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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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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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Limited to 5 users at a time. Please click Log out in the upper right of the screen when finished.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft is divided into three sections: Development & Production, In Service, and Unmanned.
All the World's Aircraft: Development & Production contains information on civil and military aircraft. All the World's Aircraft: In Service contains information on aircraft upgrades.
Jane's World Airlines is no longer available within this database.
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Provides access to articles, news feeds, and reports related to security and terrorism issues, including those related to international politics, military, and economics.
Vendor: EBSCOhost Coverage: Varies Full Text: Partial
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
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New users must register for a user account (using your ERAU email address) for access. Provides aerospace industry datasets, news, and market reports. Coverage includes defense, security, unmanned and autonomous systems, and more.
Vendor: Shephard Media Full Text: Partial
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Handbooks are not included in this subscription.
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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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Documents related to homeland security and cybersecurity policy, strategy and organizational management from sources including federal, state, and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities.
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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.
Full Text: Partial
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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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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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Limited to 5 users at a time. Please click Log out in the upper right of the screen when finished.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft is divided into three sections: Development & Production, In Service, and Unmanned.
All the World's Aircraft: Development & Production contains information on civil and military aircraft. All the World's Aircraft: In Service contains information on aircraft upgrades.
Jane's World Airlines is no longer available within this database.
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Use the Search box on the home page to search all of the database's content.
For help using and searching in the database, hover your mouse over the question mark symbol in the top center and click View Help.
New users must register for a user account (using your ERAU email address) for access. Provides aerospace industry datasets, news, and market reports. Coverage includes defense, security, unmanned and autonomous systems, and more.
Vendor: Shephard Media Full Text: Partial
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New users will need to create a free account using their ERAU email address to access information. If the Register for an account page does not open automatically, click the Login/Register button at the top right.
Users must log in using their Shephard Defence Insight login name and password and not their ERAU Account ID and Password.
Handbooks are not included in this subscription.
Search Tips
To browse information, click on the View Dashboard button or any of the News buttons.
Browse specific magazines by clicking on News along the top and then selecting the specific title.
To search and filter information, click on the View Dashboard button.
Use the different filters on the left to select the information you are looking for, i.e. manufacturers by country, products of interest, etc. and click on Apply & Save. Multiple filters may be selected.
Click on the Browse Selection button to view individual entries and get full details.
You can Quick Export or Print information on the Full Details page.
Additional filters can be added on the results page by selecting the desired information and clicking on Filter Data.
Click on Filter by attributes on the left to filter by specific attributes, i.e. length, width, height, engine, etc., if desired.
Click on Select Entry to select just the items you are interested in and then click on Actions and choose your desired action, i.e. export, compare, etc.
Click one of the Export options and then Download to export selected or all data to an Excel file. Users are limited to exporting 500 lines of data per day.
Vehicles can be compared in chart format by choosing Compare selection.
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