Databases for Science and Engineering > Science

A unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications

Indexes approximately 1,300 business and marketing periodicals from around the world. It also contains the complete fulltext and/or page images of selected articles from over 700 major publications. Fulltext documents are available as plain text or PDF format. Some documents are available by fax only.

A cross-disciplinary database indexing over 5,000 journals from 1975 onwards, with over 2,000 in current fulltext. Includes more than 1,500 peer-reviewed publications. Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment. Produced by the Australian Heritage Commission.

Provides access to ACS Publications.

Journals published by the American Physiological Society covering all aspects of physiology as well as the Society's newsletter. Accepted research papers can also be published ahead of print.

Provides access to American Statistical Association journals. View titles in this collection.

Indexes more than 260 international journals in 12 languages, manufacturers' notes, British Standards and books from 1980 to date. The database is updated weekly.

Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI)

High quality journals in various fields of physics, published by the American Physical Society. This database includes:

• Physical Review A
• Physical Review B
• Physical Review C
• Physical Review D
• Physical Review E
• Physical Review Letters
• Reviews of Modern Physics
• Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
• Physical Review X (Open Access)
• Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (Open Access)
• Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research (Open Access)
• Physics (Open Access)

Contains over 240 current ASAE/ASABE Standards, Engineering Practices, and Data applicable to agricultural equipment and systems, irrigation and drainage, structures, turf and landscape equipment, food engineering, and electric power applications. Contains keyword and numerical standards index. Includes a list of active standards development projects and an index of related ISO (International) Standards Committees.

Produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) this freely available database provides bibliographic access to all ASCE publications since 1973, including journal articles, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. QUT staff and students may access full-text articles within the ASCE Research Library collections.

Contains full-text articles and papers in all disciplines of civil engineering, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). A separate public search interface, the ASCE Civil Engineering Database, is also available.

Provides access to the fulltext of 21 ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions produced by the society for materials engineers and scientists. View complete title list.

Contains document summaries from over 11,000 standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials International as well as fulltext page images of all the current ASTM standards.

Provides access to Australian and New Zealand newspapers & newswires, magazines, reference books, and company information. It includes access to The Australian and Courier Mail

Access all past papers and abstracts from the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists.

Indexing nearly 6000 international journals in life sciences.

A commercial independent publisher that provides access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Many of the original research articles in the over 100 journals published by BioMed Central are immediately available online without charge or any other barriers to access. Some journals are not available in fulltext and require a subscription for access.

Brings together scholarly book, journal, and conference proceedings literature within Web of Science, allowing researchers to analyse the citation network between books and the wider world of scholarly research.

Contains over 19,500 references covering all types of publications, including conference papers, journal articles, standards, regulations, technical papers, reports and books.

This includes the following dataset collections supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology:

• Australian Daily Evaporation
• Australian Daily Wind Data (Disc two)
• Australian Hourly Temperature, Humidity and Pressure Data
• Australian Synoptic Wind Data (Disc one)

Contains full text articles for 800 journals as far back as 1990, and abstracts and indexing for 1,500 back as far as 1984.

Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, publishes a number of high quality journals in the life sciences.

A service publishing peer-reviewed open access (freely available) research in chemistry from BioMed Central, a leading biomedical open access publisher. The Chemistry Central website currently features chemistry-related articles published in BioMed Central journals and independent journals utilizing BioMed Central's open access publishing services.

A collection of major chemical reference works from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press

A collection of scholarly monographs in the discipline of life sciences. Coverage includes molecular, cell, and developmental biology, genetics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cancer biology, and molecular pathology.

Compendex, the online version of Engineering Index, is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over nine million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.

A collection of professional and technical online works including the areas of chemistry, engineering, environmental science, mathematics, statistics, food science, forensic science, law enforcement, information security, neuroscience, nanoscience & nanotechnology and material science.

A collection of 20 electronic journals from CSIRO PUBLISHING, presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and covering a broad range of subjects.

This is the publisher's (Institute for Scientific Information - ISI) own interface to the Current Contents database. The database is fully integrated the with the Web of Science database.

Provides access to information on diesel emissions and their control technologies.

IMPORTANT: Using this product extensively will rapidly use up your free Internet Access Service (IAS) quota. Once this limit is reached students will have to pay for additional Internet access. For further information about your IAS quota and additional charges please refer to Features of IAS. If you are accessing this database from on-campus you will need to have your Internet Access Service (IAS) activated

eBimap is the Brisbane City Council's online mapping service. It is an online geographic information system (GIS) providing Brisbane land, property and assets information, produced by the Brisbane City Coucil. Use eBimap to find council information via geo-spatial mapping technology.

eBimap only provides the City Plan graphic layers not City Plan documentation. You need to use the Brisbane City Plan Profession for City Plan documentation. It is available at Gardens Point Campus, in the VLAB Desk on Level 2

A knowledge base of over 3500 eco-products, eco-materials, technologies and resources, the leading global source of sustainable development and life-cycle assessed green product information. Linking independent information with a powerful search interface, Ecospecifier delivers innovative sustainable product solutions with unique difference.

A comprehensive source of online biomedical answers, Embase helps you track adverse drug events, compare drug therapies for disease, and search for evidence-based medicine research.

A scholarly publisher of journals and books in business and management with a strong and growing presence in disciplines including library & information science, social sciences, engineering, linguistics and audiology.

Includes a wide range of material on Australia's threatened flora and fauna.

Engineering Village 2 is the premier web-based research and discovery platform for the information needs of engineers and engineering researchers. The platform offers Easy, Quick, and Expert search interfaces. The platform utilises faceted search technology to assist users through the search and discovery process. The thesaurus lookup function allows searchers to identify controlled vocabulary subject terms. This improves search strategies by suggesting broader, related and narrower terms.

A collection of ebooks in engineering, including handbooks and manuals from CRC Press.

Indexes Australian and overseas journal articles on subjects such as air and water pollution, environmental protection, recycling, town planning, waste management and heritage. This title was formerly called EPIC.

Looking for Australian newspapers? Try searching Aust/NZ Newspaper and Reference Centre - Unlike Factiva.com there is no limit to the number of users that can access this database at any one time, making it the perfect choice for finding fulltext Australian newspaper content

Covers worldwide 3500 journals, books and book chapters, conference papers, government publications, theses, dissertations, reports, maps, and meeting papers on geology and geophysics. GeoRef is produced by the American Geological Institute (AGI) and corresponds to the print publications: Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. GeoRef also organizes and indexes papers from over 13,000 serials andother publications representative of the interests of the 29 professional geological and earth science societies that are members of the AGI.

GeoRef is international in coverage with about 40% of the indexed publications originating in the United States and the remainder from outside the U.S. Publications of international organizations represent about 7% of the file.

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

A collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists. The collection is organized into comprehensive series, regularly updated and growing with over 1,000 talks. New presentations are constantly becoming available. You may browse through the series, search for a talk covering a subject of interest or register a recommendation for continued access at your institution or company.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation publishes 150+ open access, peer-reviewed journals covering several areas in science, technology, and medicine.

Provides access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. From here you can search the ICE's archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day, viewing papers on screen in fully printable form. The ICE Virtual Library contains every peer-reviewed paper produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers since its first meeting in 1836. Also available via ICE Virtual Library are a collection of all Thomas Telford Limited ebooks published up to end 2011.

Statistical datasets from the International Energy Agency, including energy prices, technology and R&D statistics, oil and natural gas statistics and more.

A powerful discovery interface for accessing scientific and technical content published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners, The IET, VDM Verlag conferences, and Wiley-IEEE eBooks.

An ebook collection covering technology related subjects including Bioengineering, Power & Energy and Communication technologies, among other growing areas of research.

Provides access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. There are now 12 million records in Inspec.

Provides access to over 60 journals published by the Institute of Physics (IoP). Includes the IOP Journal Archive featuring volumes from 1874.

QUT currently has access to:

• Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, and IV
• Life Sciences Collcation

A collection of reference ebooks in science and engineering, many of which are embedded with Knovel's productivity tools that help users analyze and manipulate information into a more usable form. Fulltext is available in PDF format.

Provides access to publications covering Biotechnology; Biomedical Research/Life Sciences; Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing; Integrative Medicine; Law, Economics, and Policy; Pediatrics; Psychology; Public Health; and Sustainability and Environmental Studies.

Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

An encyclopedia providing precise, comprehensive information on more than 10,000 chemicals, drugs, and biological compounds and 450 organic name reactions.

A growing collection of (electronic) biomedical books provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), in collaboration with authors and publishers. Books may be searched directly using any search term or phrase, and can be also found through links to PubMed abstracts. See the service homepage for a list of titles included.

Nature.com is a gateway to over 30 individual electronic journals from NPG (Nature Publishing Group). Journals available to QUT staff and students include the prestigious Nature online weekly journal as well as selected Nature reviews titles.

Provides access to selected subscribed journals published by the Optical Society of America.

A good starting place for research, including a range of dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Limit search results to quick reference or include the full reference library.

Offers electronic access to books in biology, business and management, classical studies, economics and finance, history, law, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, neuroscience, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, public health and epidemiology, religion and social work.

A plant reference guide used by professional horticulturists, students and home gardeners worldwide. Contains information on shrubs, trees, perennials, annuals, climbers, herbs, native & turf grasses, bamboos, ferns and palm. Also includes detailed pest and disease information for every plant and over 42 categories of information on each plant, including botanical description, best environment, commonly available cultivars and more. Search capability by common & botanic names, environmental criteria and botanical descriptions.

Provides access to selected subscribed journals published by Portland Press on behalf of the Biochemical Society.

PROLA is the American Physical Society's (APS's) online archive for the journals Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A-E. It contains all American Physical Society (APS) journal articles published from 1893-4 years ago.

Provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments.

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

Provides one-stop access to several thousand periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.

A comprehensive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals searches over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.

A freely available version of the Medline database providing a small collection of fulltext electronic journals. It includes the full Medline database from 1966 onwards. It also includes Pre-Medline, a collection of very recent articles not yet included in the main database, as well as a number of articles available in the fulltext journals which were not selected for the Medline database.

Provides access to selected Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journals, RSC Books and access to Analytical Abstracts.

Produced by RMIT Publishing, SAGE is a bibliographic database that indexes popular journals on a broad range of subjects. SAGE covers practically all disciplines of knowledge, though the scientific ones are most heavily represented.Subject coverage includes: Science and General, including: Agriculture, Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Ethics, Geography, Natural History, Physics, Sustainability and Zoology.

SAI Global - Standards Online provides access to the complete collection of current Australian Standards, and recent Draft Standards and handbooks (excluding Standards and handbooks with joint copyright) in fulltext with graphics.

A cross-disciplinary academic database with significant content of interest to all QUT Faculties. Content includes journal titles in fulltext, online books, book series, handbooks and reference works.

First time users of this service must register for an individual SciFinder username and password using their QUT email address. Note that by licence agreement staff and students may only register for ONE login.

The world's largest science specific search engine, Scirus allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

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SIAM Journals Online is the collection of online publications from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

SIAM Online titles include:

• Multiscale Modeling & Simulation;
• SIAM Journal on Applied dynamical Systems;
• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics;
• SIAM Journal on Computing;
• SIAM Journal on Control & Optimization;
• SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics;
• SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences;
• SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis;
• SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications;
• SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis;
• SIAM Journal on Optimization;
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing;
• SIAM Review;
• Theory of Probability and Its Applications.

LOCUS SIAM Online Journal Archive (1952 - 1996)

• Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (1953 - 1965);
• Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Series A: Control (1962 - 1965);
• Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Series B: Numerical Analysis (1964 - 1965);
• SIAM Journal on Control (1966 - 1975);
• SIAM Journal on Algebraic & Discrete Methods (1980 - 1987);
• SIAM journal on Scientific & Statistical Computing ( 1980 - 1993).

A reference collection of e-book titles published by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

This provides access the society's two journals, meeting abstracts and encyclopedic dictionary.

Provides fulltext access to selected journals, conference proceedings and technical reports in the areas of optics and photonics. Published by the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

A database platform specialising in science, technology and medicine journals, book series, books and reference works.

Contains more than 25,000 records on all aspects of natural resource management. Produced by Infoscan Pty Ltd and sponsored by the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation and the Urban Water Research Association of Australia.

Sugar Industry Abstracts is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research on the sugar industry. Sugar Industry Abstracts brings you the latest information on the sugar industry, from the agronomy of sugarcane and sugarbeet to economics, nutrition and health.

Documents related to paper pulp, paper, packaging, and converting.

Provides fulltext access to peer-reviewed research journals covering multiple subject areas. QUT has access to the complete Taylor & Francis collection.

A search of digital copies of theses from Australian universities and other Australian research institutions. Trove includes the full back catalogue of the former Australian Digital Theses service and other research materials from the former Australian Research Online.

Presents original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences.

Citation databases:

• Book Citation Index - Science (BKCI-S) --2005-present 2012 eTrial
• Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) --2005-present 2012 eTrial
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1980-present
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1980-present
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1980-present
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)--1990-present
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present

A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.