Australian Wool Industry Educational Resources

It provides one-stop access to a wide range of Australian research publications, conference proceedings and reports on sheep and cattle research.

Benefits:

• Immediate on-line access to over 60,000 full text publications relating to sheep and beef production;
• Access to abstracts where the full text is not immediately available due to copyright;
• Key word search capability.

There are over 24,000 full text documents available through the Livestock Library Research Database. Most of these resources are conference papers or journal articles. The serial titles held by the Livestock Library are complete, starting with the first published issue of every title. In addition, a federated search capability allows users to simultaneously search the websites of all state Departments of Agriculture and Primary Industries, AWI and MLA and the Livestock Library Research Database, providing immediate access to over 60,000 full text publications relating to sheep and beef production.

Journal of Wool Technology and Sheep Breeding

When the JOURNAL OF WOOL TECHNOLOGY AND SHEEP BREEDING was first published in 1954 by the University of New South Wales it was a unique vehicle for communicating technical information to sheep and wool industry participants. The journal also provided an advertising vehicle for Merino studbreeders and industry service companies in its earlier years. Many journal papers were generated from the annual Wool Schools held at the School of Wool and Pastoral Sciences at UNSW. School staff and graduates have been responsible for much of the research in the sheep and wool industry with many School graduates taking up research and extension positions in CSIRO, State Departments, Universities etc.

When the journal(s) ceased publication in 2010 the then Editor, Professor David Cottle created an on-line archive using Open Journal Systems (OJS) as a platform. Subsequent to his retirement the management of this archive was transferred to the Australian Wool Education Trust.

The Trust has overseen an updating of the OJS’s software and relocated the archive to an OJS server to ensure its longevity going forward.

Consistent with its approach to supporting wool and sheep education the Trust has made access to the archive open source to registered users i.e. available at no fee.

OJS is a publishing system providing a submission, review, editing and publishing process that meets the normal requirements for science based publications. However, at this point submissions for publication are not being accepted.

CSIRO Publishing

CSIRO Publishing has a comprehensive range of publications concerning wool. It is Australia’s leading science publisher of books, journals and magazines.

It operates as a not-for-profit, editorially independent business unit within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Established as a stand-alone imprint and publishing house in 1995, the CSIRO journals program commenced as early as 1948. Its internationally recognised publishing program covers a wide range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture, plant and animal sciences, chemistry, health and the environment.