Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Applied Sciences, Engineering & Technology


ACS Journal Search
Retrieve citations and abstracts for articles in journals published by the American Chemical Society.

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Alaska & Polar Periodical Index
The index cites articles in English about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica.

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Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
Provides an annotated bibliography of over 2,000 books, articles, films, CDs, and websites about a broad range of nuclear issues.

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American Society for Engineering Education Conferences [ASEE]
The ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Center offers a searchable database of PDF files, including the papers from past ASEE Annual Conferences since 1996.

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Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index for more than 2,000 periodicals covering events, issues and trends in the history of the applied sciences, business and industry, and technology.

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Applied Science and Technology Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson Applied Science & Technology Index provides abstracts and indexing for over 750 of the leading periodicals in science and technology.

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Arctic Science and Technology Information System
The ASTIS database contains over 60,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada.

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ASCE Civil Engineering Database
Abstracts and indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

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ASTM International Directory of Testing Laboratories
This American Society for Testing and Materials Directory provides on-line full text searching for services and locations of testing laboratories.

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Astronomical Research Institute Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References
The ARIBIB is an on-line database of citations for the astronomical bibliography Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts and Astronomischer Jahresbericht.

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Bentham Open Access
Includes more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all major disciplines.

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Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CISTI includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.

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CiteseerX
Scientific Literature Digital Library citation index with the full text of thousands of research articles by more than a half million authors.

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Cold Regions Bibliographies
Search the "Antarctic Bibliography" and the "Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology" databases for materials on the science and technology of the world's cold regions.

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Conference Papers Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.

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Conversions ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides for the comparing and calculating of the following units of measurement: area; distance; energy; fuel consumption; power; speed; temperature; volume; and weight.

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Credo Reference : Science & Technology Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over 2 dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries covering a variety of scientific disciplines.

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CSA Technology Research Database Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A comprehensive indexing and abstracting database covering all fields of engineering and technology.

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Department of Transportation Digital Special Collections
The DOT library has digitized numerous collections relating to airlines, trains, and other modes of transportation.

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Digital Dissertations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.

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DiVA Academic Archive
DiVA, the Digital Scientific Archive (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet in Swedish), contains over 6,600 documents, including full-text doctoral theses, dissertations, monographs, and undergraduate theses from a number of Nordic universities.

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DOE Data Explorer
The DDE finds scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines.

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E-Journals in Engineering & Applied Sciences ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Aeronautics and Space Flight, Computer Science, Engineering, and Transportation.

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E-Journals in Physical Sciences and Mathematics ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.

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E-print Network
Gateway to over 14,000 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences.

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ECS EPrints Repository
Publications database of over 10,000 records for Electronics and Computer Science.

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EI Compendex Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Electronic Engineer's Master
EEM offers links to thousands of manufacturers of electronic components, equipment and services.

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Emerald ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary ejournal gateway providing full text access to over 180 management, applied science and technology, engineering, health sciences, and library and information science journals published by MCB University Press.

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Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
Contains basic terms and principles of laser physics and technology, including general optics and optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, fiber optics, and optical communications.

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Energy Citations Database
Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

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Engineering Conferences Online
ECO provides descriptive (and some full text) access to conference proceedings related to engineering.

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Environment Complete Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Environment Complete covers the scientific, technical & popular literature on energy resources, global warming, wastes, recycling, pollution, health hazards, conservation, wildlife management, and social / ethical issues & policy from more than 1,500 domestic and international sources.

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Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Worldwide literature covering the environmental sciences including air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and US federal environmental impact statements.

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ETDEWEB ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ETDE World Energy Base contains more than 4 million references to international articles, reports and conference papers within all energy related subjects.

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FreePatentsOnline.com
Search for US Patents, US Applications, and European patents, or browse by patent number, to access the full text of US patents from number 4,000,000 onwards.

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GEOBASE Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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GeoRef Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Hindawi Journals Online
A collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in science, technology, and medicine.

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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.

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IC Master
IC Master is a source of integrated circuits and miniature electronic equipment product information.

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IEEE ConferenceSearch
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Conference database includes all meetings run by, or in association with, the IEEE.

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Index to Translations
Translations Index is a tool for identifying translations of scientific publications covering physics and related areas such as chemical physics, geophysics, and mathematics.

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INSPEC Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Intellectual Property Digital Library Database
Provides access to intellectual property data, including patents and trademarks, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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Internet Resources in Science and Technology
Links to public internet sites in the areas of: General Resources in Science & Technolgy; Biography; Botany; Gardening; Chemistry; Climate and Weather; Engineering; Environment; Geology; Health and Medical Information; Inventions; Oceanography; Physics; Resources for Teachers; Science Fair Projects; and Zoology.

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Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
Search engine covering the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.

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Jane's.Com (Select Client Area) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides full text access to Jane's research in defense, terrorism, market intelligence, national security and transportation.

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Knovel Library ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 700 leading science and engineering reference handbooks, technical data and reports, textbooks, and conference proceedings.

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NACA Technical Reports Server
Contains citations and full text of technical reports issued by the predecessor organization to NASA.

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NASA Technical Reports Server
NTRS contains NASA aerospace information, including research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data.

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National Academies Press
Search for the full text to more than 3,000 NAP texts from the Joseph Henry Press, covering a wide variety of subjects (arts, humanities, and social and applied sciences) are available free online.

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National Technical Information Service Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
NTIS contains nearly 3 million scientific and technical reports on US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.

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Nineteenth Century Masterfile Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
19th Century Masterfile contains more than 60 core subject indexes to periodicals, books, newspapers, patents, and US and UK government documents covering the early 1700's to 1906.

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NIST Scientific and Technical Databases
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gateway provides access to over 80 of the NIST scientific and technical databases.

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NRC-CISTI's Articles Database
Contains millions of peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal articles, mostly published after 1993.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Glossary
Full text glossary of commonly used terms found in nuclear energy and related fields.

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OAIster
Search for full text collections of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.

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OpenSIGLE System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
Locate research results originating in the International Conference Series on Gray Literature.

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Oxford Reference Online : Medicine & Science Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.

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PapersFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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PerX : Engineering Repository Cross Search
Subject-based cross-repository search tool for resource discovery in engineering.

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PGM Database
Contains a collection of published data defining the physical, mechanical and chemical data for the platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium and ruthenium) and their alloys.

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PolarInfo Database
Contains references to northern and Native subjects covering health, education, law, business, political science, geology, cold regions engineering, vegetation, and wildlife.

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Readers' Guide Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to nearly 100 years of citations from more than 500 leading popular periodicals and magazines.

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Royal Society Online Journals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search and display the full text of journals in biology, engineering, mathematics and physics.

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Science Accelerator
Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), Department of Energy.

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Science Citation Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences (available in ISI Web of Science).

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Science Journals via ProQuest Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search full text and images for the over 300 journals in science and technology, with over 160 titles available in full text.

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Science.gov
Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.

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Scientific Commons
The database tracks over 15 million publications found in nearly 1,000 repositories produced by over 6 million authors.

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SCIRUS
Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling users to find Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, see the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.

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SPRILIB : A Polar and Glaciological Bibliographic Database
The Scott Polar Research Institute Library (SPRILIB) databases cover the literature relating to the Arctic and Antarctic published in a wide range of languages.

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STINET MultiSearch
Provides access to the DOD Scientific and Technical Information Center (DTIC) databases containing citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.

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Superconductivity Papers Database
Search over 70,000 articles in the areas of High Tc, C60 related, Organic Conductors, Non-Oxide Superconductors including the conventional superconductors, Oxide Conductors, and Theory (new field since September 1997).

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TechXtra
Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research, thesis & dissertations in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing.

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Thomas Register
ThomasNet contains detailed product and directory information for US and Canadian manufacturing companies.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office
The US Patent and Trademark Office databases provide extensive information on patents and trademarks.

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Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection
Indexes journal articles and books in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Development and Biology, Chemistry, Engineering Materials Science.

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