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Elsevier Science Direct
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical, mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier. MORE DETAILS... |
1995+ |
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INSPEC
The largest database of world's output of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. It also has significant coverage in areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics. MORE DETAILS... |
1969+ |
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ISO / IEC Standards
Search for national and international standards from such organizations as ISO, IEC and ASTM. The full text of standards is available for individual purchase and download or may be freely available to faculty for use in the classroom via the ANSI Unversity Outreach Program. |
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SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE Digital Library from the International Society for Optical Engineering currently includes more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings . MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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Web
of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded
Produced by the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) this multidisciplinary database covers 5,900 major journals
across more than 150 scientific disciplines. MORE
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1983+ |
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Applied
Science & Technology [via Wilson Omnifile]
Features full-text articles in virtually every area of science,
engineering, and technology.
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1983+ |
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Astrophysics
Data System from NASA
The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation
hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. |
1975+ |
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Canadian
Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Includes the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information
Network (BCIN), and the online version of Art and Archaeology
Technical Abstracts. MORE
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Chemical
Abstracts (via
SciFinder Scholar)
SciFinder Scholar is an interface providing point-and-click access to to scientific information from Chemical Abstracts Service.
Once you have downloaded the SciFinder Scholar client-server software you will be able to access and search:
- The Chemical Abstracts file from 1907 to the present,
- The Registry File - a dictionary file of over 33 million substances,
- CASReact - a database of chemical reactions,
- CHEMLIST - a regulated chemicals list
- CHEMCAT - a database of chemical catalogs, and,
- Medline
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Chemical
Channel via Dialog1
Covers chemical related news and industry, patents, R&D , etc..
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CompendexWeb
Ei Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering
database in the world. MORE
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1970+ |
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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European Patents (Espacenet)
Free patent access from the European Patent Office. |
patents |
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ISI Proceedings
Updated weekly, ISI Proceedings provides Web access to bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. MORE DETAILS... |
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NASA
Technical Reports Server
A service that allows users to search the many different
abstracts and technical report servers maintained by various
NASA centers and programs. |
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Optics InfoBase
InfoBase is the Optical Society of America's online database of both
current and past volumes of all its journals. It also contains recent
proceedings from OSA conferences. MORE DETAILS... |
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PapersFirst
via FirstSearch
Provides access to individual papers presented at worldwide
meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses,
and symposia. MORE
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1993+ |
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1975+ |
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Science
Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical,
mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier.
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1995+ |
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U.S. Patent Database
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) access to the full-text patent databases. |
patents - 1976+ |
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