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| Academic Search Premier A scholarly, interdisciplinary database indexing more than 8,000 journals. |
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Aluminium Industry Abstracts |
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| American Chemical Society Journals A site licence providing online access to the online edition of around 50 journals and magazines published by the ACS. |
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| ASCE Journals Searchable online access to all journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers on the ASCE Library platform. |
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| ASM
Handbooks Online Online version of all current ASM handbooks, plus 2 ASM desk editions. |
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| ASME Conference Proceedings Archive ASME Conference Proceedings published 2002 through 2007 by the American Society for Mechanical Engineers. |
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| ASME Ebooks A searchable collection of over 90 books published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1998 to date. |
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| ASTM Digital Library A searchable online collection of technical reports, symposia proceedings, manuals, and journal articles published by the American Society for Testing and Materials. |
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| ASTM Standards A searchable online collection of standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials. |
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Auckland Regional Council Library Database |
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Australian Digital Theses |
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| Australian Transport Index Produced by ARRB Transport Research Ltd, the Australian Transport Index (ATRI) provides up-to-date information on transport and road related material. |
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| ATSDR's toxicological profiles A searchable collection of toxicological profiles from the U.S. The profiles cover the effects of hazardous substances, chemicals, and compounds and contain over 40,000 pages of data from the printed version, including information on mitigation of health effects, data gaps, and all available health data. |
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Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology |
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Biological Abstracts |
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CCD(ChemExper Chemical Directory) |
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| CCOHS Academic Support Program A cross-searchable suite of material safety databases from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, providing safety information on chemicals and other hazardous substances. The Library's subscription to the CCOHS Academic Support Program provides access to the following datasets: MSDS plus CHEMINFO, RTECS, OSH References, CHEMpendium. |
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Ceramic Abstracts / World Ceramics Abstracts |
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| Credo Reference An online quick reference collection containing more than 1,000,000 entries and 5,000 images. It comprises dictionaries, directories and encyclopaedias from publishers such as Bloomsbury, Harper Collins, Penguin, Routledge, and Thames & Hudson. The works cover a wide range of subjects, including art history, political studies, philosophy, history, linguistics, and religious studies. |
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| Characterization
of Materials Online reference work from Wiley, providing comprehensive up-to-date coverage of materials characterization techniques, including computational and theoretical methods as well as crystallography, mechanical testing, thermal analysis, optical imaging and spectroscopy, and more. |
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| Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index An online version of the Plant Cost Index published in the journal Chemical Engineering since 1963. CEPCI is used by chemical process engineers and managers to adjust plant construction costs from one period to another. |
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ChemNetBase
A collection of online chemical dictionaries and reference works comprising the Dictionary of commonly cited compounds; Handbook of chemistry & physics; Polymers, a property database; Properties of organic compounds. |
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ChemWeb Gold |
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| CHERUB - CHemical Engineering Reference User Bibliography It is a complete bibliographic reference source to the chemical engineering literature, including general and specialist topics, taken from 49 of the most important journals in the field. |
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| China Academic Journals A full-text collection of Chinese language journals published by CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). The Library's licence provides full-text access to 10 series including Industrial technology and engineering, architecture; Chemistry, metallurgy, environment and Mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy. |
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| Internet | CiteSeerX It is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. |
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Compendex |
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| Comprehensive Biomaterials A searchable online handbook on the ScienceDirect platform. |
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| Comprehensive Biotechnology (2nd ed.) A searchable online handbook on the ScienceDirect platform, Comprehensive Biotechnology aiming to cover the essential elements of the field. |
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| Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology A searchable online handbook on the ScienceDirect platform. It focuses on the major classes of nanomaterials in terms of their synthesis, structure, and applications, reviewing nanomaterials and their respective technologies in well-structured and comprehensive articles with extensive cross-references. |
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| Comprehensive Natural Products II A searchable online handbook on the ScienceDirect platform focusing on trends in natural products research. |
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| Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology A searchable online reference work on the ScienceDirect platform. It provides extensive coverage of both the fundamental physics and the technology of semiconductors. |
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Conference Papers Index |
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Corrosion Abstracts |
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| CRCnetBASE A searchable online database containing over 3,000 scientific and technical handbooks, reference works and other texts published by Taylor & Francis |
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| CSA Illumina Access to Engineered Materials Abstracts, METADEX, Corrosion Abstracts, Materials Business File, Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, Conference Papers Index, Environmental RouteNet, Water Resources Routenet, etc.. |
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Derwent Innovations Index |
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| Internet | Directory
of Published Proceedings A free & searchable listing of over 50,000 published conference proceedings. It offers keyword drop-downs to locate a subject. You can also locate a proceedings by the sponsor and publisher, country, State/Province and year the event took place. |
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Digital Dissertations (formerly Dissertation Abstracts) |
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| Earthquake Engineering Online Archive Online collection from the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. 'A database of significant, publicly-funded research and development literature, photographs, data, and software in earthquake, structural, and geotechnical engineering'. |
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| Ebrary More than 21,000 recently published books on all subjects. |
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EBSCO eBook Collection A searchable collection of over 10,000 scholarly, reference and professional electronic books on all subjects. This collection was formerly known as 'NetLibrary'. |
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| Embase A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database with a European perspective. |
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Emerald |
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| Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering A searchable online encyclopedia on the Wiley platform, offering original contributions from expert authors in the fields of engineering science that support the study and development of aerospace technology and vehicle design. |
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| Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry Online encyclopedia published by Elsevier on its ScienceDirect platform. It comprises more than 500 entries encompassing all aspects of biochemistry, as well as the extensions of this subject into the related fields of molecular biology, cell biology, genetics and biophysics. It is based on the 2nd print edition, published 2004. |
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| Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering Online encyclopedia from Marcel Dekker surveying biomaterials and biomedical engineering technologies utilizing biomaterials- current lines of research as well as innovative applications in tissue engineering, prosthetics, drug delivery, biosensors, and medical devices. |
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| Encyclopedia of Catalysis A definitive A-to-Z reference work covering the most significant aspects of homogeneous, heterogeneous, asymmetric, biomimetic, and biological catalysis. |
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| Encyclopedia
of Chemical Processing
Online encyclopedia from Marcel Dekker, comprising some 350 articles on design, engineering and manufacturing practices. |
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| Encyclopedia
of Dairy Science The encyclopedia addresses main topics of milk production and dairy technology, with due recognition accorded to nutritional and public health issues, as well as to dairy industry economics, including aspects of trade in milk and dairy products. Its aim is to provide a complete resource for researchers, students and practitioners involved in all aspects of dairy sciences.' (Preface) |
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| Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences (2nd Edition) A searchable online encyclopedia on the ScienceDirect platform designed as a resource for researchers, students, and practitioners, and those involved with economic and nutritional policy. The second (2011) edition updates the original version published in 2003, incorporating some 120 new articles and many revisions. |
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Encyclopedia of Energy |
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| Encyclopedia
of Environmental Microbiology Comprehensive coverage of the various fields within environmental microbiology: aeromicrobiology, aquatic, freshwater, marine, subsurface, soil, extreme environments, biodegredation, public health, drinking water, wastewater, biofilms, biotechnology, methodology. |
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Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition |
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| Encyclopedia of Genetics One of the most comprehensive reference works in the field of genetics. Includes over 1700 entries, covering all aspects of the field. |
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| Encyclopedia of Geology Online encyclopedia on the ScienceDirect platform. It Covers all aspects of geology. |
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| Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences Online encyclopedia on the Wiley InterScience platform. Written and edited by international authorities in the field, and comprising approximately 200 substantial articles, the Encyclopedia provides detailed, expert coverage. Organized into 17 themed parts for the reader’s convenience, it offers up-to-date, scientifically rigorous information on all key aspects of the subject, from sub-catchment to the global scale. |
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| Encyclopedia of Information Systems An online encyclopedia on the ScienceDirect platform based on the 4 volume work originally published by Academic Press in 2003. Provides both both general and technical information about major elements, issues, and opinions on information technology. |
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| Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry A searchable and browsable online encyclopedia from John Wiley, based on the 2nd print edition published 2005 in 10 volumes. Coverage is extensive, including main group elements; transition metals and coordination chemistry; organometallic chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; solid state, materials, nanomaterials and catalysis; general inorganic chemistry, theoretical and computational methods. |
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| Encyclopedia of Life Sciences It features more than 4,000 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles, making it an essential read for life scientists and a valuable resource for teaching. Aimed at researchers, students and teachers, articles provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage, written by leaders in the field. |
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| Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics A searchable online encyclopedia on the ScienceDirect platform, providing articles on a wide range of subjects in the field of mathematical physics. |
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| Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Online encyclopedia on the Wiley InterScience platform, comprising over 200 articles representing a detailed treatment of the molecular and cellular basis of life. The work was originally published in 6 vols in 2005. |
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| Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences It covers the physical processes that drive the oceans and the chemical, biological, and geological regimes. All methods of studying the oceans, from ship-based systems to satellite remote sensing are covered, as are ancillary topics such as the law of the oceans, use of the oceans for food and energy, and the impact of pollution and climate change. |
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Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology |
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Encyclopedia of Smart Materials Online encyclopedia from Wiley, designed for material scientists, chemists, chemical engineers, process engineers, consultants, patent attorneys and students. Addresses commercial applications as well as sophisticated units designed to operate in space, underwater, underground, and within the human body. |
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| Encyclopedia of Soil Science Online encyclopedia from Marcel Dekker covering the chemistry, analysis, and evaluation of soils, with a focus on agriculture development in the third world, particularly through research on sustainable management of natural resources, soil productivity and environmental quality. The work outlines the agricultural, environmental, industrial, and cultural components that affect soil productivity; advances the design of new control and purification strategies for soils in a wide variety of environments; discusses all branches of soil science, from mineralogy and physics to soil management and restoration. |
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| Encyclopedia
of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry All aspects of spectroscopy, and of mass spectrometry and scattering phenomena, are covered in this comprehensive work, which is intended for those using spectroscopical techniques for their research or professional practice. Theoretical background, details of instrumentation and technology, and current applications, are included for each area of spectroscopy, together with the history of important areas. |
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Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences It covers most aspects of the Statistical Sciences -- including probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, and economics with emphasis in applications of statistical methods in sociology, engineering, computer science, biomedicine, psychology, survey methodology, and a host of other client disciplines. |
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| Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry Online encyclopaedia covering the latest supramolecular advancements and methods in the areas of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, environmental and materials science and engineering, physics, computer science, and applied mathematics. |
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| Encyclopedia
of Surface and Colloid Science Online encyclopedia from Marcel Dekker, comprising over 400 entries and more than 11,000 illustrations (equations, tables, drawings, photographs). Coverage includes recent developments in drug delivery, enzyme behavior, and protein adsorption; the current utilization of colloids, emulsions, foams, gels, and fine particles; chemical behavior at electrochemical, fluid-fluid, polymer, soil, mineral, and atmospheric boundaries; mechanisms of catalysis, transport, and adsorption; characterization of fatty acids and lipids; commercial uses for membranes. |
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Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
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| Encyclopedic Dictionary of Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics 25,000 entries describing terms and concepts in cell and developmental biology, immunology, hereditary diseases, and molecular evolution, as well as the state of the art in genomics and proteomics. |
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Internet |
Energy Citations Database |
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| Energy & Power Source A searchable online collection offering indexing and extensive full-text coverage from over 1,000 publications relating to the energy and power industries- petroleum, natural gas, electric power, coal, nuclear power, renewable energy, and others. |
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ENGINE - Australian Engineering Database ENGINE is produced by the Institution of Engineers Australia and provides access to Australian engineering information, and in particular to publications of the Institution since 1980. It covers all branches of engineering, including agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, computer, electrical, electronic, mechanical, military, structural, transport and water. |
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Engineered Materials Abstracts |
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| Engineering Collection (Informit) A searchable full-text collection of Australasian engineering journals, conference papers and technical reports on the Informit platform. Title list. |
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Engineering Village |
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ENVIROnetBASE |
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| EVA - Environmental Abstracts EVA (formerly EPIC), produced by the EPA Victoria Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on the environment and related fields. Subject coverage includes air pollution and quality, environmental protection and management, hazardous wastes, recycling, waste management and disposal, water pollution, environmental assessment, and pollution control. |
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management |
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FOODnetBASE |
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FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts) |
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Internet |
Food
Standards Code |
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| Genetic Engineering News Biotechnology Database An international directory of biotechnology companies published by Mary Ann Liebert. Includes a glossary of biotechnology terms and selected articles from Genetic Engineering News. |
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Geobase |
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| Geofacets A searchable database of georeferenced geological maps designed to help geoscientists assess a region or basin's geologic characteristics. |
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Georef |
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| Handbook
of Chemicals and Gases for the Semiconductor Industry Online reference work from Wiley, providing a comprehensive guide to the chemicals and gases used in semiconductor manufacturing. The fabrication of semiconductor devices involves a series of complex chemical processes such as photolithography, etching, cleaning, thin film deposition, and polishing. The Handbook offers a convenient source of information on the properties, applications, and health and safety considerations of the chemicals used in these processes. |
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Handbook
of Plant Technology Online handbook published by Wiley providing extensive coverage of the field, including articles on plant genetic modification; applications of plant biotechnology to crop improvement in agriculture, production systems for pharmaceutical proteins, ethics and safety issues, public perception and public relations; scale-up, and testing and legislation. |
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| Handbook of Statistical Genetics Online handbook published by Wiley, designed as a reference resource for statisticians interested in genetic applications, and geneticists seeking a deeper knowledge of statistical methods in their field. |
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| Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection New! A searchable collection of audio-visual presentations on topics in biomedicine and the life sciences.Especially commissioned by Henry Stewart Talks, the lectures are organised into series covering both the fundamentals of a subject area and the latest advances. |
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| History of Science, Technology and Medicine An indexing and abstracting service on the FirstSearch platform covering 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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| ICE Virtual Library - Ebooks (Institution of Civil Engineers) A searchable online collection of over 300 books published by the Institution of Civil Engineers in the UK. The collection includes reference manuals, technical and historical works, and conference proceedings. |
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IEEExplore |
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| IGA Geothermal Conference Papers Database A searchable online collection of conference papers on geothermal science produced by the International Geothermal Association. |
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Index New Zealand: INNZ |
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| Index to Theses A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland. 500,000 theses entries in total, with 15,000 new theses added every year. |
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| Industrial Press E-Book Collection A searchable online collection of technical books published by Industrial Press. |
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Iconda |
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IngentaConnect |
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| International Tables for Crystallography A searchable online version of the classic series sponsored by the International Union of Crystallography. The wide range of articles and the numerous tables of data assist in the use of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. |
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| IREL - Australian Industrial Relations Database Australian Industrial Relations Database (IREL), produced by the Library of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on industrial relations and related topics from 1983 - 31 October 2000. |
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Inspec |
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International Civil Engineering Abstracts - ICEA |
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| Internet | International Stormwater Best
Management Practices (BMP) Database This features technical documents, software and database developed over the past decade. The overall purpose of the project is to provide scientifically sound information to improve the design, selection and performance of BMPs. |
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| International Wine Marketing & Wine Tourism Database An online bibliographic resource produced by the University of South Australia. The International Wine Marketing Database indexes and abstracts articles from published material on all aspects of the global wine industry, and includes full-text for around 500 articles. |
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) |
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JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) |
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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology |
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| Knovel An online collection of over 600 engineering and science books from a wide range of publishers. Subject areas include: adhesives, coatings, sealants & inks; aerospace & radar technology; biochemistry & biotechnology; ceramics & ceramic engineering; chemical engineering; construction materials & engineering; electrical & power engineering, environmental engineering; food science; mechanics & mechanical engineering; metals & metallurgy; pharmaceuticals; plastics & rubber; semiconductors & electronics; general engineering reference. |
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Kompass |
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Materials Business File |
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MathSciNet |
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Medline |
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| Merck Index The Merck Index online is the electronic counterpart of the printed Merck Index co-published by Merck & Co., Inc. and CambridgeSoft. It is an encyclopaedia of organic and inorganic chemicals, including naturally-occurring substances, laboratory reagents, pharmaceuticals and drugs |
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METADEX |
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| New Zealand Index It is made up of eight indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals. They can be searched together or separately. |
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New Zealand Standards Online |
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| NewzIndex Indexes articles of interest to business from major daily NZ newspapers and business periodicals. |
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Newztext Plus |
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NTIS (free public access) |
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| Internet | NUS Theses Collection A list of theses submitted to the National University of Singapore and its predecessor institutions, covering the period from 1947 to the present. All theses listed are deposited at the NUS Library. |
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NZ Science |
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| OECD iLibrary Offers full text access to 17 thematic collections, OECD periodicals and OECD statistics. |
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| PapersInvited The database offers an extensive list of calls for papers in all areas of specialization. |
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Proquest |
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| Reaxys A web-based service for chemists from Elsevier providing information on compounds and related data, reactions, original journal articles and patents. Reaxys covers organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry. |
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| Referex Comprises over fully searchable 300 texts in three subject collections: chemical, petrochemical and process engineering, mechanical and materials engineering, and electronics & electrical engineering. Each collection includes handbooks of engineering fundamentals, titles focused on technique and practice, specialized scholarly monographs. |
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| RefWorks RefWorks software allows you to create your own web-based database of references. |
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| RSC Ebook Collection A fully searchable online collection of over 700 books in most areas of chemical science, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry |
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SAE Digital Library - Technical Papers Provides online full-text access to more than 18,000 technical papers published by the Society of Automotive Engineers from 1998 to date. Incorporates the Global Mobility Database, comprising over 130,000 bibliographic citations and document summaries of books, standards, journal articles, conference papers, etc on mobility research worldwide |
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SAE Technical Papers on CD-ROM |
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Safari |
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| Internet | ScienceCinema A searchable video collection describing research and development sponsored by the United States Department of Energy. |
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Science Direct |
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| Scientific.Net This site provides online access to a collection of journals on materials science and engineering from Trans Tech Publications. |
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SciFinder |
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| Internet | Scitopia A freely available internet resource providing federated searching across a range of scientific and technical society publisher collections and government sites. It covers over 3.5 million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content, conference papers, patents, and government publications. |
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| Scopus Covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers. |
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| SIAM Reference Collection A searchable online collection of over 300 books published by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). |
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SourceOECD (1998 onwards) Comprises full text access to 20 Book collections by theme and periodicals including the OECD Economic outlook, Main economic outlook, Quarterly labour force statistics and Monthly statistics of international trade. |
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| SPE
eLibrary( 1958-)
Searchable full-text database from the Society of Petroleum Engineers, comprising more than 35,000 technical papers presented at SPE conferences or published in the Society's peer-reviewed journals. |
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| SpringerLink Gives full-text access to over 1800 journals published by Springer, Birkhauser, Karger, and others. It also gives full-text access to some 10,000 books. Apart from complete coverage from 1997 onwards of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (approx. 3300 books in 139,000 chapters); most books are only available full-text AFTER 2004. |
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| SpringerMaterials A searchable online collection of materials science data published by Springer Verlag. |
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| Springer Protocols A searchable online database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences published by Springer Verlag. |
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| Standard Methods for the Examination of Water & Wastewater A searchable online version of Standard Methods, describing hundreds of analytical techniques for the determination of water quality. |
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| Synthesis
(Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science) An online collection of searchable compact e-books or 'lectures' published by Morgan & Claypool. Arranged in a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series, each 50-100 page lecture covers an important research or development topic, and is written by a prominent contributor to the field. | ||||||
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UnCover Plus (Ingenta) |
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Web of Knowledge |
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Web of Science |
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Wiley Database of Polymer Properties |
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| Wiley
Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering An online encyclopedia on the Wiley InterScience platform containing over 350 peer reviewed articles in areas such as biochemical engineering, biomedical education, biomedical devices and instrumentation, human performance and reverse engineering, rehabilitation and orthopedic engineering. It is designed to meet the needs of readers ranging from undergraduate students to research scientists. |
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Wiley Online Library |
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Zentralblatt
MATH database A key mathematical resource containing some material not in MathSciNet. The coverage is from 1931 onwards, but the text of older reviews may be unavailable online. Zentralblatt classifies all its items under the MSC 2000 codes. |
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