1. 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.
2. ASTM Standards
   A searchable online collection of standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials.
3. 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.
4. CINDAS
   It provides critically evaluated materials properties databases for thermal, mechanical, electrical, physical and other properties of various materials, including aerospace alloys.
5. Compendex (1884 - current, updated weekly)
   Covers about 5000 engineering journals, conference proceedings and reports all over the world. It is the most important database for engineers. 
6. Conference Papers Index (1982 - current, updated bimonthly)
   One of the Cambridge Scientific Databases. Citations to major scientific conference papers in life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences since 1995, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
7. Derwent Innovations Index  
   A searchable online database on the Web of Knowledge platform, providing worldwide patent information, with English language abstracts. Derwent covers over 11 million inventions from 42 patent-issuing authorities and can be searched via text or chemical structures.
8. 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'.
9. Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (1967 - current, updated monthly)
   One of the Cambridge Scientific Databases. A multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Subfiles include: ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality (1990-Current), Environmental Engineering Abstracts (1990-Current), Pollution Abstracts (1981-Current), Water Resources Abstracts (1967-Current), etc.
10. Geobase (1980 - current, updated quarterly)
    An international bibliographic database for physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. Indexes and abstracts over1,700 primary journals in addition to books, monographs, reports, and theses. Interdisciplinary coverage makes it an ideal file for searching environmental and green issues.
11. Georef (1785- current, updated quarterly)
    Covers the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. Indexes and abstracts over 3,000 journals, as well as books, maps, and reports and most U.S. Geological Survey publications and U.S. and Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations.
12. 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.
13. Iconda (1976 - current)
    Covers worldwide literature in building construction, construction engineering, architecture, city planning and property.
14. Ingenta (free public access)
    Is a global research gateway providing a free online search service of published content from reliable research sources. It offers access to nearly 6,000 electronic full-text titles and millions of articles from the world's leading scholarly and professional publications.
15. Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology  (free public access)
    This is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.
16. International Civil Engineering Abstracts - ICEA (1976 - current, updated monthly)
    Covers the major civil engineering subjects including: construction management, environmental, structural and hydraulic engineering. Abstracts are taken from 150 of the world's best civil engineering journal titles.
17. International Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) Database (free public access)
    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.
18. New Zealand Standards Online
    A searchable online collection of all Standards New Zealand and AS/SNZ standards, compiled by IHS Australia. The documents are in PDF format and can be printed and downloaded.
19. Science Direct (mostly 1994- current but some titles from the first issue published)
    Covers the full text of more than 1800 mostly Elsevier Science journals in the engineering, physical, technical, medical, life and social sciences. Science Direct also includes abstracts of journal articles from the other publishers.
20. Scitopia
    It was created through the imagination and collaboration of 21 leading science and technology societies. More than 3.5 million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, plus patents and government data, spanning 350 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.
21. Scopus
    It indexes Elsevier publications (including conference proceedings) and covers over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers. . Has many full text links to Science Direct-hosted articles, and uses the Scirus search engine for each standard search (results presented separately). Subjects include engineering, chemistry, physics, maths, life-health science, psychology, economics, biological/environmental, and general science. Full cited reference information from 1996.
22. Water Resources Routenet
    Available via the Cambridge Scientific Databases. A path to water-related websites on the Internet.
23. Web of Science (updated weekly)
    Consists of three citation databases: Science Citation Index (1900 - current), Social Sciences Citation Index(1956 - current), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - current) which are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. You can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. This mutlidisciplinary database lists 39 million items from some 8700 journals.

CEE Related Databases

1. ABI/INFORM (1970 -current, updated monthly)
   A worldwide management, business and information technology database indexing and abstracting over 1,400 business and economics journals, magazines and trade publications. 50% full-text articles.
2. Academic Search Premier
   A scholarly, interdisciplinary database indexing more than 8,000 journals.
3. Australian Digital Theses Program
   "The aim of the ADT project is to create a national collaborative distributed database of digitised theses produced at Australian Universities.The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only." Their Digital Theses Collections page is also useful.
4. Current Contents (1998 -current, updated daily)
   ISI's online version of the well known Current Contents journals, is produced in the United States by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Further information can be found at ISI.
5. Digital Dissertations (1861 -current, updated quarterly, formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
   Bibliographic citations and abstracts from all subject areas (Sciences & Engineering, Humanities & Social Sciences) for doctoral dissertations and masters' theses completed at over 1000 accredited colleges and universities worldwide. Abstracts are included from 1980. The full text of theses is available in PDF format for more than 100,000 titles from 1996.
6. Emerald (1994 -current but varying from title to title, updated monthly)
   Provides access to over 100 full-text property and engineering journals published by MCB University Press.
7. Engineering Village (1970 - current, updated weekly)
   Over 16,000 engineering web sites; access to technical databases and engineering libraries, a full text engineering management journal, engineering library Internet projects, technical catalogs and Compendex.
8. Expanded Academic (1980 -current, updated daily)
   Indexes 2984 titles of academic journals, magazines and newspapers from all academic disciplines, with 1780 publications (about 60%) available in full-text.
9. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (1999 -current, updated annually)
   Covers journals in the areas of science and technology. Each annual database contains the previous year’s publication data, accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts in order to answer some fundamental questions, such as: What journals are most frequently used? What journals have the highest impact?
10. NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) (free public access)
    Allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. Specifically, it is a unified interface to many separate WAIS servers.
11. Patent Databases (free public access)
    An annotated bibliography and full-text of patent databases available on the Internet (both free and some fee-based) from international organizations such as WIOP (World Intellectual Property Organization) and major industrial countries.
12. Proquest (1971-current, full-text from 1987)
    An online serials database of 8,500 titles of which half are in full text in general science & technology, engineering, social science, medical, and business. All are accessible through the ProQuest interface and can be searched individually or simultaneously with other Proquest databases (click on the Change Database link on the search screen and select databases).
13. Wiley InterScience - Journals (1997 - current)
    Covers the full text of Wiley journals in Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Psychology, Business, Finance & Management, Education and Law.

New Zealand databases

1. Auckland Regional Council Library Database (1987 -current)
   Covers mainly books and journal articles held by the Auckland Regional Council held since 1987. (This database is only available to members of the University of Auckland with a NetID and password.). However, ARCADIA is freely available to the general public through the Web and offers information about the Auckland region only.
2. Index New Zealand: INNZ (1987 -current, updated daily)
   Indexes nearly 300 NZ journals and newspapers. It is the key New Zealand database for social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material, and also indexes some South Pacific journals.
3. Kompass (Current year only)
   Kompass is an international business directory. It contains information on a company's executives, brief financials, branches, localities, a list of products and services, and trade and brand names. Only available from a standalone workstation on Level M in the General Library.
4. New Zealand Index
   It is made up of eight indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals. They can be searched together or separately.
5. Newzindex (1985 -current, updated daily)
   Indexes articles of interest to business from major daily NZ newspapers and business periodicals not included in the Newztext full-text database.
6. Newztext Plus
   Newztext Plus contains both full text and indexes for many of New Zealand's key news and business publications and is updated daily.
7. NZ Science
   The database includes abstracts for all of the Royal Society of New Zealand Journals up until 1998 and will soon include all current abstracts. NZ Science also indexes records of CRI (Crown Research Institutes) publications.
8. Te Puna (updated daily)
   This includes the National Bibliographic Database with over 10 million records for New Zealand and overseas resources and lists of New Zealand holding libraries.
9. Voyager
   It is the University of Auckland Library's catalogue of materials, and contains over 1.6 million entries. Use it to locate the call numbers for books, journals, serials, newspapers, conference proceedings, theses, videos, computer files, and videos.