Services for staff of PIRSA and SARDI
The services specified below are available to agriculture, aquaculture
and fishing industries staff employed by the Primary Industries and Resources
South Australia (including the South Australian Research & Development
Institute).
To register as a borrower, contact the Waite
Library or
Roseworthy
Campus Library.
How to register with the Library
Approved staff of PIRSA/SARDI must register
for a Library card (and barcode) to request document delivery services
or to access electronic resources such as journals and databases.
Apply for registration during office hours at the Services Desk of the
Barr Smith Library, Waite Library or Roseworthy Campus Library.
Please bring with you proof of employment with PIRSA/SARDI (eg payslip,
ID card) or offer of appointment.
If you are unable to visit the Library personally, we can arrange for
a temporary card (and barcode) for 3 months. You must then arrange to personally
pick up and sign for a permanent card before this expiry date.
Library orientation and user instruction
Library orientation tours and sessions on
the range of information and services available from the Library can be
provided on an individual or group basis. Advance notice is requested.
Offsite visits by the Waite Librarian can also be arranged for information
sessions at individual sites.
Library catalogue
The University of Adelaide Library catalogue
is available via the Web and will work with any browser.
The catalogues of the three South Australian universities, the State
Library of South Australia and the National Bibliographic Database are
available from here
Loans
Staff as specified may borrow personally
from any of the libraries in the Adelaide University Library system. Onsite
borrowers may request intercampus loans from other
campuses. Offsite borrowers should refer to the section on Document
Delivery.
All loans are checked out to the individual borrower's loan file.
Borrowers are asked to observe the due date on the receipt slip (or on
your My Library account) as demerit
points accrue for overdue items. Renewals may be requested from the
Library by phone or self-renewed using the catalogue (login to your My
Library account) unless another user is waiting for the item.
Waite Library
Books: 50 items [10 week loan , 4 renewals] Loans may be recalled after
2 weeks if the book is requested by another user.
Journals are not for loan.
Roseworthy Campus Library
Books: 50 items [10 week loan , 4 renewals] Loans may be recalled after
2 weeks if the book is requested by another user.
Journals are not for loan.
Barr Smith Library
Books: 50 items [10 week loan, 4 renewals] Loans may be recalled after
2 weeks if the book is requested by another user.
Journals (bound volumes only) counted as part of 50 items [24 hour
loan; one renewal]
Photocopying within the Library
To use the photocopiers in any of the University
of Adelaide libraries, a re-loadable Copycard must be purchased
from a dispensing machine or a departmental
Copycard arranged (contact
the Library for details).
Copy charges (includes GST) are:-
A4 copy / laserprint: 11 cents
A3 copy: 15 cents
Document delivery services
Intercampus
Service
What is it and who may use the service?
Registered borrowers may request the delivery of items or photocopies
required for the purposes of study and research from libraries located
on other campuses of theUniversity of Adelaide.
What may be requested?
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Normal loan period books from the Main Collection
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Photocopies of journal articles and chapters of books
The following items are normally not available for loan:
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Reserve Collection
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Journal issues/volumes (unless available 'for loan as a book')
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Reference Collection
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Special Collections
How do I make a request?
On-site and off-site personnel
Requests should be made on an electronic
request form.
You must fill in a separate request form for each individual item.
We will send you a confirmation email copy of each request for your
records.
Charges
How long will it take?
Most requests are processed within the day of receipt at the Document
Delivery Service. Turn around time varies according to the supplying library
and availability but generally can be filled within 1-5 days.
Waite and Roseworthy Campus-based personnel will be notified by email
or internal postal notification of items awaiting collection. Items requested
by off-campus borrowers will be despatched by DX courier where available
or Australia Post. Where possible, photocopied articles will be sent
via Desktop delivery.
Desktop (web) Delivery
Desktop delivery allows you to retrieve a photocopied article direct
from any internet connected computer. An automated email supplies
you with a URL and PIN to access a web page displaying your (PDF) documents.
When filling out the electronic request form, the default delivery
option for photocopies is for Desktop Delivery which requires you to have
access to the Internet (high speed modem) with a web browser, email and
Adobe Acrobat software version 6. If you do not want this form of
delivery click on the down arrow to the right of the box (i.e. My preferred
delivery method is ) and change the default to either collect in person,
mail or fax.
Extension of loans
If you require an extension on the loan period of items you have on
loan you may:
use the self renewal option on the Library catalogue by using the MyLibrary
option
phone the Waite Library Loans desk on (08) 83037312 or the Roseworthy Library
Loans desk on (08) 8303 7844
email Waite Document
Delivery or Roseworthy
Document Delivery citing your Library barcode number and item details.
You will be required to return any item required by another borrower
or if you have used the maximum number of extensions allowed. Failure to
renew or return items on time can result in the suspension of borrowing
privileges and an invoice for the cost of a replacement. See Demerits
Points information for further details.
What if there's a problem?
We will contact you by phone or email if there are any problems with
your request or if the item cannot be sourced within the University of
Adelaide Library.
If you want an update on the progress of your requests please contact
the Waite or Roseworthy
document delivery service.
How do I return items?
Waite Campus and Roseworthy Campus borrowers may return intercampus
loan items at any University of Adelaide Library.
Off-campus borrowers should securely wrap and address items to:
Waite Library
University of Adelaide
Glen Osmond SA
5064
(or via DX667 where available)
Interlibrary Service
What is it and who may use the service?
Registered PIRSA/SARDI borrowers may request items required for the
purposes of study and research that are not held by the University of Adelaide
Library.
How do I make a request?
Requests should be made on an electronic
request form.
You must fill in a separate request form for each individual item.
We will send you a confirmation email copy of each request for your
records.
Loans and photocopied articles are provided by the Adelaide Campus (Barr
Smith Library) Document Delivery Service:
Telephone: 8303 5346
FAX: 8303 4370
e-mail: library-ill@adelaide.edu.au
Charges
How long will it take?
The delivery of documents from Australian and overseas sources varies
between 3 days to 2 weeks depending on availability and mode of delivery.
Loans of items provided through the Document Delivery Service are subject
to the conditions of the lending library. Such conditions may include restricted
use within the Library only, a short loan period or no extensions. Please
observe the due date marked on the Library label.
Borrowing from other S.A. university
libraries
PIRSA/SARDI staff who have a University of
Adelaide Library card can borrow personally from the libraries of Flinders
University and/or the University of South Australia. Lending rights are
restricted.
Full details are available here.
Demerit points
The Library operates on the basis of fair
sharing of materials. Demerit points are allocated when items are not returned
by the due date at a rate of two points per day (or part of a day), except
for items borrowed from the Reserve collection where demerit points accrue
at the rate of four per hour (or part of an hour).
Accumulation of sixty demerit points results in withdrawal of borrowing
privileges for fifteen days. The number of demerit points accumulated can
be checked by using the MyLibrary option on the catalogue.
Further details about the demerit points scheme are available on a separate
web page.
Enquiries about demerit points should be directed to staff at the Waite
Library (83036572) or Roseworthy
Campus Library (83037844).
Services to off-site personnel
Reference and research enquiries
Electronic Databases
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A number of databases have been licenced for remote access by PIRSA and
SARDI staff who are registered users of the University of Adelaide Library.
See the links listed below.
NOTE: The majority of electronic resources available from the Library
are governed by license agreements which allow access only for the purposes
of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
You can also search for the database title from the catalogue
(use the Limit drop down box to limit your title search to electronic resources),
select the record required and click on the link provided. You will be
asked to enter your Library barcode and surname, after which you should
connect to the database.
Remote off-site personnel who do not wish to or are not able to search
the above databases or any other database, can request the
Waite
& Roseworthy Campus Librarian to do the searches for them.
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA), Australian
Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
A knowledge base of bibliographic and research information designed
as a national decision support system and single access point for knowledge
on Australian agriculture and natural resource management (ANR).
The AANRO knowledge base contains about 200,000 detailed descriptions
of research projects and publications on Australian agriculture and natural
resources.
Access: Freely available to all
Academic
OneFile
A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 8000
journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology,
medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subject;
intended primarily for academic researchers.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Academic
Search Premier
Full text for more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided
for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This database offers information
in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering,
physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical
sciences, ethnic studies and more. In additional to journal coverage, Academic
Search Elite provides full text information from a variety of source-types
such as scholarly monographs.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1975-
Aesis
A database covering Australian earth sciences, mining, minerals and
petroleum. Indexes published and unpublished theses and reports, journal
articles, books, conference proceedings, maps.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1975-2001
AGRICOLA
Includes over 3 million citations to material acquired by the U.S.
National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. It indexes
articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases
and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings. It is produced
by the National Agricultural Library. Subjects included: agricultural economics;
geography; agricultural engineering; home economics; animal science; human
nutrition; chemistry; life sciences; energy; natural resources; entomology;
plant diseases; cooperative extension; insect pests and their control;
food science; rural sociology; forestry; veterinary medicine.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1970+
Updated: Daily
Agriculture
& Natural Resources
Includes Australian agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, food production
and technology and science, natural resources, animal husbandry and health,
and related topics.
Databases included are:
ANR Index 2000+
ANR Index Archive 1975-2000
ANR Research (Formerly ARRIP - Current and recently completed research)
ANR Research Archive (Formerly CARRP - Completed research projects)
1984+
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Updated: Bi-monthly
AgStats
An Australian Bureau of Statistics small area agricultural commodity
database on CD. The database is currently only available for searching
in the Waite (1983-) or Roseworthy (1996-) libraries. Searches can be requested
by contacting the
Waite &
Roseworthy Campus Librarian
AHB:
Australian heritage bibliography
Formerly HERA, this bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles
from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural
environment. Source documents include journal articles, unpublished reports,
books, videos and conference proceedings from many different sources around
Australia. Emphasis is placed on reports written or commissioned by government
and non-government heritage agencies throughout the country.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community,
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1987+
ANR-Index
An Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan. A bibliographic
database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture
and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food,
forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and
sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 2000+
Updated: bi-monthly
ANR-Index
Archive
(formerly ABOA and Streamline), produced by Infoscan, is a bibliographic
database of older publications on agriculture and natural resources including
sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries
and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia'ss environment,
water and natural resources.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span 1975-2000
ANR-Research
(formerly known as ARRIP), an Australian government initiative produced
by Infoscan. A research in progress database that describes current and
recently completed research projects across the agriculture and natural
resources areas including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry
and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable
use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: Current
Updated: bi-monthly
ANR-Research
Archive
(formerly known as CARRP), an Australian government initiative produced
by Infoscan. A research in progress database that contains completed
research projects from the ANR-Research database) across the agriculture
and natural resources areas including sustainable Australian agriculture,
food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation
and sustainable use of Australia’s environment, water and
natural resources.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span 1984+
APA-FT
Citations (from 1978 onwards) and some full text (from 1995 onwards)
for journal articles, selected newspaper articles, conference papers and
books in Australian business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities,
law, literature, politics and social sciences. Its companion database,
APAIS : Australian Public Affairs Information Service, gives citations
from 1978 onwards without full text and may be useful whenever APA-FT is
not accessible.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: Citations 1978+ and full text 1995+
Australia/New
Zealand Reference Centre
This database covers current events, business and popular culture with
access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, newspapers
& newswires, reference books, and company information.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Australian Agriculture
and Natural Resources Online Database (AANRO)
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture ABOA, Australian
Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
A knowledge base of bibliographic and research information designed
as a national decision support system and single access point for knowledge
on Australian agriculture and natural resource management (ANR).
The AANRO knowledge base contains about 200,000 detailed descriptions
of research projects and publications on Australian agriculture and natural
resources.
Access: Freely available to all
Australian heritage bibliography (AHB)
see AHB
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text
See APA-FT
Biological abstracts see Biosis
Previews
Indexes articles from life sciences journals and items from conferences,
meetings and symposia from 1980 onwards.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly
Business
Australia Online
Contains data from 12 Australian databases on business, financial and
commercial interest, with particular emphasis on taxation, accounting and
industrial relations. The databases are AATD (Australian Accounting and
Taxation Database), AIMMAT (AIM Management and Training Database), ELDIST
(Electronic Sources of Information, distributors), ELSOURCE (Electronic
Sources of Information, Sou rces), GIBLIN (Giblin Working Papers Database),
INTAX (International Taxation Issues Database), IREL (Australian Industrial
Relations Database), OMNDIST (OMN Training Resources Database, Distributors),
OMNRES (OMN Training Resources Database, Resources), TAXAB S (Australian
Taxation Abstracts Database), VALISE (Victorian Audit Library Information
Service Database) and WORKLIT (Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations
Database).
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Business
Source Complete
Provides more than 2,800 full text scholarly publications, including
nearly 900 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database
provides indexing and abstracts for all of the 3,350 journals in the Ebsco
collection. Covers nearly every area of business including management,
economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: mainly 1965+
CAB
Abstracts
Index with abstracts to over 11,000 journals as well as books, conferences,
reports, theses etc. Subjects covered include animal sciences, veterinary
sciences, dairy science and technology, plant breeding and genetics, crop
sciences, crop protection, environmental and natural resources, forestry,
post-harvest science and technology, agricultural biotechnology, biodegradation,
agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, rural development and
sociology, leisure, recreation and tourism, human nutrition, tropical diseases
and medical parasitology.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1910+
Updated: Monthly
Computer
Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and
current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly
300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming,
artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and
software. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for
nearly 450 publications.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1985+
Current
Contents Connect
Access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data of current
issues of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts and humanities
leading scholarly journals. It has a useful email alert facility which
allows weekly update search results to be emailed to you automatically.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: Last 4 years
Updated: Daily
EBSCOhost
Includes Business Source Complete, Academic Search Premier, ANZ Reference
Centre, Computer Source, Econlit , MasterFILE Premier, Psychology and Behavioral
Sciences Collection, PsycINFO - major business and multidisciplinary databases.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Econlit
The world's foremost source of references to economic literature.
The database provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics,
including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting,
environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary
theory, urban economics and much more.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1969+
ELIXIR:
Electronic Library eXchange for Information Resources
DPI's Electronic LIbrary eXchange for Information Resources (ELIXIR),
produced by the Knowledge and Information Branch of the Victorian Department
of Primary Industries, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts
books, reports, theses, video recordings, maps, manuscripts and pictorial
matter in the Knowledge Resource Centre at Werribee and small regional
collections of the Department of Primary Industries and the Department
of Sustainability and Environment.
ELIXIR includes records for publications from specialist collections
in agriculture, mineral resources, conservation and land management/planning.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community,
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1990+
ENDANGER:
Threatened Species in Australia (on Heritage & Environment)
Material, both general and specific, on Australia's threatened flora
and fauna.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community,
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1960+
Updated: Annual
Essential
Science Indicators (Institute for Scientific Information)
A omprehensive compilation of essential science performance statistics
and science trends data derived from ISI’s databases. The chief
indicators of output, or productivity, are journal article publication
counts. For influence and impact measures, ESI employs both total citation
counts and cites per paper scores. The former reveals gross influence while
the latter shows weighted influence, also called impact. Data is limited
to journal articles indexed by ISI. Types of data featured in ESI include
most cited author rankings, institutional (university, corporate, government
research lab) rankings, national rankings, and journal rankings.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1992+
Updated: Bimonthly
EVA:
Environmental abstracts (on Heritage & Environment)
Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on the environment
and related fields. Source documents are selected journal articles from
approximately 600 journals published in Australia and overseas. Subject
coverage includes air pollution and quality, sustainable development, salinity,
environmental protection and management, hazardous wastes, recycling, waste
management and disposal, water pollution, environmental assessment, and
pollution control. Pre-February 1998 data includes planning, heritage,
urban design and town planning subject coverage.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community,
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1987+
GeoBase
A bibliographic database for all aspects of physical and human geography,
geology, ecology and Third World studies. Its
interdisciplinary nature allows for searching environmental issues,
and other areas that cross traditional subject boundaries.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Quarterly
GeoRef
A database of citations to geoscience journal articles, books, conferences,
maps, reports, theses.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1785+ for North America; 1933+ for the rest of the
world
Updated: Quarterly
Google
Scholar
A free service for searching scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed
papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from
all broad areas of research.
Access: Freely available to all
Heritage & Environment
Ten Australian databases, mostly bibliographic, including indexes to
journals, books, newspaper articles, reports, theses and manuscripts, conference
proceedings and audio-visual material. Some relevant databases included
are:
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which
restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for
purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Informit
Databases from Australasia's leading agencies and institutions that
index and abstract a vast range of Australasian sources of information.
Some databases included are:
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which
restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for
purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Journal
citation reports (Institute for Scientific Information)
Contains impact factors and other citation data derived from ISI’s
Citation indexes and covers journals in science, technology, and the social
sciences. In 2 editions: JCR Science edition; and, JCR Social sciences
edition
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1999+
Updated: Weekly
Libraries
Australia : the Kinetica Search Service
The search interface for Kinetica, a service provided by the National
Library of Australia. The resources include books, journals, pictures,
music, maps, newspapers and electronic documents, located in Australia
and overseas.
Access: Freely available to all
Masterfile
Premier
Full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering a broad
range of disciplines including general reference, business, education,
health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition
to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more
than 2,400 titles.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Periodicals
Index Online
Articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and
social sciences. Covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social
sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. Periodicals
Index Online currently indexes over 15 million articles going as far back
as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue
1 to recent times. Over three centuries of scholarly publication in 40
languages and dialects are indexed, including English, French, German,
Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes a link to Periodicals
Archive Online which has full text articles from 1802-
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1665+
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications,
including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as
emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology,
mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all
journals in the collection.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1965+
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains
nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles,
book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related
disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered
material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about
the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry,
nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology,
business, law and others.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1887+
PubMed
(Medline)
A customised version of PubMed which shows full text articles accessible
to University of Adelaide staff and students. The customised version still
contains the full Medline database. Search
help
Access: Freely available to all, however only University of
Adelaide community can access the links to online journals.
Time span: 1950's+
SAGE
A bibliographic database indexing popular journals across a broad range
of subjects, including science, environmental science, natural history,
agriculture, recreation. Most journals indexed are Australian but several
overseas titles are also included.
Some SAGE online records have links to the full text article.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1984+
ScienceDirect
Contains the full text of journals published by Elsevier Science in
the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Scirus
(Elsevier Science)
Searchable database of scientific resources found on the World Wide
Web.
Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling
you to quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data
on the Web and find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and
journals that other search engines miss.
Access: Freely available to all
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Scopus
Scopus and Web of science are large databases covering
science and other subjects and allowing cited reference searching (finding
articles that have cited a given article). The 1980 onwards date range
of Web of science makes it the more useful database for cited reference
searching.
Scopus and Web of science can also be searched by topic
but they lack the depth of coverage of a biological database such as Biosis
previews.
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Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which
restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community for
purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span:1996 onwards for cited reference searching and 1966
onwards for topic searching.
Streamline:
on Heritage & Environment
Contains over 25 000 records on all aspects of natural resource management
covering the sustainable management of land, vegetation and water resources.
Indexes and abstracts Australian and international journal articles, published
and unpublished reports, research in progress, books, conference papers,
where material is about Australia or written by an Australian.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1982+ with selected earlier material
Updated: Six-monthly
Threatened Species in Australia (ENDANGER)
see ENDANGER
VITIS-VEA
(Viticulture and enology abstracts) is an international English-language
literature database in the field of viticulture and enology. It contains
information from all over the world and corresponds to the "VITIS - Viticulture
and Enology Abstracts" (scientific reviews) and "Informationsdienst praxisbezogener
Literatur im Weinbau" (technical reviews) in print. The database covers
about 60% more citations than the printed versions and provides bibliographic
data, keywords and abstracts in English (or, in German, see below). Scientific
articles on the fields: morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of grapevines;
soil science; genetics and grapevine breeding; phytopathology and grapevine
protection; cellar techniques; economics of viticulture and enology; enology;
microbiology of wine. In addition, since 1994: Technical articles from
German language journals (abstracts in German).
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1969+
Web
of Knowledge (Institute for Scientific Information)
Comprising Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, ISI Journal Citation
Reports and ISI essential science indicators.
A platform for searching individual ISI or multiple ISI products simultaneously.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Web
of Science (Institute for Scientific Information)
Comprising Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index;
Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Web of Science indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields.
As well as standard topic searches, it allows searches for articles that
have cited a given author, article, book or other item.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly
Zoological
Record
More than 1 million citations to the world wide literature on zoology,
with systematic and taxonomic information for 27 animal groups. Topics
include behaviour, biochemistry, biophysics, communication, disease, evolution,
genetics, habitat, development and life cycle, morphological variation,
nomenclature,paleontology,taxonomy, and zoogeography.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements
which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community
for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1978+
Updated: Monthly
Electronic journals
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For the latest research articles, search strategies on specific topics
or journal titles may be saved on Current
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