Engineering Guide: Getting Started
Search Smarter
Searching for high quality and relevant information is a skill that you will need to learn and develop at university.
Check out the guides below to help you navigate the research process:
Your librarians (Science and Engineering)
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Samantha BaxterLiaison Librarian
Ground floor, Eddie Koiki Mabo Library
Townsville
(07) 4781 4742
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Brenda CarterLiaison Librarian (Acting)
Ground floor Library building
Cairns
(07) 4232 1025
Make an appointment with Brenda
One Search
One Search is a way of searching all the library's resources - books and ebooks, journals and journal articles, multimedia and more. You can find the One Search search box on the home page of the library website. You can jump right in and start searching or consult our One Search guide for tips on basic, advanced, browse and journal searching, and saving results.
Start with these databases to find information in Earth and Environmental Sciences
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ScopusScopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities,
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Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources.
Click on the tabs above to see more databases for your specific discipline.
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Searching the databases video seriesOur videos show you how to effectively search Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and more.
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