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ASCE Civil Engineering Database
Providing an index to all ASCE publications from 1958, and abstracts from 1970, including all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers published by the...
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1958 -

Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic...
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1930 -

Compendex
Compendex(R) is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with almost 7.5 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884...
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1884 -

GeoRef
The GeoRef database provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal...
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1785 -

NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
Citations and abstracts from unclassified government-sponsored research reports from the Departments of Defense, Energy, NASA, and other federal agencies, and international government departments and other...
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1964 -

Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS Online)
TRIS is the largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. The database provides access to over 535,000 bibliographic records covering transportation, selected links...
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1960s - Present

Web of Science
The Web of Science provides web access to three ISI databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900 -), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-), and Arts & Humanities Search (1975 -). Web of Science allows...
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1900 -

ABI/Inform Complete
Provides full text for over 2,200 U.S. and international journals covering all aspect of business and management. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 3,375 journals...
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1971 -

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals...
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1865 -

ACI Abstract Archive
Searchable abstracts of publications from the American Concrete Institute.
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Aluminum Industry Abstracts
Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Aluminum Industry Abstracts (AIA), formerly World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA), provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum...
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1972 -

American Society for Testing and Materials via IHS
ASTM International provides standards used in R&D, product testing, quality systems, and commercial transactions. Full text retrieval is available for currently active standards. Summaries only are available...
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Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to journals, industry and trade publications, society publications and specialized periodicals in science, engineering and technology. Coverage spans many specialties....
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1913-

ASME Digital Library
The ASME Digital Library provides full- text access to American Society of Mechanical Engineers journals published since 2000.
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2000 –

Bioengineering Abstracts
This database covers the emerging fields of biomedical engineering, biological materials, biomechanics and human engineering, rehabilitation engineering, biotechnology, genetic engineering, hospital and...
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1993 -

BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive reference database for life science research. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such...
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1969 -

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information resources. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources...
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1994 -

Code of Federal Regulations
(1996-) The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive Department and agencies of the Federal Government.
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Corrosion Abstracts
Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Corrosion Abstracts provides the world's most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International...
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1980 -

DOE Information Bridge
DOE Information Bridge provides results of Department of Energy R&D in energy technologies, physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, and more. It can be used to search and downlonload...
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1995 -

Engineered Materials Abstracts
Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The growing importance of polymers, ceramics, and composites in a variety of structural and other advanced applications requires the in-depth coverage...
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1986 -

ENGnetBASE
ENGnetBASE contains the contents of over 900 Engineering Handbooks from CRC Press, covering all areas of engineering. It's possible to search and display chapters from each title or across the whole range...
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Current Edition

Geobase
GEOBASE has citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines, Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology...
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1980 -

GeorgiaNet - Administrative Rules and Regulations
(Current Edition) The rules and regulations governing the conduct of business in the state. Database may be searched by keyword and chapter, section, or rule numbers.
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Government Funded Technical Reports (Full-text; Selected reports)
Selected full-text unclassified, government funded research reports.
See our Technical Reports Research Guide for a comprehensive overview of print, mocrofiche and full-text technical reports aearch...
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IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Institution of Electrical Engineers transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published...
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1988 -

Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is comprised of the Science Edition and the Social Sciences Edition. This resource allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly...
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JSTOR
JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) is an electronic archive of core scholarly journals, with an emphasis on the retrospective conversion of the entire backfiles of key journals. Over 246 academic journals...
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Knovel Library
With a focus on engineering and scientific references, the collection contains over 1,300 books. Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics...
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LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic contains over 5,600 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English and many other languages), legal news, general interest...
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Materials Research Database with METADEX
Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. METADEX is a comprehensive source for citations to literature on metals and alloys; their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. It...
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1966 -

Medline with Fulltext via Ebscohost
The subject scope of MEDLINE is biomedicine and health. It also covers life sciences vital to researchers and educators, including aspects of biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant, as well...
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1966 -

MRS Online Proceedings Library
MRS (Materials Research Society) Online Proceedings Library contains peer-reviewed papers presented at MRS Meetings since the 2000 Spring meeting. Papers are also available for a portion of the 1998 and...
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National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS)
The site offers a searchable database of over 10,000 full text, online EPA documents.
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netLibrary (full-text electronic books)
netLibrary provides access to over 15,000 electronic books (eBooks), both copyright-free and copyright-protected published materials, such as reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many...
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PAIS International / PAIS Archive
Covers the spectrum of public policy and public affairs information. The PAIS Archive contains more than 700,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976.
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1937 -

PapersFirst
Citations for papers presented at conferences worldwide, from the vast collection of proceedings owned by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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1993 -

QUAKELINE®
QUAKELINE® is a bibliographic database covering earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard and disaster mitigation, and related topics. Varied publications are featured, including books, journal...
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Research Library (ProQuest)
Research Library provides full text for over 1,040 scholarly journals and general magazines and provides abstracts and indexing for over a hundred more.
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1986 -

RTK (The Right-To-Know Network)
A service provided by OMB Watch that provides free access to many databases, text files, and information on conferences on the environment.
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Science & Technology Collection
Contains over 800 full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community including aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation...
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Science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by 12 U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Science.gov brings together, through one interface...
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ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
ScienceDirect is a web information source for scientific, technical, and medical research (STM) that offers access to more than 1,800 journals across 24 fields of science including the social sciences...
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Shock & Vibration Digest
Includes bibliographic records related to shock and vibration, including noise, vibration technologies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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Specs & Standards
Provides bibliographic data for over 350,000 active and historical standards from over 730 organizations from around the world. It also provides complete document pages for all active American Society...
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Technical Reports Server (Full-text; Selected reports; NTIS)
Selected full-text unclassified, government funded research reports.
See our Technical Reports Research Guide for a comprehensive overview of print, mocrofiche and full-text technical reports aearch...
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TOXNET
TOXNET(TOXicology Data NETwork) is a cluster of databases from NLM covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. TOXNET provides free access to several toxicology databases...
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Urban Studies Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many...
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WorldCat
World's most comprehensive collection of bibliographic records from library catalogs worldwide, containing over 52 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes books, manuscripts, websites...
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approx. 1000 A.D. -

Homeland Security Digital Library
HSDL provides a collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents to homeland security officials, researchers, educators and students in an effort to further advance national research...
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Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanic Abstracts was jointly funded by GALILEO and by the GA Tech Library. GALILEO is no longer providing support for purchasing this database, and the Library is not able to continue to fund access without...
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discontinued
1981 -
Access discontinued on 10/31/08. Alternative database: BIOSIS Previews