Veterinary Science - general resources

Abbreviations, acronyms	Databases	Dictionaries, glossaries	Electronic Journals
Organisations	Veterinary Schools	Web gateways

See also the Resource guide for animal science

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Abbreviations, acronyms

Abbreviations guide Merck Veterinary Manual

Clinical acronyms Society of Practicing Veterinary Surgeons,U.K. A glossary of clinical abbreviations commonly used in patient records.

Non-clinical acronyms Society of Practicing Veterinary Surgeons,U.K. Acronyms commonly found in veterinary political or management documents, excluding associations and societies.

Veterinary Abbreviations & Acronyms University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.

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Dictionaries, glossaries

Merck Veterinary Manual searchable by topic, species, specialty, disease, keyword

Definitions and abbreviations of veterinary terms Washington State University, College of Veterinary Medicine

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Web gateways

Also check the listings on the Resource guide for animal science

Animal Health Australia

CAL: University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine's Computer Aided Learning Program. CAL projects are designed to supplement the veterinary curriculum offered by the School and provide the students with an alternative to traditional lectures. By providing the projects via the WWW, students may review the projects as often as they want. The graphics, video clips, case study formats, and the interactive nature of the projects help to actively engage the student in the learning process. With more than forty five web and multimedia-rich programs on topics ranging from histology to veterinary medical genetics, from small animal cardiac surgery to swine production, Penn Vet's CAL program brings the best of instruction to the web.

Internet for Veterinary Medicine A free interactive tutorial on Internet information skills for veterinary medicine (Intute, U.K.)

International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) Free access to 1,673 book chapters and proceedings. Registration free to veterinary science students and staff.

Martindale's virtual veterinary centre A wide variety of Web resources such as dictionaries and glossaries, veterinary curriculum materials, tutorials, and databases.

NetVet Veterinary Resources Home Page

Veterinary Information Portal (VIP) (University of Sydney)

Veterinary resources An Intute gateway to resources in animal health (University of Nottingham, UK)

Vetseek A search engine with a focus on veterinary science and related topics

Vetspace portal for the New Zealand veterinary community

WWW Virtual Library: veterinary medicine

Yahoo links to Science: Agriculture: Animal Science

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Databases for veterinary science

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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

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) 2000-2007
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’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 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’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 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
(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 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’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 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

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (on Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Part 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources (ASFA1)
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 Adelaide University staff and students, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: Biological Sciences and Living Resources 1971+
Updated: Monthly

AUSPORT
A collection of Australian databases, mostly bibliographic, including indexes to journals, books, newspaper articles,
reports, theses and manuscripts, conference proceedings and audio-visual material. Subjects covered include law,
criminology, education, architecture, sport (incl. horse sports), leisure, recreation, psychology, economics and health issues
relating particularly to Australia
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: 1989+

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: Weekly

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, agricultural biotechnology.
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

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

ENDANGER: Threatened Species in Australia
Indexes articles on Australia's threatened flora and fauna and related topics.
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: 1960+
Updated: Annual

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)

MIMSIVS
Full, detailed prescribing information, classified by therapeutic category, on all veterinary drugs available for prescription by veterinary practitioners throughout Australia. Also provides general reference information such as adverse experience reporting forms, exotic disease outbreak protocols, and wholesaler and distributor information
Access: Available at Roseworthy Library and Roseworthy Campus, School of Agriculture Food & Wine only.

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.
Access: Available at Roseworthy and Waite Libraries only.

PubMed (Medline)
A free, customised version of Medline, PubMed, which includes links to full text articles (University of Adelaide users only) and sequence databases. Useful for human, animal and microbial biology. See Library basic tutorial on searching PubMed. and Library advanced tutorial
A PubMed subject subset can be used to facilitate searching for veterinary medicine and animal health literature. This subset can be used in a search as veterinary [sb].
Example: hyperparathyroidism AND veterinary [sb] See MEDLINE/PubMed Search and Veterinary Information Resources for details
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1966+

SAGE (Science and Geography Education)
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

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
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 (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.
Time span:1996 onwards for cited reference searching and 1966 onwards for topic searching.

Threatened Species in Australia (ENDANGER)
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. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1960+
Updated: Annual

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 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 3 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 Biosecurity Australia Australian Government. Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry (responsible for import and quarantine risk assessments)