| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| AGU Digital Library | Comprehensive collection of more than 100 years of Earth and space science research. The library contains more than 90,300 articles from journals and books and will eventually include an additional ~25,000 articles from books and the weekly newspaper for AGU. Browse and search available. | 1896- | Yes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| BCC Market Research | BCC Research contains market research reports, industry reviews, newsletters and conferences for competitive business intelligence. | Most recent 3-5 years. | 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 |
| 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 |
| CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Serials Source Index) | CASSI is the most complete information source on scientific journals in chemistry. It lists standard abbreviations, frequency of publication, journal name changes, and other bibliographic information for over 60,000 named sources. | No | |
| CCOHS Occupational Health and Safety Databases | The CCOHS Academic Support Program (ASP) is offered exclusively to universities and colleges as both a tool to educate students about environmental and occupational health and safety and as a guide to assist Universities and Colleges in their efforts to achieve a safe and healthy working environment. This program includes MSDS, FTSS, CHEMINFO, RTECS®, Canadiana,CISILO, HSELINE, OSHLINE® with NIOSHTIC®/NIOSHTIC-2, and as well as several free resources. | Yes | |
| 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 |
| Chemisches Zentralblatt | Chemisches Zentralblatt is a German language precursor to Chemical Abstracts/SciFinder and covers chemical and pharmaceutical literature from 1830-1969, much earlier than SciFinder's original 1907 start date. Though the abstracts are in German, one can search CZB by chemical structure to find where a particular structure has been mentioned. Traditionally, CZB's coverage of early German chemistry is regarded as superior to Chemical Abstract's (SciFinder), and its abstracts are longer and more informative. There is only one user allowed access at a time, so be sure to log off when you have finished searching. | 1830-1969 | No |
| 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 |
| Child Development and Adolescent Studies | Indexes current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21, including book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Some full-text provided. | 1927-present | Partial |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Current Index to Statistics | The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. | 1974 - present | No |
| e-EROS--Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis | The encyclopedia offers a systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic synthesis. It contains a database of around 70,000 reactions and around 4000 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions etc. and allows sophisticated full text searches. | varies | Yes |
| 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 |
| Education Full Text | Education Full Text is included in OmniFile Full Text, which is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals in multiple subject areas. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full-text rights to individual journals may vary. | 1982 - present; full-text, 1994 - present | Partial |
| Educational Administration Abstracts | Provides bibliographic records and many full-text articles covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. | 1881-current | Partial |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Geophysics | Edition expanded because of geostatistics, neural networks, anisotropy, tomography, horizontal drilling, multicomponent acquisition, deep-water work, etc. | 4th ed, 2001 | Yes |
| ERIC (EBSCO Software) | Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a bibliographic database sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier source for education-related research, documents, and journal articles. | 1966-present | Partial |
| 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 |
| Fiesers' Reagents for Organic Synthesis | Here you'll find the entire contents of all print volumes, including an A to Z listing of all reagents cited in synthetic literature with concise descriptions and illustrations of chemical reactions. To save you time in researching, all information about a particular reagent is collected in one single article. Thousands of entries abstract the most important information on commonly used and new reagents, including preparation, uses, sources of supply, critical comments, references and more. Use Browse this Title or Search this Title on the right to get to the various reagent information. | varies | Yes |
| General Science Full Text | General Science Full Text is included in OmniFile Full Text, which is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals in multiple subject areas. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full-text rights to individual journals may vary. | 1982 - present; full-text, 1994 - present | Partial |
| GeoRef | GeoRef is the ...[electronic] version of the American Geological Institute's GeoRef database covering the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. A comprehensive resource with over 2.27 million citations, many with abstracts, GeoRef covers the geology of North America since 1785 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. Over 3,500 journals in 40 languages are scanned, as well as books, maps, reports, most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and U.S. and Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations." -- from www.silverplatter.com/catalog/gref.htm | 1785 - present | Partial |
| GeoScience World | With GSW, one is able to search full text in a linked collection; GSW is also integrated with GeoRef indexing source. Delivers online the aggregated journal content of the Founding Organizations and of other not-for-profit and independent geoscience publishers. With time, other material such as maps, books, and geoscience digital data will be included or inter-linked. | 19??- | Yes |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety | The Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety is an authoritative source of on-line information on all aspects of the multidisciplinary field of occupational safety and health. The Fourth Edition was produced with the collaboration of thousands of recognized experts from over 50 countries; the private and public sectors, academia and industry, labour and management, researchers and practitioners are all represented. This latest edition consists of over 1,000 articles, complemented by over 1,000 illustrations and easy-to-read tables. Thousands of references are cited. Sources are listed at the end of each chapter, along with other relevant readings. | Yes | |
| 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 Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) | Produced in cooperation with the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, IPA includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health care journals. The entire spectrum of drug therapy and pharmaceutical information is covered. | 1970 - present | No |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| LexisNexis Academic | Provides full text access to federal and state court cases and laws, European Union law, patents, tax law, law review articles, newspaper articles, and additional reference information. Includes U.S. Supreme Court opinions from 1789 to present. | Varies | Partial |
| LexisNexis Statistical | Provides indexing, abstracting, and links to selected full-text coverage of statistical publications produced by the U.S. government, state governments, international government organizations, and selected private organizations. | 1972 - present | Partial |
| 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 |
| MathSciNet | Indexes and provides reviews of the research literature of mathematics and mathematical statistics. Prepared by the American Mathematical Society. | 1940 - present | Partial |
| Merck Index | Descriptive information on 10,000+ chemicals, drugs (human and veterinary), and biologicals. Each entry lists synonyms for drug names (trade, chemical, generic, and research codes), CAS Registry Numbers, physical data, patent information, uses, toxicity, and bibliographic citations on synthesis, pharmacology, and toxicology. Can search by name, structure, CAS # and more. | No | |
| Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts | Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs, are included. | 1974 - 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 |
| Mineralogical Abstracts | MINABS Online is the electronic version of Mineralogical Abstracts replacing the paper journal from 2004. | 1982- | No |
| NetLibrary>>Now EBSCO eBook Collection | NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. | 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 | |
| PAIS International | PAIS International (PAIS=Public Affairs Information Services, Inc.) is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues, such as economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation.. The database covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, and government documents. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. | 1972 - present | No |
| 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 |
| Professional Development Collection | A specialized collection of electronic information sources compiled especially for professional educators, including information on topics ranging from children's health and development to pedagogical theory and practice. The Collection includes abstract and index coverage for more than 430 well known professional development titles, searchable full text for 345 journals covering current topics in the field of education, and over 150 journals containing images. | 1984 - 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 |
| PsycINFO | The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to dissertations and journals (1,300 + ). It includes the fulltext article links from the PsycARTICLES database. | 1806-present | 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 |
| 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 of Synthesis (Houben-Weyl) | Science of Synthesis is the 5th edition of the Houben-Weyl Methods in Organic Chemistry reference book series. It is a highly organized and authoritative collection of reviews on organic and organometallic synthetic methods. Reviews contain full experimental procedures and background information. Its purpose is to provide a direct path through the mass of primary literature to the pertinent data on a comprehensive range of organic reactions. The base set (2000 to present) contains information on over 275,000 reactions and 30,000 experimental procedures for 2,700 different types of compounds. The content is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. The Houben-Weyl Electronic Backfile (1909 to 2003) is also included and provides immediate access to 146,000 product specific experimental procedures, 580,000 structures, and 700,000 references in all fields of synthetic organic chemistry - dating back to the early 1800s. [Note: most of this backfile is in German, but the base set (2000- ) is in English.] | 1909-present | Yes |
| 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 |
| SEG Technical Standards | SEG standards are provide in an online, downloadable form as a convenience to the geophysical industry. Many of the earlier standards have been converted to Microsoft Word 7.0 format from the originally published form. | 1967- | Yes |
| Sociological Abstracts | Abstracts of the world's serial literature in sociology and related disciplines and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations from the Sociological Abstracts and SOPODA. Approximately 1600 journals in 30 languages from 55 countries are abstracted in this resource. | 1974 - present | 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 |
| Statisical Theory and Method Abstracts/STMA online | The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. The on-line CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) indexes * the entire contents of over 160 "core journals", in most cases from 1975 (or first issue if later) to the current end year, and pre-1975 coverage for some, * selected articles with statistical content since 1975 from about 1200 additional journals (cumulatively) in related fields, and * about 11,000 books in statistics published since 1975. | 1975-pres | No |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Zentralblatt MATH | Zentralblatt MATH is the world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. Subjects covered include pure mathematics (e.g. algebra, logic, topology, geometry, analysis) , probability theory, statistics, mathematical physics, classical, solid and fluid mechanics, numerical mathematics, mathematical programming, theoretical computer science and automata theory, systems theory, control, operations research, economics, information and communication, circuits, coding, cryptography, applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology. | 1931 - present | Partial |
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