The Livestock Library is a free online library that provides access to information to support Australia’s livestock industries.
Launched in 2005, it was developed and funded by the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies and the Australian Sheep Industry CRC, and funded by Australian Wool Innovation. It is also supported and hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia.
The Livestock Library includes 22,000 documents - conference papers and journal articles - in the Livestock Library Research Database, and access to an estimated 60,000 documents on selected industry websites. Users can choose to search just the Research Database or across the entire Library, or can limit a search to a selected industry website, or a combination of websites.
Every item retrieved from the Livestock Library should be available in full text, and most should be available free. However, some information providers may charge for access.
Material in the Livestock Library Research Database spans the period from 1950 to the present, with new issues of journals and conference proceedings being continually added. Key resources available in the Research Database include
and Proceedings of