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Services for University of Sydney Alumni
Sciences and Technology Online Resources
Below we have listed some of the best freely available science and technology information sources.
Life Sciences
Sciences
Technology
Journals
Life Sciences
INFOQUICK
Produced by the State Library of New South Wales, INFOQUICK provides a comprehensive index to articles about Australia and Australians published in the Sydney Morning Herald and associated publications.
Please access the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Guide for high quality agricultural web resources.
AANRO:Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online
A free database which searches close to 180,000 detailed descriptions of research projects and documents about Australian agriculture and natural resources, as well as ABOA, Streamline and ARRIP. It includes links to electronic full text and related web sites, and has a mapsearch facility (Geosearch).
Agricola
Bibliographic references provided by the US National Library of Agriculture to journal articles, book chapters, monographs, series, microforms, audiovisuals and maps relating to agriculture and related sciences.
AGRIS/CARIS
AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture.
Water Information System for the Environment: WISE
A collection of databases, each containing comprehensive bibliographies of water information connected to different parts of a specific catchment located in New South Wales.
Please access the Biological Sciences Guide for high quality biological web resources.
PrimateLit: a bibliographic database for primatology
PrimateLit is a database covering scientific literature on nonhuman primates. It spans from 1940 to the present and includes all publication categories and many subject areas. The database can be searched in two main ways - a search of the full database, or a search limited to citations indexed in the last six months. PrimateLit is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin and Washington Regional Primate Research Centers.
Flora of Australia Online
Flora of Australia aims to provide a uniform description of the plants of Australia, with identification keys, illustrations of most genera and many species and distribution maps of all taxa. The information for taxa includes important references, synonymy, type collections, chromosome numbers, distribution, habitat, and published illustrations. It is a freely available resource.
International Plant Names Index: IPNI
The IPNI is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. Data sources include the Index Kewensis (IK), the Gray Card Index (GCI) and the Australian Plant Names Index (APNI). The IPNI is produced by the Australian National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Harvard University Herbaria.
Please access the VEIN links pages for high quality veterinary science web resources.
IVIS Veterinary Drug Database
Published by International Veterinary Information Service, Ithaca, NY, USA. This database is a global pharmacopeia that can be searched by generic name, brand name (commercial name), drug category, species, country or region. Users must register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is simple and free.
PubMed
This project was developed by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine, located at the National Institutes of Health. The project has been developed with the participation of publishers of biomedical literature and provides links to full-text journals at Web sites of participating journals. A list of journals with links to full-text web sites is also available. PubMed provides access to around 9 million records drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE.
Online Mendellian inheritance in animals (OMIA)
A database of the genes and phenes in a wide range of animal species.
TOXNET
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, TOXNET is a collection of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas. It includes TOXLINE, a database that covers the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
(DART/ETIC) Database
The Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology/Environmental Teratology Information Center Database is published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It covers teratology and other aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicology and contains over 100,000 references to literature published since 1965. It can searched by subject terms, title words, chemical name, Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (RN), and author.
Sciences
Highwire Press has gathered a large list of web portals for scientists.
Please access the Biochemisty Guide for high quality biochemistry web resources.
Please access the Chemistry Guide for high quality chemistry web resources.
Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry
Please access the History and Philosophy of Science Guide for high quality history and philosophy of science web resources.
Please access the Information Technologies Guide for high quality information technologies web resources.
Please access the Nutrition Guide for high quality nutrition web resources.
Please access the Mathematics and Statistics Internet Guide for high quality mathematical and statistical web resources.
Available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology are resources for mathematics and statistics, physics and physical reference data.
Please access the Medical Physics Guide for high quality medical physics web resources.
Please access the Microscopy and Microanalysis Guide for high quality microscopy and microanalysis web resources.
Please access the Physics Guide for high quality physics web resources.
PhysNet - the worldwide Network of Physics Departments and Documents - provides a set of information services for physicists and also free journals links.
Use the NASA Astrophysics Data System to access databases containing more that 4.1 million records.
Please access the Psychology Guide for high quality web resources.
Technology
Please access the Architecture Guide for high quality architecture web resources.
Please access the Engineering Guide for high quality engineering web resources. See Subject Gateways for Engineering for quality search engines and engineering portals.
AIAA Meeting Papers Searchable Citations Database The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a professional society devoted to the progress of engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. The AIAA Electronic Library represents more than four decades of technical information and documents searchable online.
Civil Engineering Database 1970-
provides bibliographic access to all ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) publications since 1970. Subject areas include: aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, bridges, cold regions, computer practices, construction, earthquake engineering, education, engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, forensic engineering, geotechnical engineering, highways, hydrology, hydraulics, irrigation and drainage, management, materials engineering, structural engineering, transportation, urban planning, Water Resources, waterway, port, coastal and ocean engineering.
Please access the Project Management Guide for high quality project management web resources.
Please access the Urban Planning Guide for high quality urban planning web resources.
Journals
Free Scholarly Electronic Journals: An Annotated Webliography
Use the largest free full text science archive from Highwire Press
Useful Directories for Finding Free Scholarly Electronic Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
University of Texas Free Journals Alphabetical list
Free full text journals
FreeFullText.com provides links to the full-text content of over 7000 scholarly periodicals. The issues which are available for free are indicated for each title. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation.
Use this link to access journals in chemistry, earth sciences and physics.
Meetings Index (MInd) Search for future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia by subject area, country or sponsor. Science/Technology, Medical/Life Sciences, Pollution Control/Ecology, Social Sciences/Humanities.
The Institute of Physics makes available some free journal articles.
The High Energy Physics Information Center has a selection of publications available for browsing
Connect to Mathematics journals available via Open Access
connect to Statistics journals available via Open Access
Use the Electronic Library of Mathematics for access to online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources.
Access issues of French Mathematical journals via NUMDAM.