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Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

  Subjects in Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Biochemistry and Biophysics
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Chemistry (general aspects)
Chemistry, Analytical
Chemistry, Inorganic
Chemistry, Organic
Chemistry, Physical
Chemistry, Polymers
Climate Change
Communication, Scientific and Technical
Computer Science
Engineering (general aspects)
 Engineering, Agricultural
Engineering, Biomedical
Engineering, Chemical
Engineering, Civil
Engineering, Computer
Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Environmental
Engineering, Geotechnical
Engineering, Industrial/Operations Research
Engineering, Mechanical
Environmental Science and Technology
Geology
History of Science and Technology
Management of Technology
 Materials Science
Mathematics
Natural Resource Conservation
Patents
Physics
Quality Management
Science, Technology, and Society
Standards
Statistics, Applied
Statistics, Theoretical
Transportation
Water Resources

  Indexes and Databases in Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: Coverage varies, some starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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Aerospace and High Tech Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: (1962-Present)- Abstracts Only
Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences.
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Applied Science and Technology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1983 - present, updated monthly
Indexes over 300 major English-language periodicals in a wide variety of technology subjects ranging from aeronautics, chemistry, and computers to physics, plastics, and transportation.
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ASCE's Civil Engineering Database
Coverage: 1973 - present
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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ASTIS - Arctic Science and Technology Information System
Coverage: 1978-present
ASTIS is a bibliographic database of over 59,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada.
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Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated monthly.
Click here for public access.
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BIOSIS Previews Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated monthly.
Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications.
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Chemical Abstracts (via SciFinder Scholar) Authentication Required
Coverage: 1907 - present
SciFinder provides access to CAS databases (Chemical Abstracts and more) via a desktop client/server application for Mac and Windows.
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Compendex®/Engineering Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1884 - present, updated monthly
Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management.
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Computing Reviews Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1974 - Present
Computing Reviews selectively reviews articles, books, and proceedings to the current research, theory and applications in computer science and related fields.
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Current Contents Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1994 - present, updated weekly
FYI: Current Contents Database to be Replaced on January 1, 2006!
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Department of Energy "DOE Information Bridge"
Coverage: 1996 - present
DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
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Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
Coverage: 1861 - present (Doctoral dissertations); 1962 - present (Masters theses).
Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities.
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DiscoveryGate Authentication Required
Coverage: 1771 - Present
DiscoveryGate includes Beilstein (physical property and reaction data for more than 10 million organic compounds) and Gmelin (similar types of information for over 2.2 million inorganic and organometallic compounds); PC users will need to download a piece of software to use DiscoveryGate and all users may need to make an exception for blocked pop-up windows.
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EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Includes abstracts of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued by the federal government each year, indexed for easy reference.
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Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and Digests Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.Full text statements are available from 2003-present and digests (summaries) are available from 1985-present.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1967 - present
This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences.
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Essential Science Indicators Authentication Required
Coverage: Dates vary
This analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals.
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Geobase Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1980 - present, updated monthly.
Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.
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GeoRef Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1785 - present
Index to the worldwide literature of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, hydrogeology , hydrology, and mineralogy.
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History of Science and Technology Authentication Required
HST: 1976-to date Includes articles about the history of science in all historical periods.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: Science, 1976 - present; Technology, 1987 - present; updated annually.
Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology.
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IngentaConnect Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: October 1988 - present, updated daily
This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications.
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Inside Information Plus RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated weekly.
Inside Information Plus will not be available after June 30, 2007.
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INSPEC ® Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1896 - present, updated monthly
Provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly literature in the fields of physics and astrophysics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control, and information technology.
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Journal Citation Reports Authentication Required
Coverage: 1998-2006
Journal Citation Reports on the Web provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare approx 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide.
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LexisNexis Academic Authentication Required
Coverage: Varies by title.
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference.
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LexisNexis Government Periodicals Authentication Required
Coverage: 1988-present
Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles.
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Materials Research Database with Metadex Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: (1966-Current)
An excellent source for information on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application.
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MathSciNet Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: Mathematical Reviews(MR): 1940 - present, updated monthly; Current Mathematical Publications (CMP): 1985 - present, updated daily.
A comprehensive index, with abstracts, to the research literature of mathematics.
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MEDLINE (OVID) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1966 - present, updated weekly.
MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time.
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NASA Technical Reports Server
Coverage: NASA: 1962 - present, updated monthly; NACA: 1915 - 1960.
Provides citation with abstracts mostly to technical reports relating to aerospace research.
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NTIS National Technical Information Service Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1964 - present
NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S.
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Pollution Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: May 1981- present
Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource.
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Public STINET
Coverage: 1974-present
Public STINET provides access to citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into the Defense Technical Information Center's (DTIC) Technical Reports Collection since December 1974 as well as some full text reports for those citations.
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Risk Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Experts define risk as a combination of the magnitude and probability of adverse effects.
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Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Bibliography Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1986 - present
The on-line successor to the INION printed bibliographies, the RAS Bibliography provides broad coverage of the social sciences and humanities resources published not only in Russia, but throughout Europe and North America.
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SAE International
Use this site to search for SAE technical papers, standards, conferences, and more.

The Science & Engineering Library has the SAE technical papers available in print from 1948-2001 on level S, under call number TL1 .S552.
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Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated weekly.
Covers the most of the sciences, including veterinary medicine and zoology.
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SciFinder Scholar Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1907-present
SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics - you need to download special software to use it from your home or office computer (PC 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS 10.3/10.4) or you can access it from a public computer in the Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath libraries by clicking on the SciFinder icon on the desktop (note: access is contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff).
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TLCat Authentication Required
Coverage: 1971 - present
Catalog of transportation-related books and other materials held in government, university and other transportation libraries
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Toxicology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers social poisons and substance abuse, natural toxins, legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues; toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and other substances, and the in vivo effects of toxic substances; the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials; and toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances.
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TRANSPORT Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1968 - present, updated quarterly.
Produced by the 25-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), headquartered in Paris, together with the United States' Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the 31 nations of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT), Transport indexes journal articles, technical reports and conference papers on surface transportation systems including marine transportation and their components including highway, traffic, transport, road safety, and economic and social aspects of transportation systems.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time.
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Transportation Article File
Coverage: 1979 - present, updated daily.
This database, produced at Northwestern University, contains citation and location information for journal articles, conference papers, and other materials on all modes of transportation (air, rail, highway, water, pipeline) and law enforcement.
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Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)

U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition Authentication Required
Coverage: Vol. 1, 15th Cong. (1817) - Vol. 8854, 70th Cong. 1st. Sess. (1928)
A rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history, from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives.
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USPTO Web Patent Databases
Coverage: 1790 - present, updated weekly.
This database from the the U.S.
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1975-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1975-present; Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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