Division of Library Services

SciQuest, developed by the New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) and the NZVA Foundation for Continuing Education, is a searchable and browsable collection of New Zealand and Australian veterinary and animal science publications, and veterinary continuing-education publications, which includes journals, conference proceedings, newsletters, and lectures.

Key resources include The New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Australian Equine Veterinarian, and The Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production.

Important: Please note that, in this collection, publications can only be searched one at a time. This is because they contain unique indexes.

Coverage goes back as far as 1952.

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 (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

• Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
• Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

and Proceedings of

• Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics;
• Australian Society of Animal Production;
• Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition in Australia.

This resource is a collection of 30 entirely full-text Australian journals published by CSIRO Publishing. The website has a tab for, and lists of, books and CDs, but it is the journals to which CSU Library subscribes, and which are available in full-text. These cover a broad range of scientific disciplines including mainly agriculture, the plant and animal sciences, and environmental management.

The collection can be searched or browsed. Searching can be limited to a journal or a number of journals. The searching functionality is not very sophisticated, and users are advised to check the “Search hints” link which is available on the Advanced Search screen. Some users prefer to use another index, such as Web of Science or Biosis Previews, as a searching tool, and then use SFX links to link to the full-text within CSIRO Electronic Journals.

Coverage varies with title, but in some cases extends back to the early 1900s. All articles are available in PDF format.

Academic Search Premier is a huge multi-disciplinary database that covers just about all the disciplines and subject taught and studied at Charles Sturt University. It is often a good place to start when looking for material.

It contains indexing and abstracts of more than 8,100 journals, and of these, it included the full text from nearly 4,500 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Full text titles are available in HTML full-text and/or (searchable) PDF format.

Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.

Coverage varies.

CSU Library provides easy access to various "packages" of EBSCOhost databases, in the areas of Business, Education, Health, and Psychology, and Academic Search Premier is included in all four packages.

CAB Abstracts is a bibliographic database produced by CAB International (CABI) which covers the following subject areas:

• Agriculture, including animal production and welfare, horticulture, crop science and protection, applied economics and rural studies

• Animal and Veterinary Sciences, including animal nutrition, entomology, aquaculture and equine science

• Environmental Sciences, including, ecology and climate change, forestry, soil science, and hydrology

• Human Health, Food and Nutrition, including food science and communicable diseases

• Leisure and Tourism

• Microbiology and parasitology, including mycology, bacteriology and virology

• Plant Sciences, including biotechnology, plant protection, and crop science

Originally a citation-only database, from January 2009 the database includes full-text content which was previously only available through a separate subscription. This includes more than 36,000 journal articles, reports, and conference papers.

Updating is monthly.

CAB Abstracts is also available to CSU users in a package covering 2000 – Present.

Wiley InterScience is a database of journals published by Wiley-Blackwells Publishing.

CSU has access to the bulk of this collection in full-text – nearly 1300 journals. Users can search the collection using a simple or advanced search, and can browse by title or subject area.

Subjects covered range across all disciplines: Business, Education, Law, Medicine, Science, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.

Coverage dates vary with title.

Note: CSU previously had access to this material under the separate listings of Blackwell Synergy, and Wiley InterScience. On I July 2008 Blackwell Publishing merged with John Wiley & Sons, and all Wiley-Blackwell’s online products are now provided in a single online platform.

ScienceDirect contains over 1700 Elsevier Science journals, most from 1996 forward and some from 1993 forward. New titles are added on a regular basis.

ScienceDirect also contains full-text journals from other participating publishers.

ScienceDirect currently currently offers the full text of journals from AIChE, CRC Press, and ASM International, and either host or link to the full text content of Cell Press titles. It is the goal of ScienceDirect to offer subscribers an electronic full text "library" on a scale greater than anything previously available, containing content from a variety of leading STM publishers. For a complete list of publishers on ScienceDirect, see Participating Publishers.

CSU does not subscribe to all the full text titles included in ScienceDirect.

Informaworld is a one-stop site hosting the full text of more than 1000 eJournals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press, Lawrence Erlbaum, Haworth Press, and Multilingual Matters, as well as citations from hundreds of other journals.

Prior to May 2009, CSU Library had access to only the full-text of the Routledge collection of education journals, but now has access to a much wider collection of journals covering a range of subject areas.

Subject strengths of the collection include:

One of the benefits of Informaworld to CSU users is that it closes the “embargo” gap for a large number of eJournals already available via EBSCOhost: that is, it provides the full-text of recent issues of journals which are not available (for the most recent 12 months) in EBSCOhost.

The collection works like a database and offers a range of browse, search, and saved search options.

A standard search will return results that are both citation-only and full-text. SFX links are NOT available in this database, but users can limit their searches to (predominantly) full-text results by ticking the “My subscriptions only” box.

Cambridge Journals Online includes approximately 100 full text journals in a range of subject areas, published by Cambridge University Press.

MEDLINE is recognized as the premier index of biomedical literature, and includes allied health fields, plus the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to health care. It is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine and covers thousands of international journals from 1950 - .

It is primarily a database of citations, but the Ovid version includes links to some full text journal titles from the database CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid, listed in the CSU databases lists as Journals@Ovid CSU Full Text Subscribed.

MEDLINE is provided by Ovid in various date packages. The Ovid database MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations consists of In-Process records (records in preparation) from the National Library of Medicine and “PubMed-not-MEDLINE” records from NLM.

PubMed, developed by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the (US) National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a free database of citations to more than 16 million journal articles from over 4,600 of the world's most significant health sciences journals. These citations are to articles in journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and the life sciences.

A list of the journals covered is available here.

The database consists primarily of citation-only references, but in some cases the LinkOut feature provides access to full-text articles at journal websites and in other web resources. PubMed includes links to most of the (full-text) articles in PubMed Central.

The bibliographic information in PubMed includes MEDLINE, but also includes additional material such as citations that precede the date a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing. For information on the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, see the NLM Fact Sheet: What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed?

PubMed includes a journals database, which can be searched in various ways, and the My NCBI feature, which allows for saving results and searches and for setting up alerts.

Coverage extends back to the 1950s; the database is updated weekly.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital full-text archive of life sciences and medical sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the (US) National Library of Medicine (NLM).

A list of the journals included in PubMed Central is available at the PMC Journal List. New journals are continually being added to the database.

The currency and age of material in PubMed Central varies by journal. Many journals make their content available in PMC as soon as it is published. Others may delay release of content in PMC for anywhere from a few months to a few years after publication, but most provide free access to full text within a year of publication.

NLM is digitising the earlier print issues of many of the PMC journals in order to provide online access to the complete run of issues of these journals. PMC has material dating back to mid- to late-1800s or early 1900s for some journals.

This online resource from the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, consists of two databases: the NAL Online Public Access Catalog, and their Article Citation Database.

AGRICOLA serves as the document locator and bibliographic control system for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) collection. It includes bibliographic records of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture from 1979 to the present.

AGRICOLA provides comprehensive coverage of newly acquired worldwide publications in agriculture and related fields, covering the field of agriculture in the broadest sense. Records are catalogued using the controlled vocabulary of Library of Congress Subject Headings and, since 1985, of the CAB Thesaurus.

Current Contents includes tables of contents and citations from journals from all disciplines. Abstracts are available for approximately 75% of records. Covers more than 7,000 international journals for the last five years.

There is no full-text of the articles in Current Contents but the SFX linking software can be used to locate full-text either in another online database or in a print holding in the library catalogue. In this database SFX is activated by clicking on the "Links" icon located beneath each citation.

Web of Science is an amalgamation of 3 citations databases including .....

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI): 1992-present
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): 1992-present
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI): 1992-present

These databases can be searched individually or together, and can be used to locate articles by a range of criteria. They can also be used to locate citing articles (ie articles that have cited a specific reference).

There is no full-text of the articles but the SFX linking software can be used to locate full-text either in another online database or in a print holding in the library catalogue. In this resource SFX is activated by clicking on the "Links" icon located beneath each citation.

• The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

• The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

• The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. It is based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia.

Of the more than 2000 journals indexed, full-text access is included to nearly 500 journals, though more than half of these are only selectively indexed (that is, not all the items in the original issue of the journal are included in the database).

Subject coverage includes Australian business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, leisure, literature, politics, and social sciences.

Coverage: indexing from 1978 - ; full-text articles from 1995 - .

Ovid's Biosis Previews database is a continuation of the Biological Abstracts (1995 - Dec 2001) database. Both cover life science research including original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Specific coverage includes the traditional areas of biology, botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as agriculture, pharmacology, ecology, and veterinary medicine. Interdisciplinary fields such as biotechnology, biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering are also included. Nearly 5,500 serials are monitored for inclusion. The databases also provide content summaries, books and meeting abstracts, papers and posters.

The Biological Abstracts database covers 1995 - December 2001, while Biosis Previews covers 2002 - current.

These two Ovid databases can be searched individually but the link here provides CSU staff and students with concurrent searching of both.

Journals@Ovid is a database of articles from journals which are available for subscription in full-text. It is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

CSU Library does not subscribe to all the journals indexed in this database. However, CSU Library does subscribe to the full text of 173 Journals@Ovid journals, mainly in the subject areas of medicine, nursing, psychology, and sports science.

So the results of searching Journals@Ovid will include a mix of citation-only and full-text results.

Please note that the 173 full-text journals are also available in the database CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid, listed in the CSU databases lists as Journals@Ovid CSU Full Text Subscribed.

Science-specific search engine that covers scientific, technical and medical information sources.

• Pinpoint[s] scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
• Find[s] the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss.
• Offers unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.

See http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/ for more details

The TVNews database is a new (August 2007) Informit Media database, available via Informit Online.

It indexes Australian television news, current affairs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a detailed synopsis. TVNews is updated daily, with stories appearing on an evening news broadcast generally being available for access the next morning.

The video for each story or documentary is available in WMV format as a progressive download, allowing viewing to begin before the total video file is transferred. Items range from under 30 seconds for short news stories, to over an hour for selected documentaries. Transcripts are NOT included.

Coverage is from August 2007- present.

Factiva is the successor to Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing, previously produced by Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive.

It is a global news and business information service. It covers the humanities, science, health, education and other subjects but has a focus on business, including business news, and company and industry research.

The database integrates content from newspapers (including The Age, and The SMH), Dow Jones newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, and websites. Much of the material is available in full-text.

Coverage varies, from 1980 - .

ANZ Newsstand is an online newspaper service provided by ProQuest and covering the full-text of Australian and New Zealand newspapers.

Titles from Fairfax (including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald) and News Ltd (including The Australian, The Adelaide Advertiser, and The Herald Sun) are included, together with transcripts and wire feeds from ABC programs, and with leading regional and local newspaper titles from Australia and New Zealand.

Coverage varies, but most newspaper content is available from the mid- to late-nineties.

afr.com is the exclusive source of full-text articles from Fairfax Business Media publications including The Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly, but also over twenty other Fairfax news and information sources including the major Fairfax dailies and even The New York Times.

Content from sources such as The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New York Times includes all (not just Business-related) material.

afr.com also includes a range of financial charts and investment tools.

Archival coverage extends as far back as 20 years. Publications and dates of coverage include:

This is an index to the archive of the Sydney Morning Herald spanning the years 1955 to 1990. The archive contains 820,000 pages from almost 13,000 issues. No new material is being added to the archive.

CSU does not have access to the full-text of the archive, so it is available here as an index only.

CSU staff and students would need to locate, or request, the full-text of articles in microfilm copies of the paper held at Bathurst, Thurgoona, and Wagga Campus Libraries.

More recent material from the Sydney Morning Herald is available online in full-text in the Factiva database (from September 1986) and the ANZ Newsstand database (from 1996).