| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABI Inform/Complete | This database is the most comprehensive ABI/INFORM database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. | 1984 to current | Yes |
| ABI/Inform Dateline | Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. | 1985 - current | Yes |
| ABI/Inform Trade & Industry | Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. | 1971 - current | Yes |
| Academic Search Premier | Provides access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers in a wide range of subject areas. Features abstracts and indexes for over 3000 publications, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and approximately 1700 peer-reviewed journals. Over 1200 publications are available in full text. | 1984 - present; fulltext, 1990 - present. | Partial |
| Access Science | Provides access to over 7,000 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. Also includes these features: Biographies -- Over 2000 in-depth biographies of leading scientists through history; In the News -- Weekly updates on breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology; Student Center -- Resources to guide your research; Related Sites -- Links to Web sites for further research. | Partial | |
| ACM Digital Library | The DL is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. | 1970-pres | Yes |
| ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature | A substantive bibliographic database from the key publishers in computing, including books, journals, proceedings and theses. Several directed methods are available for browsing bibliographic citations in computing literature. Links to full-text of ACM publications through Purdue's subscription to the ACM Digital Library. | 1985 - present | No |
| Aerospace and High Technology Database | Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, space sciences, 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. | 1962 - present | Partial |
| Aerospace Structural Metals Database | Presents "unbiased characterization of alloys of interest to the aerospace designer so that alloy selection for a particular application maybe made with a knowledge not only of typical physical and mechanical properties, but especially of those factors which limit the load carrying capacity..." This handbook contains typical data as contrasted to statistically derived design data presented in MIL-HDBK-5. Specified mechanical properties are frequently presented as derived from AMS, federal, and industrial sources and specifications. Caution should be used when comparing data from different sources because mechanical properties are sensitive to processing history and Handbook." Users are encouraged to read the general discussion. This handbook is funded by the Department of Defense and maintained by CINDAS at Purdue University. | 2000 | Yes |
| AgDevOnline | "AgDevOnline (which is short for "Agriculture and food system Development Online") was created to foster the development of a community of professional practice and support the work of any individuals, agencies, and organizations that focus on agriculture and food issues in a community development context from farmland protection or beginning farmer programs, to value-chain development, urban agriculture, and public education." Access to the "Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development" is included. | 2010- | Partial |
| AGRICOLA | Produced by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provided worldwide coverage of agriculture from 1970 through 2006. Beginning in 2007, because of reduced resources, the National Agricultural Library re-scoped the database, reducing coverage, indexing for AGRICOLA only publications that meet at least one of the following criteria: be a U.S. Department of Agriculture publication, or contain articles or chapters authored by USDA personnel; support NALs Information Centers; contain articles or chapters on core agricultural topics, written in the English language; not be indexed by any other abstracting and indexing service. AGRICOLA contains over 3.7 million citations to journal articles, monographs, pamphlets, microforms, research reports, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, government documents and technical reports. The database encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences (breeding, dairy science, feed science), entomology, plant sciences, pesticides, biotechnology, microbiology, ecology, horticulture, hydrology, hydroponics, water quality, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, human nutrition, home economics, rural sociology and earth and environmental sciences. The print equivalent, Bibliography of Agriculture (1942 1969) is available in the Life Sciences Library. | 1970 - present | Partial |
| AIAA Electronic Library | The AIAA Electronic Library contains more than four decades of technical information and documents. Online. Accessible. And fully equipped to meet your needs. Plus, AIAA is constantly adding interactive features to take the offerings far beyond the limitations of print. | 1960-present | Yes |
| Aluminum Industry Abstracts | Aluminium Industry Abstracts (AIA), formerly World Abstracts (WAA), provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments. The Aluminium Industry Abstracts database includes information abstracted from approximately 2300 scientific and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, books and patents. | 1972 - present | Partial |
| American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings | American Society for Engineering Education conference proceedings focused on engineering education for all disciplines of engineering and technology. | 1996-present | Yes |
| ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering | ANTE monitors approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. for information on new technologies. Areas covered include information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering and allied subject areas | 1981 - present | No |
| Applied Science & Technology Full Text & Index Retrospective:1913-1983--EBSCO portal | Indexes over 400 English-language periodicals in a wide variety of industrial and mechanical arts, including aeronautics and space science, chemistry, computer technology, construction, engineering, and physics. Partial full-text coverage is available. | 1984-present | Partial |
| Art Bibliographies Modern | Coverage of articles, monographs, dissertations, museum catalogues, etc. for modern and contemporary studies in art history, critical theory and criticism, industrial design, photography, fine arts, graphic arts, and aesthetics. International in scope, its includes other valuable language sources; i.e. French, German, Italian, etc. | 1974 - present | Partial |
| Art Full Text--EBSCO Portal | A comprehensive resource for art information from more than 900 periodicals, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Subjects include Architecture, Art History, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Pottery, Sculpture, Textiles, Photography, Film, Video, and more. Partial full-text from 300 journals dating back to 1995. | 1984- current | Partial |
| ASABE Online Technical Library (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers,the ASABE Technical Library contains information on engineering in agricultural, food, and biological systems. The database includes the full-text of the following categories of materials from the Society: ASABE standards, ASABE journals, Technical meeting papers, conference proceedings, monographs, design topics and special publications. A category may be searched singly or all categories may be searched together. | 1998 - present | Yes |
| ASCE Research Library | ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles and conference papers published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in all disciplines of civil engineering. It provides access to more than 33,000 full-text papers from Journals (1993 - present) and Proceedings (1996 - present). | 1993 - present | Yes |
| ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources | Major areas of coverage include: Law, Policy, Economics, and Social Sciences Descriptive Oceanography and Limnology Dynamical Oceanography and Limnology Chemistry and Geochemistry Underwater Acoustics Underwater Optics Marine Meteorology and Climatology Geology and Geophysics Marine Technology Vessels, Underwater Vehicles, and Buoys Offshore and Coastal Structures Man-in-the-Sea and Diving Support Services, Techniques, and Equipment Resources Commerce, Trade, and Economics | 1971 - current | No |
| ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality | Because of increasing global concern over the consequences of marine and aquatic pollution, a separate volume addressing this subject was added to the ASFA series. ASFA 3 is the only abstracts journal devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. ASFA 3 contains information that will prove essential to specialists who deal in any capacity with aquatic environments and marine pollution problems, including biologists, oceanographers, limnologists, environmental engineers and scientists, industrial engineers, waste managers, corporate regulatory affairs managers, and government officials. | 1990 - present | No |
| ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center Online | The ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center allows users to explore, search and view more than 11,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 2400 systems from their Web browsers. | current editions | Yes |
| ASM Materials Information Online | ASM Materials Information consists of four main content areas: * ASM Handbooks Online, featuring the complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions. * ASM Alloy Center Online, featuring ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. * ASM Micrograph Center Online, with over 2500 micrographs for industrially important alloys. * ASM Failure Analysis Center Online, with over 1000 case histories and authoritative handbook information on failure mechanisms and analysis methods. | current editions | Yes |
| ASTM Digital Library | Contains the complete ASTM library of books and journal papers as well as papers from the special technical publications, manuals, and monographs. In most cases, the full-text journals cover articles from volume 1. These include: Journal of ASTM International, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Cement, Concrete and Aggregates, and Journal of Composites Technology and Research | Late 1940s to present | Yes |
| Aviation Intelligence Network | Provides access to World Aerospace Database, a full-text directory of aviation-related organizations, personnel, products and services, and program suppliers. It also includes Fleet Data on commercial aviation, business aviation, military, and business aviation operators. Data can be downloaded using Excel. Magazine articles from Aviation Week & Space Technology and Overhaul & Maintenance are also available for 2003-present. | Current Edition | Yes |
| Begell Digital Library | Begell Digital Library includes many journals, databases, and e-books in engineering and science. It is best known for its thermal science and engineering materials. There are many journals from the broad fields of science, medicine, and engineering. | varies | Yes |
| Beilstein / Gmelin | The Beilstein database contains information on more than 6 million organic compounds and 10 million single-step reactions. Each record contains information on preparation, reactions, physical and chemical properties and references to chemical literature from as early as 1779. The Gmelin database of inorganic and organometallic substances provides similar information, and is also available via this program. | 1779 - present | No |
| Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams | Complete contents of the 2nd Ed. of the Binary Alloy Phase Diagram books plus updates. | Yes | |
| Bioscan | Information on the players in biotech; with more than 2,000 companies currently covered, you get detailed profiles including inside information on: * strategic alliances * mergers * product acquisitions * new products in development * products coming to market * licensing and R&D agreements * principal investors * financial information * key personnel | Yes | |
| BIOSIS Previews | One of the databases available through ISI Web of Knowledge, BIOSIS Previews includes content from journals, meetings, patents, and books. Search precisely with BIOSIS indexing, enhanced MeSH terms, and CAS registry numbers. | 1926 - | No |
| Birds of North America Online | Birds of North America Online is the online version of the print publication jointly accomplished by the American Ornithologists' Union and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2002. The online version, a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, contains the life histories of the 716 birds nesting in the USA and Canada with video accounts of behavior and recordings of birds' songs and calls. | 2002- current | Yes |
| CAB Abstracts--OvidSP | Compiled by CABI Publishing, CAB Abstracts provides comprehensive international coverage of the significant research and development literature in agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Sources scanned selectively for records are: professional and trade journals (over 9,000), reports, bulletins, conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, scientific texts, technical and popular books, theses, annual reports and a few categories of patents and standards. Major subject areas covered include: agricultural and environmental economics; agricultural engineering; animal production (including general and theoretical genetics, genetic engineering and immunogenetics); biodeterioration, bioremediation and biodegradation (including any organisms involved and their identification through molecular biology techniques); biotechnology in the areas of bioethics, intellectual property issues, genes and their expression, molecular biology techniques, genomics, genetic engineering, cloning, in vitro fertilization and gene therapy; broad coverage of crop protection (including pests, pathogens, natural enemies and control mechanisms for an extensive range of plants); dairy science and technology encompassing physiological, biochemical, immunological, microbiological, chemical and physics aspects; forestry, forest products and agroforestry; human nutrition with coverage extending into physiology, biochemistry and disorders; leisure, recreation, and tourism; all aspects of medical and veterinary parasitological disease which includes diagnosis, immunobiology, physiology, molecular and cell biology; developmental biology and genetics (molecular, population and biochemical); natural resources and environmental issues; plant breeding, crop production and horticulture; soil science, land/water management and fertilizer technology; rural development; veterinary medicine; and miscellaneous subjects (human and animal health, nematology, sugar technology and apiculture). Online coverage extends back to 1973. Print coverage for various subjects is available for earlier years. | 1973 - present | No |
| CAB e-Books Archive Database | CAB e-books | Yes | |
| Cambridge Structural Database System (WebCSD) | The CSD is a database of over 500,000 experimentally derived crystal structures for small molecules that have been published in over 700 journals. Structures can be represented in 2D or 3D format. Users can search by substructure, similarity, reduced cell, text/numeric, or simply browse the database. | 1923-present | No |
| Census of Agriculture | The Census of Agriculture is the source of consistent, comparable, and detailed agricultural data for every county in America. The census is conducted every 5 years. | 1992 - 2002 | Yes |
| Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts | Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in conjunction with CERAM research. This is a database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. | 1978 - present | No |
| CES Edupack | See <a href="http://www.grantadesign.com/education/overview.htm">http://www.grantadesign.com/education/overview.htm</a> for a full summary of features and content for this product. | Yes | |
| Chem Sources Online | Partial | ||
| Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder) | SciFinder Scholar is a means of accessing the Chemical Abstracts database using a powerful and intuitive search engine to find references to articles easily. Search for chemical data using a molecular formula, chemical name, chemical structure, reaction components, author name, or topic of interest. | 1907 - present | Partial |
| ChemLibNetBase | This is a collection of over 280 chemistry and chemistry related e-books. You can search the full text and view complete e-books and chapters in PDF format. You can also browse e-books by category. This resource includes a number of important titles such as: CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts, CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, Handbook of Chemical and Biological Sensors, Industrial Solvents Handbook, Inorganic Materials Chemistry Desk Reference&and much more | Yes | |
| ChemNetBase | Includes access to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as well as a number of other resources with physical and chemical property data, including properties for natural products and drugs. Not only can you search within the CRC Handbook, but you have access to the following sources as well: Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Polymers: A Property Database , and Properties of Organic Compounds | Yes | |
| ChemSpider | From Vendor Site: "ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 26 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. ChemSpider builds on the collected sources by adding additional properties, related information and links back to original data sources. ChemSpider offers text and structure searching to find compounds of interest and provides unique services to improve this data by curation and annotation and to integrate it with users applications." | varies | No |
| Civil Engineering Abstracts | Provides comprehensive access to research on civil engineering from many worldwide reference sources. This bibliographic database covers 3000 journals and includes 250,000 citations. It includes hundreds of core journals not indexed in other engineering databases. Some conference papers are also included. Citations include abstracts and indexed terms from a controlled vocabulary of 12,500 terms. It has a searchable thesaurus. | 1966 - present | Partial |
| ClimateWire | "ClimateWire covers in-depth every day the key issues that surround the debate over climate change, including: -Federal agency programs, legislation, policies and funding; -State program development and implementation; -Kyoto implementation; -Post-Kyoto negotiations and nation-state positioning; -International agency activities; -Carbon market development; -Alternative energy research and deployment; -Financial community investment decisions; -Corporate/multi-national response to climate concerns; -Positions and lobbying by stakeholder groups; -Consequences and lessons learned from GHG-reduction efforts; -Science findings; -Effects on water resources, species, ecosystems and agriculture; -Trends and effects for traditional and non-traditional fossil fuel resources; -Consequences for electric utilities; -Economic effects; -Costs to consumers; and much, much more." | Yes | |
| Cold Spring Harbor Protocols | Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interactive source of several hundred reliable, new and classic research techniques in molecular and cellular biology. Fully searchable by keyword and subject, the database covers protocols for the following topics: antibodies, bioinformatics/genomics, cell biology, chromatography, computational biology, DNA delivery/gene transfer, electrophoresis, genetics, high-throughput analysis, imaging/microscopy, immunology, laboratory organisms, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), proteins and proteomics, RNA interference (RNAi)/siRNA, stem cells, and transgenic technology. The database also has an alphabetical listing of all protocol recipes and an alphabetical listing of all protocol cautions. In addition, it provides a mechanism for finding laboratory supplies. | 2006- | Yes |
| Compendex | Ei Compendex provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. Over 4500 journals are indexed. | 1884-present | Partial |
| Conference Papers Index | Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| Copper Data Center Database | 1965 - present | No | |
| Corrosion Abstracts | Corrosion Abstracts provides information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries. Corrosion Abstracts provides engineers and scientists with a resource for solving corrosion problems by reviewing the documented experience of others and providing summarized findings in the article abstracts. | 1980 - present | No |
| CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | This resource allows searching and browsing of the numerous tables and data found in the print CRC handbook. Can search by full-text, by chemical substance, or by a number of chemical properties. Interactive tables allow exporting the data to Microsoft Excel. | Yes | |
| Crop Protection Compendium | The Crop Protection Compendium is an interactive database including information on thousands of insect pests, diseases, weeds, invasive plants and natural enemies of worldwide or regional importance. It also has detailed information on over 200 crops and crop production statistics by country and crop. In addition, the database provides identification keys and images, a decision-support tool for pest risk analysis, geographic information software to display global and regional maps, a bibliographic database, interactive glossary, and a library of published research documents. | 2005 edition | Partial |
| Earthquake Engineering Abstracts | Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) provides comprehensive authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA is currently comprised of approximately 102,000 records (full citations and abstracts) from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. EEA includes approximately 44,000 journal articles -- indexes and abstracts of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; approximately 36,000 meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and approximately 23,000 research reports' abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports. | 1971-present | Partial |
| Ecology Abstracts | Published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts covers journal literature pertaining to the relationships of organisms to each other and to their environments. About 285 journals are indexed, some completely, others, selectively. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. There is detailed information on resource and ecosystems management and modeling as well as material on the impact of climate, water resources, soil, and man on environmental problems such as depletion, erosion, and pollution. Major areas of coverage include: algae/lichens, animals, annelids, aquatic ecosystems, arachnids, arid zones, birds, brackish water, bryophytes/pteridophytes, coastal ecosystems, conifers, conservation, crustaceans, fungi, grasses, grasslands, high altitude environments, human ecology, insects, legumes, mammals, microorganisms, mollusks, nematodes, paleo-ecology, plants, reptiles, river basins, soil, taiga/tundra, terrestrial ecosystems, vertebrates, wetlands, and woodlands. Online coverage extends back to 1982. | 1982 - present | No |
| Ed/ITLib | Ed/ITLib Digital Library contains full-text international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of education technology and e-learning. Export capability is available for BibTex and EndNote. Ed/ITLib is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. | 2000-present (varies with title) | Yes |
| EI Engineering Village 2 | Ei Compendex provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. Over 5000 journals and conferences are indexed. | 1970- | Partial |
| EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements | The federal government issues hundreds of environmental impact statements each year - and this one resource provides detailed abstracts of all those statements, also indexing them for easy reference. EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | This reference identifies current challenges and development paths sure to influence fields ranging from materials and surface science, chemistry, and biomedicine to computer technology, information processing, and mechanical, optical, and electrical engineeringexamining the design, application, and utilization of devices, techniques, and technologies critical to research at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels ranging from 1100 nanometers. | Yes | |
| Engineered Materials Abstracts | The growing importance of polymers, ceramics, and composites in a variety of structural and other advanced applications requires the in-depth coverage provided by Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA). Citations regarding the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of these materials have been taken from 1,300 journals, plus dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors form Materials Information. Engineered Materials Abstracts is an elctronic database containing Ceramics, Composites and Polymers subfiles. EMA is specifically designed to serve materials sciences researchers, engineers and scientists. | 1986 - present | No |
| Engineering Research Database | The CSA Engineering Research Database covers the international serial and non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics/computation. Content includes basic and applied research, design, construction, technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production and developments in new technologies. | 1966 - present | No |
| ENGnetBase | Online access to CRC handbooks in all fields of engineering. It can be searched through the EngNetBase interface, or through the Ei Engineering Village 2 interface used for Compendex and Inspec. | Yes | |
| Environment Abstracts (CSA) | Contains major categories of environmental information: Environmental Abstracts (abstracts of thousands of journal articles and conference papers with links to selected full-text); full-text sources for news, journals, commentary, federal and state codes, regulations, case law, and agency actions; federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information. | Varies | Yes |
| Environment Index | The Environmental Policy Index provides researchers with abstracts and indexes for over 1,000 titles, 500 currently, covering environmental issues and policies. The database covers in depth applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, geography, marine and freshwater resources, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. An environment thesaurus and publication index provide for more precise searching. Online coverage extends back to 1973. | 1973 - present | No |
| Environmental Engineering Abstracts | Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals are thoroughly indexed and abstracted. Over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings, are also monitored for relevant articles. | 1990 - present | No |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management | This multidisciplinary database abstracts the literature covering air, land, water, and noise pollution, as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. | 1981 - present | No |
| Ergonomic Abstracts | Ergonomics Abstracts is a focused, comprehensive, and international abstracting service, spanning the world of ergonomics and human factors. Due to the changing frames of reference in modern scientific research and application, Ergonomics Abstracts is an invaluable and rich source of information for any professional needing information not only on mainstream ergonomics, but also on related material from psychology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport and transport. | 1985 - present | No |
| ETDEWEB | ETDEWEB contains energy content from the United States and worldwide sources. It includes the data from US Dept. of Energy's Energy Citation Database (Energy Research Abstaracts and Nuclear Science Abstracts) as well as international sources, e.g. International Atomic Energy Agency's Atomindex. | 1946-present | Partial |
| FAOSTAT | This is a multilingual (English, French and Spanish) database currently containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in areas including production, trade, land use, fertilizer and irrigation, fisheries and population. The time coverage of the data series sometimes varies, but is predominantly 40-50 years old. Data is downloadable. | 1961 - present | Partial |
| GreenFile | "GreenFILE contains well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of over 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an'informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. | 1913 - | Partial |
| GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) | "The Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia. Use Browse Issues and Topics, World Map, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database." | Yes | |
| Health and Safety Science Abstracts | Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. <p> Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.<p> Over 1350 journal titles are indexed by HSSA. | 1981 - present | No |
| High Technology Research Database with Aerospace | The CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace brings together in one place the most comprehensive bibliographic coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics, astronautics, computer & information technology, electronics, communications, solid state materials and devices, and space sciences. Everything from theoretical research through practical application is covered. | 1962-present | No |
| IBISWorld | Information on over 700 US Industries in the US economy. Classifying Industry Reports at the 5-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), IBISWorld Industry Reports are at the granular level covering industry-specific titles from the popular to the not so popular. Each Industry Report is some 35-50 pages in length with abridged, 6-page Executive Summaries also available. | Current 2 yrs | Yes |
| IEEE Xplore | Full-text of IEEE´s transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE standards. Contents can be searched or browsed by specific journal or conference titles. | 1988-present | Partial |
| ILI Materials Database | The ILI Materials Database contains detailed information on tens of thousands of materials and products. It covers polymers, rubbers, resins, adhesives, fibers, ceramics, additives, pre-pregs, semi-finished products and more. The information is taken from manufacturer data sheets. It allows identification and comparison of a material's mechanical, physical, electrical, impact, thermal and processing properties. You can compare materials´properties to find alternative materials. | Partial | |
| INCE Digital Library | Contains full-text of the publications: Noise Control Engineering Journal (1982-present) and the earlier Noise Control Engineering (1973-1982) It also contains INCE Conference Proceedings, including InterNoise, NoiseCon, Sound Quality Symposium, SQS, and Active since 1995. | Yes | |
| Industrial and Applied Microbiology (Microbiology A) | Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this index. About 460 journal titles are indexed selectively by Industrial and Applied Microbiology. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| INIS-International Nuclear Information System | The INIS Database contains information about peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. It currently contains 2.7 million bibliographic abstracts of journal articles, research and development reports, conference papers, books, patents and theses and web documents. | 1970- | No |
| Inorganic Crystal Structure Database | The ICSD contains information on inorganic crystal structures including pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds, including their atomic coordinates, which have been published since 1913. It is updated twice a year, each time adding approximately 3000 new records. As of June 2006, the database contains 89,064 entries. Currently the ICSD contains approximately 600 crystal structures of the elements, 15000 records and 33000 records for binary and ternary compounds, respectively. Finally, the database contains approx. 35000 records for quarternary and quinternary compounds. | 1913- | No |
| INSPEC | Provides abstracts and source information from the world's published literature on all aspects of physics, electronics, and computers. Includes information from Electrical & Electronics Abstracts, Computer & Control Abstracts and Physics Abstracts. | 1898 - present | Partial |
| International Tables for Crystallography | The series comprises of articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. Each volume also contains discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples, all of which are useful for teaching. | Yes | |
| Jane's All the World Aircraft | Includes exhaustive technical detail on over 950 civil and military aircraft currently being produced or under development by more than 550 companies. It also shows photographs and line drawings and outlines specifications for dimensions, performance, structure, landing gear, power plants, and armaments. This database helps the user evaluate competitors, identify potential buyers, and business partners, and examine aircraft equipment. The archive goes back to the early 1990s. | Early 1990s to present | Yes |
| Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition | Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition contains quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within subject categories. Covering about 5,700 journals, JCR: Science Edition has many uses. Students and faculty use it to identify journals in which to publish, confirm the status of journals in which they have published, and identify journals relevant to their research. Online coverage extends back to 1998. There is a CD-ROM for 1997 and print for 1975-90, 1992 and 1996. | 1998 - present | No |
| Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology | Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed. is full-text, internationally acclaimed reference source with a powerful search engine and intuitive user interface. Information covering the entire chemical can be retrieved n industry and allied fields any time. Updated regularly, Kirk-Othmer Online will stay current with the latest developments in chemical technology and related fields. The encyclopedia will response to actual changes and developments as they occur in the chemical industry rather than in alphabetical order. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology provides "state of the art" information for chemists, biochemists, and engineers at academic, industrial, and government institutions since publication of the first edition in 1949. A variety of searching options are available. The Advanced Search is recommended. * is the wildcard. | Partial | |
| Knovel (Sci-Tech handbooks and reference in full text) | Knovel provides numerical and tabular data from leading engineering and science resources. Some tables are interactively searchable. | Yes | |
| Lynda.com Online Training Library | Contains a collection of video tutorials on a multitude of technology and software applications. 655 courses on multimedia, Internet, and related technologies. | last 3 years to current | Partial |
| Materials Business File | The Materials Business File focusses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations, and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| Materials Research Database with METADEX | The CSA Materials Research Database with 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 us, corrosion, performance and recycling is covered in depth for all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites. | 1966-present | Partial |
| Mechanical and Transportation Abstracts | Provides comprehensive access to research on mechanical and transportation engineering from many worldwide reference sources. This bibliographic database covers 3000 journals and includes 320,000 citations. The database includes hundreds of core journals not indexed in other engineering databases. Citations include abstracts and indexed terms from a controlled vocabulary of 12,500 terms. It has a searchable thesaurus. | 1966 - present | No |
| MEDLINE (EBSCO interface) | MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Indexes over 3,700 journals. | 1964 - present | No |
| MEDLINE (PubMed interface) | PubMed, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut provides access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed also provides access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources. | 1950-- | Partial |
| METADEX | METADEX is the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications and development. It contains over 950,000 references and is the equivalent of the print indexes: Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index and Alloys Index. | 1966 - present | Partial |
| Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MPMD) | The Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MDMD) contains data and information on the thermal, mechanical, electrical, and physical properties of: adhesives, ceramics, coatings and unfilled epoxies, composites, elements, encapsulants and underfill materials, intermetallics, liquids and gases, metal alloys, molding compounds, polymers, and semiconductors used in the construction of electronic components and assemblies. It contains properties of over 825 materials with approximately 16,803 data curves. The database uses pull-down menus to browse by material and property. For all data curves, the material composition, experimental conditions, raw or smooth data, and reference are given. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials, change scale ranges, and export and import data. | current | Yes |
| Military & Intelligence | Provides access to articles and other matierials on U.S. and international military and intelligence topics. | Yes | |
| NIST/TRC Web Thermo Tables | Provides online access to the"TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Hydrocarbons" and "TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Non-Hydrocarbons". Almost 900,000 data points for over 7,700 compounds are provided, including information on critical properties, heat capacities, vapor pressures, phase transition properties, refraction indexes, volumetric properties, transport properties, reaction state-change properties, and more. | No | |
| NTIS (National Technical Information Service) | produced by the National Technical Information Service, is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from international government departments and other international organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries. | 1964 - present | Partial |
| Oceanic Abstracts | The database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. | Yes | |
| OECD iLibrary | OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 - currently (October 2010) 1 000 journal issues, 2 900 working papers, 2 500 multi-lingual summaries, 6 200 e-book titles, 14 000 tables and graphs, 21 000 chapters and articles, and 390 complete databases with more than 4 billion data points. | 1998 - current | Yes |
| Phase Online (American Ceramic Society) | Contains over 21,000 phase diagrams online with full commentary published by NIST/Amercian Ceramic Society. The latest feature includes new figures as .pdf files, which are identical in quality to the diagrams in the 21 printed volumes. Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online may be searched by chemical system and published author s last name as well as volume, language, publication year, and figure number. The content retrieved shows the Diagram which may be augmented by specialized tools as well as the Commentary which includes a full view of chemical system, discussion of the diagram, references, footnotes, figure number, and figure notes. | Current | Yes |
| Pollution Abstracts | This database provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and handle emergency situations more effectively. Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. <p> To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field. Over 2250 journals are selectively indexed by Pollution Abstracts. | 1981 - present | Partial |
| ProQuest Congressional | Provides access to historic and recent U.S. Government publications from 1789-2000 on including U.S. Congressional Serial Set documents, federal agency reports, congressional committee publications, statistics, maps, and congressional debates. | 1789-1997 | Yes |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Search between approximately 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. | 50+ years | Yes |
| PubMed | PubMed, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut provides access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed also provides access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources. | 1950 - | Partial |
| Reaxys (Beilstein/Gmelin) | Reaxys combines the Beilstein (organic chem), Gmelin (inorganic chem), and Chemical Patents databases into one search interface. Users can search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Reaxys indexes experimental reaction data and chemical/physical properties for over 10 million compounds and 22 million reactions. Information originates from around 3800 journals and patents from various patent offices. | 1771-present | No |
| Risk Abstracts | Experts define risk as a combination of the magnitude and probability of adverse effects. Risk Abstracts provides a comprehensive source for interdisciplinary perspectives in this evolving field. Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. <p> Over 1350 journal titles are selectively indexed by Risk Abstracts. | 1990 - present | Partial |
| SAE Technical Papers and Standards | References thousands of papers and standards covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. It includes detailed summaries and complete SAE Technical Reports in PDF for 1990-present. Most earlier papers are indexed here and available on microfiche or print in the Engineering Library or the Hicks Repository. Please ask for assistance. Current SAE standards are available. | 1990-present | Partial |
| Safari Tech Books Online | Safari is an electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals. | Yes | |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | Science Citation Index Expanded is part of ISI's Web of Science database. It provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references in about 5,900 of the world's scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. Online coverage extends back to 1977. | 1945 - present | No |
| Science Online | More than the journal, Science, the content of this website extends into ethics, policies, sociology, pedagogy, etc. as it relates to science and how science impacts those areas. The journal, Science, and its preprint version, ScienceExpress, and Science Now, a daily news web page are all available full-text. Also accessible: Three virtual knowledge environments - Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE), Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE), and AIDS Online - each of which has an online journal, laboratory protocol section, various bioinformatics products, and more. Functional Genomics. Full access to current awareness services. Some of these resources, especially those within SAGE, are aimed at non-scientists and teachers of science. | Yes | |
| SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts) | SciFinder Scholar is a means of accessing the Chemical Abstracts database using a powerful and intuitive search engine to find references to articles easily. Search for chemical data using a molecular formula, chemical name, chemical structure, reaction components, author name, or topic of interest. | 1907 - present | Partial |
| Security & Management Practices | SMP provides access to reports covering topics like deploying network security appliances, using biometric technologies for network and physical security, managing organizational risk, planning for disruptions, securing the enterprise network and more. Access to all archived reports and a weekly digest to keep you on top of security industry-related news. | 2002 - current | Yes |
| Shock and Vibration Digest | Shock & Vibration Digest" includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to shock and vibration, including noise, vibration technologies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 92,000 records, which are selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Sound and Vibration, Journal of Vibration & Control, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1969. | 1969-present | No |
| Specifications and Standards | features online full-text standards in pdf from ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials; AASHTO - American Association of State Highway & Transportation; ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers; ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Engineering; ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers; AWWA - American Water Works Association; and BOCA - Building Officials & Code Administration - look for the red pdf button. | Current | Partial |
| SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) | SPIE Digital Library is an extensive resource on optics and photonics, providing access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals (dates vary) and Proceedings of the SPIE, v.1200 (1990) - present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually. | 1990 - present | Yes |
| SPRESIweb | Choose "IP Login" to begin searching. With an emphasis on organic molecules, SPRESIweb Allows structure, chemical reaction, property, and text searching from over 1350 journals and numerous conferences and patents. SPRESIweb provides access to 7 million molecules and 3.9 million reactions from 645,000 references. SPRESIweb also has a useful Synthesis Tree Search (STS) feature that allows you to build a synthesis pathway. SPRESIweb also contains information on commercial availability and is particularly strong in non-English language journals. | 1974-2009 | No |
| Springer E-Books | Contains full-text of books/book chapters, conference papers, and journal articles published by Springer. Purdue University Libraries' subscription to e-books starts in 2005 and covers many disciplines. | 2005 - present | Yes |
| Sweets Source | Allows user to find information on a specific construction product or manufacturer. Includes all products from the Sweet's General Building and Renovation catalog. Sweet's is the construction industry's primary building product information source. This site provides a searchable collection of information on building materials based on manufacturer's cataloges. It´s arranged in 16 building trades divisions. The directory of construction may be searched by state and city, name of company and business type. | Current | Partial |
| Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science | Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. | 2005- | Yes |
| Technology Research Database | This comprehensive database provides a single mega-file of all the unique records available through its components: the CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace, and the CSA Engineering Research Database. The database content represents the most comprehensive and current coverage of the relevant serial and non-serial literature available. | 1962-present | Partial |
| Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD) | The Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD), contains thermophysical properties of over 5,000 materials with approximately 50,000 data curves. This database is searchable by material, by property, or by partial string (name). For all data curves, the material composition, experimental conditions, raw or smoothed data, and references are given. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials, change scale ranges, and export and import data. | Yes | |
| Toxicology Abstracts | Every day, in all branches of toxicology, research uncovers new risks associated with the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and by-products of our age. Toxicology Abstracts is the only comprehensive print resource for professionals in this field who must be aware of every new finding. Specifically focused to meet the needs of toxicologists, Toxicology Abstracts covers issuses from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances. <p> About 200 journals are selectively indexed by Toxicology Abstracts. | 1981 - present | Partial |
| TOXLINE | TOXLINE on this service offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. | 1999 - present | Partial |
| TRID | TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centres International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide. | Partial | |
| Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry | Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a full-text, state-of-the-art reference work detailing the science and technology in all areas of industrial chemistry. Fully international in scope and coverage and published in the English language, the work has been compiled under the supervision of a renowned global Editorial Advisory Board. | Partial | |
| USENIX Conference Proceedings | All conference proceedings from USENIX covering developments of all aspects of computers, in particular operating systems. | 1991-present in full text. Pre-1991 abstracts only. | Yes |
| USP-NF Online | "The USPNF is a three volume combination of two official compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). Monographs for drug substances and preparations are featured in the USP. Monographs for dietary supplements and ingredients appear in a separate section of the USP. Excipient monographs are in the NF. A monograph includes the name of the ingredient or preparation; the definition; packaging, storage, and labeling requirements; and the specification. The specification consists of a series of tests, procedures for the tests, and acceptance criteria. These tests and procedures require the use of official USP Reference Standards. Medicinal ingredients and products will have the stipulated strength, quality, and purity if they conform to the requirements of the monograph and relevant general chapters. | Yes | |
| Water Resources Abstracts | Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. <p> Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and techincal reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications. <p>About 1000 journal titles are selectively indexed by Water Resources Abstracts. Until 1994, the database was produced by the United States Geological Survey, when it was generally known as Selected Water Resources Abstracts. Since that time, Water Resources Abstracts has been produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, which broadened the scope by including more material published outside the U.S.A. | 1967 - present | Partial |
| Web of Knowledge | ISI Web of Knowledge provides access to Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, Web Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports. | 1900 - | No |
| Web of Science | Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Collectively, these indexes cover 8,700 scholarly and technical journals completely and 13,300 selectively, in more than 230 disciplines. The Web of Science gateway allows searching the indexes singly or in combination. Features include cited reference searching, access to records related to a particular article, and number of times an article has been cited. Coverage extends back to 1977 | 1977 - present | Partial |
| World Aviation Directory==>Aviation World Intelligence Network | Provides a comprehensive database of all the companies in the world that do business in the aviation or aerospace industries. The companies include airlines, training schools, manufacturers, corporate aviation departments, distributors, military units, and government-related organizations. The database lists company contact information and has a basic profile for all of these companies. Profile information contains the type and dollar amount of business the company does as well as the names of the company's top executives. Companies are sorted and indexed based on their function within their industry. Job seekers may find the background information helpful. | Current information | Partial |
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