WaterWiser, the Water Efficiency Clearinghouse

Looking for news, information, research results, discussion forums, references and searchable information databases on water? Look no further! WaterWiser provides information on water conservation, efficiency and demand management to meet the information needs of the water conservation community. Produced and maintained by the American Water Works Association.

H2ouse Water Saver Home

This site is great! Take an online home tour to discover water saving opportunities in each area of your home. Plus, there are lots of useful resources to explore.

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Livestock Library

The Livestock Library is freely available on the internet and provides full text access to information from 12 organisations, including the departments of agriculture and primary industries of all Australian states. The recent addition of a federated search allows users to search over 70,000 documents relating to Australian agriculture in a single search. This database may be useful for searching for information on the impacts of specific wildlife on crops, for example.

del.icio.us

Would you like to be able to store your favourite bookmarks online, enabling you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere? Or be able to collaborate with colleagues sharing useful websites via a shared account?

Introducing del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site, which enables you to tag your bookmarks to make it easier to organise and manage your online resources. To use, simply set up an account and you're away! For more assistance, please contact the library.

Social Science Research Network

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) includes a fully searchable Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 138,500 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

IDEAS

Looking for economic information? IDEAS claims to be the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and is freely available on the Internet. It contains over 550,000 items of research which can be browsed or searched, and over 450,000 can be downloaded in full text! Try it out today!