Engineering Databases

Contains over 9 million bibliographic records and abstracts plus references to over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Engineering Village is a combination of several extensive databases:
Compendex contains bibliographic information and abstracts for over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering and applied science.
GEOBASE is multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. The database covers approximately 2,000 international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications;
Inspec, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, contains over eight million bibliographic records taken from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings;
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database from the U.S. Department of Commerce;
Referex Engineering contains engineering reference titles in eBook format.

Full-text access to over 700 handbooks and references from CRC press, provide all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

Collection of full text and citations from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
Coverage: 1985 - current

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Portal consists of the ACM Digital Library and ACM Guide. The DL is the full-text repository of over 69,000 articles from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers.

Content covers the areas of computer hardware, software, computer systems organization, data structures, encryption, coding and information theory, analysis of algorithms, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer applications, computers and education, legal aspects of computing, management of computing and information systems, personal computing.

Full-text access to 35 prestigious journals published by the American Chemical Society in addition to its weekly newsmagazine.
Coverage: 1879 - currrent

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journals provides full text to 30 journals plus an online journal archive that contains over 23,000 articles.
Coverage: 1990 - currrent

The ASCE Journals program includes 30 highly cited and relevant journals covering every discipline within the civil engineering profession as well as access to all online Proceedings (100+ title archive plus all new titles in 2008).

Full-text access to all 22 journals of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

The ASME Product Catalog page has additional links to more than 2,500 titles, including books, conference proceedings, technical papers, and newsletters published by ASME International. There are also links to other information about the organization such as Councils, Engineering Forums, Career Opportunities, and other suggested outside resources.

Multidisciplinary forum for reporting experiences with test methods and the results of interlaboratory testing and analysis that provides the scientific basis for both new and improved ASTM International standards.
Coverage:Full text from Sep. 1998 - current, abstracts from Jan. 1994.

View, download, and print any of 12,000+ ASTM standards.

ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world-a trusted source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Known for their high technical quality and market relevancy, ASTM International standards have an important role in the information infrastructure that guides design, manufacturing and trade in the global economy.

Citations and abstracts covering the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of of polymers, ceramics, and composites.
Coverage: Approximately 1986-current (the oldest record was published in 1953; about 50% of the records have publication dates of 1993 or later)

Engineered Materials Abstracts include the following subfiles with combined coverage of over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases:
Advanced Polymers Abstracts-- captures technical information about the uses, manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and thermoplastic resins.
Composites Industry Abstracts -- focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.
Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ceramics -- captures complete worldwide information about ceramics.
Polymer Library (formerly Rapra Abstracts) -- information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites.

One-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
Coverage: 2006, 14th ed.

The Merck Index Online is the internationally recognized encyclopedia of chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions. The information provided includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies, CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, chemical structures and selected literature references for each substance. Compounds are indexed by Name, Formulae, CAS Registry Number and Therapeutic Category/Biological Activity.

Full-text archive of publications of the American Physical Society, including Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929. The majority of the collection consists of scanned images of the printed journals available as either GIF images or as PDF files. Portions of the 1995 and 1996 content and all content thereafter, however, consist of PDF files that are produced directly as part of our paper printing process.

Citations and abstracts dedicated exclusively to information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites.
Coverage: 1972 - current

Source material for Polymer Library is selected from more than 500 journals in a wide range of languages from 30 different countries including North America, Australia, Europe, Japan, and China. Source material is also collected from books, technical reports and trade literature. In 1994, patent information relating to rubber and plastics industries was added to the database.

Scientific, medical and technical information online from over 1,200 full-text, peer-reviewed journals along with hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.
Coverage: 1995 - current

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online eBooks, Reference Works, Handbooks and Book Series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles containing around 8 million full-text articles. In addition, the Backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.

Full-text access to SIAM's Applied Mathematics journals including their Online Journal Archive.
Coverage: 1952 - current

The Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics (SIAM) online journal collection consists of full-text access to 17 titles in applied and computational mathematics, many of them available from the first issue of the first volume to the current publication.

15 databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

TOXNET's web interface is designed as an easy way to search databases of varying formats and content. It can be used to locate toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals as well as to search to identify chemicals that cause specific effects. TOXNET offers a variety of ways to display and sort information. Its "Multi-Databases" feature provides an integrated search of any or all of several databases (HSDB, IRIS, CCRIS, GENE-TOX). Its "Search All Databases" feature provides a list of TOXNET databases in which a search term is found, each paired with the retrieval record count and with links to the Search Results page of those databases.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Full-text scientific, technical, medical content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library.
Coverage: 1997 - current

Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors with content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. When the initiative is completed in 2007, it will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.

Provides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds, now in its 88th Ed.
Coverage: 88TH Edition, 2007-2008

Combines over 1,100 essential reference books and databases in the areas of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Knovel Library content covers 18 industrially important Subject Areas from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This data is enhanced with time-saving analytical tools to help analyze and manipulate the data equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'what if' experiments on the data.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Guidance on best resources for Engineering research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.