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- AATA Online Abstracts Of International Conservation Literature
Provides over 100,000 peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management in a free online database. Date coverage: 1932 - present.
- ACM Digital Library
ACM Digital Library is a database of all materials published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including articles and conference proceedings. Abstracts of books are also provided.
- ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
This guide covers everything from journal authoring topics such as organization of your article and peer review, to styling conventions needed for all scholarly communication, such as chemical nomenclature and effective writing and word usage, to emerging areas of interest in scholarly communication, including open access & open science, sharing data, communicating safety information, and preprints.
- Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
Covers all aspects of applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, aerospace and space sciences; also covers technology development and applications in supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. Includes journal literature and reports issued by NASA and other U.S. government agencies. Corresponds to International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR).
- AGRICOLA
Index to the National Agricultural Library, including primary sources on world agriculture.
- Annual ReviewsProvides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
- Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective
Covers a wide variety of specialties in applied science & technology — acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics. Useful source for issues and trends on the history of business and industry. Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective contains indexing and abstracts for core English-language, scientific and technical publications.
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
This collection is one of the premier marine and aquatic sciences databases. ASFA covers all aspects of marine and aquatic sciences, as well as oceanography, climate, and environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues related to freshwater and oceanic ecosystems, fisheries, and aquaculture. ASFA also allows you to search directly for tables, graphs, maps, and images included in the scholarly literature.
- arXiv.orgarXiv is an open-access electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
- Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts searches journal articles in all areas of the biological sciences. Like all databases on the Web of Science platform, it also provides citation information — both articles cited and 'cited by' links, allowing the user to follow the literature on a topic both forward and backward in time. Also allows searching using BIOSIS indexing, MeSH terms, and CAS registry numbers.
- BioOne Complete
A product of the nonprofit organization BioOne, the BioOne Complete database covers more than 200 full text, subscribed and open-access journals focusing on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. About half of the journals included are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers and are exclusive to the BioOne database.
- Birds of the World
A research database that brings together scholarly content from four major works of ornithology, millions of bird observations from eBird, and multimedia content from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. Birds of the World presents a vast array of information about every species, subspecies, and family of the world's birds. Includes images, sounds, and videos.
- CAS SciFinder-n Best Bet
SciFinder-n is the premier chemical information source, consisting of chemical data, manufacturing information, patents, and citations to scholarly literature. Chemical structure searching is available via a drawing tool.
To use SciFinder-n, you must create an account using your BU email address.
- Compendex
Compendex is a database of scientific and technical engineering research covering all engineering disciplines. It includes engineering journals and conference proceedings. Combined with the Engineering Index (1884-1969) it covers 130+ years of core engineering literature.
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science
A separately searchable component of Web of Science, this citation index covers conference literature in all fields of science.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsThis reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
- Current Index to Statistics Best Bet
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes data from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 additional journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. The bulk of the content in CIS is from 1975-2017.
- E&E NewsIncludes daily news updates on a variety of environmental and energy policy topics as well as links to online publications from E&E Publishing. Also includes video clips and compiled reports on specific subjects.
- Encyclopedia of MathematicsThe Encyclopedia of Mathematics is an open access resource designed specifically for the mathematics community. The original articles are from the online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002. Now published by Springer, in cooperation with the European Mathematical Society as a wiki.
- Engineering Village Best Bet
Engineering Village is a discovery platform that allows researchers to search across multiple databases (Compendex and Inspec) simultaneously. The platform provides powerful features to refine and filter searches and to sort and format search results and link to full text articles.
- ENGnetBASEENGnetBASE is an eBook collection that includes 200+ reference books and handbooks in a wide range of engineering subjects. The collection is especially strong in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering and includes the well-respected CRC Handbooks published by CRC Press.
- Environment Complete Best Bet
Environment Complete is a comprehensive database focused on all aspects of environmental science including conservation, biodiversity, climate, pollution, agriculture and aquaculture, environmental law and policy, urban planning, environmental engineering, and more.
- Environmental Law Reporter
Provides comprehensive information about environmental law. Use this database to find news and analysis, federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, and administrative decisions affecting environmental law practice. Also find information about federal congressional and agency developments in this field. Information about environmental litigation and international materials round out this resource. The reporter ceased publication in print in 2003, but the News and Analysis section continues to be available in print.
- General Science Full Text
A multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subjects includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews.
- GeoRef
GeoRef searches journal articles in the geological sciences, including geology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, and other related disciplines.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
- Grants IndexDiscover awarded grants from the leading government and private funding agencies from around the world.
- GreenFILE
GreenFILE searches journal articles, government documents, and ebooks relating to human impact on the environment. It covers interdisciplinary topics such as environmental policy, environmental engineering, pollution, conservation, and other areas in which human activities and nature coincide. GreenFILE also contains a cited references feature that allows the user to see what material the author has cited in their publication, and what later publications cite it.
- IEEE XploreIEEE Xplore Digital Library includes access to the full text of IEEE content published since 1988 with select content published since 1872 from IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, IEEE conference proceedings, IET journals and conference proceedings and the IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library including titles from 1974-2015.
- Inspec
Inspec is a database of research literature in the fields of engineering, physics and computing. It includes journal articles, conference papers and book content.
- J-STAGE
Presents the Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE), a system developed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) that helps academic societies create and publish electronic journals. Allows users to browse and search participating journals.
- JoVE: Journal of Visualized ExperimentsJoVE the Journal of Visualized Experiments is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes experimental methods in video format. BU has access to JoVE Bioengineering, Biology, and Medicine.
- Korean Journal DatabaseSearch articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in Korean Citation Index (KCI). KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in South Korea.
- MathSciNet Best Bet
MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences. Reviews are classified and searchable according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Continues the publication Mathematical Reviews, first published in 1940. Reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of current literature.
- MIT CogNetMIT Cognet provides full text access to books, reference works, and journals published by MIT Press in the fields of cognitive and brain science. It also includes articles and abstracts from other publishers, professional associations, and conferences.
- OSTI.GOVOSTI.GOV searches and provides access to free full text of journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and other publications resulting from research funded by the US Department of Energy.
- Preprint Citation IndexPreprint Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, contains preprints ahead of formal publication from a range of international selected and evaluated preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities.
- ProQuest TDM Studio
TDM Studio offers researchers two pathways to perform text and data mining. Data visualizations provide researchers an option to interrogate ProQuest content using interactive, graphical representations of the data and require no coding. The second pathway, for researchers that are accustomed to using coding for textual analysis, is the Workbench, which provides full programmatic access to content using Python or R.
- PubMedBest Bet Featured
Comprehensive coverage of abstracts to the biomedical literature. Includes medicine, the allied health disciplines, and biomedical literature. Materials range from 1809 Onwards, with more recent decades better represented.
- RepbaseCurrently supported by the Genetic Information Research Institute, Repbase is a database of prototypic sequences representing repetitive DNA from different eukaryotic species. Repbase is being used in genome sequencing projects worldwide as a reference collection for masking and annotation of repetitive DNA (e.g. by RepeatMasker or CENSOR).
- Science Citation Index Expanded
Science Citation Index Expanded, accessed via Web of Science, provides comprehensive data on bibliographic and citation information. This database allows a researcher to identify which later articles have cited any particular earlier article, or have cited the articles of any particular author, or have been cited most frequently. Searches more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines.
- ScienceDirect Best Bet
ScienceDirect is a general science database that searches journal articles and book chapters in all areas of science, technology, and health. ScienceDirect also provides full text access to a number of major reference works, allows the user to create email alerts for specific journal titles, book series, or research topics, and provides access to a limited number of "pre-pub" articles (articles accepted for publication but not yet officially released).
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks
SIAM (The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) eBooks cover applied mathematical and computational methodologies in engineering, industry, science, and society.
- SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) Digital Library includes SPIE journals and conference papers on optics and photonics.
- SpringerLink eBooks
The SpringerLink eBooks database contains the full-text of over 45,000 eBooks, the majority of them related to engineering and computer science. There are also books on other topics, including medicine, mathematics, life sciences, and the social sciences. Previews of hundreds of additional titles are also available. Most titles are in English but some books in other languages are also included.
- STAT+
STAT+ offers original reporting and analysis of breaking news in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry.
Create an account by clicking on Subscribe and using your @bu.edu email address and a different, non-BU password
- Trends and Policy: U.S. EnvironmentThis resource includes environmental policy related news from major U.S. newspapers. These newspaper articles provide first-hand accounts of both current and historical environmental policy issues and events.
- U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement (1981 - 2015)
This collection focuses on two series of international negotiations that dominated U.S. climate policy during this period: the 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
- Water Rights & ResourcesDedicated to understanding the complex interplay of state and federal laws that govern all aspects of water in society, from municipal use to restoring its pristine condition. Collecting congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases, this collection touches on a wide range of water issues, including irrigation, hydropower, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights.
- Web of Science Best Bet Featured
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Science (General)
- ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
This guide covers everything from journal authoring topics such as organization of your article and peer review, to styling conventions needed for all scholarly communication, such as chemical nomenclature and effective writing and word usage, to emerging areas of interest in scholarly communication, including open access & open science, sharing data, communicating safety information, and preprints.
- Annual ReviewsProvides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
- Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective
Covers a wide variety of specialties in applied science & technology — acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics. Useful source for issues and trends on the history of business and industry. Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective contains indexing and abstracts for core English-language, scientific and technical publications.
- arXiv.orgarXiv is an open-access electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science
A separately searchable component of Web of Science, this citation index covers conference literature in all fields of science.
- General Science Full Text
A multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subjects includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
- Grants IndexDiscover awarded grants from the leading government and private funding agencies from around the world.
- J-STAGE
Presents the Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE), a system developed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) that helps academic societies create and publish electronic journals. Allows users to browse and search participating journals.
- Korean Journal DatabaseSearch articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in Korean Citation Index (KCI). KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in South Korea.
- MIT CogNetMIT Cognet provides full text access to books, reference works, and journals published by MIT Press in the fields of cognitive and brain science. It also includes articles and abstracts from other publishers, professional associations, and conferences.
- Preprint Citation IndexPreprint Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, contains preprints ahead of formal publication from a range of international selected and evaluated preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities.
- RepbaseCurrently supported by the Genetic Information Research Institute, Repbase is a database of prototypic sequences representing repetitive DNA from different eukaryotic species. Repbase is being used in genome sequencing projects worldwide as a reference collection for masking and annotation of repetitive DNA (e.g. by RepeatMasker or CENSOR).
- Science Citation Index Expanded
Science Citation Index Expanded, accessed via Web of Science, provides comprehensive data on bibliographic and citation information. This database allows a researcher to identify which later articles have cited any particular earlier article, or have cited the articles of any particular author, or have been cited most frequently. Searches more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines.
- ScienceDirect Best Bet
ScienceDirect is a general science database that searches journal articles and book chapters in all areas of science, technology, and health. ScienceDirect also provides full text access to a number of major reference works, allows the user to create email alerts for specific journal titles, book series, or research topics, and provides access to a limited number of "pre-pub" articles (articles accepted for publication but not yet officially released).
- SpringerLink eBooks
The SpringerLink eBooks database contains the full-text of over 45,000 eBooks, the majority of them related to engineering and computer science. There are also books on other topics, including medicine, mathematics, life sciences, and the social sciences. Previews of hundreds of additional titles are also available. Most titles are in English but some books in other languages are also included.
- Web of Science Best Bet Featured
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
Covers all aspects of applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, aerospace and space sciences; also covers technology development and applications in supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. Includes journal literature and reports issued by NASA and other U.S. government agencies. Corresponds to International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR).
- arXiv.orgarXiv is an open-access electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsThis reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
- Inspec
Inspec is a database of research literature in the fields of engineering, physics and computing. It includes journal articles, conference papers and book content.
- OSTI.GOVOSTI.GOV searches and provides access to free full text of journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and other publications resulting from research funded by the US Department of Energy.
- Web of Science Best Bet Featured
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Biology
- AGRICOLA
Index to the National Agricultural Library, including primary sources on world agriculture.
- Annual ReviewsProvides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
This collection is one of the premier marine and aquatic sciences databases. ASFA covers all aspects of marine and aquatic sciences, as well as oceanography, climate, and environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues related to freshwater and oceanic ecosystems, fisheries, and aquaculture. ASFA also allows you to search directly for tables, graphs, maps, and images included in the scholarly literature.
- Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts searches journal articles in all areas of the biological sciences. Like all databases on the Web of Science platform, it also provides citation information — both articles cited and 'cited by' links, allowing the user to follow the literature on a topic both forward and backward in time. Also allows searching using BIOSIS indexing, MeSH terms, and CAS registry numbers.
- BioOne Complete
A product of the nonprofit organization BioOne, the BioOne Complete database covers more than 200 full text, subscribed and open-access journals focusing on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. About half of the journals included are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers and are exclusive to the BioOne database.
- Birds of the World
A research database that brings together scholarly content from four major works of ornithology, millions of bird observations from eBird, and multimedia content from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. Birds of the World presents a vast array of information about every species, subspecies, and family of the world's birds. Includes images, sounds, and videos.
- Compendex
Compendex is a database of scientific and technical engineering research covering all engineering disciplines. It includes engineering journals and conference proceedings. Combined with the Engineering Index (1884-1969) it covers 130+ years of core engineering literature.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsThis reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
- Engineering Village
Engineering Village is a discovery platform that allows researchers to search across multiple databases (Compendex and Inspec) simultaneously. The platform provides powerful features to refine and filter searches and to sort and format search results and link to full text articles.
- General Science Full Text
A multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subjects includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews.
- GeoRef
GeoRef searches journal articles in the geological sciences, including geology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, and other related disciplines.
- JoVE: Journal of Visualized ExperimentsJoVE the Journal of Visualized Experiments is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes experimental methods in video format. BU has access to JoVE Bioengineering, Biology, and Medicine.
- PubMedBest Bet Featured
Comprehensive coverage of abstracts to the biomedical literature. Includes medicine, the allied health disciplines, and biomedical literature. Materials range from 1809 Onwards, with more recent decades better represented.
- RepbaseCurrently supported by the Genetic Information Research Institute, Repbase is a database of prototypic sequences representing repetitive DNA from different eukaryotic species. Repbase is being used in genome sequencing projects worldwide as a reference collection for masking and annotation of repetitive DNA (e.g. by RepeatMasker or CENSOR).
- STAT+
STAT+ offers original reporting and analysis of breaking news in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry.
Create an account by clicking on Subscribe and using your @bu.edu email address and a different, non-BU password
- Web of Science Best Bet Featured
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Chemistry
- ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
This guide covers everything from journal authoring topics such as organization of your article and peer review, to styling conventions needed for all scholarly communication, such as chemical nomenclature and effective writing and word usage, to emerging areas of interest in scholarly communication, including open access & open science, sharing data, communicating safety information, and preprints.
- CAS SciFinder-n Best Bet
SciFinder-n is the premier chemical information source, consisting of chemical data, manufacturing information, patents, and citations to scholarly literature. Chemical structure searching is available via a drawing tool.
To use SciFinder-n, you must create an account using your BU email address.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsThis reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
Computer Science
- ACM Digital Library
ACM Digital Library is a database of all materials published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including articles and conference proceedings. Abstracts of books are also provided.
- arXiv.orgarXiv is an open-access electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
- Engineering Village Best Bet
Engineering Village is a discovery platform that allows researchers to search across multiple databases (Compendex and Inspec) simultaneously. The platform provides powerful features to refine and filter searches and to sort and format search results and link to full text articles.
- Inspec
Inspec is a database of research literature in the fields of engineering, physics and computing. It includes journal articles, conference papers and book content.
- MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences. Reviews are classified and searchable according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Continues the publication Mathematical Reviews, first published in 1940. Reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of current literature.
- ProQuest TDM Studio
TDM Studio offers researchers two pathways to perform text and data mining. Data visualizations provide researchers an option to interrogate ProQuest content using interactive, graphical representations of the data and require no coding. The second pathway, for researchers that are accustomed to using coding for textual analysis, is the Workbench, which provides full programmatic access to content using Python or R.
Earth & Environmental Sciences
- AATA Online Abstracts Of International Conservation Literature
Provides over 100,000 peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management in a free online database. Date coverage: 1932 - present.
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
This collection is one of the premier marine and aquatic sciences databases. ASFA covers all aspects of marine and aquatic sciences, as well as oceanography, climate, and environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues related to freshwater and oceanic ecosystems, fisheries, and aquaculture. ASFA also allows you to search directly for tables, graphs, maps, and images included in the scholarly literature.
- Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts searches journal articles in all areas of the biological sciences. Like all databases on the Web of Science platform, it also provides citation information — both articles cited and 'cited by' links, allowing the user to follow the literature on a topic both forward and backward in time. Also allows searching using BIOSIS indexing, MeSH terms, and CAS registry numbers.
- BioOne Complete
A product of the nonprofit organization BioOne, the BioOne Complete database covers more than 200 full text, subscribed and open-access journals focusing on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. About half of the journals included are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers and are exclusive to the BioOne database.
- E&E NewsIncludes daily news updates on a variety of environmental and energy policy topics as well as links to online publications from E&E Publishing. Also includes video clips and compiled reports on specific subjects.
- Environment Complete Best Bet
Environment Complete is a comprehensive database focused on all aspects of environmental science including conservation, biodiversity, climate, pollution, agriculture and aquaculture, environmental law and policy, urban planning, environmental engineering, and more.
- Environmental Law Reporter
Provides comprehensive information about environmental law. Use this database to find news and analysis, federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, and administrative decisions affecting environmental law practice. Also find information about federal congressional and agency developments in this field. Information about environmental litigation and international materials round out this resource. The reporter ceased publication in print in 2003, but the News and Analysis section continues to be available in print.
- GeoRef
GeoRef searches journal articles in the geological sciences, including geology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, and other related disciplines.
- GreenFILE
GreenFILE searches journal articles, government documents, and ebooks relating to human impact on the environment. It covers interdisciplinary topics such as environmental policy, environmental engineering, pollution, conservation, and other areas in which human activities and nature coincide. GreenFILE also contains a cited references feature that allows the user to see what material the author has cited in their publication, and what later publications cite it.
- Trends and Policy: U.S. EnvironmentThis resource includes environmental policy related news from major U.S. newspapers. These newspaper articles provide first-hand accounts of both current and historical environmental policy issues and events.
- U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement (1981 - 2015)
This collection focuses on two series of international negotiations that dominated U.S. climate policy during this period: the 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
- Water Rights & ResourcesDedicated to understanding the complex interplay of state and federal laws that govern all aspects of water in society, from municipal use to restoring its pristine condition. Collecting congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases, this collection touches on a wide range of water issues, including irrigation, hydropower, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights.
Engineering
- ACM Digital Library
ACM Digital Library is a database of all materials published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including articles and conference proceedings. Abstracts of books are also provided.
- Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
Covers all aspects of applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, aerospace and space sciences; also covers technology development and applications in supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. Includes journal literature and reports issued by NASA and other U.S. government agencies. Corresponds to International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR).
- Compendex
Compendex is a database of scientific and technical engineering research covering all engineering disciplines. It includes engineering journals and conference proceedings. Combined with the Engineering Index (1884-1969) it covers 130+ years of core engineering literature.
- Engineering Village Best Bet
Engineering Village is a discovery platform that allows researchers to search across multiple databases (Compendex and Inspec) simultaneously. The platform provides powerful features to refine and filter searches and to sort and format search results and link to full text articles.
- ENGnetBASEENGnetBASE is an eBook collection that includes 200+ reference books and handbooks in a wide range of engineering subjects. The collection is especially strong in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering and includes the well-respected CRC Handbooks published by CRC Press.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
- IEEE XploreIEEE Xplore Digital Library includes access to the full text of IEEE content published since 1988 with select content published since 1872 from IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, IEEE conference proceedings, IET journals and conference proceedings and the IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library including titles from 1974-2015.
- Inspec
Inspec is a database of research literature in the fields of engineering, physics and computing. It includes journal articles, conference papers and book content.
- SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) Digital Library includes SPIE journals and conference papers on optics and photonics.
- SpringerLink eBooks
The SpringerLink eBooks database contains the full-text of over 45,000 eBooks, the majority of them related to engineering and computer science. There are also books on other topics, including medicine, mathematics, life sciences, and the social sciences. Previews of hundreds of additional titles are also available. Most titles are in English but some books in other languages are also included.
- Web of Science Best Bet Featured
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Mathematics & Statistics
- arXiv.orgarXiv is an open-access electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
- Current Index to Statistics Best Bet
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes data from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 additional journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. The bulk of the content in CIS is from 1975-2017.
- Encyclopedia of MathematicsThe Encyclopedia of Mathematics is an open access resource designed specifically for the mathematics community. The original articles are from the online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002. Now published by Springer, in cooperation with the European Mathematical Society as a wiki.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
- MathSciNet Best Bet
MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences. Reviews are classified and searchable according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Continues the publication Mathematical Reviews, first published in 1940. Reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of current literature.
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks
SIAM (The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) eBooks cover applied mathematical and computational methodologies in engineering, industry, science, and society.
- SpringerLink eBooks
The SpringerLink eBooks database contains the full-text of over 45,000 eBooks, the majority of them related to engineering and computer science. There are also books on other topics, including medicine, mathematics, life sciences, and the social sciences. Previews of hundreds of additional titles are also available. Most titles are in English but some books in other languages are also included.
- Web of Science Featured
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Physics
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsThis reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
- Inspec
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