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Academic Search Complete    1887 - present
Large general database of articles from scholarly journals and a few newspapers covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Also includes reference books such as the World Almanac, American Heritage Dictionary, biographies, speeches and other primary source documents, country reports, and several hundred thousand images of photos, maps, and flags.
Digital Dissertations    1861-present
Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
Editions de Physique    
Full-text of physics journals published by Editions de Physique, including some titles on optics and materials science.
IEEE Xplore    
IEEE Xplore offers electronic access to 106 IEEE journals and magazines and over 345 IEEE-sponsored conference proceedings. Full-text is from 1998 to present only.
Good database for graduate research. Indexes Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers journals and conference proceedings. Provides full-text access from 1998 to the present for 106 journals and magazines and over 345 conferences with content updated weekly.
INSPEC    1969-present
Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. Part of Engineering Village.
Good database for graduate research. Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, technical reports, and theses in computing, electrical engineering, physics.
Institute of Physics (IOP)    1874 - present
The Institute of Physics provides full-text searching of their entire electronic journals archive back to 1874.
ScienceDirect    
Full text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.
Scitation    
Physics and engineering journals from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and other publishers.
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts    
Search for publications of all kinds on all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices along with high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology.
Web of Science/Web of Knowledge    1981 - Present
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) a tool for journal evaluation (Used to find impact factors for journals), using citation data taken from over 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology is one of the components of this database. Good database for graduate research. Web of Science offers multidisciplinary searching and seamless access to cited reference searching. The WOS database includes bibliographic and citation information for articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals. Updated weekly.
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Online Book Catalogs
Google Books    
Google Book Search finds pretty much any kind of book you can imagine -- fiction, non-fiction, reference, scholarly, textbooks, children's books, scientific, medical, professional, educational, and other books of all kinds. As we add books from our library partners, our book selection will continue to broaden, and you'll also be able to find out-of-print, rare, and public domain books.
VIRGO    
Information on over 5 million books, journals, and other items in the University of Virginia's libraries, including business, health and sciences, and law.
WorldCat    
Online catalog of books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide as catalogued by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Contains records from thousands of North American libraries.
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Useful References
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online    
AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the information you need to make research easy—with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. We maintain content of the highest standards, and readers may be assured that our authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics    
The online version of "Handbook of Chemistry & Physics". The most accurate, reliable, and current resource available on data needed by chemists, physicists, and engineers. Provides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds.
CRCnetBASE    
CRC Press Handbook and Reference Collection in addition to ENGnetBASE.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics    
This unique resource covers the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics and this online version includes the full text of over 2,750 articles, plus sophisticated search and retrieval functionality, links to the primary literature, and is frequently updated with new material. An active editorial team, headed by the Encyclopedia's editor-in-chief, Paul Murdin, oversees the continual commissioning, reviewing and loading of new and revised content.
Also available in hardcopy in ASTR and BSEL Reference, QB14 .E534 2001
ENGnetBASE     
An online database features 688 titles. Categories includes: Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, General, Industrial Engineering Management, Machine Design, Mechanical Engineering, Packaging, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering Communications, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing, Lasers & Optical Engineering, Manufacturing Processing, Nanoscience/Nanotechnology, Systems Engineering.
Knovel Library    
Engineering and Science Handbook and Reference Collection

Large collection of handbooks and other information on chemistry and engineering. Topics include textiles, adhesives, metals, plastics, and other materials; biotechnology; food science; pharmaceuticals; industrial safety; aerospace; and most areas of engineering.
Referex    
Part of Engineering Village, contains a large collection of engineering e-books and references.
Safari Tech Books Online    
Books on all aspects of computers, programming and the Web from such publishers as O'Reilly, Sams, New Riders, Adobe. E-reference library for programmers and IT-Professionals. Safari has thousands of books to help you with virtually any programming or technical issue.
Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations    
Online, searchable, version of the print "Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations".
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