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Staff and students at UNSW@ADFA can now access the Informit e-Library Business Collection, which provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, and reference materials published by a myriad of small Australasian academic and professional associations, interest groups and research centres.

Subjects covered include all broad business fields: accounting, career development, commercial law, commodities, corporate governance, e-business, economics, employment, human resources, labour, management, marketing, occupational health, taxation, and unions.

The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) is the American Physical Society’s online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2004. Each January, another year is added to the archive. It is full-text. PROLA, as well as sorting results chronologically and by relevance, also sorts by citedness, making it clear which are the most cited, “must-read” items on a topic. PROLA can be accessed through CrossSearch.

SPIRES-HEP (Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System-High Energy Physics) is an important tool because it includes links to the full-text eprint versions of papers submitted for publications in journals and/or conference proceedings depostited in arXiv (http://arxiv.org/) and other preprint servers. The results list can be sorted by citedness.

The Informit e-Library Engineering Collection subjects cover all broad engineering fields, including: Civil engineering, Engineering of railroads & roads, Mining & related operations, Sanitary & municipal engineering as well as specialist areas such as biomedical, bulk materials handling, coastal & ocean engineering, engineering heritage, geomechanics, hydrology & water resources, multi-disciplinary, salinity, space and urban infrastructure.

Coverage:  1985 - present

Content: Provides full text access to the 7 journals and 300 engineering conference proceedings and reports.

Australian Journal of Civil Engineering
Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering
Australian Journal of Structural Engineering
Australian Journal of Water Resources
Chemistry in Australia

OpticsInfoBase is the Optical Society of America’s online repository of current and past volumes of its journals.  It also contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences.  InfoBase provides access to partnered journals: Journal of Lightweight Technology, Journal of Optical Technology, Journal of Display Technology, Chinese Optics Letters, and Applied Spectroscopy.  You can search across all available journal and conference proceedings published by OSA.

Engineering Information (Ei) introduced record tagging to Engineering Village databases. Tagging allows users to apply meaningful keywords to database records to facilitate sharing records and retrieving documents based on “tags”.  Information about tagging is found under Help.

Ei Engineering Village includes:

Compendex - the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.

Inspec - publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.

Geobase - earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.

The emergence of three important information resources in the last three years are changing the field of chemical information.

PubChem, http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, is a free service consisting of three databases: PubChem Compound, PubChem Substance, and PubChem Bio-Assay.  PubChem Substance provides links to PubMed, protein 3-D structures. PubChem, with its 17 million substances and 10 million unique structures, is smaller than the CAS Registry File (SciFinder Scholar) which has 31 million organic and inorganic substances and more than 58 million sequences.

DiscoveryGate, http://www.discoverygate.com/, provides access to more than 20 databases through a platform called Compund Index. It contains more than 27 million structures, 17 million reactions, and more than 5oo million values. DiscoveryGate includes CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin (inorganic chemicals).

Chemistry Central, http://www.chemistrycentral.com/, contains many open access journals, including Chemistry Central Journal, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, and Cheochemical Transactions.