LibGuides: Plant sciences: Databases

What are databases?

A library database is an online collection of scholarly resources.

Databases don't hold the resources, but provide the information needed to find it including the author, title, source, publication date, and often an abstract. Many databases have links to the full-text.

Databases can be interdisciplinary (covering several topics), or subject specific (focusing on one particular discipline).

The ANU Library subscribes to over 620 scholarly databases, containing many millions of searchable items including scholarly journal articles; newspaper articles; images; streaming videos; music; and other academic publications.

Searching databases can be a great way to find reliable, peer-reviewed scholarly sources for your research and assessments.

You can see the full range of databases on the Library's e-resources and databases page.

Featured Database

CAB Abstracts covers significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health and nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources.

Databases for Plant science

AGRICOLA: Agricultural and life sciences literature
Agricola is the US National Agricultural Library catalogue. It provides citations to agricultural literature including books, periodical titles, web documents, audiovisual material, as well as indexed periodical articles, book chapters, and reprints. It is a service offered by the United States Department of Agriculture.
BioOne Complete
This database provides access to over 200 subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. It offers subject coverage of agriculture and agronomy, biodiversity conservation, ecology, entomology, environmental sciences, evolutionary biology, geology and paleontology, marine and freshwater biology, ornithology, plant sciences, veterinary sciences and zoology.
Global Plants
Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration and am essential resource for institutions supporting teaching and research in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with over 84 million records of over 26,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 7,000 publishers. It provides access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools.
Sustainability
The Sustainability collection from JSTOR is composed of academic and open policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. The collection looks at sustainability and resilience through a broad lens, spanning over more than 30 disciplines.
TAIR the Arabidopsis information resource
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) provides a comprehensive resource for the scientific community working with Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant. TAIR consists of a searchable relational database, which includes many different datatypes.
Web of Science
Web of Knowledge allows cross searching of Web of Science (1955-present), BIOSIS Previews (1969-present), Medline (1950-present), Zoological Record (1864-present), and Journal Citation Reports (1998-2007).