Library of Congress Online
Catalog
URL: http://catalog.loc.gov
Search the Library of Congress online catalog
for books by author, title, subject heading, or keyword. Also you
can search for conferences or find out which serials the Library
of Congress has in its collections. Even if you aren’t able
to physically come to the Library of Congess, search the catalog
to see what new and not-so-recent books exist on a topic of interest
and then bring the bibliographical records to your local library
to identify a copy in a library closer to you so that you may request
it by interlibrary loan.
Databases & Electronic
Resources at the Library of Congress
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/
Includes subscription and non-subscription databases
for all subject areas. Subscription databases can only be accessed
on-site at the Library of Congress public workstations. Even if
you aren’t able to physically come to the Library of Congess,
visit this list so that you will have a better idea of which databases
and electronic resources may be available in a library near you.
Databases & Electronic
Resources at the Library of Congress for the Applied Sciences,
Engineering & Technology
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/subjects.php?subjectID=79&Submit=Select
Includes subscription and non-subscription databases
for the areas of the applied sciences, engineering, and technology.
Subscription databases can only be accessed on-site at the Library
of Congress public workstations. A number of the databases have
some full text articles.
The major databases for engineering and related areas include:
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
Wilson's Applied Science & Technology Index provides abstracts and indexing
for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes
computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications and transportation. Provides
information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the
scientific and technological fields. Also indexes interviews, meetings, conferences,
exhibitions, product reviews, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
EI Compendex
Engineering and technical literature, with hundreds of thousands of English-language
abstracts from over 4,500 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings, technical reports,
and professional society publications. This is the electronic equivalent of “Engineering
Index.”
GEOBASE
Covers worldwide literature on cartography, climatology, demography, ecology,
economic geography & geology, environment, geomorphology, geophysics, historical
geography, hydrology, minerology, natural resources, palaeontology, planning,
remote sensing, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics, transportation, and rural,
social, & urban geography.
GeoRef
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present
and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
INSPEC
Includes abstracts and index terms for over 6 million articles published worldwide
in all fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and
information technology.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
Provides access to the latest US government-sponsored research and worldwide
scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
Other databases available on-site at the Library of Congress that
may prove useful include:
- Academic Search Premier
- Article First
- Conference Papers Index
- Declassified Documents Reference System
- Digital Dissertations
- Emerald Full Text
- Environmental Issues & Policy Index
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
- General Science Abstracts
- Global Books in Print
- GPO Monthly Catalog
- History of Science, Technology & Medicine
- InfoTrac OneFile
- Ingenta
- Military and Government Collection
- Proceedings First
- Readers Guide Retrospective
- Science Citation Index
- Science Journals via ProQuest
- Thomas Register
- Web of Science
- WorldCat (OCLC union catalog)
Netlibrary Books
Sample titles include:
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