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Article Databases
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window Web of Science is one of the core general science databases covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and allows the user to search conference proceedings.
- Inspec This link opens in a new window Inspec is a database of research literature in the fields of engineering, physics and computing. It includes journal articles, conference papers and book content. Date coverage: 1896 - present.
- Energy Citation Database Contains publicly available bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE). 1948+
- SIMBAD he SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-indentificatons and bibliographic references for celestrial objects outside the solar system.
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) he NED database contains positions, basic data and names for extragalactic objects, as well as bibliographic references to published papers, and notes from catalogs and other publications.
- ArXiv.org (e-Prints) Started in 1995, this site provides a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics This link opens in a new window This reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
Journals & eJournals & Book Chapters
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window ScienceDirect is a general science database that searches journal articles and book chapters in all areas of science, technology, and health. ScienceDirect also provides full text access to a number of major reference works, allows the user to create email alerts for specific journal titles, book series, or research topics, and provides access to a limited number of "pre-pub" articles (articles accepted for publication but not yet officially released). Date coverage: varies by publication.
- SPIE Digital Library (International Society for Optics and Photonics) This link opens in a new window The SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) Digital Library includes SPIE journals and conference papers on optics and photonics. Date coverage: 1962 - present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles. Date coverage: earliest issues of each journal up to the most current five years for most publications and to the present for some.
- SpringerLink e-Books This link opens in a new window The SpringerLink eBooks database contains the full-text of over 45,000 e-books, the majority of them related to engineering and computer science. There are also books on other topics, including medicine, mathematics, life sciences, and the social sciences. Previews of hundreds of additional books are also available. Most books are in English but some books in other languages are also included. Date coverage: 1973 - present.
