Science databases and indexes
Databases that are of interest to more than one scientific discipline are listed here. In general, prefer databases for your discipline - see database subject guides.
- Web of Science and Scopus
- Large databases covering science and other subjects and allowing cited reference searching and topic searching.
- Academic Onefile or
Academic search premier
- Useful for any undergraduate essay topics where comprehensive search results are not needed. They index a selection of major science and other journals.
- Journal citation reports - for journal impact factors and rankings.
- Education databases - for science education.
- Philosophy databases - for philosophy and ethics of science.
Some publisher web sites and databases have email or RSS alert services which can deliver details of new articles on your topic.
There is no current single database covering Australian science comprehensively.
- APA-FT: Australian public affairs information service full text - indexes social aspects of Australian science
- Arrow Discovery Service - Australian research, published and unpublished.
- Australian science abstracts and Australian science index. 1957-83 with 1978-83 on microfiche. Reference collection 505 A93 and 505 A93.2
- indexes earlier Australian science literature
- C.S.I.R.O abstracts and CSIRO index. 1952-86 with 1979-86 on microfiche. Reference collection 505 A93C and 505 A93Cs -
indexes papers by CSIRO scientists.
- C.S.I.R.O. published papers; subject index. 1916-68. Reference collection 505 A93Cc
For databases devoted to specific subjects see individual science subject guides.
Major databases include:
- Biological abstracts for plant and animal biology
- PubMed (Medline) for medicine and human and animal biology
- Zoological record for zoology
- CAB abstracts for agriculture
- Streamline for Australian natural resources
- Georef for geology
- Inspec for physics, electronics and computing
- SciFinder Scholar for chemistry
- Mathsci for mathematics
- Repertorium commentationum a societatibus literariis editarum. J.D. Reuss. 1961-64. Reference collection 501.6 R446. Indexes papers of scientific learned societies to 1800.
- Catalogue of scientific papers, Royal Society, London. Covers 1800-1905.
- Also Reference collection 501.6 R8
- International catalogue of scientific literature, 1902-1915. Reference collection 505 I609
- Biographisch-literarisches Handworterbuch zur Geschichte der
exakten Wissenschaften. Ed. J. C. Poggendorff. Barth, 1863. Reference collection 501.6 P74
To find library locations, see Other library catalogues especially:
To find journal abbreviations and other details, try:
- Translators in Adelaide are listed under the heading Translations in the telephone directory yellow pages.
- Web translation services such as Babelfish give literal translations which may give a rough idea of the usefulness of an article.
- Science language dictionaries are useful for technical terms.
- C.S.I.R.O. index. 1975-86 has translations paged separately at the back of each issue. Reference collection 505 A93Cs with later issues on microfiche.
- Cover to cover translations of some Russian journals are available. These are listed in the Library catalogue under their original Russian titles. Note that the volume and issue numbering of the translated journal often does not exactly match that of the original.
For conference papers try databases in your subject. Or to confirm details of published conference proceedings, try the following.
For bibliographic details, prices etc:
Databases and search engines for identifying reviews of scientific books are:
- Academic Search Premier with some full text book reviews.
- Academic OneFile with some full text book reviews.
- ScienceDirect with full text book reviews - search book review! as a keyword
- Google Scholar - use book review as a search term
- Web of Science which indexes book reviews only from the journals Nature and Science
- Book review index Reference collection 011.05 B724 (1965-2005) and Book review digest Main collection 011.05 B72 (1905-1995) for earlier book reviews.
Web sources:
The following journals have book reviews:
- Nature, New scientist, Science, American scientist
- Journal of chemical education, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry and industry, Angewandte Chemie
- Geological magazine, Journal of geology, American mineralogist, American journal of science, Trends in ecology and evolution
- Quarterly review of biology, Bioscience, Perspectives in biology and medicine, Trends in biochemical sciences, Trends in genetics, Genetical research, Trends in microbiology, Trends in parasitology, Trends in immunology
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