Databases
Databases
The ASM Handbooks, often described as the 'bible' of materials, feature the complete content of thirty ASM Handbook volumes, several ASM Handbook supplements, and two ASM Desk Editions. The collection contains peer-reviewed, trusted information in every area of materials specialization. Industry's best known and most comprehensive source of information on ferrous and non-ferrous metals and materials technology. Packed with articles, illustrations, tables, graphs, specifications, and practical examples for today's engineer. It gives the information needed about: Materials Processes, Materials Properties, Materials Performance, and Materials Selection
Publication coverage: 1962 - present
The SPIE Digital Library is the world's largest collection of optics and applied photonics research. It indexes journals and conference proceedings from 1962 to the present.Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Publication coverage: October 2005 to present.
The Synthesis Digital Library contains short (50-100 pages) e-books called Lectures. Each Lecture synthesizes an important research, technical, social, or educational topic in engineering and computer science. Synthesis is organized by series, each containing approximately 100 titles. More than 1,000 titles have been published since 2005.Publication coverage: Coverage is selective back to 1991.
Publication coverage: 1940-
MathSciNet is a searchable online bibliographic database created by the American Mathematical Society in 1996.Publication coverage: 1960s-present
TRID contains more than 1.1 million references to the international transportation research literature compiled from the Transportation Research Board’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.Publication coverage: Varies by title
Knovel is a searchable database of more than 5,000 engineering and applied science handbooks and other reference works.Publication coverage: Sept 1975 - present (updated monthly)
Annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction in North America, the UK and Europe.Publication coverage: Varies by title
Project MUSE is an online collection of humanities, arts, and social sciences journals and books from over 120 scholarly publishers.Publication coverage: Pre-1925
Combines various general, scientific, religious, psychological, and legal indexes covering the nineteenth century.Publication coverage: 1909 to present
Science of Synthesis provides access to the largest collection of evaluated organic synthetic methods available worldwide.Publication coverage: 2005 edition, Updated regularly.
Brockhaus Enzyklopadie online is the full-text, online version of the 30-volume print German encyclopedia, with extensive ancillary information and source texts. The site has a German interface only (search screen as well as content).Publication coverage: 1966 - present
The ASCE Library is the world’s largest full-text database of civil engineering research and practical publications. It offers online access to more than 145,000 technical and professional papers—1.5 million pages of content. More than 7,000 papers are added annually. Queen’s Library subscribes to the complete package that includes journals, proceedings books, standards, and Civil Engineering magazine.Publication coverage: 1930s - Contemporary