Databases A to Z
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| Publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, including regional groups (Gulf Coast, Eastern, Canada). | |
| Access Engineering (McGraw-Hill) | Over 1,600 engineering e-books by McGraw-Hill, including classics like Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. Schaum's Outlines, online tutorials. |
| Access Science (McGraw-Hill) | Science and technology encyclopedia by McGraw-Hill. Besides articles includes biographies of well-known scientists. |
| ACM Digital Library | Full-text to all Association for Computing Machinery journals, transactions, magazines, and proceedings since 1947. |
| Agricola | Citations to publications by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access), covering 1970 to present. |
| AGU digital library | Full-text to all journals published by the American Geophysical Union from 1896 to the present. Books are being added. |
| AIAA Electronic Library | Covering all meeting papers, conference proceedings, and journals from 1963 to the present published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| arxiv.org | Created by Paul Ginsparg, arXiv is an archive of research papers in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience. |
| ASCE Research Library | Includes all American Society of Civil Engineers' conference proceedings since 1998 and 30 ASCE journals since 1995. |
| ASHRAE Standards and Guidelines | Includes standards published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. |
| ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams | Includes 32,500 binary and ternary phase diagrams for over 6200 systems and is published by the American Society of Metals. We also have Phase Equilibria Diagrams from ACS. |
| ASM Handbooks | Equivalent to the 26 print handbooks published by the American Society of Metals. |
| ASME Digital Library | Full-text to journals, conferences, and e-books published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| ASTM Standards and Digital Library | Vast collection of industry-leading standards published by the American Society for Testing of Materials covering many engineering disciplines. Journals are also included. |
| Begell Digital Library | Begell covers 40 peer-reviewed journals in engineering and biomedical sciences. Also includes reference works Heat Exchanger Design Handbook and Thermopedia. |
| Biosis citation index | Premier biological database, covering 1926 to the present. |
| Books24x7 | Full-text electronic republication of hundreds of books and journals covering technology, programming languages, desktop applications, the Web and more. |
| Chemical Engineering Netbase | Over 170 e-books on bioprocessing, chemical processing and design, mass transfer, and process control. |
| CHEMnetBASE | Includes several chemical dictionaries, and the CRC handbook of chemistry and physics. |
| Compendex | Compendex contains references and abstracts from some 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports from 1884 to date and includes Engineering Index. All fields of engineering are covered. |
| CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics | Searchable ready-reference resource of chemical and physical data |
| Dissertations & Theses @ Cornell University and the Weill Medical College | Contains abstracts of Cornell dissertations and Weill Medical College; authorized users may download the full text of those published after 2003. |
| DOE Information Bridge | Full-text Department of Energy (DOE) research and development in physics, chemistry, materials, biological energy technologies, and environmental sciences. |
| Engineering village | Includes Compendex and INSPEC, comprehensive databases for engineering and physics from 1969 to date. |
| Energy Citations Database | Contains energy-related papers from the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Atomic Energy Administration covering 1943 to the present. |
| ENGnetBASE | Published by CRC, this database contains hundreds of full-text books to CivilEngineeringNetBase, ElectricalEngineeringNetBase, GeneralEngineeringNetBase, IndustrialEngineeringNetbase, MechanicalEngineeringNetBase, and MiningEngineeringNetBase. |
| Geological Society of America online | Provides full-text journals Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geology, Geosphere, Lithosphere, Reviews in Engineering Geology, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, GSA Today, Special Papers, Memoirs, and Field Guides. |
| GeoRef | Database of the American Geological Institute (AGI). Covers worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics on North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933. |
| Google Patents | Includes full text U.S. patents (including drawings) from 1790 to the present. International patents are not included. |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar provides a way to search for scholarly literature, be it articles, books, these, or preprints. |
| IEEE xplore | Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, books, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards. |
| INSPEC | INSPEC contains bibliographic records from scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings. It concentrates on electrical and electronic engineering, physics, information technology, and computer and control systems. Coverage is 1969 to date. |
| International Tables for Crystallography |
Corresponds to the complete multi-volume print version. Includes data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. |
| Journal citation reports | ISI evaluates 5,000 science journals using citation data from 8,400 scholarly and technical journals. |
| Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology | Complete text of the multi-volume encyclopedia covering chemical technology, manufacture and distribution. |
| Knovel | Knovel features online versions of over 2,000 reference materials in all fields of engineering. Includes tools, such as interactive tables, equation plotters, graph digitizers, and ability to export to Excel spreadsheets. |
| Lyell Collection | Includes the full-text of the publications of the Geological Society of London., including journals, special publications, and book series. |
| Mad Cad codes | MAD CAD is an online collection of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes such as: IBC, IEBC, IEC; IECC; IFC; IMC; IPC; IRC; UBC; BOCA; SBC; ADA; and ANSI. |
| Materials Safety Data Sheets | Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) can be found in several free collections, see this site for links and FAQ. |
| MaterialsNetbase | Over 350 e-books covering adhesives, coatings and thin films, corrosion, fire science, and industrial textiles. |
| MathSciNet | Consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and statistics, from 1940 to the present. |
| Merck Index | Encyclopedia of chemical, drugs, and biologicals containing over 10,000 monographs. |
| MicroPatent | Includes full-text of US (1836-), EP (1988-), PCT (1978-), Great Britain (1979-), and German (1989-) patents. Downloading of records is available. |
| Morgan & Claypool Digital Library of Engineering and computer science; Colloquium of Life Sciences | Contains over 400 lectures on artificial intelligence, communication networks, electrical engineering, human-centered informatics, synthetic biology, and life sciences. Books are 50- to 200 pages in length, each of which synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. |
| MRS online proceedings | Collection of online proceedings papers from the Materials Research Society meetings |
| NANOnetBASE | Online collection of several hundred e-books covering nanoscience and nanotechnology. Published by CRC and Taylor & Francis. |
| NASA Technical Report Server |
NASA technical reports, images, and movides covering aeronautics and engineering from 1916 to the present. Note: Due to national security concerns, NASA TRS has been taken offline as of early April, 2013. For more information see this news article. When and how access will be restored is still to be determined. |
| OnePetro | OnePetro is an online library of technical literature relating to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. It contains publications by many professional societies in this area, including the American Petroleum Institute, American Rock Mechanics Association, and Society of Petroleum Engineers. |
| OpticsInfobase | Contains journals and conference proceedings published by the Optical Society of America. |
| Patent Lens | Free patent database to ten million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia, and WIPO. |
| Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook | Since 1934, Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook has delivered unrivaled, state-of-the-art coverage of all aspects of chemical engineering —from the fundamentals to details on computer applications and control. Featuring 2,700 pages and 1900 illustrations, the eighth edition is a comprehensive source for the newest developments, advances, achievements, and methods in the field. |
| Phase Equilibria Diagrams (ACS) | The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publish over 23,000 phase diagrams for oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, brides, compound semiconductors, and chalcogenides. Note searching is case sensitive, Bi2O3, not bi2o3. |
| ProQuest Dissertations and theses | Includes over 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the present. Dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts. Some are in PDF full-text. |
| PubMed | Provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. |
| Reaxys | Search chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions housed in the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Databases. |
| SAE Digital Library | The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Digital Library provides access to thousands of SAE Technical Papers covering research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. |
| Safari Books Online | Close to 10,000 e-books published by O'Reilly for programmers and IT professionals. Covers the last three years only. We also get in these books in print. |
| SIAM Publications Online | Access to online journals and e-books published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
| SciFinder | Premier database of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Includes journal articles, Registry database, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts |
| Scitation | Provides full-text access to journals published and distributed by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies. |
| Scitopia.org | Free search portal for 15 professional societies (Acoustical Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Vacuum Society, The Electrochemical Society, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Physics Publishing, Optical Society of America, Society of Automotive Engineers, Society for Industrial and Applie Mathematics and SPIE) |
| SPIE Digital Library | SPIE (Society of Photo optical Instrumentation Engineers) Digital Library provides full-text access to e-books, conference proceedings, and journal articles in the field of optics and photonics research. |
| SpringerLink | Provides access to over 10,000 ebooks from 2005 to the present. Also includes journals, book series, eReferences, and Protocols. |
| Springer Materials the Landolt-Börnstein database | SpringerMaterials is based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, the Dortmund Data Bank Software & Separation Technology (a database on thermophysical properties), and the Linus Pauling Files (a database on inorganic solid phases and chemical safety data). |
| TRB Publications | Contains over 21,000 citations for all publications by the Transportation Research Board and Strategic Highway Research Program from 1970s to the present. |
| Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry |
Online encyclopedia including approximately 1,000 articles detailing the science and technology in all areas of industrial chemistry |
| VIVO | Search VIVO for information on faculty, departments, facilities, courses, graduate fields -- anything related to research and scholarship at Cornell. |
| Water Resources Abstracts | Water Resources Abstracts is prepared from materials collection by over 50 water research centers and institutes in the U.S. |
| Web of Science | Provides access to the Science citation index expanded from 1900 to the present, Social sciences citation index from 1956 to the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975 to the present. |
| AAPG Datapages Combined Publications | Publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, including regional groups (Gulf Coast, Eastern, Canada). |
