office hours at the Services Desk of the Barr Smith Library, Waite Library or Roseworthy Campus Library.
Please bring with you:

1. Proof of employment with PIRSA/SARDI (eg payslip or ID card)
   OR A letter of offer of employment stating contract expiry date
   OR A letter on letterhead requesting membership, giving name, dept. and address, email address, phone number and term of employment
   
2. Download, print and complete a Waite Affiliated Registration form

If you are unable to visit the Library personally, you can fax the registration form and letter of offer/letter requesting membership to 08 8303 7103

If you have any queries, phone the Waite Library on 08 8303 7312 or email waite.library@list.adelaide.edu.au

Library orientation tours and sessions on the range of information and services available from the Library can be provided on an individual or group basis. Advance notice is requested.
Offsite visits by the Waite Librarian can also be arranged for information sessions at individual sites.

The University of Adelaide Library catalogue is available via the Web and will work with any browser.

The catalogues of the three South Australian universities, the State Library of South Australia and the National Bibliographic Database are available from here

Staff as specified may borrow personally from any of the libraries in the Adelaide University Library system. Onsite borrowers may request intercampus loans from other campuses. Offsite borrowers should refer to the section on Document Delivery.

All  loans are checked out to the individual borrower's loan file. Borrowers are asked to observe the due date on the receipt slip (or on your My Library account) as demerit points accrue for overdue items. Renewals may be requested from the Library by phone or self-renewed using the catalogue (login to your My Library account) unless another user is waiting for the item.

Waite Library
Books: 50 items [10 week loan, 4 renewals] Loans may be recalled after 1 week if the book is requested by another user.
Journals are not for loan.

Roseworthy Campus Library
Books: 50 items [10 week loan, 4 renewals] Loans may be recalled after 1 week if the book is requested by another user.
Journals are not for loan.

Barr Smith Library
Books: 50 items [10 week loan, 4 renewals] Loans may be recalled after 1 week if the book is requested by another user.
Journals are not for loan.

To use the photocopiers in any of the University of Adelaide libraries, a re-loadable Copycard must be purchased from a dispensing machine or a departmental Copycard arranged (contact the Library for details).
Copy charges (includes GST) are:-
A4 copy / laserprint: 11 cents
A3 copy: 15 cents

Intercampus Service

What is it and who may use the service?

Registered borrowers may request the delivery of  items or photocopies required for the purposes of study and research from libraries located on other campuses of the University of Adelaide.

What may be requested?

The following items are normally not available for loan:

How do I make a request?

Requesting a book: On-site personnel

• Search for the item in the Library Catalogue
• Click on the Requests link
• If the status of the item is 'Available' select "Joint Store and Intercampus Request"
• If the status of the item is 'On Loan' select "Recall"
• Change the Pick up at: location box to the Library where you would like to collect the book (Barr Smith, Waite, Roseworthy, etc.)
• An email notice will be sent to you when the item is ready for collection

Requesting a book: Off-site personnel

• Requests should be made on the electronic request form.
• Select "Off-site requester" as Type of Request
• You must fill in a separate request form for each individual item.
• We will send you a confirmation email copy of each request for your records.
• The book will be sent to you by DX courier where available, or Australia Post.

   

Requesting a journal article: On-site personnel

• Requests should be made on the electronic request form.
• Select "Intercampus Request" as Type of Request
• Journal articles will be emailed directly to the address you nominate on the Intercampus request form

Requesting a journal article: Off-site personnel

• Requests should be made on the electronic request form.
• Select "Off-site requester" as Type of Request
• Journal articles will be emailed directly to the address you nominate on the request form

Charges

How long will it take?

Most requests are processed within the day of receipt at the Document Delivery Service. Turn around time varies according to the supplying library and availability but generally can be filled within 1-5 days.

Desktop (web) Delivery

Desktop delivery allows you to retrieve a photocopied article direct from any internet connected computer. 
When filling out the electronic request form, the default delivery option for photocopies is for Desktop Delivery, which requires you to have access to the Internet (high speed modem) with a web browser, email and Adobe Acrobat software.  If you do not want this form of delivery click on the down arrow to the right of the box (i.e. My preferred delivery method is ) and change the default to either collect in person, mail or fax.

Extension of loans

If you require an extension on the loan period of items you have on loan you may:

• use the self renewal option on the Library catalogue by using the MyLibrary option
• phone the Waite Library Loans desk on (08) 8303 7312 or the Roseworthy Library Loans desk on (08) 8303 7844
• email Waite Document Delivery or Roseworthy Document Delivery citing your Library barcode number and item details.
  
   You will be required to return any item required by another borrower or if you have used the maximum number of extensions allowed. Failure to renew or return items on time can result in the suspension of borrowing privileges and an invoice for the cost of a replacement. See Demerits Points information for further details.
  
  What if there's a problem?
  
  We will contact you by phone or email if there are any problems with your request or if the item cannot be sourced within the University of Adelaide Library.
  
  If you want an update on the progress of your requests please contact the Waite or Roseworthy document delivery service.
  
  How do I return items?
  
  Waite Campus and Roseworthy Campus borrowers may return intercampus loan items at any University of Adelaide Library.Off-campus borrowers should securely wrap and address items to:
  Waite Library
  University of Adelaide
  Glen Osmond  SA  5064
  (or via DX667 where available)
  
  Interlibrary Service
  
  What is it and who may use the service?
  
  Registered PIRSA/SARDI borrowers may request items required for the purposes of study and research that are not held by the University of Adelaide Library.
  
  How do I make a request?
  

On-site personnel

• Requests should be made on the electronic request form.
• Select "Inter-Library Request" as Type of Request
• You must fill in a separate request form for each individual item.
• We will send you a confirmation email copy of each request for your records.
• Books can be collected from the Service Inquiries desks in the Barr Smith, Waite or Roseworthy Libraries.
• The location for collection will be indicated on the email notification that will be sent to you.

Off-site personnel

 

• Requests should be made on the electronic request form.
• Select "Inter-Library requester" as Type of Request
• You must fill in a separate request form for each individual item.
• We will send you a confirmation email copy of each request for your records.
• The book or photocopied journal article will be sent to you by DX courier where available, or Australia Post.

   

  
  

Loans and photocopied articles are provided by the Adelaide Campus (Barr Smith Library) Document Delivery Service:
Telephone: 8303 5346
FAX: 8303 4370
e-mail: library-ill@adelaide.edu.au

Charges

How long will it take?

The delivery of documents from Australian and overseas sources varies between 3 days to 2 weeks depending on availability and mode of delivery.
Loans of items provided through the Document Delivery Service are subject to the conditions of the lending library. Such conditions may include restricted use within the Library only, a short loan period or no extensions. Please observe the due date marked on the Library label.

PIRSA/SARDI staff who have a University of Adelaide Library card can borrow personally from the libraries of Flinders University and/or the University of South Australia. Lending rights are restricted.
Full details are available here.

The Library operates on the basis of fair sharing of materials. Demerit points are allocated when items are not returned by the due date at a rate of two points per day (or part of a day).

If an item is recalled, then 10 demerit points will accrue per day the item is overdue.

Reserve collection items will accrue 5 demerit points per hour (or part of an hour).

Accumulation of sixty demerit points results in withdrawal of borrowing privileges for seven days.

The number of demerit points accumulated can be checked by using the MyLibrary option on the catalogue.

Further details about the demerit points scheme are available on a separate web page.Enquiries about demerit points should be directed to staff at the Waite Library (83036572) or Roseworthy Campus Library (83037844).

We aim to ensure off-site personnel are provided with the same quality of service enjoyed by those on-site. Document delivery and reference services are provided by the Waite and Roseworthy Libraries. For more information contact the Waite & Roseworthy Campus Librarian

Enquiries should be directed to the Waite & Roseworthy Campus Librarian by telephone, fax, email or in person.

A number of databases have been licenced for remote access by PIRSA and SARDI staff who are registered users of the University of Adelaide Library.  See the links listed below.

NOTE: The majority of electronic resources available from the Library are governed by license agreements which allow access only for the purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. 

You can also search for the database title from the catalogue (use the Limit drop down box to limit your title search to electronic resources), select the record required and click on the link provided. You will be asked to enter your Library barcode and surname, after which you should connect to the database.
Remote off-site personnel who do not wish to or are not able to search the above databases or any other database, can request the Waite & Roseworthy Campus Librarian to do the searches for them.

A  B  C  D  E  F  G-K  L-O P-R S T U V-Y Z

AANRO:Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA), Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
A knowledge base of bibliographic and research information designed as a national decision support system and single access point for knowledge on Australian agriculture and natural resource management (ANR).
The AANRO knowledge base contains about 200,000 detailed descriptions of research projects and publications on Australian agriculture and natural resources.
Access: Freely available to all

Academic OneFile
A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subject; intended primarily for academic researchers.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+

Academic Search Premier
Full text for more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. In additional to journal coverage, Academic Search Elite provides full text information from a variety of source-types such as scholarly monographs.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1975-

Aesis
A database covering Australian earth sciences, mining, minerals and petroleum. Indexes published and unpublished theses and reports, journal articles, books, conference proceedings, maps.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1975-2001

AGRICOLA
Includes over 3 million citations to material acquired by the U.S. National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. It indexes articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings. It is produced by the National Agricultural Library. Subjects included: agricultural economics; geography; agricultural engineering; home economics; animal science; human nutrition; chemistry; life sciences; energy; natural resources; entomology; plant diseases; cooperative extension; insect pests and their control; food science; rural sociology; forestry; veterinary medicine.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1970+
Updated:  Daily

Agriculture & Natural Resources
Includes Australian agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, food production and technology and science, natural resources, animal husbandry and health, and related topics. Archival databases only.
Databases included are:
ANR Index 2000-2007
ANR Index Archive 1975-2007
ANR Research (Formerly ARRIP - Current and recently completed research) 2000-2007
ANR Research Archive (Formerly CARRP - Completed research projects) 1984-2007
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

AgStats
An Australian Bureau of Statistics small area agricultural commodity database on CD. The database is currently only available for searching in the Waite (1983-) or Roseworthy (1996-) libraries. Searches can be requested by contacting the Waite & Roseworthy Campus Librarian

AHB: Australian heritage bibliography
Formerly HERA, this bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment. Source documents include journal articles, unpublished reports, books, videos and conference proceedings from many different sources around Australia. Emphasis is placed on reports written or commissioned by government and non-government heritage agencies throughout the country.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1987+

ANR-Index
An Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan. A bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 2000-2007

ANR-Index Archive
(formerly ABOA and Streamline), produced by Infoscan, is a bibliographic database of older publications on agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia'ss environment, water and natural resources.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span 1975-2000

ANR-Research
(formerly known as ARRIP), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan. A research in progress database that describes current and recently completed research projects across the agriculture and natural resources areas including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1975-2007

ANR-Research Archive
(formerly known as CARRP), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan.  A research in progress database that contains completed research projects from the ANR-Research database) across the agriculture and natural resources areas including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australiaâ€�s environment, water and natural resources.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span 1984-2007

APA-FT
Citations (from 1978 onwards) and some full text (from 1995 onwards) for journal articles, selected newspaper articles, conference papers and books in Australian business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Its companion database, APAIS : Australian Public Affairs Information Service, gives citations from 1978 onwards without full text and may be useful whenever APA-FT is not accessible.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: Citations 1978+ and full text 1995+

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
This database covers current events, business and popular culture with access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database (AANRO)
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture ABOA, Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
A knowledge base of bibliographic and research information designed as a national decision support system and single access point for knowledge on Australian agriculture and natural resource management (ANR).
The AANRO knowledge base contains about 200,000 detailed descriptions of research projects and publications on Australian agriculture and natural resources.
Access: Freely available to all

Australian heritage bibliography (AHB)
see AHB

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text
See APA-FT

Biological abstracts see Biosis Previews
Indexes articles from life sciences journals and items from conferences, meetings and symposia from 1980 onwards.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly

Business Australia Online
Contains data from 12 Australian databases on business, financial and commercial interest, with particular emphasis on taxation, accounting and industrial relations. The databases are AATD (Australian Accounting and Taxation Database), AIMMAT (AIM Management and Training Database), ELDIST (Electronic Sources of Information, distributors), ELSOURCE (Electronic Sources of Information, Sou rces), GIBLIN (Giblin Working Papers Database), INTAX (International Taxation Issues Database), IREL (Australian Industrial Relations Database), OMNDIST (OMN Training Resources Database, Distributors), OMNRES (OMN Training Resources Database, Resources), TAXAB S (Australian Taxation Abstracts Database), VALISE (Victorian Audit Library Information Service Database) and WORKLIT (Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations Database).
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Business Source Complete
Provides more than 2,800 full text scholarly publications, including nearly 900 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for all of the 3,350 journals in the Ebsco collection. Covers nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: mainly 1965+

CAB Abstracts
Index with abstracts to over 11,000 journals as well as books, conferences, reports, theses etc.  Subjects covered include animal sciences, veterinary sciences, dairy science and technology, plant breeding and genetics, crop sciences, crop protection, environmental and natural resources, forestry, post-harvest science and technology, agricultural biotechnology, biodegradation, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, rural development and sociology, leisure, recreation and tourism, human nutrition, tropical diseases and medical parasitology.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1910+
Updated: Monthly

Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1985+

Current Contents Connect
Access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data of current issues of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts and humanities leading scholarly journals. It has a useful email alert facility which allows weekly update search results to be emailed to you automatically.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: Last 4 years
Updated: Daily

EBSCOhost
Includes Business Source Complete, Academic Search Premier, ANZ Reference Centre, Computer Source, Econlit , MasterFILE Premier, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycINFO - major business and multidisciplinary databases.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Econlit
The world's foremost source of references to economic literature.  The database provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1969+

ELIXIR: Electronic Library eXchange for Information Resources see VPI&E Catalogue

ENDANGER: Threatened Species in Australia (on Heritage & Environment)
Material, both general and specific, on Australia's threatened flora and fauna.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1960+
Updated: Annual

Essential Science Indicators (Institute for Scientific Information)
A omprehensive compilation of essential science performance statistics and science trends data derived from ISI’s databases. The chief indicators of output, or productivity, are journal article publication counts. For influence and impact measures, ESI employs both total citation counts and cites per paper scores. The former reveals gross influence while the latter shows weighted influence, also called impact. Data is limited to journal articles indexed by ISI. Types of data featured in ESI include most cited author rankings, institutional (university, corporate, government research lab) rankings, national rankings, and journal rankings.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1992+
Updated: Bimonthly

EVA: Environmental abstracts (on Heritage & Environment)
Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on the environment and related fields. Source documents are selected journal articles from approximately 600 journals published in Australia and overseas. Subject coverage includes air pollution and quality, sustainable development, salinity, environmental protection and management, hazardous wastes, recycling, waste management and disposal, water pollution, environmental assessment, and pollution control. Pre-February 1998 data includes planning, heritage, urban design and town planning subject coverage.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1987+

GeoBase
A bibliographic database for all aspects of physical and human geography, geology, ecology and Third World studies. Its
interdisciplinary nature allows for searching environmental issues, and other areas that cross traditional subject boundaries.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Quarterly

GeoRef
A database of citations to geoscience journal articles, books, conferences, maps, reports, theses.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1785+ for North America; 1933+ for the rest of the world
Updated: Quarterly

Google Scholar
A free service for searching scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Access: Freely available to all

Heritage & Environment
Ten Australian databases, mostly bibliographic, including indexes to journals, books, newspaper articles, reports, theses and manuscripts, conference proceedings and audio-visual material. Some relevant databases included are:

• AHB: Australian heritage bibliography (Australia's natural & cultural environment)
• ENDANGER (Threatened species in Australia)
• EVA (Environment)
• REEF (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park database)
• STREAMLINE (Australian Natural Resources database)
• VPI&E (Natural resources, environment)

Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Informit
Databases from Australasia's leading agencies and institutions that index and abstract a vast range of Australasian sources of information. Some databases included are:

• AESIS (Australian earth sciences, mining, minerals, petroleum)
• AHB: Australian heritage bibliography
• APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs: full text
• Business Australia Online A collection of Australian databases on business, financial and commercial interest, with particular emphasis on taxation, accounting, and industrial relations matters

Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Journal citation reports (Institute for Scientific Information)
Contains impact factors and other citation data derived from ISI�s Citation indexes and covers journals in science, technology, and the social sciences. In 2 editions: JCR Science edition; and, JCR Social sciences edition
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1999+
Updated: Weekly

Libraries Australia : the Kinetica Search Service
The search interface for Kinetica, a service provided by the National Library of Australia. The resources include books, journals, pictures, music, maps, newspapers and electronic documents, located in Australia and overseas.
Access: Freely available to all

Masterfile Premier
Full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Periodicals Index Online
Articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. Periodicals Index Online currently indexes over 15 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Over three centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects are indexed, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes a link to Periodicals Archive Online which has full text articles from 1802-
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1665+

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1965+

PsycINFO
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1887+

PubMed (Medline)
A customised version of PubMed which shows full text articles accessible to University of Adelaide staff and students. The customised version still contains the full Medline database. Search help
Access: Freely available to all, however only University of Adelaide community can access the links to online journals.
Time span: 1950's+

SAGE
A bibliographic database indexing popular journals across a broad range of subjects, including science, environmental science, natural history, agriculture, recreation. Most journals indexed are Australian but several overseas titles are also included.
Some SAGE online records have links to the full text article.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1984+

ScienceDirect
Contains the full text of journals published by Elsevier Science in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Scirus (Elsevier Science)
Searchable database of scientific resources found on the World Wide Web.
Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web and  find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss.
Access: Freely available to all

Scopus
Scopus and Web of science are large databases covering science and other subjects and allowing cited reference searching (finding articles that have cited a given article). The 1980 onwards date range of Web of science makes it the more useful database for cited reference searching.
Scopus and Web of science can also be searched by topic but they lack the depth of coverage of a biological database such as Biosis previews.Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span:1996 onwards for cited reference searching and 1966 onwards for topic searching.

Streamline: on Heritage & Environment
Contains over 25 000 records on all aspects of natural resource management covering the sustainable management of land, vegetation and water resources. Indexes and abstracts Australian and international journal articles, published and unpublished reports, research in progress, books, conference papers, where material is about Australia or written by an Australian. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1982-2004 with selected earlier material

Threatened Species in Australia (ENDANGER)
see ENDANGER

VITIS-VEA (Viticulture and enology abstracts)
An international English-language literature database in the field of viticulture and enology. It contains information from all over the world and corresponds to the "VITIS - Viticulture and Enology Abstracts" (scientific reviews) and "Informationsdienst praxisbezogener Literatur im Weinbau" (technical reviews) in print. The database covers about 60% more citations than the printed versions and provides bibliographic data, keywords and abstracts in English (or, in German, see below). Scientific articles on the fields: morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of grapevines; soil science; genetics and grapevine breeding; phytopathology and grapevine protection; cellar techniques; economics of viticulture and enology; enology; microbiology of wine. In addition, since 1994: Technical articles from German language journals (abstracts in German).
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1969+

VPI&E catalogue : Victorian Primary Industries and Environment (Library) catalogue
Victorian Primary Industries and Environment (Library) Catalogue produced by the Knowledge and Information Branch of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts books, reports, theses, video recordings, maps, manuscripts and pictorial matter in the Knowledge Resource Centre at Werribee and small regional collections of the Department of Primary Industries and the Department of Sustainability and Environment. Formerly called ELIXIR.
VPI&E Catalogue includes records for publications from specialist collections in agriculture, mineral resources, conservation and land management/planning.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1990+

Web of Knowledge (Institute for Scientific Information)
Comprising Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, ISI Journal Citation Reports and ISI essential science indicators.
A platform for searching individual ISI or multiple ISI products simultaneously.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Web of Science (Institute for Scientific Information)
Comprising Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Web of Science indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields. As well as standard topic searches, it allows searches for articles that have cited a given author, article, book or other item.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly

Zoological Record
More than 1 million citations to the world wide literature on zoology, with systematic and taxonomic  information for 27 animal groups. Topics include behaviour, biochemistry, biophysics, communication, disease, evolution, genetics, habitat, development and life cycle, morphological variation, nomenclature,paleontology,taxonomy, and zoogeography.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1978+
Updated: Monthly

The full text of a large number of electronic journals is available via the Library catalogue. Simply type in the title of the journal in Basic Search (use the Quick limit to limit the search to Electronic resources) then select the appropriate record and click on the link available.

Due to site licence conditions, not all electronic journals are available to staff of PIRSA/SARDI.
However, all 1500+ Elsevier titles are available in full-text from Elsevier's ScienceDirect service. On connecting from outside the University network via the Library catalogue (or from the link above), you will be prompted for your Library barcode and last name.

Also available to PIRSA and SARDI staff are all journals available from the following services:
Academic OneFile (Thomson Gale)
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (EBSCO)
Blackwell Science collection
Cambridge Journals Online
CSIRO
EBSCOhost
Nature
Springer / Kluwer
Wiley Interscience
JSTOR Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences

University of Adelaide Library's web pages on EndNote. Includes online tutorials, quick guides, instruction videos, FAQ's, filters for importing records.

You may elect to receive automatic e-mail notification of new and changed services and upcoming events and exhibitions, by joining NEWS, the Library's e-mail subscription list.

Weekly lists of New Books are available from the Library web site here. To request an item that is currently 'on loan' to the New Book Shelf, follow the instructions detailed at this web page.

For the latest research articles, search strategies on specific topics or journal titles may be saved on Current Contents Connect, then run against latest or specific weekly updates as needed or automatically emailed on a weekly basis as alerts. You can also receive the contents of new issues of your favourite journals as weekly email alerts.

The development of the collection is the responsibility of the Waite & Roseworthy Campus Librarian. Recommendations for additions to the collection are welcome from PIRSA/SARDI staff.

Library Committees with representatives from PIRSA/SARDI and University departments meet periodically at the Waite and Roseworthy Campuses to monitor the services provided.