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  • Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)  
      
    Includes Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators databases
  • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service  
    The Digital Library for physics and astronomy funded by NASA and supported by Stanford University; search primary literature in Astronomy and Astrophysics , Physics and Geophysics, arXiv Preprints, Science Education
  • arXiv Preprints  
  • Engineering Village 2  
      
    an engineering information for two databases, Inspec and Compendex.

    Compendex: Indexes to journals, conferences, technical reports of engineering and applied science; from 1969 to present; updated weekly
  • ACM Digital Library  
      
    Full-text primary literature of computing and computer science published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); from 1954 to present
  • SPIE Digital Library  
      
    Optical engineering and science (optics and photonics); full-text technical reports, SPIE journals and conference proceedings; from 1990 to the present.
  • SPIRES-HEP Search  
    a joint project of SLAC, DESY & FNAL as well as the worldwide HEP community. High-Energy Physics Literature Database
 

Secondary Databases

  • Aerospace & High Technology Database (Full archive)  
    Primary literature (journals, reports issued by NASA, and other U.S. government agencies) in aeronautics, astronautics, space sciences, chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics; approximately from 1962 to present; updated monthly
  • Applied Science and Technology (AST) Full Text (Wilson OmniFile)  
    Chemistry, Computer Technology, data processing, energy-related disciplines, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
  • ASCE Civil Engineering Database  
    Abstracts of publications from America Society of Civil Engineering; from 1970 to present
  • Reaxys (Beilstein & Gmelin, Patent Chemistry)  
    Organic chemistry database from Beilstein, and Inorganic Chemistry from Gmelin (required download a local file to access); organic synthesis, material science, biomedical engineering
  • BIOSIS Previews  
    abstracts of literature in biology, bioengineering, biomedical research areas; from 1969 to present
  • CERN Document Server (CDS)  
      
    Abstracts (and fulltext) of literature in particle physics and related areas
  • Earthquake Engineering Abstracts  
      
    Abstracts and citations of literature in earthquake engineering and earthquake hazards mitigation; from 1971 to present; updated monthly
  • Energy Citations Database  
    Indexes energy-related literature sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); relates to the print equivalent Nuclear Science Abstracts
  • ICONDA (International Construction Database, via silverplatter)  
      
  • MathSciNet  
      
    Indexes of mathematical research literature published in the Mathematical Reviews; from 1940 to present
  • Norris Medical Library Resources  
      
    Databases covering biomedical engineering and health-related research
  • PubMed@USC  
      
    Access information in health science and medical fields from MEDLINE, and PreMEDLINE; from 1950 to present
  • Quakeline  
      
    Information on earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics; from 1987 to present
  • TRIS Online  
      
    Transportation research bibliographic database funded by sponsors of the Transportation Research Board (TRB); from 1960's to present (or varies)
  • Xplore (IEEE Electronic Library)  
    Full text IEEE publications (journals and conference proceedings) and over 900 IEEE standards; from 1988 to present (some content back to 1950's)
 

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