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Services for staff of PIRSA and SARDI
The services specified below are available to agriculture, aquaculture and fishing industries staff employed by the Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (including the South Australian Research & Development Institute). To register as a borrower, contact the Waite Library or Roseworthy Campus Library.
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How to register with the Library
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:
- 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
- Download, print and complete a Waite Affiliated Registration form
If you have any queries, phone the Waite Library on 08 8303 7312 or email waite.library@list.adelaide.edu.au
Library orientation and user instruction
Offsite visits by the Waite Librarian can also be arranged for information sessions at individual sites.
Library catalogue
The catalogues of the three South Australian universities, the State Library of South Australia and the National Bibliographic Database are available from here
Borrowing from the Library
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.
Photocopying within the Library
Copy charges (includes GST) are:-
A4 copy / laserprint: 11 cents
A3 copy: 15 cents
Document delivery services
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?
- Normal loan period books from the Main Collection
- Scanned copies of journal articles and chapters of books
- Reserve Collection
- Journal issues/volumes (unless available 'for loan as a book')
- Reference Collection
- Special Collections
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.
- Check the address on the form is correct; advise the Library if it needs updating.
- Select a Library under Delivery instructions - Waite or Roseworthy
- The book will be sent to you by DX courier where available, or Australia Post, from the Library you select.
- We will send you a confirmation email copy of each request for your records.
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
Loans = no charge
Journal articles = no charge for scanned articles. Photocopies and laser prints: $2.20 up to 20 pages or part thereof. Additional cost of $2.20 for faxed copies.
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 scanned 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 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 Waite Library Service Enquiries (08) 8313 7312 or Roseworthy Library Service Enquiries on (08) 8313 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.
- 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 will be sent to you by DX courier where available, or Australia Post. The scanned journal article will be sent to your desktop.
Loans and journal articles are provided by the Adelaide Campus (Barr Smith Library) Document Delivery Service:
Telephone: 8313 5346
FAX: 8313 4370
e-mail: library-ill@adelaide.edu.au
Charges
Articles
o Within Australia:
$16.50 for 1-50 pages; $4 for each additional 50 pages or part thereof
o Overseas:
$16.50 for 1-50 pages; $4 for each additional 50 pages or part thereof
o Fast Track
(within Australia): $33.00
Books
o Within Australia:
$16.50
o Overseas:
$44 (higher charges may apply)
o Fast Track
(within Australia): $33.00
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.
Borrowing from other S.A. university libraries
Full details are available here.
Demerit points
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).
Services to off-site personnel
Reference and research enquiries
Electronic databases
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).
Resources available to PIRSA and SARDI staff will be indicated by a separate link for PIRSA and SARDI staff to click for access. If there is no link, the resource is not licensed for PIRSA/SARDI access.
You will be asked to enter your User ID (Library barcode) and Password (family name or last name). The link will go to a portal which will indicate the scope of the access available.
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 H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
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+
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 (1983-2002) or Roseworthy (1996-2002) 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 Australia�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+
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (on Cambridge Scientific Abstracts):
Part 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources (ASFA 1)
ASFA 1 provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined. Fisheries receive particular attention, with comprehensive sections on fishing methods, statistics, aquaculture, food technology, productivity, conservation, 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: 1971+
Part 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-living Resources (ASFA 2)
ASFA 2 contains aquatic resources provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. Subject coverage includes Law, policy, economics and social sciences. Descriptive and dynamical oceanography and limnology, Chemistry and geochemistry, Underwater optics and acoustics, Marine meteorology and climatology, Geology and geophysics, Marine technology, Vessels, underwater vehicles and buoys, Offshore and coastal structures, Commerce, trade and economics.
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: 1971+
Part 3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality (ASFA 3)
ASFA 3 is devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries, the journal examines a spectrum of current aquatic and environmental issues including global change; acid rain; eutrophication; radioactive waste disposal; plastic debris; oil spills; coastal zone management; pesticides; international conventions and treaties, 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: 1971+
ASFA Aquaculture abstracts
This specialized database specifically selects its widely dispersed aquaculture-related information by focusing on studies related to improving and augmenting aquatic yields. The records included provide comprehensive information on cultivating marine, freshwater and brackish water species. With the extensive information resources of the international ASFA partnership behind it, ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts provides specific, unparalleled coverage of the planned management of aquatic organisms.
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: 1971+
ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to the literature of molecular biology and molecular genetics, as applied specifically to marine and aquatic organisms. Major areas of coverage include general aspects, U.S. patents; molecular biotechnology; supporting technology; immobilization; cell and tissue culture (including hybridoma); aquaculture and fisheries; medical and veterinary; fermentation biofouling, corrosion and adhesives; chemical and mineral products; energy applications; food products; environmental applications and impact.
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.
ASFA Proquest Deep Indexing: Aquatic Sciences
ProQuest Deep Indexing provides searching of indexed figures, tables, graphs, maps, charts and other illustrations from scholarly journals.
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.
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 heritage bibliography (AHB)
see AHB
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text
See APA-FT
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
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.
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
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+
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.
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.
Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
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)
From U.S. National Library of Medicine. Search help
Access: Freely available to all.
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.
Scopus Journal Analyzer
Enables you to search for journals within a specific field, identify which are the most influential and find out who publishes them. This will help you to decide where to publish to get the best visibility for your work and how to prioritize your submissions.
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.
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
Trove
Records in Trove are a copy of the records in the Australian National Bibliographic Database (including the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and Music Australia), Picture Australia, Australian Research Online, Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 and PANDORA.
Access: Freely available to all
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+
Water Resources Abstracts
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government 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. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1967+
Web of Knowledge (Institute for Scientific Information)
Comprising Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts.
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
