The University of Adelaide Library

Entomology

Web gateways	Databases	Electronic journals
Universities & Research	Organisations	Pest Management

Web gateways and general sites

Biodiversity and Biological Collections At University of Kansas Natural History Museum. Searchable resources includes invertebrates, entomology, biological societies, biologist directories, data models etc.
Entomology Index of Internet Resources Produced by Iowa State University.
Entomology Australia a portal to information about insects in education at all levels, from primary school to university postgraduate level. Links are provided to professional societies, the corporate sector and educational institutions.
Entomology on World-Wide Web (WWW)Extensive alphabetical list of Web pages, as well as publications, images and university degree programs around the world.
Insectclopedia Site provides links to insect-related sites. Subjects include species, insect control, associations, pests found in crops, research, schools and identification. Comprehensive
Yahoo! - Science:Biology:Entomology Searchable index of popular and academic sites.

Entomology databases

Databases to find journal articles and other publications

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

Agricola
Includes over 3 million article citations to material acquired by the U.S. National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Subjects include all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
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.
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.
Databases included are:
ANR Index 2000-2007
ANR Index Archive 1975-2007
ANR Research (Formerly ARRIP - Current and recently completed research) 1975-2007
ANR Research Archive (Formerly CARRP - Completed research projects) 1984-2007

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\x92s 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 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: 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\x92s 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 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 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\x92s 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 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: 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\x92s 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 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 1984-2007

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

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 restricts 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: 1980+
Updated: Monthly

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 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: 1910+
Updated: Monthly

Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect is a service by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which provides 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.
Time span: Last 4 years
Updated: Daily.

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.

Prime Notes
Contains fact sheets and research summaries from all departments of primary industries and agriculture Australia-wide. Topics covered include crop production, horticulture, pastures, aquaculture, landcare, animal husbandry and health, farm safety and farm business management.
Available at Roseworthy and Waite Libraries only.

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 Adelaide University
community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1984+

Science Citation Index see Web of Science

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 (including staff belonging to SAMHS and PIRSA/SARDI), for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts online)
The most important database of journal articles and other materials on chemical substances, reactions or topics. It also contains the medical database, Medline. Scifinder Scholar also allows cited reference searching from about 1996 onwards.
Before accessing SciFinder Scholar for the first time you will need to create your own ScFinder Web account.
The registration takes around 2 minutes.
You MUST use your University of Adelaide email address or your registration will not work.
Got an account? Login to SciFinder Web
SciFinder Web Help, includes tutorials, how-to guides, search strategies.
Please note: The desktop version is no longer available for download from the Library site. CAS are phasing out the desktop (client) version as of the end of 2011. We strongly recommend making the transition to the Web version, which offers off-site access and better functionality.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to University of Adelaide staff and students, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

Scirus (Elsevier)
Scirus searches scientific, technical and medical Web pages and reports and journal articles from a selection of publishers and databases.
Access: Freely available to all.

Scopus
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community (including staff belonging to SAMHS and PIRSA/SARDI), for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.

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 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: 1982-2004 with selected earlier material

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 Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Timespan: 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 Adelaide University community, for the purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1978+
Updated: Monthly

Other databases

Antbase (Social Insects WWW) Antbase is being built and maintained at the American Museum of Natural History and the Ohio State University. Provides seamless access to other Hymenoptera databases, as well as external sources including GenBank.

Australian Biodiversity Information Facility - Fauna (Australian Biological Resources Study) A Web based source of taxonomic and biological information being compiled for all animal species, including insects, known to occur in Australia. It comprises the Fauna of Australia, the Census of Australian Vertebrate Species and the Australian Faunal Directory (formerly the Zoological Catalogue of Australia database).

Caterpillar hostplants database Allows input of records into database to build a comprehensive record of Lepidoptera.

Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) by David Wahl (American Entomological Institute).

Common names of insects and related organisms Entomological Society of America

DIPTERA Web page Includes image files, collections and a biosystematic information database.

Hymenoptera: projects in progress at Ohio State University Includes bioinformatics and systematics.

The Insect Orders Includes descriptive text and image information on specific orders, families and genera of insects.

International Union for the Study of Social Insects Includes Social Insect databases and text of Insectes Sociaux - an international journal.

Orthoptera Species File Online taxonomic database of the world's orthopteroid insects.

Pherolist Sex pheromones of female Lepidoptera and related male attractants. Points of entry are a list of families, subfamilies and tribes, a genus index, a species index, common names and chemical components by structural class.

ScaleNet A queriable database that provides comprehensive information on the scale insects (Coccoidea) of the world, including information on their classification, nomenclatural history, distribution, hosts, and over 11,000 literature references.

Social Behavior of Polistine Wasps

Electronic journals

All electronic journals are listed in the Library Catalogue

A listing of journals in the subject area Invertebrates & Protozoa is available from our University of Adelaide Library E-Journals A-Z web page

Universities & research

Australian
Agriculture, Western Australia. Entomology. Useful site with searchable pest databases and insect collection images
Centre for Pesticide Applicaton and Safety (University Of Queensland)
CSIRO Division of Entomology
The University of Adelaide. School of Agriculture & Wine. Discipline of Plant & Food Science.

International
Natural History Museum. Dept. of Entomology London. Includes details of selected entomology projects.
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center A USDA research centre
The Center For Insect Science Based at the University of Arizona, the Center is an "umbrella" organisation fostering collaborative research and education on insect science.
International Bee Research Association Includes links to other beekeeping sites and pictures of pollen grains.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Entomology Dept.
Systematic Entomology: a guide to online insect systematic resources North Carolina State Univ. USA

Organisations

Australian
Aussie Bee (Australian Native Bee Research Centre)
Australian Entomological Society

International
Croplife America Home Page
Entomological Society of America
International Society of Arachnology
International Union for the Study of Social Insects Includes Social Insect databases and text of Insectes Sociaux - an international journal.
Natural Science Collections Alliance Washington, D.C.
Society for Invertebrate Pathology Home Page

Insect pest management and control

Australian Plague Locust Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, Australia. Includes documentation of current research, locust bulletins and a locust and grasshopper identification guide.
Biological Control Virtual Information Center Links to biological control organisations, databases and web sites around the world.
Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens (EDWIP) Searchable database which provides information on fungi, viruses, protozoa, mollicutes, nematodes, and bacteria (other than Bacillus thuringiensis) that are infectious in insects, mites, and related arthropods.
Global Crop Pests Identification and Information Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture & Development
Covers the basics of pest recognition and scouting, ecology, biology and control strategies for each pest. Designed for extensionists and farmers of developing countries.
Centre for Integrated Pest Management Northern Carolina State University
Invertebrate Pests (Agriculture W.A.) Includes PestWeb, a searchable database and other information and identification tools.
National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS) Pest/biocontrol information.
Nematodes as Biological Control Agents of Insects Includes fulltext articles, a bibliography and useful links.
Pesticide Properties Database US ARS database used as one authoritative source of data for calculating pesticide movement in soils. Includes data such as soil sorption and soil half-life.
Plant Health Australia Web site of the peak national coordinating body for plant health. Includes the Australian Plant Pest database (access restricted - see web site for guidelines), research documents and details of projects.
Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook Co-sponsored by the Consortium for International Crop Protection and the National IPM network and housed at the U. Minnesota, this site is devote to the on-going production of an online IPM textbook.
University of California Davis IPM home page Details the University of California statewide IPM project. Includes interactive resources, publications, links to other sites and more.

Compiled by Angela Mills