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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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.