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Databases, Catalogs & Suppliers
Many are free and open to searching by anyone,
but some charge, and some require
an account to search. Be aware many of the following links take
longer to load than you may expect, please be patient.
General
- All that JAS
- links to dozens of journal abbreviation sources
- BioMedNet - (Site has been closed but still offers relavant links) Medline and more, register
to search for free, some services cost
- Blackwell
Science - tables of contents for hundreds of journals, most back to
1997; more current than Uncover
- Cambridge Univ Press - online -
tables of contents and abstracts back to 1997; need account to get PDFs
- IngentaConnect - good for verifying
recent publications (do not need an account to search).
- CISTI - Canada Institute
for Science and Technical Information
- Dissertation Express -
order a paper copy of a dissertation from UMI (here is the logon
if you already have an account)
- Enviro$ense
- (Site has been closed but still offers relavant links) Association Listing - contact info for many trade associations with environmental
involvement
- ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
- FindArticles.com
- free fulltext of popular journals
- ISI - (Institute for Scientific Information)
- JAKE - good for finding ISSNs
- NTIS - Electronic Catalog - 1990
to present
- OnVideo - Resource guide
to online and mail order video resources
- UNESCO - sources 1996-present online
in PDF
- Polar and Northern Regions -Alaskan and Arctic Resources Engineering, Patents, and Standards
- ACM Digital Library - (Assn for Computing
Machinery) free searching of publications
- AIChE - (American Institute of Chemical
Engineers)
- AIVC - (Air Filtration and Ventilation Centre)
- ANSI/NISO - standards
relating to libraries and information technology, free PDFs
- ASCE - (American Society
of Civil Engineers) search for all publications since 1973
- ASTM - Technical Standards
- CRREL
-Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Lab
- Global Engineering - more standards
- IEEE Standards Association
- Micropatent - includes European patents
- NASA JPL technical reports
- server, goes back to 1992
- NISO standards, all
are free in PDF!
- Canadian Patents - Canadian
patents database
- SPE
- (Socety of Petroleum Engineers) Online Information Library (do a "Guest"
login)
- TRIS - (Transportation
Research Information Services)
- US Patent and Trademark Office
Natural and Physical Sciences
Humanities, Education, & Social Sciences
International Resources
Russia
- Center for Russian, East
European, and Eurasian Studies - at Univ of Texas Austin
- PenSoft Publishers - large catalog,
scientific focus
- Russian Studies
and Slavic Resources - at Princeton University
Germany
- GBV (Gemeinsamer
Bibliotheksverbund) - large German bibliographic system incl. union
catalog, periodical indexes, free searching, English interface
- KVK - Karlsruhe
Virtual Katalog - HUGE multi-catalog system, includes other foreign catalogs
such as British Lib and Lib of Congress
- Subito - full-text service, free
guest login
Sweden
- LIBRIS - union
catalog of Swedish libraries, English language interface, check out the
other specialized databases and bibliographies
France
- SU - System Universitaire de Documentation
- large French collective catalogue, searchable only in French
Japan
- Japanese Journal
Info Web - union lists, links, tables of contents
China
- Gateway Service Center
- Chinese language materials, English interface, free, digitally transmitted
articles
India
- INFLIBNET - multiple university
book, thesis, and serials catalog
This site is maintained and was updated on
June 19, 2008
by Casey Bywater
ILL Systems Technician at UAF Rasmuson Library.
Please let me know
if you have links to put on this site, or if any of these links are bad.