Publisher | Database | Description |
|---|---|---|
| American Chemical Society | ACS All Access | Comprehensive access to the American Chemical Society's journals and ebooks. |
| ASTM International | ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library | Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines including: aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science and solar engineering. |
| BioOne | BioOne Complete | Collection of journals and ebooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. |
| Building Green | BuildingGreen suite | Source on healthy and sustainable design and construction strategies. |
| Chemical Abstracts Service | SciFinder | Database for chemical literature, searchable by topic, author, substances by name or CAS registry Number. |
| STN | Access databases from publishers in chemistry, biomedical, pharmaceutical, intellectual property and engineering disciplines. Includes global full-text patent databases, biomedical and pharmaceutical collections, and engineering and materials databases. Supports complex structure searching. | |
| EBSCO Publishing | Academic Search Complete | Collection of full-text journals, providing users access to information from peer-reviewed STEM research as well as social sciences and humanities. |
| Applied Science & Technology Index | Collection of indexed journals covering a wide variety of STEM disciplines, including artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, plastics, hydroponics, chemical engineering and robotics. | |
| Business Source Complete | Database covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. | |
| Computers & Applied Sciences Complete | A full-text database covering computing, technology and engineering disciplines. | |
| EconLit Index | Economic research database. | |
| Energy & Power Source | A full-text database of energy and power industry-erlated content. | |
| Engineering Source | Database for professionals and researchers across all engineering disciplines, including biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental, and software. | |
| Environment Index | Environmental studies database covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. | |
| Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) | Information science database that provides indexing and abstracts for articles, books, research reports and conference proceedings. | |
| IT Source | Database for IT professionals covering the essentials of information technology. | |
| Science & Technology Collection | A full-text science database providing access to scholarly journals covering an array of science subjects, including chemistry, biology, computer technology and physics. | |
| Science Reference Center | Contains full-text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images. | |
| eFunda | eFunda | Reference for engineering fundamentals. |
| Elsevier | Knovel | Online resource combining books, technical information, interactive equations and analytical tools. |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | Encyclopedia Britannica | General knowledge online encyclopedia including objective articles, biographies, videos, and images. |
| Faulkner Information Services | FACCTS | Library containing more than 1,200 reports including technology tutorials, marketplace insights, product face-offs, product and service profiles, standards reports, comparison and selection guides, and more. |
| Faulkner Security Management Practices | Reports covering topics such as deploying network security appliances, using biometric technologies and physical security, managing organizational risk, planning for disruptions, securing the enterprise network and so much more. | |
| GeneCards | GeneCards | A searchable, integrated, database of human genes that provides concise genomic related information, on all known and predicted human genes. |
| IEEE | IEEE Xplore Digital Library | Provides access to journals, conferences, standards, and ebooks in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. |
| International Society for Horticulture Science | Acta Horticulturae | Covers Proceedings of ISHS Symposia and the International Horticultural Congress. |
| IP.com | InnovationQ Plus | Patent search tool that features fully discoverable content from IEEE, including full-text journals and conference papers. |
| John Wiley & Sons | Cochrane library | A collection of databases on healthcare and controlled trials. |
| LexisNexis | LexisNexis | Database providing legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics. |
| McGraw Hill | AccessScience | Database that contains educational material covering all major scientific disciplines. |
| OnePetro | OnePetro | Technical literature on oil and gas exploration and production. |
| O'Reilly | O'Reilly Media | Learning platform providing books, videos, and live training courses. |
| Oxford University Press | Oxford English Dictionary | Online dictionary providing a record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations and over 1,000 years of English. |
| Questel | Foreign Patent Search | Database of industrial designs, US patent images & full-text patent applications, and foreign patent images indexed with Locarno classification numbers. |
| Reed Tech | Navigator for Drug Labels (PDR) | U.S. human drug label database with advanced search, comparison, analysis and alerts tools. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Merck Index Online | Database of chemical substances. |
| SPIE | SPIE Digital Library | Provides access to journals, conference proceedings, and ebooks in optics and photonics. |
| Therapeutic Research Center | Natural Medicines | Database on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies. |
| Thieme Medical Publishers | Pharmaceutical substances | Provides access to syntheses, patents, and applications for more than 2,600 active pharmaceutical ingredients. |
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