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ASCE Civil Engineering Database Early 1900's - present The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manu... Access Database ASCE Civil Engineering Database
ASCE Research Library (American Society of Civil Engineers) 1983 - present The ASCE Library is a tool for locating articles of interest across many disciplines of civil engineering. The ASCE Library provides you with access to more than 80,000 full-text papers from ASCE J... Access Database ASCE Research Library (American Society of Civil Engineers)
ASTM Compass 1921 - current ASTM Compass covers most engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear,... Access Database ASTM Compass
Civil Engineering Abstracts 1966 - present Civil Engineering Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage on all civil aspects from architecture, structural design and construction engineering to environmental, seismic engineering and forensic... Access Database Civil Engineering Abstracts
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science 1990 - present; Cited References from 1999 The Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Science & Technical edition) is a Web of Science database that provides access to published literature from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, wo... Access Database Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science
GeoRef (Geology) 1669 - present (North America coverage), 1933 - present (Worldwide coverage) GEOREF, produced by the American Geosciences Institute, indexes the earth sciences literature of the world. It contains more than 3.5 million references to literature covering North America since 1... Access Database GeoRef (Geology)
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SpringerLink Dates Vary SpringerLink provides full-text online access to Springer Nature's journals, E-books, reference works, and protocols included in our subscriptions and "preview-only" access to materials outside of ... Access Database SpringerLink
TRID: the TRIS and ITRD Database TRID is a database indexing federal/state DOT reports, as well as commercial journal literature, conference proceedings, etc. on the topic of transportation. It combines the records from TRB's Tran... Access Database TRID: the TRIS and ITRD Database
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... Access Database Web of Science

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ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) 1954 - present The ACM Digital Library is a collection of citations and full text from ACM journals, newsletters, magazines, multimedia titles, and conference proceedings. It is a repository of papers from public... Access Database ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)
ASM Handbooks Online (American Society for Metals) 1992 - present ASM Handbooks Online contains all of the data and information from 24 volumes of the ASM Handbook series; as well as the two ASM Desk Editions. These volumes provide information and data about the ... Access Database ASM Handbooks Online (American Society for Metals)
Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost) Dates vary The EBSCOhost Ebook Collection (formerly called NetLibrary) provides full-text searching to over 11,000 eBooks from multiple academic publishers. The topics cover a broad range of scholarly discipl... Access Database Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology Current The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology presents around 1,800 articles written by experts in their fields, resulting in a comprehensive coverage of this broad and wide-ranging subject... Access Database Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology
Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Original, 2010 Microbes both synthesize and exploit a vast range of hydrophobic organics, especially petroleum oil hydrocarbons and industrial pollutants, and the underlying interactions not only have major conse... Access Database Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology
National Academy Press 1981 - present The National Academy Press (NAP) platform provides access to thousands of full text titles published by the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and ... Access Database National Academy Press
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science 2005 - present The Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is a collection of 50- to 100-page e-books that synthesize key research and development topics written by leading engineers and sci... Access Database Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

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AAPG Datapages (American Assoc of Petroleum Geologists) 1917 to date AAPG Datapages are the preeminent leader in online access to literature on the geology and exploration for petroleum. Included are publications from all the important North American societies that ... Access Database AAPG Datapages (American Assoc of Petroleum Geologists)
Applied Science & Technology Full Text 1990 - present Applied Science & Technology Full Text includes indexing and abstracts for more than 760 English-language scientific and technical publications dating back to 1983. Also included are full-text arti... Access Database Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts 1971 - present Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) indexes more than 5,000 journals, reports, conference proceedings, and books in the area of aquatic sciences. It covers the major aspects of the aqua... Access Database Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1930 - The Avery Index is the primary architectural periodical index published in North America. It indexes a broad range of articles on architecture from such diverse fields as archaeology, decorative ar... Access Database Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
DieselNet DieselNet includes technical papers, summaries of standards, and business information concerning diesel engines, emissions, fuel, and other technology. This includes the DieselNet Technology Guide,... Access Database DieselNet
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts 1971 - present Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage on earthquake's effects on buildings and other structures, geological formations and how seismic and tsunamic phenomena relate. Subj... Access Database Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts 1986 - present Engineered Materials Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage on engineered materials such as polymers, plastics, rubber, ceramics and composites. The database addresses manufacturing practices, p... Access Database Engineered Materials Abstracts
ICE Virtual Library Dates of content vary by title. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library provides access to ICE journals and conference proceedings. In 2015, the ICE Complete Engineering Journals Archive was purchased which provi... Access Database ICE Virtual Library
InCites Essential Science Indicators Ten year rolling file - present Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool that helps you identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. ESI surveys more than 11,000 journals from around the wor... Access Database InCites Essential Science Indicators
INSPEC (via Web of Science) 1898 - present Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineerin... Access Database INSPEC (via Web of Science)
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 1997 - present JCR provides a means of determining the relative importance of scholarly and technical journals within their subject disciplines by using a variety of citation and article counts attributed to each... Access Database Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Materials Science & Engineering Collection 1965 - present Materials Science & Engineering Collection provides full-text access to scholarly journals, trade periodicals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and mor... Access Database Materials Science & Engineering Collection
Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts July 1974 - present The MGA database covers the fields of meteorology, climatology, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and atmospheric chemistry and physics. The database provides abstracts from journal art... Access Database Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
Quakeline 1987 - present with selected earlier coverage Earthquakes: causes, prediction, effects & aftermath, Earthquake engineering, Earthquake preparedness & education, Earthquake resistant construction & seismic retrofit, Engineering seismology, High... Access Database Quakeline
ScienceDirect 1995 - present; Pre-1995 for some subject collections ScienceDirect is an information platform for scientific, technical, and medical research. (Updates vary). UW-Madison has licensed a subset of Elsevier ejournals and ebooks through ScienceDirect. T... Access Database ScienceDirect
SpringerMaterials 1883 - present SpringerMaterials provides access to curated data on 3000+ physical and chemical properties of 250,000+ materials and chemical systems and is relevant to research in the fields of Physics, Chemistr... Access Database SpringerMaterials
TRANSTATS: The Intermodal Transportation Database TranStats is a new website for transportation researchers and analysts, aimed at providing “one stop shopping” for transportation data. The premise is fairly simple: By reducing the time needed for... Access Database TRANSTATS: The Intermodal Transportation Database
Treesearch 2004 - present Treesearch is an online system for locating and delivering publications by Research and Development scientists in the United States Forest Service. Publications in the collection include research m... Access Database Treesearch
Wiley Online Library The Wiley Online library provides full-text searching across thousands of ebooks and millions of articles from the life, physical, health, and social sciences, as well as the humanities disciplines... Access Database Wiley Online Library

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