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Provides access to journals and conference proceedings from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Vendor: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Coverage: Varies Full Text: Partial
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Formerly known as the ASME Digital Library.
Includes content formerly available in the Scitation 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 publications in several fields, including physics, engineering, chemistry, geosciences and acoustics, and from several science and engineering societies. Publication types include journals, conference proceedings, ebooks, standards, and patents.
Vendor: American Institute of Physics Coverage: 1893 - present 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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Full-text ebooks from publishers CRC Press, Routledge, and more, on topics including engineering, technology, international relations, business, and computer science.
Vendor: Informa Full Text: Partial
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