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AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) - created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Auxiliary subjects that support NAL's Information Center activities, such as agricultural trade and marketing, rural information, and animal welfare, are also included. | |||||||||||||||||
| Aerospace & High Technology Database |
The Aerospace & High Technology Database
provides bibliographic coverage of basic and
applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences.
The database also covers technology development and applications in
complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences,
physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodic
literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by
NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions,
universities, and private firms. This database provides
comprehensive international coverage as well as numerous non-serial
publications.
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. 
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American Chemical Society -
Full-text access to over 50 journals published by
the American Chemical Society.
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American Mathematical Society (AMS) -
MathSciNet - Includes references with abstracts of articles from periodicals that deal with mathematics and its applications in several disciplines.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
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A searchable database of citations and
abstracts for ASCE documents published since 1973. It provides access to
all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals,
magazines, and newsletter.
Subject areas include
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Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts - ASFA is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners. | |||||||||||||||||
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Arctic & Antarctic Regions (AAR) is the world's largest collection of international polar databases. With over 1 million records from 1800 to the present, Arctic & Antarctic Regions covers a wide variety of sources from multiple disciplines. Many sources are indexed only in Arctic & Antarctic Regions making it the best resource for research on cold regions anywhere, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet. | |||||||||||||||||
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The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database contains 71,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS, a project of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, also maintains subset databases about specific regions, subjects and projects. | |||||||||||||||||
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BioDigest - This database provides records from 181 non-technical digests of journals starting from 1989. The subjects included are biology, ecology & health. This database is updated 9 times a year and provides the citation of the article. An abstract of the article may also be available and are organized into numerous categories, one of which is environmental quality. | |||||||||||||||||
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BioOne - Collection of the full texts of various research journals Focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental science. | |||||||||||||||||
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CAB ABSTRACTS - bibliographic database produced by CAB International. It is the main source of information concerning the areas of agriculture and forestry and their related fields such as soil science, wood science, animal science, veterinary medicine, conservation, climate change, ecotourism, tourism, plant science and plant biology, engineering, food processing, food economics, human nutrition, food science and technology, etc.. This database contains nearly 7 million records from more than 10,000 journals, books, conference reports, annual reports, patents, standards, newsletters, etc.. More than 220,000 references are added each year. | |||||||||||||||||
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CHEMnetBase - Includes various e-books including: Combined Chemical Dictionary, The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compound | |||||||||||||||||
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Engineering Village 2
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The world of engineering and technology requires and produces a
lot of information. Whether in academia or industry, good
information and good search is critical to success. Engineering
Village 2 is to meet these needs with its web platform offering a
comprehensive coverage of publications such as journals, conferences,
patents, technical reports etc.. Compendex is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database which covers all publications in the world for various fields of engineering and technology. More than 5000 journals, 2000 conferences, reports, case studies and other documents are indexed, from 80 countries and published in 26 languages in 175 engineering disciplines. Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics. |
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Published in association with the Energy Institute, each issue of Fuel and Energy Abstracts comprises more than 800 abstracts from international publications, special reports, monographs, conference proceedings, surveys and statistical analyses, dealing with all scientific, technical, economic and policy aspects of fuel and energy. Every entry is carefully selected from original sources with bibliographic and reference details, and every issue contains full subject and author indexes. The wide range of areas covered in Fuel and Energy Abstracts includes solid fuels, liquid fuels, gaseous fuels, fuel by-products, nuclear fuels, electrical power supply and utilization, alternative energy sources, hydrocarbons, steam raising, combustion, engines, process heating, power and incineration, refractories/ceramics, space heating and cooling, heat pumps, environment, fuel science and technology, energy, energy conversion and recycling. A bi-monthly summary of world literature on all scientific, technical, commercial and environmental aspects of fuel and energy. Published in association with the Energy Institute Full Text Volumes 36 - 51:
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Geobase - database includes geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines and is international in scope. Over 2,000 journals are fully covered, including the 600 environmental and ecological journals indexed in Ecological Abstracts . | |||||||||||||||||
| GEOREF |
The
GeoRef
database, established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in
1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef
is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues
to grow by more than 100,000 references a year. The database contains
over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps,
conference papers, reports and theses.
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.
To maintain the database, GeoRef editor/indexers regularly scan more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. They record the bibliographic data for each document and assign index terms to describe it. Each month between 4,000 and 7,000 new references are added to the database.
A subscription to the GeoRef database also includes access to the GeoRef In Process database (so both databases can be searched at once) and a link to the GeoRef Preview database on the AGI web site |
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GreenFILE - offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. | |||||||||||||||||
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METADEX
brings together in one place the majority of the leading materials
science databases, with specialist content on materials science,
metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering
application. Everything from raw materials and refining through
processing, welding and fabrication to end uses, corrosion, performance
and recycling is covered in depth for all metals, alloys, polymers,
ceramics, and composites.
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
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PUBMED -
PubMed comprises more
than 19 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life
science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to
full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Medline provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE with MeSH includes the entire MEDLINE collection and uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and the Index to Dental Literature. |
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ScienceDirect® is one of the largest online collections of published scientific research in the world. Operated by the publisher Elsevier, it contains nearly 10 million articles from over 2500 journals and over 6,000 e-books, reference works, book series and handbooks issued by Elsevier.
The articles are grouped in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering Life Sciences Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities. |
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| TRANSPORT |
TRANSPORT is a bibliographic database of transportation research information. It is produced by the 25-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), headquartered in Paris, together with the United States' Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the 31 nations of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT).
TRANSPORT combines the following databases: Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) from TRB includes 300,000 bibliographic citations, most with abstracts, of research information on all surface transportation modes, air transport, and highway safety.
International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) from OECD contains 200,000 abstracts on highway research provided by OECD member countries. Note: this organization was known formerly as International Road Research Documentation (IRRD).
TRANSDOC from ECMT contains 37,000 abstracts of transportation economics literature as well as bibliographic records provided by the International Union of Railways (UIC). These records are present in the database prior to 2000 only. |
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Web of Science ® - consists of seven databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more.
The first three citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the articles. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. This type of search allows you to find articles that cite a previously published work.
The two conference proceedings citation indexes include the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. Use these databases to track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields.
The two chemistry databases allow you to create structure drawings to find chemical compounds and reactions. You can also search these databases for compound and reaction data.
Journal Citation Reports - Database to assess and compare more than 8,000 periodicals from the field of applied sciences and the humanities and social sciences. The database uses the references of journals indexed to establish, among other things, how many times in one year the journal is cited and what is its impact factor. |
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Wiley InterScience -
is an online service that provides access to over 3 million articles
across nearly 1500 journals and 7000 Online Books and major reference
works. It also holds industry leading databases such as The Cochrane
Library, chemistry databases and the acclaimed Current
Protocols laboratory manuals. The Wiley Database of Polymer Properties - Comprehensive source of physical property data for polymers commercially available, with experimentally determined and selected data for over 2,500 polymers. The initial content is derived from the Polymer Handbook. Search features include the ability to search for polymers matching specific properties or ranges of properties, the ability to create custom tables for all the properties of a specific polymer, and the ability to access the full-text html for references to the primary literature via CrossRef |
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