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Full-text access to all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals, magazines, proceedings, and transactions and citations from major publishers in computing. May not work with Internet Explorer.
Vendor: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Coverage: 1950 - present Full Text: Partial
Provides citations, abstracts and some full text articles, to aeronautics, astronautics, computer & information technology, communications and space sciences journal articles, conference proceedings, NASA documents, and technical reports.
Vendor: ProQuest Coverage: 1962 - present Full Text: Partial
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Provides access to journals, standards, ebooks and papers published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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Vendor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Coverage:Journals: Varies by publication |Papers: 1963 - present Full Text: Partial
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Provides citations and abstracts to journal articles, conference proceedings, government reports, and books in all fields of engineering and technology.
Vendor: Elsevier Coverage: 1969 - present Full Text: Partial
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Provides full-text access to all IEEE journals, magazines, conference proceedings, transactions and standards in areas such as electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, and more.
Vendor: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Coverage: 1872 - present Full Text: Partial
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Limited to five users at a time. Please click Log out when finished. Provides full-text access to a number of Jane's resources, such as Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Aero Engines, Airport Review, International Defense Review, and more.
Vendor: IHS Coverage: Varies Full Text: Complete
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Jane's World Airlines is no longer available within this database.
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Provides access to scholarly journals and ebooks in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Vendor: Elsevier Coverage: Varies Full Text: Partial
Searches declassified Department of Defense and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related documents from the Defense Technical Information Center.
Vendor: Defense Technical Information Center Coverage: Varies Full Text: Partial
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Provides access to NASA-created and NASA-funded materials including conference papers, NACA documents, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, patents, research reports, and technical videos.
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Provides full-text access to over 700,000 federally-funded technical reports and bibliographic records of more than 2.2 million additional reports from the National Technical Reports Library.
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Full-text access to McGraw-Hill resources and publications including instructional videos and classic books such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers and Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook.
Vendor: McGraw-Hill Full Text: Complete
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Enclose terms in quotation marks to search for exact phrases: "crew resource management."
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