Engineering
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) -Search and find bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985, including works published by affiliated organizations.
Analytical Abstracts (RSC) -"...is the only abstracting service designed specifically to meet analytical chemistry information needs. It provides comprehensive coverage of new techniques and applications." 1980 to present."
Applied Science & Technology Index (H.W.Wilson) -Already established processes or already manufactured items-e.g. how to make them run faster, better, cheaper or make something like them. "Covers more than 480 core English-language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management."
Chemical Abstracts -Search Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar®.
Emerald Fulltext -40,000+ searchable articles from over 100 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering. Key journals include: European Journal of Marketing, Management Decision, International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
Engineering Village 2 -For all areas of engineering research and development- provides access to Compendex (Engineering Index online) beginning in 1884
General Science Index (H.W.Wilson) -"covers 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times." (H.W.Wilson) - "covers 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times."
IEEE IEL (IEEE) - Electrical and computer engineering- research and development. Search and retrieve full text of IEEE and IEE/IET publications including transactions and proceedings from more than 120 IEEE journals, 900 active IEEE standards, and the proceedings of 400 annual conferences. The majority of the content dates back to 1988; content from select publications back as far as 1950.
INSPEC (EBSCO) -INSPEC created by the IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing and information technology. Containing over 7 million records, INSPEC provides coverage from over 3,500 journals, 1,500 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports.
NISO (the National Information Standards Organization) -non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information.
Oceanic Abstracts (CSA) -"Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. It is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics."
Patent and Trademark Office, United States
-Search for United States patents 1790 to present through the Patent and Trademark Office (United States). Patents issued since 1976 in full text. full-page images are available since 1790. NOTE: Patents from 1790 through 1975 are searchable only by Patent Number and Current US Classification!
Guided Search from the Patent and Trademark Office, US
Patent Tutorial (Penn State University Library)
Safari (ProQuest) -Full-text information technology books from Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, New Riders, O'Reilly and Associates, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Que, and Sams. The library has subscribed to a small collection of Safari books (some books will show up as previews not full-text) as a pilot project to test out this product and to better understand your requirements and uses of electronic books. Please send your comments on this service to your library liaison or the collection development librarian, Bruce Barnes, Email Bruce Barnes.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO) -a general science oriented database with full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Science.gov (US Govt.) -United States government science cross-agency portal. Search for full text documents and reports of U.S. agencies.
SciFinder Scholar® -from American Chemical Society, is the search interface to the Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE databases. It provides subject coverage that includes the chemical aspects of astronomy, biology, education, engineering, economics, geology, history, mathematics, medicine, and physics. It is available for use from specially designated workstations in the Reference area on the 2nd floor of the Library. Please ask at the Reference Desk if you cannot locate them. The SciFinder Scholar® client software may also be downloaded for use by UMass Dartmouth students, faculty and staff in campus offices and labs after registering with the Science Librarian. (On Campus Use Only)
Scitopia.org -Twenty one scientific and engineering societies allow searching of their combined databases. NOT FULL TEXT. Always check the UMass library's Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library Using Journal Locator for full text when available.
Textile Technology Complete (EBSCO) -from the Institute of Textile Technology provides international coverage of the literature of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production, processing and related subjects including journals, books, conferences, theses, technical reports, trade literature, and other material acquired by the Institute's library. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile science research, the production, processing, automation and management systems of these operations, as well as the major resources from the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.
TRIS (U.S. Dept. of Transportation) -Transportation Research Information Services (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)- a bibliographic database that contains over half a million records of published transportation research including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles. If the item you want is not in full text (or if you must pay for the full text), use the library's interlibrary loan service (under "get" on the library homepage) to request the copy.
Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge) -Web of Science, formerly known as Science Citation Index, traces the references at the end of each paper published in a broad collection of 8000 journals in science and engineering. Use this database most efficiently to discover who has cited a paper written in the past.
