Rural Science
- Key databases
- Worth a look
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- High impact journals
- Recommended journals
- Web sites and Internet resources
- Related guides
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Key databases
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.
CAB Abstracts Selected Full Text
Covers agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.
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CSIRO Journals 
The latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.
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ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.
Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
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Worth a look
AANRO: Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online
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A collection of free databases covering Australian agriculture and natural resource management.
ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
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AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library
AGRICOLA indexes materials in on agriculture and related sciences acquired by the US National Agricultural Library (NAL).
Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.
Includes Annual Review of Entomology and Annual Review of Plant Biology.
Biological Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Please note that our subscription covers 1998 to 2001 only.
Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Platform used to search Biological Sciences Collection, EconLit, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
CSA Help
Click on 'Specific Databases' next to 'Select' and tick the boxes next to Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, BioOne, Conference Papers Index, Plant Science, and Toxline. Click 'Continue to Search' to search across all 6 databases. Limited full text.
Informit
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Covers architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports.
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Select from the Informit Indexes - ANR-I, ANR-I Archives, ANR-Research and ANR-Research Archives. These indexes cover agriculture and natural resources and current research in the areas of sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources and is produced by Infoscan.
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In addition to research in pure chemistry, the database covers literature in the following areas: Agricultural Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences and Physics and Polymer Science. For further information, see the SciFinder Scholar page.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Animal Behavior Desk Reference
CIGR handbook of agricultural engineering - Volume 1-5 630/C571
CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics: a ready-reference book of chemical and physical data
R540.212/C911/2004
Dictionary of animal production terminology R636.003/D554
Encyclopedia of agricultural science R630.3/E56
Encyclopaedia of animal science R636.003/E56
Encyclopedia of genetics R576.503/E56
Encyclopedia of plant and crop science R630.3/E565
Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment
Handbook of plant virus diseases 632.8/S966h
Handbook of reference methods for plant analysis 572/H236
The Merck index: an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals R615.103/M555/2006
Oxford Reference Online
The Water Encyclopedia
High impact journals
These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.
Agricultural, Ecosystems & Environment
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Animal Genetics
Domestic Animal Endocrinology
European Journal of Soil Science
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Journal of Soils and Sediments
Recommended journals
The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
Journal of Agricultural Economics Call no. P338.1/J86
Journal of Agricultural Science
Journal of Animal ScienceVol. 75 (1997) -
International Journal of Sheep and Wool Science
Web sites and Internet resources
General Sites
ABARE — Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics provides rigorous and independent economic research analysis and forecasting covering agriculture, minerals, energy, fisheries and forestry.
ACIAR — Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
AgEcon — electronically distributes reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural economics.
AgLinks — Australian Agricultural Directory
AgNic Agricultural Network Information Centre
Agribusiness Association of Australia
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry — Australian Government
Australian Farming Virtual Library - topics related to Australian and New Zealand farming industries.
Australian Government Agricultural Portal
AuthorMapper - searches journal articles and maps the location of authors.
CSIRO
FAO - FAO provides time-series and cross-sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.
Land and Water Australia — knowledge for managing Australian landscapes.
Livestock Library — an Australian database of sheep and beef publications
Meat and Livestock Australia
Murray-Darling Basin Initiative
NSW Department of Primary Industries
RIRDC — Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
SILO — meteorology for the land.
Virtual WWW Library Agriculture
Wolfram Alpha - a computational knowledge engine generating output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base.
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