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A comprehensive database delivering full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
This database provides indexing and abstracts from more than 4,000 current serial and non-serial titles, including content from AIAA and NASA.
AIP Conference Proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world.
This resource provides access to the publications of AIAA, the premier provider of information on aerospace technology, engineering, and science. Their titles document the most important developments and the latest research in air and space history. their publications make the exchange of technical knowledge and information possible among aerospace professionals.
Access to all APS journals from 1893 to present.
Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective offers indexing for more than 1,400 periodicals with citations to more than three million articles this database is the perfect reference for tracking down important studies, exploring historic controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of particular technologies, and more.
Applied Science & Technology Source offers extensive coverage of research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines.
Contains the table of contents pages and holdings information from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Although most of the journals are published in English, journals in other languages are also included. Updated daily.
Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
ASCE Research Digital Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles across all disciplines of civil engineering. It provides unprecedented access to more than 40,000 full-text papers, published proceedings, e-books and standards.
The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information.
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The Begell Digital Library Collection is a consolidated and peer-reviewed collection of leading academic, research, and applied work in the fields of engineering and biomedical sciences.
CSD is the world's leading repository of small organic and metal-organic crystal structures with over 500,000 x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses.
Containing 85+ years of C&EN the Archives provides instant access to every page of every issue of C&EN, from cover to cover -- more than 500,000 pages of content (PDF), covering world chemical events, breakthroughs in research, technological advances, business and marketing ventures, government policy, career and education trends, and ACS milestones. A new year of content is added to C&EN Archives each year on a rolling basis.
CHEMnetBASE is a collection of chemistry databases from CRC Press, which can be subscribed to individually or collectively. USC provides *10 seats* to access this resource.
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
CompendexWeb is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences.
An integrated search environment for obtaining analysis on Congressional issues in the news and coverage of the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.
Part of Web of Science, Current Contents is 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.
Data-Planet (formerly ProQuest Statistical DataSets) is an interactive database that allows users to create tables, maps, and figures from a variety data sources covering banking, criminal justice, education,energy, food and agriculture, government, health, housing and construction,industry and commerce, labor and employment, natural resources and environment, income, cost of living, stocks, transportation, and more.
The Digital Archaeological of the Holy Land (DAAHL) is an "international project that brings together experts in information technology includingGeographic Information Systems (GIS) and the archaeology of the Holy Land."
DOAB provides open access to over 854 Academic peer-reviewed books from 25 publishers.
Ebooks is a catalog portal to the substantial sub-set of electronic books, in all subject areas, included in OCLC WorldCat.
This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.
ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science.
Engineering Case Studies Online provides a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes.
Bibliographic coverage of the international serial and non-serial literature for research in civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, engineering services, education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, mathematics/computation, design, construction, and latest technological developments.
Among other services, EThOS allows one to search / select / and in some/many cases download the full-text of items of interest FREE of charge!
Special Papers includes monographs, symposium-based volumes, and longer, multi-author volumes with dedicated volume editors.
Glassdoor is free career resource that searches over 20,000 job sites, newspapers, and company career pages at once.
The Gutenberg-e prize winning books represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
ICSD is the world's largest inorganic crystal database with over 169,000 entries dating back to 1913.
Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology.
The gateway to IOP e-journals and books.
Access the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
JoVE is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. Established in 2006, JoVE is devoted to publishing experiments in a visual format to increase productivity and reproducibility of scientific research. JoVE Science Education is the video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations.
Knovel is a database for disciplines of chemistry and engineering.
A comprehensive resource for Library and Information Science research, this EBSCO database provides full text articles from more than 430 LIS journals, indexing for hundreds more and selected full text monographs.
Index to over 550 periodicals in the areas of librarianship and information science.
The Library has a very strong engineering and technology collection, made even stronger by the acquisition of the Engineering Societies Libraries in 1995.
MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
The Merck Index is a fully-searchable database with over 11,500 monographs on chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
METADEX is the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys. Begun in 1966, METADEX contains over 1 million references and is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts and Index.
Contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences.
The MRS Online Proceedings Library features over 68,000 peer-reviewed papers presented at MRS Meetings. The proceedings papers can be viewed sorted by meeting or topic, and are fully searchable.
Created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, NASA imagines offers public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource.