Environmental
weeds in Australia (Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australia)
International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant
Weeds
Tamar Valley Weed Strategy Database
of Australian weeds, including photographs and descriptions
Weed
Science Links (Department of Agriculture, Western Australia)
Weeds (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, Australia)
Weeds (NSW Agriculture)
Weeds Australia Gateway to weeds
information for Australia and Oceania
Weeds in Australia Information on weeds and weeds management at the national level. Links
to information and services on Australian Government and selected state
and territory web sites.
Weed science databases
Databases to find journal articles and other publications
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
Produced by the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Subjects
included: agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, plant
diseases, cooperative extension, insect pests, rural sociology, forestry.
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\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 1975-2007
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\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: Weekly
CAB
Abstracts
Index with abstracts to over 11,000 journals as well as books, conferences,
reports, theses etc. Subjects covered include 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.
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: 1972+
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.
Geobase
A bibliographic database for all aspects of physical and human geography,
geology and ecology. 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 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: 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.
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.
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
SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts online)
The most important database of journal articles and other materials on chemical substances, reactions or topics. 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.
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.
Streamline
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
Electronic
journals
Universities & research
Australian
CSIRO Environment.
Pest Management. Invasive Plants
National Weeds and Productivity Research Program Australia. Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry
University of New England.
Agronomy and Soil Science. Weed Science Group
University of Queensland. Tropical
& Subtropical Weeds Research Unit
Western Australian Herbicide Resistance
Initiative
Organisations
