Biotechnology
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:
- Ebscohost A platform for more than 40 databases, use this link to search across all of them or to select individual, or groups of, relevant databases such as:
- Academic Search Complete A multidisciplinary database covering a range of subject areas including the sciences. Provides full text for more than 5000 journals, both scholarly and popular.
- Ejournals Database Indexes thousands of electronic journal titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
- Health Source Academic/Nursing Edition Full text for over 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on nursing and allied health.
- Health Source Consumer Edition Full text health journals intended for the health consumer.
- General Science on Gale Covers more than 200 science journals from general science magazines to academic journals.
- Sage Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards.
- Scopus One of the world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect and has 100% Medline coverage. Science Direct is a full text science database with a strong coverage of biomedical science journals.
- SpringerLink Full text articles from almost all journals published by Springer.
- TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Catalyst story about how Australian scientists isolated a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger, the Thylacine, and injected it into a mouse, A Thylacine mouse, 5 min.
- Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. You can search most disciplines and time spans back to 1982 to uncover information relevant to your research.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the full text button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Ebooks
- Selected ebook titles :
- AccessScience (McGraw-Hill) A good, general, online encyclopaedia covering science and technology.
- Academic Press dictionary of science and technology (Academic Press)
- Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology (Oxford University Press)
- Encyclopedia of bioprocess technology (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of ethical, legal and policy issues in biotechnology (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of microbiology (Elsevier Science)
- The encyclopedia of molecular biology (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of pharmaceutical technology (Informa Healthcare)
- Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology (Wiley Interscience)
- McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of science and technology (McGraw-Hill)
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing handbook: regulations and quality (Wiley Interscience)
- See the ebooks guide for more ebook databases.
New Material
Find out about new books, ebooks, DVDs and streamed video added to the library collection in the last 12 months.
- Biotechnology
- Find out about more new items, covering a range of topics, added to the library collection in the last month.
Internet Resources
- Biology Links Harvard University web page providing links to biochemistry/molecular biology websites and databases (sequences, structures, etc).
- BRENDA Comprehensive enzyme information system.
- EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database Europe's primary nucleotide sequence resource.
- Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine Provides an cross-searchable access point to the Entrez databases produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), including Entrez Nucleotide, Entrez Genome, Entrez Protein & Entrez Gene.
- DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan) Nucleotide sequence database from Japan.
- Nature Online Website of the journal, Nature, with links to the current issue, archive, videos and podcasts.
- Protein Data Bank Provides a variety of tools and resources for studying the structures of biological macromolecules and their relationships to sequence, function, and disease. Includes three-dimensional models of proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, protein-nucleic acid complexes, and viruses that are derived from x-ray crystallography and NMR experiments.
Industry Information
- Industry Reports
- Biotechnology A web page, maintained by Commonwealth Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, about the Biotechnology industry in Australia.
- Victorian Bioportal Business Victoria web page providing links to information about the biotechnology industry in Victoria.
- Company Information
- Business Source Complete (Business Searching Interface) Use to find company profiles.
- FinAnalysis Detailed financial information for all companies listed on ASX.
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
- Booking a computer or room at Hawthorn or Prahran (text instructions)