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Information Resources for Engineering

Due to licensing agreements, most K-State Libraries' electronic databases and journals are restricted to authorized users. These electronic resources are all available within the Library.


Engineering Resources:
Title and Description/Coverage

Applied Science & Technology Index
Basic coverage of engineering, computers, construction

ASABE Technical Library
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

ASM Handbooks Online
The complete set of handbooks from The Materials Information Society

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Architecture

Biological and Agricultural Index
Biological, agricultural engineering

CAB Abstracts
Agricultural Engineering

Civil Engineering Database
Index to all post-1973 ASCE publications.

Compendex (Engineering Index)
Comprehensive coverage of all areas of engineering.

Computer Database
Computer news & reviews

Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
This is the same as the Dissertation Abstracts database, but with full text for most dissertations written after 1996 as well as many from earlier years.

DOE Information Bridge
R & D reports in energy, physics, chemistry, materials, environmental sciences, computer and information science, and engineering.

EPA Science Inventory
Searchable Database will Provide Access to Thousands of Science Documents

IEEE Xplore (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library)
Full-text IEEE journals, conference proceedings and standards.

INSPEC
Comprehensive coverage of electrical & computer engineering.

Knovel (pronounced novel)
Full text science and engineering reference books and materials

NSSN
Free, national resource for global standards.

NTIS
Government-sponsored scientific, technical, and engineering information.

National Transportation Library, a virtual library for the transportation community.
From this page an integrated search can be done of the NTL website and the TRIS database.
Other reference materials are also linked.

Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
Connects you to U.s. Government science and technology

SciFinder Scholar
Chemistry

Scirus
The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet focusing on legitimate scientific sites

TRIS
Transportation

US Patent Office
US Patent Office

Water Resources Abstracts
Water

Web of Science
The web version of Science Citation Index



Other Engineering Related Resources:
Title and Description/Coverage

AGRICOLA
Agriculture

Biological and Agricultural Index
Biology and agriculture

Biological Abstracts
Biology

GeoBase
Geography & geology

GeoRef
Geology & earth sciences

MathSciNet
Mathematics


General Resources
Title and Description/Coverage

Article 1st
Journal articles, some fulltext - all subject areas

Congressional Universe
U.S. legislative information

COS Funding Opportunities
Funding information - all subject areas

COS Expertise
Research collaborators contact information - all subject areas

Expanded Academic ASAP
Journal articles, some fulltext - all subject areas

GPO Access
U.S. Federal government publications

Impact
U.S. Federal government publications

Journal Citation Reports
Evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data drawn from over 7,500
scholarly and technical journals.

JSTOR
Electronic full text of over 550 core journals in disciplines ranging from history to business to literature
to science and mathematics.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Fulltext newspaper & journal articles - all subject areas

MediaLink
A international directory of newspapers and other news sources

Papers First
Conference papers - all subject areas

Proceedings
Conference proceedings - all subject areas

Statistical Universe
Statistics - all subject areas

WorldCat
Materials in libraries worldwide - all subject area


Electronic Quick Facts
Title and Description/Coverage

Merriam-Webster Online
Dictionary and thesaurus.


One Look Dictionaries
Look up a word in more than 600 dictionaries at one time.

Refdesk
Single source for a variety of facts.

Roget's Thesaurus
A listing of synonyms and related words.

World Book Online Reference Center
The center-piece of this resource is a full-text encyclopedia that is useful for finding factual overviews
on a wide variety of topics.

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