Agency for Clinical Innovation: Innovation Exchange
ACI is an information and networking service for Australian health professionals which aims to support and increase the implementation of effective innovations in clinical care across healthcare settings.
Analysis and Policy Observatory
APO specialises in grey literature and provides access to a range of research reports, working papers, discussion papers and statistics for effective public policy debate, decision making and implementation
ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons)
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is a transformational initiative that enables Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant, leading edge data intensive eInfrastructure, platforms, skills and collections of high-quality data.
Australia Bureau of Statistics
Australia's official national statistical agency, provides a high quality, objective and responsive statistical service with information and resources on a range of topics.
Australian Council for the Arts
Government website with research and data on arts in Australia.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The AIHW is the national agency providing reliable, regular and relevant information and statistics on Australia's health and welfare
Australian National Data Service
This site allows Australian researchers to reuse research data. It provides national services such as Research Data Australia and is building the Australian Research Data Commons; promoting partnerships and resources to enable researchers to share data collections
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse
The AIHW and Australian Institute of Family Studies clearinghouse provides evidence-based research on overcoming disadvantage for Indigenous Australians
IP Australia
Produced by the Australian government this site provides access to searchable patent, trademark and design databases
In March 2019 PANDORA content became part of the Australian Web Archive searchable in Trove.
Trove ( National Library Australia)
Trove provides a free search service/repository of Australian material including digital theses, digitised magazines and newspapers
The ADS Library brings together material from the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB), the ADS library of unpublished fieldwork reports as well as documents from the ADS archives and archaeological publishers such as Oxbow.
A global public database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology.
Arts & humanities citation index (A&HCI)
Reports, conferences and theses can be searched through the British Library Integrated Catalogue
Google Custom Search: Think Tanks
Directory of open access university repositories
Open Grey
(note: 25 years of content up to 2018)
A multidisciplinary database that has material from a range of European sites with documents such as research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of grey literature covering science, biomedical science, social science and humanities
Gateway to selected science information provided by the US government agencies. Includes research and development results.
One of the worlds leading professional services networks that assists organisations and individuals across the globe. Covering a broad range of disciplines, PWC aims to provide reports and advice in order to deliver quality.
PAIS (originally, the Public Affairs Information Service) was established in 1914. There are two databases created from the files: PAIS International and PAIS Archive. PAIS International includes records from the print PAIS Bulletin 1977 and forward; it also includes PAIS print Foreign Language Index published 1972-1990, at which time it merged with the PAIS Bulletin.
PolicyArchive is a free database which contains the largest archive of policy documents in the USA.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Australasian Open Access Repositories
Maintained by the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG)
EThOS (UK)
The British Libraries Electronic Thesis Online Service provides open access to UK theses in a rage of disciplines. Where immediate dowload is not possible EthOS can arrange delivery of full text.
Online repository for all Monash university theses
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations supports electronic publishing and open access to international theses and dissertations to enhance sharing of knowledge.
OpenDOAR is a directory of open access academic repositories. It is a useful tool to search university institutional repositories worldwide for theses.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Dissertation and Theses Dissemination and Ordering provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses. While an international source, many of the available materials are from the US.
Theses Canada aims to acquire and preserve a collection of Canadian Theses to provide access to this research around the world.
Many organisations, associations and professional groups hold conferences which they make available online. Useful sites to search include;
Full text of papers delivered at academic conferences which used the company's software.
A directory of conferences from around the world.
PhPartners conferences and meetings
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries
ProQuest
Conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, reports
For presentation slides. Particularly useful for finding conference presentations
Scopus
Conference proceedings, technical reports
with conference proceedings
Australia New Zealand clinical trials register
The Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) is an online register of clinical trials being undertaken in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. The ANZCTR includes trials from the full spectrum of therapeutic areas of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, treatment and rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies.
Clinical practice guidelines portal (Australia)
The NHMRC's Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal has been developed to ensure Australian clinicians and policy-makers access high quality, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines via a single entry point.
A deep web search engine for all health related information.
The Australian Web Archive includes content from the following collections. All content is accessible through a single search service through Trove. Content can be searched by website URL or by keywords and phrases.
PAIS Index
Various material relevant to public policy, including government reports
ProQuest
Conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, reports
Scopus
Conference proceedings, technical reports
Technical Report Archive and Image Library
US government reports, mostly pre-1976.
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Cases:
See the cases page on the Law library guide for more on cases.
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Rural and remote health:
Aims to improve the health of Australians living in rural and remote areas. Provides links to publications including position papers and research.
Represents allied health professionals working in rural and remote areas. Includes literature and reports.
Social work:
General Science databases, directories, newsletters:
Geosciences:
Environmental Sciences (incl. Sustainability):
WorldWide Fund for Nature International: conservation work, scientific research, environmental policy, promoting environmental education
Atmospheric Sciences:
Geographical Sciences (incl. Physical Geography):
See the Map Collection guide for maps and geospatial data.