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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
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.

CAB eBooks Full Text
CAB eBooks includes books in the areas agriculture, animal and veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism and plant sciences.

CSIRO Journals Selected Full Text
The CSIRO journals provide access to latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.

CSIRO eBooks Full Text Australian flag
The CSIRO eBooks cover a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, plant and animal sciences and environmental management.

ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.

Environmental Impact Selected Full Text
Environmental Impact provides access to the scientific literature on climatic change and other influences of humans on the biosphere.

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Grzimek’s Animal Life
Grzimek's provides an encyclopedia of animal life including details on more than 4,000 species.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

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.

Web of Science Training

Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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AANRO Selected Full Text
Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online is a collection of free databases covering agriculture and natural resource management.

ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics Full Text
Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
ABS Help Index

Select Themes - Agriculture

AGRICOLA
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. ProQuest Help

CSA
The following CSA databases are now available through Proquest:
Biological Sciences
Conference Papers Index
Plant Science
Toxline

Informit Australian flag Selected Full Text
The Informit databases cover a range of topics, including architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports. Many are in full-text.

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.

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). The database includes scientific literature relevant to agricultural science, biology and the life sciences, engineering, food science, chemistry, geology, material sciences, medical science, physics and polymer science.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Animal behavior desk reference
Encyclopedia of applied plant science
Encyclopedia of aquaculture
Encyclopedia of animal science
Encyclopedia of animal behavior
Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences
Encyclopedia of farm animal nutrition
Encyclopedia of grain science
Encyclopedia of inland waters
Encyclopedia of insects
Encyclopedia of meat sciences
Encyclopedia of pest management Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
Encyclopedia of soils in the environment
Encyclopedic dictionary of plant breeding
Handbook of rural studies
Oxford Reference Online - search across a variety of dictionaries and encyclopedias in the Sciences.
The water encyclopedia

Recommended journals

The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Crop and Pasture Science - formerly Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
Animal Production Science - formerly Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
Journal of Agricultural 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
AgZines - a compilation of agricultural journals that are freely available on the web.
Australian Farming Virtual Library - topics related to Australian and New Zealand farming industries.
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 Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Organic ePrints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.
RIRDC — Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
SILO — meteorology for the land.
Trove - National Library of Australia - one search to a wealth of Australian information
Virtual WWW Library Agriculture
Wolfram Alpha - a computational knowledge engine generating output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base.