Library Guides: Zoology: Journal articles

Searching tips

Plan your search
Five steps to better search results.
Searching in databases
Advice on how to focus your search.
Find journal articles
Explains different types of journals and how to find journal articles.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Check if an article is peer reviewed.

Australian databases

You can use the recommended databases on the key resources page to find journal articles. You could also search these databases:

CSIRO online journals
This is not a database, it is the journal publishers page and you can search in specific CSIRO titles. Full text journals published by CSIRO Publishing. Australian content. Covers a wide range of scientific disciplines including agriculture, the plant and animal sciences and environmental management.
AHB: Australian Heritage Bibliography - Archive only (1987 - 2012)
Previously HERA, Australia's natural and cultural environment - journal articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian sources.

ENDANGER: threatened species in Australia
1960-; Indexes material on threatened Australian fauna and flora. Books, chapters, periodicals, newspapers, conference proceedings, theses, and some non-book material (videos, charts, posters etc).

REEF
1982-; Developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in association with CSIRO.

Finding quality journals

To find a list of high impact (prestigious) journals in your field, go to Journal Citation Reports and select: Subject Category--[submit]--Zoology.