Picture from NOAA's sea floor database. | Databases and indexes help you find journal articles. Databases are the electronic versions of indexes. |
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| Below is a list of some of the major databases that can help engineering researches find information. |
| HERMES is the Hopkins Electronic Resource Management System. It allows you to search for electronic resources owned by JHU by keyword or title. It covers both databases and some electronic journal collections. It is not a complete list of all electronic material owned by JHU, but more is being added all the time. |
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| Access Science is a good basic encyclopedia of science and technology. It is a good place to look for overviews and basic information about a topic. It is also a good place for non-sci/tech students to get started on a science or technical research paper. |
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| Annual Reviews provide analytic reviews in 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences disciplines. Full text of back to the 1930s is available. Great places to find big overviews of a topic. You can bbrowse each volume or search across all the volumes and all issues. |
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| Applied Science and Technology is a great place for basic research for undergraduates. Covers the big sci/tech journals and some society publications like Science, Nature, PNAS, ASME, ASCE. Limited full text, but a good place for non-science students to find sci/tech information. |
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| Compendex covers over 5,100 engineering specific journals, trade magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings (ASME, ASCE, SPIE, OSA, etc), standards, and more. It goes back to 1884. It has links to full text where available. |
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| GeoBase covers earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography and oceanography. Covers approximately 3,000 journals. |
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| Like Applied Science and Technology, this database covers the big sci/tech journals and some society publications like Science, Nature, PNAS, ASME, ASCE. A good place for non-science students to find sci/tech information. |
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| The database, produced by the American Geological institute, contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. |
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| IEEE Xplore is from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It contains full text of all IEEE journals, proceedings, and standards from 1988 - present, plus a significant number of the journals are full text back to the 1950s. In addition to electrical and computer engineering it covers biomedical and control engineering and topics like remote sensing, imaging, acoustics, nanotechnolgoy, and more. |
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| Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) | |
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| ICSD contains records of all inorganic crystal structures, with atomic coordinates, published since 1913. Plus you can display the crystal structures. |
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| INSPEC covers electrical, computer, control, biomedical engineering and information technology and physics. It begins coverage in 1968. |
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| LexisNexis Environmental is divided into five parts: - Environmental Abstracts which contains scientific papers and reports
- News, Journals, and Commentary, which is mostly legal environmental news
- Codes and Regulations, which contains federal and state codes and regulations
- Case Law and Agency Actions, which contains federal and state laws and agency actions
- Waste and Materials, which contains federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information
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| MathSciNet covers the world's literature in mathematics and its applications, including engineering, statistics, operations research, and computer science. |
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| Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals including defense Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Defense, Combat Edge, Naval Forces, and more. |
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| From the Optical Society of America (OSA) search across all the electronic journals published by OSA. |
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| NTIS (National Technical Information Service) | |
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| NTIS contains abstracts of scientific and technical reports of the research performed by Federal Agencies and their contractors. Most of the agencies, including DOD, DOE, NIH, DOT deposit reports with NTIS. |
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| Science Citation Index or Web of Science provides a way to track who cited whom from 1945 to present. Contains only journal citations no conference proceedings. |
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| SciFinder is the world's largest and most current source of chemical information. It contains all types of inorganic and organic substances alloys, biosequences, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers, and salts. It contains journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences from 1947 to the present. |
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| SPIE Journals cover the broad field of optical science and engineering as well as the key disciplines of electronic imaging, biomedical optics, and microelectronics. The SPIE Digital Library also contains proceedings from 1998 to the present, starting with SPIE Volume 3245. |
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| Indexes are the print equivalent of databases. You would use the print index when the years you are doing research on fall prior to the database's scope of coverage. You might also use a print index if the topic you are interested in is farily narrow or somewhat esoteric and is not covered by one of the major indexes in the field. The indexes below are only a partial list of the indexes available to researchers at JHU. Please see your departmental librarian if you have questions or need suggestions for other indexes. |
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Oceanographic Literature Review
Sci Ref GC1.D33 | Covers aspects of ocean research. |
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ISIS
Sci Ref Q2.I81 | Covers history of science and technology |
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Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
Sci Ref Q199.J68 | Covers critically evaluated physcial and chemical property data; reviews of measurments and techniques. |
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Science Abstracts: Physics and Electrical Engineering
Sci Ref QC1.S3 | This is the print equivelent of INSPEC. Dates covered begin with Volume 1, 1898. |
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Landholt Bornstein
Sci Ref QC61.L25
Stacks QD65.L25 | One of the most extensive sources of physical properties and related data. The series originated in 1883 and was in German. The new series, which is in English, is approximately 210 volumes. Data are presented along with the experimental conditions and methods of measurement and evaluation. It covers atomic and molecular physics; properties of matter in its aggregated states; astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics; general scientific methods, tools and data; elementary particles, nuclei, and atoms; molecules and radicals; condensed matter; physical chemistry; biophysics; and technology. |
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Mineralogical Abstracts
Sci Ref QE351.M66 .Z9 | Covers aspects of minerals and mineralogy. |
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Biological Abstracts
Sci Ref QH301.B62 | This is the print equivelent of BIOSIS. Dates covered begin with Volume 1, 1926. |
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Genetics Abstracts
Sci Ref QH431.G432 | |
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Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering
Sci Ref TA1.F58 | Covers aerodynamics, atmospheric flows, coastal engineering, fluid mechanics, hydraulics, offshore engineering, ports and harbors, and water treatment and supply. |
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Derwent Biotechnology Abstracts
TA164.D4 | Covers biotechnology, genetic manipulation through bioengineering, fermentation to downstream processing, industrial uses of micro-organisms, enzymes and cell culture, plant micropropagation, industrial waste and related fields, bioinformatics, high through put screening, genomics, and proteomics. |
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Ergonomics Abstracts
Sci Ref TA166.E69 | Covers human factors in human-machine systems and physical environmental influences. |
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Fluid Abstracts
Sci Ref TA357.F55 | Covers fluid mechanics, heat exchange, hydraulics and pneumatics, instrumentation and control, lubrication, mixers and mixing, pipes and pipelines, process equipment, pumps, seals and sealing, and seperators and seperation. |
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Pollution Abstracts
Sci Ref TD172.P65 | Covers all forms of pollution - air, water, soil, and noise as well as hazardsou and radioactie waste. |
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IEEE Publication Index
Sci Ref TK1.A48 | Covers publications by IEEE prior to their inclusion on IEEE Xplore. |
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International Aerospace Abstracts
Sci Ref TL500.I48 | Covers all aspects of aeronautics and space science including astronautices; communication systems; design, testing, and perfomance measures; chemistry, materials and physics; and the social, legal, and political aspects. |
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International Abstracts in Operations Research
Sci Ref TS1.I54 | Covers processes, techniques and applications of operations reserach. |
