Useful links
The lists below include relevant organisations, publically available databases and useful links for our Alumni members.
If you need further help sourcing information, please email askalibrarian@csiro.au
CSIRO Links
CSIRO Careers – Positions Vacant
CSIRO Research Publications Repository
Australian Government
AQIS – Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
FSANZ – Food Standards Australia New Zealand
National Health and Medical Research Council
Academies and Institutions
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
International Centre for Scientific Research
International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS)
Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc.
Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology
Australian Marine Sciences Association
Institute of Food Technologists
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
United Nations Statistics Division
International Bodies
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
Codex Alimentarius Commission – International Food Standards
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
International Life Sciences Institute
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
World Meteorological Organization
Publications
Ecos – Australia’s Sustainability Magazine
Science Alert – Australia and New Zealand Scientific News
SCIRUS – web-based scientific research tool
Databases Free on the Web
Name | Subject | Full-Text | Description |
Abyz News Links | News and current affairs | A directory of newspapers and news sites from around the world, ordered by country | |
ABARES | Agriculture and Resource Economics | Some | Publications and statistics produced by the Australian Bureau of Agriculture & Resource Economics |
ABS | Australian Statistics | Yes | Australian Bureau of Statistics publications from 1998 |
ACM Digital Library http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm | Association for Computing Machinery | Yes | The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. |
ACG – Online Repository of Conference proceedings – https://papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/ | Geomechanics | Some | Since 2005, the ACG has published conference papers across the geotechnical mining spectrum, including: underground and open pit mining, paste and thickened tailings and mine closure. The repository aims to provide the mining geomechanics fraternity with open access, peer-reviewed conference proceedings that may assist readers to maintain and develop their skills, knowledge and capabilities. |
ADT – Australian Digital Theses
Replace with Trove – https://trove.nla.gov.au/ |
Australian theses – multidiscipinery | Some | Full text digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian and NZ Universities from 1997 |
AgEcon
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/ |
Agriculture and Applied Economics | Yes | AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics is developed and maintained at the University of Minnesota by Magrath Library and the Department of Applied Economics. AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in agricultural economics, including agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development. The database is searchable by any words used in the citations and abstracts. The full text papers are available in PDF format. |
Agris | Agriculture | Index created by FAO, Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations | |
ERIC
https://eric.ed.gov/ |
Education | WWW version of the largest educational database. Indexes over 700 educational journals as well as books, conferences etc. | |
Australian Patents (AusPat) | Australian Patents | Some | Search possible by Patent number only. No subject index |
AustLII | Australian Legal Information | Yes | One of the largest sources of legal information on the net. AustLII publishes public legal information — that is, primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports for example) and a substantial collection of law journals |
BioMed Central | Biomedical | Some | Over 100 open access journals (ie anyone can view the full-text), however, some others are only available via subscription |
Cancer Topics | Cancer | Published by the US National Institute of Health. Includes information on types of cancer, treatment, prevention causes etc. | |
Mesothelioma.net | Mesothelioma cancer support | Mesothelioma.net is an advocacy and support group dedicated to providing all the latest in cancer research, treatment, and aid. | |
CEDA – Committee for Economic Development of Australia
http://www.ceda.com.au/Publications |
Economics | Some | CEDA – the Committee for Economic Development of Australia – is a respected independent national organisation with an engaged cross-sector membership. |
CERN Document Server | Particle physics and related | Some | Over 900,000 bibliographic records, including 360,000 full text documents |
CiteSeer.IST | Science with an emphasis on computer science | Some | A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science |
Cochrane Library | Clinical Medicine | Some | The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making |
Conference Alerts – Academic Conferences Worldwide | Upcoming conferences – multidisciplinery | Links to websites for up-and-coming conferences. Constantly updated and arranged by subject and country | |
Dictionary.com | Reference | A popular free dictionary service. Includes also Roget’s Thesaurus, and a translation service | |
DOM – Directory of Open Access Journals | Multi-disciplinary | Yes | Provides access to over 4200 freely available, multidisciplinary ejournals in fulltext. Service provided by Lund University Libraries |
ECOTOXicology Database https://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/ | Environmental sciences | Some | The ECOTOXicology database provides chemical-specific toxicity values for aquatic life, terrestrial plants, and terrestrial wildlife. Ecotox version 4.0 is useful for the evaluation of industrial chemicals, pesticides, and metals and impact assessments associated with effluent, leachate, and environmental monitoring data |
E-Print network | Science & Engineering | Yes | Produced by the US Dept. of Energy, provides access to e-prints available at various sites |
Espacenet | European Patents | Yes | Full text of patent applications published by the European Patent Office |
Fed.gov.au | Federal Government | Some | Access to federal government information sites, services and documents |
Florabase | Botany | Western Australian Flora. Over 21,000 plant names and descriptions | |
FreePatentsOnline | Patents | Some | US, European, Japanese and World Patents |
Google Scholar | Multidisciplinery | A web search engine that indexes the full-text of scholarly information | |
Groundwater Protection & Restoration Group | Groundwater | Some | An international centre of excellence for research on groundwater. Provides links to summaries or full text of publications and also contact details for authors |
HighWire Press | Multidisciplinery | Yes | Over 6 million full-text articles from more than 1200 professional journals |
INIS – https://www.iaea.org/inis/ | Nuclear Information | Some | International Information System produced by the International Atomic Energy Agency |
IPAustralia | Australian Intellectual Property including Patents and Trademarks | Bibliographic information | Provides subject access to Australian patents but not full text yet. The database is under development |
ISI Highly Cited | Top Cited Scientists | No | Top half a percent of most highly cited world scientists. Information and publication list |
MareDoc | Marine Research | Some | Access to Worldwide documents relating to Marine Research created by German Society for Marine Research and Carl von Ossietzky University |
Mindat.org | Mineralogy | The largest mineral database and mineralogical website on the internet. Includes full descriptions, photos and locations | |
Mineralogy Database | Mineral descriptions and data | Descriptions of nearly 4500 minerals including crystallography, crystal structure X-Ray diffraction data, properties and classification | |
National Pollutant Inventory | Pollution in Australia | Some | Information on 93 toxic substance emissions in Australia |
Office of Scientific and Technical Information – https://www.osti.gov/ | Environmental sciences, engineering and physical sciences | Some | At the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) you can find research results and science information from the Manhattan Project to the present. |
Open Grey – http://www.opengrey.eu/ | Scientific grey literature | Some | System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents. |
Public Library of Science – PLOS | Scientific journals | Some | Peer reviewed science and medical journals full-text online |
PubMed | Medicine | Some | Includes a freely available version of Medline and more. A key resource in health and medicine |
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System | Astronomy, Physics & Computer Science | Some | Operated by the Smithsonian Astrological Observatory and includes access to NASA research and links to the ArXiv.org website with over half a million e-prints |
Science.gov | US Government reports | Some | Includes Department of Energy and US Geological Survey reports |
Source OECD – http://www.oecd.org/ | OECD reports | Some | Provides access to the full text of all monographs, reports, studies, periodicals and statistics produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). |
USPTO | US Patents | Yes | Full text of US patents since 1976 |