Library and Internet Resources
You may also
want to look at some of the resources listed for the various biological
sciences departments
JCU Library Resources
InfoHelp
- questions answered,
assistance given online,
by phone or email
Catalogue
Library
Guides
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting
Databases
- Biological
Abstracts
a major source of references
to the life science journal
literature (use BIOSIS Previews for 2002+)
- Current
Contents Connect
multidisciplinary current
awareness service for
over 8,000 journals and
more than 2,000 books
- Geobase information for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography
- GeoRef (via GeoScienceWorld)
provides abstracts to
the geoscience literature
of the world.
- Informit
provides a number of Australian
research databases including
Endanger and Streamline.
- IngentaConnect
provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- INIS
International Nuclear
Information System of
the International Atomic
Energy Agency, is the
world’s leading information
system on the peaceful
uses of nuclear science
and technology. INIS covers
central areas such as
nuclear reactors, reactor
safety, nuclear fusion,
applications of radiation
and radioisotopes in medicine,
agriculture, industry
and pest control as well
as related fields such
as nuclear chemistry,
nuclear physics and materials
science.
- Oceanic
Abstracts
focuses on marine biology
and physical oceanography,
meteorology and environmental,
technological and legislative
topics.
- SciFinder
Scholar Primarily
a chemistry database,
but with significant coverage
of the life sciences.
- Web
of Science
Access to Science Citation
Index Expanded and other
citation indexes. As well
as topic searching for
journal articles, the
citation indexes allow
"cited reference"
searching and enable you
to examine a document's
historical origin and
follow through to its
current position in the
research literature
Full
text databases
- InfoTrac
indexes over 2,000 journals with full-text articles from over
half available online.
- Proquest
5000
includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a range of disciplines.
- ScienceDirect
Full text for around 290 of the 1700 titles, with contents pages
and abstracts for the remainder.
- Wiley
InterScience
provides full-text of all 311 Wiley journals back to 1997
Electronic
journals
- Electronic journals
linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals available to
members of James Cook University. You can also link directly to
journals via the JCU Library Catalogue
(Tropicat)
Databases on the WWW
Associations and Societies
Australian Government Websites
Environmental Science Resources
- Agrigate
An agriculture information gateway for Australian researchers
- ANU Bioinformatics Hypermedia
Service
- Australian
Science and Technology on the Internet National Library's
selective list of science and technology Internet sites
- Australian Tropical Forest Institute (ATFI) facilitates co-location, collaboration and regional partnerships of key players in the sustainable use and management of tropical forest landscapes
- Australian
Tropical Rain Forest Plants particular focus on projects at La Trobe University
- Australian
Web servers - Environment
- Conservation
Ecology - a peer-reviewed journal of integrative science and
fundamental policy research
- Earth Portal Environmental information with a science base - coverage includes biodiversity; climate change; energy; environmental health; globalisation; marine ecology; pollution; and water
- EarthTrends from World
Resources Institute. Content includes coastal and marine systems,
water resources, climate and atmosphere to biodiversity and environmental
governance
- Ecology WWW a volunteer
service to students, teachers, researchers and others interested
in the science of ecology
- EnviroInfo
a compilation of useful Internet resources to Environmental Science
and Technology. This site maintains information on organizations,
business, publications, online databases and software, research
and education.
- Envirolink Aggregator of environmental news and Web resources
- Environment Canada
Canadian government gateway
- Environment News Service
original daily international wire service of the environment.
Established in 1990, it is independently owned and operated, and
is not affiliated with any business, industry, government or environmental
group.
- Envirozine
- new e-zine now online, brought to you by Environment Canada
- Global Change 'seeks
to familiarize the public with the issues associated with climate
change and ozone depletion.' Includes a glossary.
- Global Warming: Early
Warning Signs this site seeks to provide evidence of the "fingerprints"
and "harbingers" of global warming
- Intute: science, engineering & technology Selected web resources for education and research. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science
- Know Your Environment
- Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) and Environmental
Associates informative website describing the science behind leading
environmental issues.
- National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) EPA's premiere publications resource. More than 7,000 in stock and 26,000 digital titles are available free of charge to search and retrieve, download, print and/or order
- Online
guide to meteorology
- Rainforest Action Network
- Reef & Rainforest Research Centre created to implement the Australian Government's Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF) in North Queensland.
- Sierra Club provides
access to a variety of information about North American conservation
policy and resources and to substantial parts of the Sierra Club
Magazine.
- Unesco
World Heritage List
- United Nations Environment Programme: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- The Virtual Library of Ecology,
Biodiversity and the Environment
- World
Environment Library ideas and solutions in the fields of biodiversity,
climate change, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development,
waste management & water.
- Yahoo:
Australia: Environment and Nature
 Geography Resources
- Australian
Cartographic Resources
on the Net
- Australian
Geological Survey Organisation
- maps online
- Digital
Librarian : Maps and Geography
A librarian's choice of
the best geography sites
on the Web
- Earthworks
Online journal
of geography
from the University of Texas at Austin
- Electronic
Transactions An archive
of back issues of the
Transactions of the Institute
of British Geographers,
as well as contents lists
for recent issues and
titles and abstracts for
forthcoming papers
- GeoConnections
Canada's geographic information
on the Internet.
- Geo-Guide
subject gateway for earth
sciences. Covers Geology,
Mineralogy, Geophysics
and Geography.
- Geography Dictionary and Glossary
- Geography
Network content is
published from many sites
around the world, providing
you immediate access to
the latest maps, data,
and related services.
- Geoscience
Australia Australia's
national mapping agency
- Geoscience
Australia - Interactive
Place Name Search
find and locate one of
55,000 places in Australia
- Geosource
Web resources for human
geography, physical geography,
planning, geoscience and
environmental science
- Internet
Resources in Maps and
Cartography - from
UC Berkeley Earth Science
and Map Library's Internet
page
- Intute: science, engineering & technology Selected web resources for education and research. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science
- Maptech
MapServer contains
over 60,000 topographic
maps, nautical charts,
aeronautical charts, and
aerial and satellite photographs
covering the United States.
- Odden's
Bookmarks The fascinating
world of maps and mapping
(over 11,000 cartographic
links)
- Online
Map Creation amazing
resource for geologists,
geographers or anyone
needing to make a map
figure for a research
paper or conference talk.
- Paleomap
Project Select a time
zone and travel through
time and check out what
the Earth looked liked
in the far distant past
or what it might look
like far into the future.
- National
Geographic's Map Machine
- Population
Index on the Web Free
web site produced by the
Office of Population Research,
Priceton University offers
a browsable & searchable
archive of all 46,000
abstracts appearing in
Population Index, 1986
- 2000.
- Resources
for Geographers Links
are offered for search
engines, online journals,
professional associations,
research organizations,
map collections, geo-spatial datasets, newsgroups
and listservers, academic
departments, jobs, educational
resources, software, and
miscellaneous other geography
related resources.
- United
Nations Cartographic Section
Maps and Geographic Information
Resources including more
than 100 general maps.
Directories and Gateways
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BioVisa.Net An online community promoting information sharing among life science researchers. Links to research protocols, biological journals and forums. Customizable to personal needs.
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eiNET: Geography searchable Internet directory aims to provide contextually relevant information by integrating technology with the human touch
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SciCentral Gateway to scientific research news sources
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www.science.gov.au Science information and services to industry, investors and the research and education communities
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Search Engines
- Google - simple, fast with
excellent results
- Alta Vista - great for
complex searches and one of the biggest, though it still indexes
less than a sixth of the Internet
- Metacrawler - if searching
the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously appeals,
try this
- SciNet Science Search -
science, engineering, and medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific, technical
and medical information sources
- Internet Searching
Tools - check out some other search engines here
Research, Study & Assignment Aids
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