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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... View ASCE Civil Engineering Database Online
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... View ASCE Research Library (American Society of Civil Engineers) Online
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,... View ASTM Compass Online
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... View Civil Engineering Abstracts Online
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... View Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science Online
Engineering Research Database 1966 - present The Engineering Research Database provides bibliographic coverage of research in civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, engineering services... View Engineering Research Database Online
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... View GeoRef (Geology) Online
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SpringerLink Dates Vary SpringerLink provides full-text online access to Springer's journals, E-books, reference works, and protocols included in our subscriptions and "preview-only" access to materials outside of our sub... View SpringerLink Online
TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services) TRIS Online is the web-based version of TRIS. TRIS Online provides links to full text and to resources for document delivery or access to documents where such information is available. These may in... View TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services) Online
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 (... View Web of Science Online

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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... View ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) Online
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 ... View ASM Handbooks Online (American Society for Metals) Online
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... View Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost) Online
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... View Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology Online
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... View Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Online
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 ... View National Academy Press Online
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... View Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science Online

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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 ... View AAPG Datapages (American Assoc of Petroleum Geologists) Online
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... View Applied Science & Technology Full Text Online
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... View Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Online
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... View Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Online
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,... View DieselNet Online
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... View Earthquake Engineering Abstracts Online
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... View Engineered Materials Abstracts Online
Essential Science Indicators Ten year rolling file - present Essential Science Indicators is a database for identifying emerging research areas and the influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in a field of study. It compile... View Essential Science Indicators Online
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... View ICE Virtual Library Online
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... View INSPEC (via Web of Science) Online
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... View Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Online
Materials Research Database 1965 - present The Materials Research Database provides bibliographic coverage of research on metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering applications. In-depth coverage from raw materials ... View Materials Research Database Online
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... View Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts Online
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... View Quakeline Online
ScienceDirect 1995 - present ScienceDirect is an information source for scientific, technical, and medical research. (Updates vary). UW-Madison has licensed a subset of Elsevier ejournals and ebooks through ScienceDirect. Thi... View ScienceDirect Online
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... View SpringerMaterials Online
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... View TRANSTATS: The Intermodal Transportation Database Online
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... View Treesearch Online
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... View Wiley Online Library Online

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