eResources - Purdue University Libraries

This source is an online tool for locating articles and conference papers published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It covers full-text papers from Journals (1993 - present) and Proceedings (1996 - present)

1993 - present

Yes

ASFA (Combined) Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

Covers the field of aquatic resources, the study and culture of aquatic organisms in marine, brackish water, and freshwater environments.

Varies

ASFA - Aquaculture Abstracts

Marine, brackish and freshwater aquaculture.

1984 - present

ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources

Covers basic and applied research on aquatic organisms both in the laboratory and the field.

1978 - present

Partial

ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality

Research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries.

1990 - present

ASTM Digital Library

Contains the complete ASTM library of books and journal papers as well as papers from the special technical publications, manuals, and monographs. Individual books, papers, book chapters, and journal articles may be downloaded.

Late 1940s to present

Yes

Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)

Covers clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.

1982 - present

Beilstein / Gmelin

Beilstein/Gmelin provides chemical, physical and reaction data on over 10 million organic, inorganic and organometallic substances.

1779 - present

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus

Biology, Agriculture, and related disciplines. *Partial full-text coverage available in OmniFile Full Text.

1983 - present

Partial

Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM

Provides comprehensive coverage of research in the life sciences.

1969 - present

Bioscan

The most comprehensive directory of biotechnology companies available.

Yes

BIOSIS Previews

Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

1926 -

CAB Abstracts

Provides comprehensive coverage of research in agriculture, biology, veterinary medicine and related fields.

1910 - present

Partial

Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts

Emphasizing the central role that calcium plays in all aspects of biology and medicine, this database indexes pertinent journals drawn from a wide range of biomedical disciplines.

1982 - present

Partial

CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Serials Source Index)

CASSI stands for Chemical Abstracts Serials Source Index.

Census of Agriculture

The Census of Agriculture is the source of consistent, comparable, and detailed agricultural data for every county in America.

1992 - 2002

Yes

Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar)

Chemical and related scientific information.

1907 - present

Partial

ChemLibNetBase

This is a collection of over 280 chemistry and chemistry related e-books. You can search the full text and view complete e-books and chapters in PDF format. You can also browse e-books by category.

Yes

Civil Engineering Abstracts

Comprehensive bibliographic database for research on civil engineering. It indexes 3000 journals and includes 250,000 citations.

1966 - present

Partial

CogNet (MIT)

Cognitive and brain sciences.

Partial

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interactive source of several hundred reliable, new and classic research techniques in molecular and cellular biology.

2006-

Yes

Commodity Price Bulletin

Commodity prices.

1960-

Yes

Compendex

Engineering and related disciplines.

1884-present

Partial

Conference Papers Index

Subject emphasis since 1995 in the life sciences, environmental sciences, and aquatic sciences. Older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.

1982 - present

Partial

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

This resource allows searching and browsing of the numerous tables and data found in the print CRC handbook. Includes interactive tables for data manipulation.

Yes

Crop Protection Compendium

Crop Protection Compendium is an interactive database containing scientific information on all aspects of crop protection.

2005 edition

Partial

Current Contents

Tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals and books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Most recent 1 - 1� years.

Current Protocols series

Online laboratory handbooks for the biosciences.

Yes

Digital United States Congressional Serial Set

Provides coverage of major U.S. Government publications produced as part of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from 1789-1969.

1789-1969

Yes

DSM-IV-TR

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Yes

EBSCO Animals

Describes the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Partial

Ecology Abstracts

Focuses on how organisms of all kinds (microbes, plants, and animals) interact with their environments and with other organisms.

1982 - present

EconLit

Indexing and abstracting of economics literature, both domestic and international coverage.

1969 - present

EcoSal

EcoSal is the electronic successor to the ASM print publication, Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology.

Undetermined

Yes

EI Engineering Village 2

Engineering and related disciplines.

1970-

Partial

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements

Abstracts of government issued environmental statements.

1985 - present

Partial

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Online (Nature)

The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences provides very comprehensive coverage of the life sciences for users on undergraduate and graduate levels

2002-

Yes

Engineering Research Database

A combined file that searches serveral databases for publications in civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering .

1966 - present

ENGnetBase

CRC ENGnetBASE gives you online access to some of the world's leading engineering handbooks. Currently, more than 420 titles are available.

Yes

Environment Index

Covers environmental issues and policies.

1973 - present

Environmental Engineering Abstracts

Technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.

1990 - present

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

Comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences.

1981 - present

FAOSTAT

Worldwide time-series statistics relating to agriculture. Multilingual. Primary Use: Searching and downloading time series data of international food and commodity information.

1961 - present

Partial

Federally-Funded Research in the U.S. & U.K.

Grants information.

Partial

Food Science and Technology Abstracts [FSTA]

Covers food science, food technology, food-related human nutrition for all commodities.

1969 - present

General Science Full Text

General science topics.

1982 - present; full-text, 1994 - present

Partial

Global Development Finance

A World Bank publication that tracks the annual movement of international capital flows to 138 countries.

1970-

Yes

Health and Safety Science Abstracts

Public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.

1981 - present

IBISWorld

Access to over 700 reports on United States industries. A small selection of global reports are available.

Current 2 yrs

Yes

INCE Digital Library

Is a full-text library of the two journals: Noise Control Engineering Journal and its earlier Noise Control Engineering and several conference proceedings published by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering.

Yes

Industrial and Applied Microbiology (Microbiology A)

Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

1982 - present

Partial

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)

Pharmacy and pharmaceutical information

1970 - present

International Tables for Crystallography

The series comprises of articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals.

Yes

Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition

Presents quantifiable statistical data that helps determine the relative importance of journals in the area of science.

1998 - present

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Chemical technology and related disciplines.

Partial

Knovel (Sci-Tech handbooks and reference in full text)

Knovel provides numerical and tabular data from leading engineering and science resources.

Yes

LexisNexis Academic

General news; business, medical, and legal news and information; reference information.

Varies

Partial

LexisNexis Environmental (Universe)

Contains these major categories of environmental information: Environmental Abstracts (abstracts of thousands of journal articles and conference papers with links to selected full-text); full-text news, journals and commentary; full-text federal and state codes, regulations, case law, and agency actions, as well as waste site data and hazardous materials information.

Varies

Yes

LexisNexis Statistical

Statistical information produced by the U.S. Government and other reliable sources.

1972 - present

Partial

Mechanical and Transportation Abstracts

Comprehensive bibliographic database for research on mechanical and transportation engineering from many worldwide reference sources. It covers 3000 journals and includes 320,000 citations.

1966 - present

MEDLINE

Medicine, dentistry, nursing, and related disciplines.

1964 - present

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Databases & research in computational biology; software tools for analyzing genome data

NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.

1964 - present

Partial

Plant Cell Biology

Plant Cell Biology on DVD contains >2000 images and >200 movies/animations illustrating structure-function relationships in plant cells.

2007

Yes

Plant Management Network

The Plant Management Network contains information on applied plant science and agriculture.

1990 to the present

Partial

Pollution Abstracts

Pollution, Sewage & Wastewater Treatment, Waste Management, Toxicology & Health, Noise, Radiation, Environmental Action.

1981 - present

Partial

Proteome BioKnowledge® Library

According to its vendor, Proteome, Inc., "the Proteion Bioknowledge Library is a collection of up-to-date information for characterized and uncharacterized proteins from publicly described mammalian and model organism proteomes."

Cannot be defined.

Partial

PsycINFO

Covers literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.

1806 - present

Partial

PubMed

PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature and also access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources.

1950 -

Partial

Review of Medical Physiology - 22nd Ed. (2005)

Current and concise overview of mammalian and human physiology

Yes

Risk Abstracts

Risk-related concerns ranging from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects.

1990 - present

Partial

SAE Technical Papers

Is the full-text source and index for SAE technical papers from 1990 to the present. Earlier papers are also indexed. Standards are searchable but not viewable. Please see separate database, SAE Aerospace Materials Specifications (AMS) and Aerospace Standards (AS). Ground Vehicle Standards (J) are available in the 2008 SAE Handbook on CD that is housed in the Engineering Library.

1990-present

Partial

Science Citation Index Expanded

Bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited and related references from science and technical journals.

1945 - present

Science Online

Full-text access to Science, ScienceExpress (the preprint version of Science), three virtual knowledge environments, Science Now, and other web sites.

Yes

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)

Chemical and related scientific information.

1907 - present

Partial

Security & Management Practices

SMP contains critical IT, legal, financial, and physical security information.

2002 - current

Yes

Stat-USA

Economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.

Varies

Yes

Technology Research Database

A comprehensive database which provides a single file for searching all fields of Engineering and Technology.

1962-present

Partial

Toxicology Abstracts

Toxic substances - industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals. Substance abuse.

1981 - present

Partial

TOXLINE

Toxic substances - chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

1999 - present

Partial

Transport

Important bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports for U.S. and international transportation research and economic information. It includes: Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS), International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD), and TRANSDOC.

1970 - present; some earlier references included.

Veterinary Clinics of North America

Full-text access to four major veterinary review series covering small animal, equine, food animal, and exotic animal practice with latest advances and current treatment options.

2002 to date

Yes

Virology and AIDS Abstracts

Comprehensive coverage of the world literature on every aspect of virology in humans, animals, and plants

2000-present

Partial

Water Resources Abstracts

Characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use, and management of water resources.

1967 - present

Partial

Web of Knowledge

ISI Web of Knowledge provides access to Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, Web Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports.

1900 -

Web of Science

Bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references and related references covering the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.

1977 - present

Partial

Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide

Provides coverage of all aspects of wildlife. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, parasites, and more.

1935 - present

World Bank e-Library

World Bank's full text collection of over 1,000 books, reports and other documents.

Yes

World Development Indicators (On Line)

Statistical data on people, environment, economic and financial on countries and markets for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.

1960-

Yes

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Up-to-date indexing, abstracts, and Internet links in political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy.

Thorough: 1975-present. Some coverage 1960-1974. A few items from even earlier years.

Partial

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