| 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 |
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