AGI and Geoscience Australia Launch Updated Website for AusGeoRef
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and Geoscience Australia have launched a new website for AusGeoRef, a bibliographic database for Australian geoscience literature since the mid-19th century.
The new website features expanded functionality, including:
- A geographic search view option
- The ability to create individual accounts
- The ability to easily save and share lists of references
Launched in 2003 as a cooperative arrangement between AGI and Geoscience Australia, AusGeoRef now includes references to a growing database of more than 200,000 journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Explore these references through the new and improved AusGeoRef website here.
Geoscience Australia’s acting Chief Science Information Officer Tanya Whiteway said: “Our own scientists use both AusGeoRef and GeoRef regularly to locate references not included in any other earth sciences databases. We believe the new features being announced today will make AusGeoRef even more essential to searchers of Australian literature in the geosciences.”
Want to use AusGeoRef but don’t want to pay a subscription? Day passes are now available for select GeoRef databases, including AusGeoRef. Learn more here.
About GeoRef
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 100,000 references a year. The database contains over 4 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Learn more here.
About Geoscience Australia
Geoscience Australia (GA) is Australia’s pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation. The work of Geoscience Australia addresses a diverse range of issues across key strategic priorities including Australia’s mineral and energy resources, natural hazards, water resources, marine jurisdictions, and fundamental geographic information. GA is also custodian and champion of the nation’s geosciences knowledge base and capabilities enabling evidence-based decisions and policy development by governments, industry and the Australian community. It is based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.