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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Sources
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Information Sources
Last update:January 2007, by Mick Draper
Which database should I use?
Information about the best databases for searching
Australian databases have green background
Other databases have no background colour
| Academic Onefile More than 1,500 journals in full text coverage includes physical sciences, technology, medicine, & social sciences. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Academic Search Premier Has broad coverage of all academic areas. Indexes around 8,200 journals with full text from more than 4,600 of these. Increase the number of citations found by using Subject Terms and keywords in combination. Use in Advanced Search for a better results display. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Agricola This file is useful for simple searches. It covers most areas of agriculture and associated disciplines. Compiled by the US National Agricultural Library it was begun in 1970 but has references from as far back as the 16th century. Truncation is assumed. Read the help before searching. |
AANRO:Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA), Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
- Agriculture & Natural Resources Covers most aspects of Australian agriculture, and includes books, fact sheets, reports, etc as well as journal articles.From 1975+
- ANR-Index A bibliogrpahic database on Australian agriculture and natural resources.
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ANR-Research Archive
Archived Australian primary production projects including water and vegetation studies as well as agriculture.
- Streamline An Australian database on natural resources management. From 1982+
Access for Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only. |
| APA-FT (Formerly APAIS) An 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. Citations from 1978+ and full text from 1995. Citation only version available here.
Access for Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only.
Also in print BSL REF 994.005 A93 from 1945+ |
| Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts A Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database. Click on Aquatic Sciences and then on either Quick Search or Advanced Search. There are two files
Access for Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only. |
Australian science index Print source that's very useful for older Australian material. The index is a bit inconsistent, so check all synonyms. No current information. Copies at BSL, Waite, and Roseworthy libraries.
At BSL Reference 505 A93.2. Volume 1 (1958)-Vol 23 (1979), 1980-1983. |
| Biosis Previews Biological abstracts and Biological abstracts RRM from ISI Web of Knowledge Citations of millions of life sciences journal articles from 1980 to the present. The database contains many citations to medical topics. Access for Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only. Also in print from 1927 at REF 570.5 B6. |
| CAB Abstracts This database has information on agriculture and ecology. You can use cabicodes to limit searches to Human Health and Hygiene. Citations are from 1910 to the present. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Ei Compendex Web (Computerized engineering index) A menu operated web database that covers a wide range of engineering topics. Includes material on environmental engineering, and genetic engineering. 1980+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| CSIRO index A print source useful for older Australian material. It covers CSIRO published papers, reports, and translations made from foreign journals. At BSL in print Ref 505 A93c. No current information. 1975-1986. |
| Current Contents Connect Covers a wide range of disciplines including Agriculture, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Life Sciences. Very up to date with new refs added each week. New references matching a profile sent to email addresses. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Digital Dissertations Provides access to theses from accredited North American institutions, and some other sources. 1861+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| ENDANGER: Threatened species in Australia: A select bibliography A database of published and 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. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering This print database covers all aspects of flowing fluids in the natural environment. In BSL Reference 627.05 C582.2 1991+ |
| GeoBase Covers ecology, & physical and social geography. 1980+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| GeoRef (references and selected abstracts to the world's literature in geology) A huge database on the earth sciences including palaeontology and evolution. 1785+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. GeoRef has a web site, and a free preview database of material being prepared for GeoRef. |
Government Reports Announcements (and annual index) This paper database lists work done for the U.S. government, and on U.S. government grants. BSL Reference 505 G715.2 1971+
Use NTIS product search for the electronic index. 1990+ |
| Index to Theses To search for abstracts of British and Irish theses . Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Medline from ScienceDirect This subscribed version of Medline is available only to the Uni of Adelaide community.You can register for the alert service, and save searches. Note this version of Medline doesn't include explosion. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts Print database that covers the atmospheric environment. BSL Reference 551.505 M55 1950-1998 |
| Oxford Journals More than 60 life sciences, biology, & medicine journals. Many of the journals have extensive archives. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
PsycINFO Covers all aspects of psychology including animal behaviour. 1980+
Also in print in BSL as Psychological abstracts BSL REF 150.5 P9 from 1927+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
PubMed from U.S. National Library of Medicine. More than 15 million refs from more than 4,000 journals,
some are in full text. Click on Uni of Adelaide Online icons when using Abstract, format for full text.
BSL PubMed tutorial Includes info on how to use a range of search methods, and output.
PubMed tutorial The official National Library of Medicine version.
Also available as Index medicus and other titles back to 19th cent BSL Reference 610.5 I35 (various series)
and Index to dental literature (1963-1995) BSL Reference 617.6005 I38 |
| 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+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| ScienceDirect Database of Elsevier journals in full text. Many journals in the areas of medicine and life sciences. Also includes a version of Medline where you can save searches and alerts, but with no explosion available. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| SciFinder Scholar Anything even remotely to do with chemistry is included here. On machine 336 in BSL, or read the instructions for installing the software to use this database on computers outside The Library. Database help. Full searching from 1967 onward, and more limited searching from 1907-1966. Restricted to Uni of Adelaide staff and students. |
| Scopus A huge database of citations covering life sciences, medical sciences, and other science and social science topics. Best for 1996 onwards but some citations go back to the 19th century. It's useful for finding finding citing articles to papers you know about already. Brief guide on searching Scopus. |
| SpringerLink Search the Springer journals by keyword or by menu searches. You can register to set up alerts. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
| Streamline (Australia's natural resources database) Included on Engineering & Applied Science and Heritage & Environment disks. Covers all aspects of natural resources management of land, veg. and water in Australia. Some international material included if written by Australians. 1982+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
Water and Climate Bibliography Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of water.
Academic references pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources. Search by title, author, or from a small number of set "keywords" . |
Water Resources Abstracts Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of water. 1992+
Click on Aquatic Sciences then on Quick Search or Advanced Search. Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
Web of Knowledge The home page for searching ISI Thompson databases to which the Uni of Adelaide subscribes. These include Current contents connect, Web of science and Journal citation reports. Web of knowledge also hosts other databases Biosis Previews, CAB Abstracts, and Zoological Record.
Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only.
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Web of Science Find papers that cite known works. See also Science citation index
Also in print, as Science citation index BSL REF 505 S41045. 1970-1993
Access for Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only. |
| Wiley Interscience Full text online journals from Wiley. Access for Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only. |
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. 1978+. Access for Uni of Adelaide community only.
Print version at BSL REF 590.5 Z874 1870+ Access for Uni of Adelaide community
and walk in users only. |
General Sources
- University of Adelaide Library Resources for Subjects A list of online and print sources for finding information on subjects taught at Uni of A. Produced by U of A Research Librarians.
- General Health Sciences guide Includes links to guides for Medicine Departments
- Find citing articles This site gives links to Uni of Adelaide databases that can help you to find citing articles for those papers you know about already.
- Dentistry Subject Guide Includes links to sites with animal dentition.
- Endnote This is a bibliographic database management system that produces a standard format for references. It produces and formats bibliographies for theses and journal publications. It comes free to University of Adelaide staff and students. There are online EndNote tutorials for versions 7 and 9 .
- FAQ for Science Postgraduates and Staff Library information for research compiled by Jane Wannan
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences A long list of instructions pages for journals. In alphabetical order by journal title. From Raymon H. Mulford Library Medical College of Ohio
- Journal Abbreviations
The Uni of Adelaide Library catalogue doesn't always find titles if you use abbreviations. It's best to use the full title of the journal.
Here is the PubMed Journals Database.
Enter the abbreviation, then click on the Go button to find the full title. If this doesn't work there are print resources in the Barr Smith Library that can help.
Begin with
Periodical title abbreviations.14th edition Shelved at Barr Smith Information desk
If you need more help ask at the Inforamtion Desk
- Journal Info Find information about journals in your field including whether they are open access, if self archiving of manuscripts is permitted, indexing databases and quality measures.
- New books list A weekly list of new books in The University of Adelaide Library
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