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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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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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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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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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SPIN Web - Searchable
Physics Information Notices
A free site with the most current indexing and abstracting of
major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals. May
provide links to fulltext articles. |
1975+ |
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MathSciNet
Produced by American Mathematical Society, providing access
to thousands of mathematical reviews and mathematical publications.
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1940+ |
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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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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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Current
Index to Statistics
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related
fields. Joint venture of the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. MORE
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1975+ |
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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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Elsevier
Science Direct
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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European Patents (Espacenet)
Free patent access from the European Patent Office. |
patents |
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General
Science Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science,
environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology.
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Abstracts: 1993+
Full text: 1995+ |
choose Omnifile with Gen. Sci as subject |
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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JSTOR
A unique database of the complete backfiles of core scholarly
journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science
disciplines. Not only text, but accompanying charts, graphs,
equations, and pictures are reproduced. MORE
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Full text: starts
from volume 1; excludes latest 3-5 years |
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NASA
Astrophysics Data System
The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation
hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. |
1975+ |
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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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Physical
Review Online Archive (PROLA)
Indexes all American Physical Society (APS) journal material
published from 1893 to present. Access to the full text of
articles from 1985-present
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1985+
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ProceedingsFirst
via FirstSearch
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences
worldwide. MORE
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Tables
of Contents
1993+ |
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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1971+ |
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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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Scientific American Archive Online
Scientific American Archive Online is a comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from 1993 to the present. In addition, the newly introduced Scientific American Mind monthly title will also be included. Among the topics covered in the archive are: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, and much more. MORE DETAILS... |
1993+ |
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SIAM Journals Online
Online Journals from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. |
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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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