| Academic Onefile | Broad coverage, not always of top-shelf journals. Strengths in physical sciences, technology, medicine, & social sciences. | General |
| Academic Search Premier | Broad coverage of all academic areas, not always of top-shelf journals. | General Animal behaviour |
| Agricola | Useful for simple searches, covering agriculture and associated disciplines. Mostly 1970+.
| Agriculture |
AANRO
Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database | Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA), Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline. | Australian content Agriculture Natural resources management |
Agriculture & Natural Resources
| Australian agriculture. From 1975+ | Agriculture Natural resources management Australian content |
| ANR-Index | Australian agriculture and natural resources. | Agriculture Natural resources management Australian content |
| ANR-Research Archive | Archived Australian primary production projects including water and vegetation studies as well as agriculture. | Australian content Natural resources Agriculture |
APA-FT
(formerly APAIS) | Australian database covering mostly social sciences, and scientific topics of public interest. Many of the journals it indexes are not academic, so it should be used with caution. From 1978+ and full text from 1995. | Australian content |
| Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts | Part 1: Biological Sciences and living resources (ASFA1) Covers all aspects of aquatic biology. 1971+ Part 3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality (ASFA3) Covers all aspects of aquatic pollution with special emphasis on biological aspects. 1990+ | Aquatic biology Botany (aquatic plants) Ecology |
| Australian science index | Print source. Very useful for older Australian material. The index is a bit inconsistent, so check all synonyms. More information... | Older Australian materials General Print |
Bibliography of genetic variation in natural populations
| Produced by Fred Allendorf, from University of Montana This database is big on fish genetics | Fish genetics |
| Biosis Previews | Key database covering millions of citations to life sciences journal articles from 1980 to the present. | Key database Agriculture Aquatic biology International with Australian content Animal behaviour Botany Chemistry Biochemistry Ecology |
| CAB Abstracts | Information on agriculture and ecology. From 1910+ | Key database Agriculture Aquatic biology Botany Ecology |
Ei Compendex Web (Computerized engineering index) | Covers a wide range of engineering topics. Includes material on environmental engineering, and genetic engineering. From 1980+ | Environmental engineering Genetics |
| CSIRO index | Print source. Useful for older Australian material. It covers CSIRO published papers, reports, and translations made from foreign journals. More information... | Older Australian materials |
| Current Contents Connect | Covers a wide range of disciplines including Agriculture, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Life Sciences. Very up to date. | General |
| ENDANGER: Threatened species in Australia: a select bibliography | Published & unpublished material on Australian threatened flora and fauna and related topics. Sources include books, chapters in books, journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, theses, and some non-book material. | Australian content |
| Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering | Print database covering all aspects of flowing fluids in the natural environment. 1991-1999. More information... | Fluid flow Ocean engineering |
| GeoBase | Covers ecology, plus physical and social geography. From 1980+ | Key database International with Australian content Aquatic biology Botany Ecology |
| GeoRef | References to the world's literature in geology. A huge database on the earth sciences including palaeontology and evolution. From 1785+ | |
| Government Reports Announcements (and annual index) | Print resource listing work done for the U.S. government, and on U.S. government grants. Print version, from 1971+
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| Medline / Pubmed | Medical & biomedical sciences. We generally recommend using PubMed over Medline. Need help using Pubmed? Try the homegrown BSL PubMed tutorial or the official PubMed tutorial Alternatively you can use: Medline via ScienceDirect
Medline via Web of Knowledge | Genetics Chemistry Biochemistry |
| Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts | Print resource that covers the atmospheric environment. Coverage: 1950-1998. More information... |
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| Oxford Journals | Search all Oxford Journals directly, | |
| PsycINFO | Covers all aspects of psychology including animal behaviour. From 1980+
Older information available in print as Psychological abstracts from 1927+ | Animal behaviour |
Reef
(Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Province Database) | References to published and unpublished materials relating to the GB Reef, and the Marine Park Authority. 1982+ | Australian content |
| ScienceDirect | Search ScienceDirect (Elsevier) journals directly.
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| SciFinder Web & Scholar | Anything even remotely to do with chemistry is included here. Full searching from 1967 onward, and more limited searching from 1907-1966. | Chemistry Biochemistry Ecology |
| Scopus | A huge database of citations covering life sciences, medical sciences, and other science and social science topics. Best for 1996 onwards. It's useful for finding finding citing articles to papers you know about already. Brief guide on searching Scopus. | Key database Cited reference searching General Australian content |
| SpringerLink | Search all Springer Journals directly
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| Streamline (Australia's natural resources database) | Covers all aspects of natural resources management of land, vegetation and water in Australia. Some international material included if written by Australians. 1982+ | Australian content Natural resources management |
| Water and Climate Bibliography | Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of water.
Academic references pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources. | Water |
| Water Resources Abstracts | Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of water. 1992+ | Aquatic biology Ecology |
| Web of Science | Find papers that cite known works. Online from 1980+. Print version, Science citation index covers 1970-1993. | Key database Cited reference searching General Australian content |
| Wiley Interscience | Search all Wiley journals directly
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| Zoological Record | Comprehensive coverage of zoological topics including peer reviewed and popular literature. Includes humans as hosts for animals, anthropological aspects of zoology, and evolution. Online version 1978+. Print version 1870+.
| Key database Zoology International with Australian content Animal behaviour Aquatic biology Ecology |
