Departmental employees at the following offices/bureaus have access to this database:
- Bureau of Indian Affairs - Nationwide
- Bureau of Land Management - Nationwide
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management - Nationwide
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement - Nationwide
- Bureau of Reclamation - Nationwide
- Fish and Wildlife Service - Nationwide
- National Park Service - Nationwide
- U.S. Geological Survey - Nationwide
- Office of Natural Resources Revenue - Nationwide
- Office of Surface Mining - Nationwide
- Office of the Secretary - Washington Area Locations
Other users must come to the Interior Library to use this database or contact a Reference Librarian for assistance.
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MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 85,827 biographies, 105,789 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal and National Review.
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Science and Technology Collection
Science & Technology Collection contains more than 830 leading full text scientific and technical journals. Also, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,740 publications. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.
This collection contains many scholarly journals including American Scientist, Archaeoastronomy, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management Journal, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Quarterly Review of Biology, and many more.
Federal Research in Progress
This database provides access to information about ongoing federally funded projects in the physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences. FEDRIP's uniqueness lies in its structure as a non-bibliographic information source of research in progress.
Federal Research in Progress can be used to avoid research duplication, complement searches of completed research, identify gaps in areas of investigation, identify leads in literature, locate individuals with expertise, locate sources of support, and stimulate ideas for planning.
Project descriptions generally include: project title, keywords, start date, estimated completion date, principal investigator, performing and sponsoring organizations, summary, and progress report. Record content varies depending on the source agency.
