Research & Industry News

• ABARES reports and statistics from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. Search by series or topic.
• AusGeo News: current activities of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics
  
  
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
  
  
• Australia InfoMine - Australia InfoMine provides focused, in-depth information on worldwide mining and mineral exploration activities considered to be of specific interest to Australians.
• AIRC - Australian Innovation Research Centre
• Australian Policy Online - research and resources in the public interest, a partnership of the Australian National Institute for Public Policy and the Swinburne Institute for Social Research.
  
  
• Australian Trade Policy and News - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) - listing of all Cooperative Research Centres in Australia. CRCs bring together researchers from universities, CSIRO and other government laboratories, and private industry or public sector agencies, in long-term collaborative arrangements which support research and development and education activities that achieve real outcomes of national economic and social significance.
• CSIRO Publications
• OECD Topic List- Organisation for Economic and Co-operation Development
  
  
• Search.Mining.Net SearchMining.netis a free search engine dedicated to the mining industry.
  
  
• Tourism Queensland e-Newsletters
  
  
• World Trade Organisation: Research and Analysis - Selected links to sites containing WTO-related material.

Subject directories

• NetLinks - quality recommended websites, by the State Library of Queensland.
• Recommended internet links from the Australian Parliamentary Library, subject directories include Economics, and Science, Technology, Environment and Resources.
  
  
• Intute (archived as of July 2011) - subject guide of evaluated internet resources. Includes Agriculture, food, and forestry, Biological sciences, Business and management studies, Geography and environment, and more.
  
  
• AgLinks: The Australian Agricultural Directory - a directory of Australian agricultural resources.
• Agriculture & natural resources: A guide to general Internet Resources - from the library at the University of Adelaide.

Free research databases

• Agricola - Find citations of journal articles, book chapters, short reports, and reprints covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences information. Produced by the US Department of Agriculture.
• AGRIS - Find citations of papers dealing with agricultural science and technology worldwide. Topics covered include forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic science and fisheries, and human nutrition. From FAO.
• Google Scholar - a free search service for searching scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
• Infomine - A Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
• OpenDOAR - an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
• PubMed - Find citations of articles from medicine and the life sciences. Includes references to animal health papers. From the National Library of Medicine (US).
• Scitopia - a gateway to research from leading science and technology societies. Searches more than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology

Access to a range of other online databases is available through the State Library of Queensland upon obtaining a free State Library eServices card.

Free journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals - over 2000 open access journals.
  
  
• Gateway for Free eJournals - 700 Free E-journals covering Subjects like Business & Management, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Media and Communication, and Social Sciences.
  
  
• Highwire Press - the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth.
  
  
• findarticles.com  Provided by BNET - an organization that "provides working professionals with the tools, advice, and insight they need to succeed in today's workplace."

Books

• DEEDI catalogue - note: members of the public can borrow only via interlibrary loan from their local or institutional library.
• Trove - search other Australian library catalogues.
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) - a core electronic collection of agricultural texts from Cornell University, published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Includes fully digitised copies of 1849 books and 6 journals.
• Google Books - Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of books you can preview or read for free.
• The Hive And The Honeybee - The Phillips' Beekeeping Collection at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library is one of the largest and most complete apiculture libraries in the world. The Hive and the Honey Bee consists of the full text of thirty rare books from the collection.
• Science Books Online - Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents.

News

• DEEDI news - news on the DEEDI web page.
• DEEDI newsletters - various newsletters produced by DEEDI.
• DEEDI email lists - email and discussion lists hosted by DEEDI.
• ABC - The Australian Broadcasting Commission website, updated regularly.
• The Courier Mail - the Courier Mail website, updated regularly throughout the day.
• Australian newspapers online - from the National Library of Australia.
• Google News - search for news from thousands of sources around the world. To see Australian stories only, do an Advanced search and add "Australia" to the location box. Register to be sent news stories containing your search words daily, weekly, or as they happen.
• ScienceDaily: news and articles in science, health, environment and technology.