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Under Review - Comments to Sue
Beatty, Technical Services Librarian
Departmental Library Representative: Ms
Julie Kesby
Library Representative: Ms Sevilay Esat
1. Major subject interests
Chemistry
Physical, inorganic, organic, biological and analytical chemistry; specific
interest in the following areas :-
Bio-inorganic chemistry
Bio-organic chemistry
Computational chemistry
Coordination chemistry of the transition metals
Electro-analytical chemistry
Inorganic reaction kinetics
Instrumentation (computer interfacing, NMR, FT-IR, Raman, CD, ORD, VIS/UV
spectroscopy)
Macrocyclic chemistry
Nanotechnology
Natural products
Numerical method associated with liquid state physics in statistical mechanics
Polymers
Protein chemistry
Seaweed chemistry
Stereo chemistry
Supra-molecular chemistry
Synthetic organic chemistry
Theoretical inorganic chemistry
Thermophysical properties of fluids and fluid mixtures
Trace element determination
Transport processes in liquids and gases
Other minor areas include :
Aquatic chemistry
Catalysis
Chemical engineering
Chemical oceanography
Chemical pollution
Explosives
Forensic chemistry
High pressure NMR
History and philosophy of science
Marine chemistry
Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare
Pharmaceutical chemistry
Geography
Mathematics
Pure and Applied Mathematics and Statistics with special interest
in:
Applied differential equations
Applied probability
Applied statistics
Biomechanics
Classical mechanics
Combustion
Computational mathematics/numerical methods
Computer assisted learning in mathematics
Computer graphics
Criminology
Electromagnetic theory
Fluid dynamics
Heat and mass transfer
History of mathematics
Doppler ultrasound
Porous media flows
Visco-elastic fluids
Mathematics and sport
Mathematical competitions
Mathematical education (problem solving: "how to teach")
Mathematics in medicine
Mathematical modelling
Mathematics of chemical reactions
Nonlinear dynamics
Optics
Fibre
Soliten theory
Non linear
Quality assurance
Reliability theory
Stochastic modelling
Study of bushfires (Mathematics of the way a fire moves and spreads)
Theoretical statistics
Vision
Wave theory
Oceanography
Continental shelf oceanography
General oceanography
Numerical modelling
Physical oceanography
Physics
2. Chronological coverage
Not applicable
3. Geographical coverage
Not applicable in other subject areas, but for Geography:
Australasia and Oceania
Australia and New Zealand
General regional geographies
South-East Asia
Southern, Indian and South Pacific Oceans
Antarctica
Tasman sea
Canada
4. Does material become
dated in this field? If so, how far back is material generally significant?
In the case of physical chemistry, pre-1900 material forms a good
basis for the subject. Basic chemical facts are to be found in older
material.
In other branches of chemistry, generally speaking, material becomes
dated pre-1900, but is often of historical value.
Geography books are often regarded as dated after 25 years. Many
remain important, however, in understanding the development of geographic
sub-fields.
Physics material, particularly Astrophysics and Particle Physics
becomes dated. Generally, however, material remains significant for
at least 30 years. Weeding of dated material is not recommended.
Mathematical material is considered not to date.
5. Language guidelines
English preferred, with translations of important material in other
languages.
6. Electronic databases
of major relevance
Primary:
ADFA OZCHEMNET
CAS Scifinder Scholar
Compendex
Geobase (includes geographical abstracts)
INSPEC (includes Physics Abstracts)
MATH [STN]
MATHSCINET
Oceanic Abstracts
ScienceDirect
Others include:
The Royal Society of Chemistry databases
Chemical Business Newsbase, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Abstracts
Chemical Safety Newsbase [Dialog]
Chapman & Hall Chemical Database (formerly Heilbron) [Dialog]
Chemplant Plus [Dialog]
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service
HERA - Heritage Australia CDROM]
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts [Dialog]
Remote Sensing [Orbit]
Reuters Textline [Dialog]
Streamline[CD-ROM]
Science Citation Index [Dialog]
Social Science Citation Index [Dialog]
Sociological Abstracts [Dialog]
NTIS National Technical Information Service
Applied
Science and Technology Index (Wilson and
Firstsearch)
SPIN Searchable Physics Information Notices [Dialog]
7. Topics of related interest
which are not yet being supported from this school's book funds,
either because there
is not yet an extensive program in this area or because it felt that
another school should buy in this field.
Systems and Control Theory; Mathematics for Social Scientists;
Mathematical Economics; Operations Research; Artificial Intelligence;Optimisation;
Management - Manpower Planning; Mathematics of Conflict; Military
technology
A certain degree of joint interest exists in the area of Political,
Cultural and Historical Geography, Cultural Geography, and Social
Geography with the School of HASS. There is a growing overlap with
the School of ACME in the fields of Coastal Engineering, Environmental
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, and in the field
of Geographic Information Systems with the School of ITEE
8. Gaps in the Library Collection, including
electronic resources, which should be amended when funds permit
9. Bibliographic control
Publishers' catalogues
“ In-print” lists for specific subject areas provided by the library.
DA Books
Subject bibliographies
Journal reviews, notably:
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Australian Geographical Studies
Australian Geography
Geophysical Review
Oceanographic Literature Review
Professional Geography
Progress in Human Geography
Progress in Physical Geography
ACS Journal
Science
American Journal of Physics
American Scientist
Chemical Abstracts
Science Citation Index
Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts
Mathematics Abstracts file
Mathematical Reviews and Society journals
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