Introduction
Welcome to the Mathematics and Statistics Subject Research Guide
Your subject librarians have designed this guide to highlight online resources at the University of Melbourne Library that are relevant to mathematics and statistics.
Quick Start
5 things you can do to start your research:
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eBooks
eBooks access during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the Covid19 pandemic, a number of Publishers and Providers are giving free unlimited access to a range of online resources.
You can see the list at our Library Blog
Mathematics and Statistics eBook databases
- SpringerLink BooksSpringerLink contains journals, books, series, protocols and reference works all aimed at supporting the research and academic community across all disciplines. The Palgrave Connect ebook collections were integrated into the Springer eBook collections during 2016.
- SIAM ebooksSIAM’s line-up of prize-winning authors and titles address both timely and fundamental topics that have made SIAM books indispensible to researchers, faculty, and students around the world. Almost 400 books are available online.
- European Mathematical Society Book SeriesThe European Mathematical Society Publishing House eBooks cover all fields of pure and applied mathematics. This database contains all published books from the following series : EMS Monographs in Mathematics (EMM) ; EMS Series of Congress Reports (ECR) ; EMS Series of Lectures in Mathematics (ELM) ; EMS Textbooks in Mathematics (ETB) ; EMS Tracts in Mathematics (ETM) ; ESI Lectures in Mathematics and Physics (ESI) ; Heritage of European Mathematics (HEM) ; IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (IRMA) ; The QGM Master Class Series (QGM) ; Zurich Lectures in Advanced Mathematics (ZLAM).
- ProQuest Ebook CentralEbook Central provides access to thousands of e-books from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas.
- eBook Collection (EBSCO)EBSCO eBooks offers a selection of scholarly, frontlist and award-winning eBook titles from leading publishers. These titles cover a broad range of academic subject matter and topics. The Library has access to selected titles, as well as the thousands of public domain titles that are included in the database.
- Taylor & Francis EbooksTaylor & Francis provide access to thousands of eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science from well known publishers such as Routledge, CRC Press, Chapman and Hall, Ashgate, Psychology Press, Longman and Heinemann. Content spans all levels within higher education, from students to researchers, including topic-defining handbooks and ground-breaking research monographs. Download chapters or the entire book as a convenient PDF or read online.
- Wiley Online Library BooksWiley Online Library is a collection of online resources covering life, health, and physical sciences as well as social science and the humanities. It delivers access to journals, books, reference works, laboratory protocols, and databases from John Wiley & Sons and its imprints, including Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH, and Jossey-Bass.
- Cambridge Core BooksCambridge University Press publishes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students. There are thousands of ebooks available across a wide range of disciplines including law, politics, history, language and literature, mathematics and astronomy with hundreds of new titles added each year
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which offers quick and easy access to the full text of Oxford University Press ebooks. The University of Melbourne Library has purchased access to selected subject collections within Oxford Scholarship Online - Business and management; Economics and finance; Law; Philosophy; Political science; Public health and epidemiology.
- International PressPublishes journals dealing with fields of academic mathematics research, and statistics. Includes high-level mathematics and mathematical physics book titles.
Search for eBooks via the library catalogue, Discovery or specialist eBook databases
Browsing for Mathematics & Statistics resources
Once you find a good book in the library catalogue, click on the subject links at the bottom of the record to find more items on that topic, e.g.
These include the following:
Reading eBooks
Most of the ebooks provided by the library can simply be read online using a web browser and/or downloaded, by section or chapter, in PDF format.
To access, download, read, and print most ebooks from the library you simply need:
- A unimelb login and password.
- A device, such as a PC, laptop, or tablet, with access to the internet,
- An up-to-date web browser (find the latest versions of common browsers here), and
- A PDF reader, such as Adobe Reader.
Some ebook providers require you to check-out or borrow ebooks and use particular software, such as Adobe Digital Editions, to read their ebooks.
However, you will be prompted to do this when you try to access an ebook with special requirements and instructions will be provided.
Featured eBooks
- Lecture notes in mathematics (book series)Publication Date: 1964 - ongoingThis series reports on new developments in all areas of mathematics and their applications - quickly, informally and at a high level.
Theorems of the 21st century. Volume I by ISBN: 9783030190965Publication Date: 2019This book consists of short descriptions of 106 mathematical theorems, which belong to the great achievements of 21st century mathematics but require relatively little mathematical background to understand their formulation and appreciate their importance.
Euclidean design theory by ISBN: 9789811380754Publication Date: 2019This book is the modern first treatment of experimental designs, providing a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between the theory of optimal designs and the theory of cubature formulas in numerical analysis.
Pillars of transcendental number theory by ISBN: 9789811541551Publication Date: 2020This book deals with the development of Diophantine problems starting with Thue's path breaking result and culminating in Roth's theorem with applications.- Engines of order: a mechanology of algorithmic techniques byISBN: 9789048537419Publication Date: 2020This book approaches the field of information ordering conceptually as well as historically. Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, it first examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and shows how software-making constantly draws on large reservoirs of existing knowledge and techniques.
Counting Surfaces by ISBN: 9783764387976Publication Date: 2016The book intends to be self-contained and accessible to graduate students, and provides comprehensive proofs, several examples, and gives the general formula for the enumeration of maps on surfaces of any topology.
Algebra for Applications by ISBN: 9783030440732Publication Date: 2020-06-02Designed for an undergraduate lecture course, this textbook provides all of the background in arithmetic, polynomials, groups, fields, and elliptic curves that is required to understand real-life applications such as cryptography, secret sharing, error-correcting, fingerprinting, and compression of information.
Advanced Boolean techniques : selected papers from the 13th International Workshop on Boolean Problems by ISBN: 9783030203238Publication Date: 2020This book describes recent findings in the domain of Boolean logic and Boolean algebra, covering application domains in circuit and system design, but also basic research in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Fast Facts
eReference access during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the Covid19 pandemic, a number of Publishers and Providers are giving free unlimited access to a range of online resources.
You can see the list at our Library Blog
Key eReference databases
Find a list of key databases below that give you access to online references works, such as encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and other fast facts such as reference data, graphs, tables, equations, and material or chemical properties, etc.
To find further reference information you can search:
- KnovelKnovel offers an unmatched depth and breadth of validated engineering content, selected from the most trusted sources and delivered to engineers quickly and with extreme precision. Knovel's comprehensive content collection includes material properties, process and design information, best practices, equations and formulations for specific industries and engineering disciplines. Knovel’s content includes over 4,000 leading reference works and databases from more than 100 leading technical publishers and professional societies including AIAA, AIChE, ASHRAE, ASM, ASME, DIPPR and NACE.
- Wolfram AlphaCompute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology
- LMFDB: The L-functions and Modular Forms DatabaseThe LMFDB is an extensive database of mathematical objects arising in Number Theory
- AccessEngineering (McGraw Hill)Access Engineering is an engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students which provides access to critical, regularly updated engineering reference information.
- eFunda : engineering fundamentalseFunda stands for engineering Fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find concise and reliable information to meet the majority of their daily reference needs. eFunda is all about the basics, that mostly means college level material covered in engineering schools. If you practice engineering, more often than not you would find yourself searching for something you knew but could not quite remember. eFunda wants to be your reminder of these formulas. Not only that, eFunda wants to tell you exactly under what conditions those formulas apply
Mathematics and Statistics eReference examples
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics by ISBN: 9780191759024Publication Date: 2014Authoritative and reliable, this A-Z provides jargon-free definitions for even the most technical mathematical terms.- Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications (Book Series)Publication Date: 1976 - ongoingThis series is devoted to significant topics or themes that have wide application in mathematics or mathematical science and for which a detailed development of the abstract theory is less important than a thorough and concrete exploration of the implications and applications.
Encyclopedia of Applied and Computational Mathematics by ISBN: 9783540705291Publication Date: 2015EACM is a comprehensive reference work covering the vast field of applied and computational mathematics. Applied mathematics itself accounts for at least 60 per cent of mathematics, and the emphasis on computation reflects the current and constantly growing importance of computational methods in all areas of applications.
Statistics from a to Z by ISBN: 9781119272038Publication Date: 2016This book uses unique "graphics that teach" such as concept flow diagrams, compare-and-contrast tables, and even cartoons to enhance "rememberability."
Encyclopedia of Algorithms by ISBN: 9781493928637Publication Date: 2016This dynamic reference work provides solutions to vital algorithmic problems for scholars, researchers, practitioners, teachers and students in fields such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, economics, financial software, and medical informatics.- A Dictionary of statistics byISBN: 9780191758317Publication Date: 2014Written by authorities in the field, this dictionary provides concise, jargon-free definitions of all the terms likely to be encountered by students of statistics. Anyone who comes into contact with statistical terms will find this dictionary useful.
Table of Integrals, Series, and Products by ISBN: 9780123849335Publication Date: 2015The eighth edition of the classic Gradshteyn and Ryzhik is an updated completely revised edition of what is acknowledged universally by mathematical and applied science users as the key reference work concerning the integrals and special functions.
CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae by ISBN: 9781439835500Publication Date: 2012With over 6,000 entries, CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 32nd Edition continues to provide essential formulas, tables, figures, and descriptions, including many diagrams, group tables, and integrals not available online.
General eReference
- Oxford ReferenceOxford Reference is the home of Oxford’s quality reference publishing. The collection provides quality, up-to-date reference content at the click of a button. The University of Melbourne subscribes to selected titles from this large collection of materials.
- Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
- Macquarie Dictionary and Thesaurus OnlineThe Macquarie Dictionary Online is constantly updated with new words as they enter the Australian language. This online service gives you access to the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary and the latest edition of the Macquarie Thesaurus plus annual updates
Databases
Finding journals articles, conference proceedings & more
Discovery
- You can use Discovery to search across most of the journals and other content the library subscribes to.
- Access Discovery via the search box on the library homepage.
eJournals and Databases
- Conduct a more thorough and advanced search by searching individual databases or e-journals.
- From the library homepage click the A-Z eJournals and Databases link.
- Browse alphabetically or search by title.
You can access some key databases directly by clicking the links below:
Key multidisciplinary databases
- Scopus (Elsevier)Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
- Web of ScienceWeb of Science Core Collection provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
- Google Scholar(With University of Melbourne authentication) Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)Academic Search™ Complete is a multidisciplinary full-text database, providing access to more than 8,600 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
- ProQuestThe ProQuest platform delivers a variety of full text databases and indexes covering a wide range of subject areas.
Key Mathematics and Statistics databases
- MathSciNet (AMS)MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature. Continuing in the tradition of the paper publication, Mathematical Reviews (MR), which was first published in 1940, expert reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of the current published literature. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s, and over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. The database provides links to original articles and free access to Featured Reviews.
- MathSciNet (EBSCOhost)MathSciNet is an electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.
- American Mathematical Society JournalsThe AMS, founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, has maintained an active publishing program since 1891, and has established a reputation as one of the top publishers of advanced mathematics in the world. The AMS journals are all peer-reviewed and cover a broad range of mathematics. The Memoirs of the AMS is devoted to the publication of research in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. The Memoirs is designed particularly to publish long papers or groups of cognate papers in book form.
- AMS Open Math NotesAMS Open Math Notes is a repository of freely downloadable mathematical works in progress hosted by the American Mathematical Society as a service to researchers, teachers and students. These draft works include course notes, textbooks, and research expositions in progress. They have not been published elsewhere, and, as works in progress, are subject to significant revision.
- American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)The American Institute of Mathematical Sciences is an international organization for the advancement and dissemination of mathematical sciences. AIMS promotes mathematical science education through its publications and conferences. The mission of AIMS is to foster and enhance interactions among a broad spectrum of mathematicians and scientists worldwide.
- SIAM Journals OnlineThe Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is an international community of over 13,000 individual members. Through publications, research, and community, the mission of SIAM is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology.
- Canadian Mathematical SocietyPublishes original research works promoting and advancing the discovery, learning and application of mathematics.
- European Mathematical Society JournalsThe EMS Publishing House is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed journals and high-quality books, on all academic levels and in all fields of pure and applied mathematics.
- Current Index to StatisticsThe Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes data from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 additional journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. The bulk of the content in CIS is from 1975-2017.
- Project Euclid Open Access JournalsFreely available journals and conference proceedings in the fields of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics publications.
- arXiv.orgarXiv is an open-access digital archive which presents papers in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
- InspecInspec is a leading bibliographic database providing access to the world's scientific literature in: electrical engineering; electronics; physics; control engineering; information technology; communications; computers; computing; manufacturing and production engineering. Inspec combined with the Inspec Archive provides coverage from 1898 to the present day. The database is updated weekly.
- ACM Digital Library CompleteThe ACM Digital Library (DL) is a comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. This full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.
- IEEE Xplore Journals This link opens in a new windowThe IEEE Xplore Journal collection includes IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents, and IET journals and magazines. There is backfile to the late 1800s for select titles and weekly updates with more than 20,000 new IEEE/IET articles added each month.
- zbMATH Open This link opens in a new windowzbMATH Open (formerly known as Zentralblatt MATH) is the world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. It is edited by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and FIZ Karlsruhe. zbMATH Open provides easy access to bibliographic data, reviews and abstracts from all areas of pure mathematics as well as applications, in particular to natural sciences, computer science, economics and engineering. It also covers history and philosophy of mathematics and university education. All entries are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme and are equipped with keywords in order to characterize their particular content. Coverage starts in 1826 and is complete from 1868 to the present by the integration of the “Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik” database.
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eJournals
Browzine e-Journals
Click on the buttons below to view a selection of online Science and Engineering eJournals that the Library subscribes to (these will open in a new window). For a complete list of eJournals please visit our A-Z eJournals page.
More information on e-Journals
The databases below provide further information on e-Journals, such as:
- Whether a journal is peer-reviewed/refereed.
- Whether the journal/publisher is suspected to be predatory.
- Which databases the journal is indexed in.
- Acceptance rates, and the typical time taken to review and publish papers.
- Metrics, such as the journal impact factor (JIF) and ranking within subject areas.
- UlrichsWeb : global serials directory (ProQuest)UlrichsWeb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Ulrichsweb covers more than 900 subject areas. Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.
- Cabell's Scholarly AnalyticsCabell's consists of two databases - Journalytics and Predatory Reports. Journalytics: explore more than 11,000 qualified academic journals within 18 disciplines to discover the perfect outlet for your research. Filter your results using advanced search options and suite of citation-backed metrics. Predatory Reports: in response to the growing number of predatory publishers, this resource aims to shine a light on the deceptive practices that threaten to undermine quality research.
- Serials Directory (EBSCOhost)This database provides accurate bibliographic information, as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. The Serials Directory contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, journals and magazines. With data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet address, language, publication frequency, ISSN, Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal Classification, and more.
- InCites - Journal Citation ReportsThe Journal Citation Reports module within InCites allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from thousands of publishers in over 60 countries. Journal Citation Reports is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
Search Engines
Search Engines & Digital Repositories
You can use Google Scholar and the other search engines and repositories below to search for scholarly content and then access the full-text via the library, rather than having to purchase content:
Turn on “Find It @ Unimelb” links when browsing Google Scholar at home.
Use the Lean Library or LibKey Nomad browser extension to access full-text online resources in your browser without going through the library website or Discovery.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
- Google: Advanced SearchUse the more advanced features of Google Web Search.
- Duck Duck GoDuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all users the same search results for a given search term.
- Microsoft Academic SearchMicrosoft Academic Search is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research Asia, and also serves as a test-bed for our object-level vertical search research. Microsoft Academic Search provides many innovative ways to explore scientific papers, conferences, journals, and authors, connecting millions of scholars, students, librarians, and other users together.
- The University of Melbourne's Institutional Repository : Minerva AccessMinerva Access is the University's Institutional Repository. It aims to collect, preserve, and showcase the intellectual output of staff and students of the University of Melbourne for a global audience.
- Digital Collections (University of Melbourne)Digital Collections of the University of Melbourne Library. The collections include resources from individual items required for course delivery to large collections that are of a cultural or scholarly significance.
- TroveThe search engine of the National Library of Australia. Allows you to search Australian state, university and local library catalogues at once.
- OCLC WorldCatMeta search engine for online catalogs of libraries all over the world. Search for any book using a geographic location for the closest sources. The search also includes OAIster a catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources.
- arXivarXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
News
Key News sources
Find below a list of useful databases for finding newspaper and magazine articles, television news broadcasts and broadcast transcripts:
- News and Newspapers (ProQuest)News and Newspapers provides a single search interface to all newspaper collections within ProQuest: Australia & New Zealand Newsstream; Canadian Newsstream; Global Breaking Newswires; International Newsstream; ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
- Gale OneFile: NewsProvides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, global newspapers, and thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Includes over 300 Australian newspapers.
- FactivaFactiva provides access to the latest business and industry news. It is a valuable research tool for many disciplines, including political science, media studies, business, technology studies, social science, journalism, the arts, and more. The database allows users to browse through a collection of global content sources from 200 countries, in 26 languages – including newspapers, continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites, blogs, and multimedia.
- Nexis UniNexis Uni provides quick comprehensive access to legal, business news, market insight, biographies and public records in a single location.
- TVNews (Informit)TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a detailed synopsis. TVNews is updated daily, with stories appearing on an evening news broadcast generally being available for access the next morning. Key titles include: Australian Story, Catalyst, Current Affair, Dateline, Foreign Correspondent, Four Corners, Insiders, Insight, Landline, Lateline, Meet the Press, Q and A, Today Tonight, World News Australia, and many more. Coverage commences with September 2007 and is updated daily.
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Standards
Standards
Standards are documents setting out specifications, procedures and guidelines. They are designed to ensure products, services and systems are safe, reliable and consistent. They are based on industrial, scientific and consumer experience and are regularly reviewed to ensure they keep pace with new technologies.
Standards cover everything from consumer products and services, construction, engineering, business, information technology, human services to energy and water utilities, the environment and much more.
Key standards databases are listed below, for more information on standards, and how to search for them refer to the Standards Library Guide
Standards Databases
- SAI Global - Australian Standards This link opens in a new windowSAI Global On-Line Premium is a web-based service that provides access to the full collection of Australian Standards, plus optional access to international Standards from ISO, IEC, EN, ETSI, NSAI, JSA, and a searchable index of standards from ANSI, BSI, DIN and ASTM.
Please note:
- 4 concurrent users for Australian standards ; 1 concurrent user for international standards
- This database is not designed for use with Mac computers, or with any version of Firefox. Please use Google Chrome or Internet Explorer for access
- All users will be prompted to self-register the first time they attempt to open or download any Standards Australia, or ISO and IEC content. Searching and viewing search results will not require registration. The self-registration process will request first name, last name, University of Melbourne email address, and ask you to create a password. Once registration is verified, no further action is required. - IHS Engineering WorkbenchIHS provides online access to the Annual Book of ASTM Standards which is made up of over 80 volumes and more than 12,000 standards.
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Patents
Patents
A patent is an exclusive right that is granted by a government to an inventor for any device, substance, method or process that is new, inventive and useful. It also provides a legal right for the inventor or creator to commercially exploit the invention for the life of the patent.
Looking for Patents?
Espacenet
- Espacenet patent searchEspacenet offers free access to more than 90 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today. The worldwide database contains information on published patent applications and granted patents from over 90 patent-granting authorities.
This video gives a brief introduction to Espacenet and how it can be used.
More Patents
- The LensThe Lens hosts more than 100 million patent records from over 95 different jurisdictions. The patent searching capability allows use of advanced Boolean functions, structured search, biological search, and classification search options.
- Google PatentsGoogle Patents includes over 87 million patent publications from 17 patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books.
- PatentScope : World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)Using PATENTSCOPE you can search 59 million patent documents including 3.1 million published international patent applications (PCT).
- AusPat - search system for Australian PatentsAusPat is Australia's search database that allows inventors, industry and researchers to access patent applications lodged and granted in Australia.
- USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark OfficePatents may be searched in the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PatFT). The USPTO houses full text for patents issued from 1976 to the present and TIFF images for all patents from 1790 to the present.
- SciFinder-nSciFinder-n is a research discovery application that provides integrated access to a comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. SciFinder-n includes: MethodsNow Synthesis which contains more than 5 million fully described synthesis methods and procedures, giving you step-by-step instructions on how to make the compounds important to your research; PatentPak which allows you to search through millions of patents sourced from more than 30 patent offices and instantly locate the chemistry within; Formulations information; Retrosynthesis Planner with predictive capabilities; Additional structure/reaction editor.
Company & Industry Information
Company, Industry & Country Information
- IBISWorldIBISWorld offers Australia’s most comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research, Industry Risk Ratings and Company Research. The Library has access to selected collections within IBISWorld: Australia Company Reports, Australia Industry Reports (ANZSIC), Australia Specialized Industry Reports, China Industry Reports.
- MarketLine AdvantageMarketLine Advantage is an interactive platform providing access to a unique mix of company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world. From Aerospace and Automotive to Media, Mining and Textiles, MarketLine covers every major industry in every major marketplace, worldwide.
- Fitch ConnectFitch Connect is a credit risk and macro intelligence platform from Fitch Solutions providing credit research, credit ratings, macroeconomic and financial fundamental data, country risk research and indices, Financial Implied Ratings and a curated news service.
- OrbisOrbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles, to analyse a group of companies and to export relevant company data into another package.
- HooversHoovers delivers comprehensive insight and analysis about the companies, industries and people that drive the economy, along with the powerful tools to find and connect to the right people to get business done.
Looking for more information on Companies, Industries or Countries?
Theses
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Referencing and Citing
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Research Skills
Developing research skills
The library provides support and services for students and researchers completing more in-depth research for a major project or thesis:
- Book a research consultationUniversity staff and graduate students can request an online individual research consultation via Zoom with a subject specialist Liaison Librarian. A consultation typically lasts for one hour, and can cover topics such as finding resources, searching effectively, literature reviews (narrative, scoping or systematic), managing information and data, referencing/citation styles, reference management software, researcher profiles, tools to assist with publishing decisions, and tracking citations.
- Researcher@LibrarySupporting you through the research process.
The University Library offers high quality resources and services that support our researchers and graduate students through the complete research lifecycle. We can help maximise your research outcomes. - Research Essentials GuideLevel up your researching, reading and writing skills with these essential tips.
- Literature ReviewsAn introduction to researching and writing a literature review as well as resources to help you get started.
- Research Data ManagementThis website covers why you should consider research data management, how you should go about it, the benefits and where to get further help.
- Scholarly PublishingA guide to publishing strategically.
- Researcher Profiles, Identifiers and Social Networks: Maximise your ImpactTips on how to promote your research and profile as a researcher.
- Research ImpactTools and support to assist with measuring research.
- Research Impact Library Advisory Service (RILAS)The University Library can assist academic staff to determine the impact of their publications and other research outputs for grant and promotion applications.
Libraries
Baillieu Library
The Baillieu Library is the University's largest discipline library and is central to teaching, learning and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
ERC (Parkville)
The Eastern Resource Centre (ERC) forms part of the Eastern Precinct Science Student Centre, supporting the Faculty of Science and The Melbourne School of Engineering, and also houses the East Asian Collection.
The ERC is part of the New Student Precinct Project.
Brownless Biomedical Library (Parkville)
The Brownless Biomedical Library houses an extensive collection of print resources in areas such as botany, biology, genetics, medicine, psychology and behavioural science, veterinary science and zoology. Items in this collection are available for 28 day loan. The basement of The Brownless Biomedical Library houses special and stacks collections, as well as a wide range of print journals.
Burnley
The Science Library in Burnley resources teaching and research through the specialist collections for horticulture and the plants sciences. It provides user-focused services and an inviting environment for student collaboration and study. The Library serves students of horticulture and research students and staff from the School of Ecosystem and Forest Science. The collections' interdisciplinary nature provides a valued resource for programs across the University of Melbourne.
Creswick
The Science Creswick Library is at the Creswick Campus and supports the School of Ecosystem and Forest Science and the wider University community. Its collections cover the areas of forest and plantation hydrology; community forestry; fire ecology and management; forest industries and wood products; forests climate change and greenhouse research; native forest ecology and restoration; tree developmental biology and forest biotechnology; tree ecophysiology; tree plantations and health.
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