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Academic OneFile
Coverage: 1995 - Present 		F M
Scope: premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Access Note: Academic OneFile's coverage includes Agriculture, Communication and Mass Media, Computers, Criminal Justice, Diversity Studies, Environmental Studies and Policy, Expanded Academic ASAP, Fine Arts, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues, Health Reference Center Academic, LegalTrac, Information Science and Library Issues, Nursing and Allied Health, Physical Therapy and Sports Medicince, Pop Culture, Psychology, Religion and Philosophy, War and terrorism, U.S. History, and World History.
ACD Chemical Structure / Chemical Name Conversion Software
Coverage: 		    L
Scope: provides tools for drawing a chemical structure, then converting it to a compound name. For structure to name conversions, Chemical Abstracts naming conventions are applied. The derived compound name can then be used to search Chem Abs. The software can also be used to produce chemical structures from compound names. Names can be either entered from the keyboard or selected from a dictionary. For name to structure conversions, IUPAC naming conventions are applied.
Access Note: Available on a workstation in the Library. For assistance please contact a librarian Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (906) 487-2507 or reflib@mtu.edu.
ACS Publications
Coverage: 1879 - Present 		  F M
Scope provides full-text searching and instant access to all titles published by ACS from 1879 to present with seamless integration of searches between the Archives and the Web Editions. Articles will be delivered in convenient PDF format with the same high level of readability as the original document.
AGRICOLA
Coverage: 1970 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: prvides access to citations on agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Analytical Abstracts
Coverage: 1980 - Present 		    M
Scope: Formerly known as Analytical WebBase, covers over 250 international journals and includes the full content of Analytical Abstracts from 1980 to date, plus equipment manufacturers' application notes, standards and books. The database contains over 325,000 records and is updated each week with around 300 new records to provide unparalleled coverage of analytical chemistry information.
Annual Reviews
Coverage: 1932 - Present 		  F M
Scope: offeres comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Coverage: 1983 - Present 		  M
Scope: contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties - acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
Coverage: 1996 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: The American Society for Engineering Education is committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. This mission is accomplished by promoting excellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice; exercising worldwide leadership; and fostering the technological education of society.
ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
Coverage: 		  F M
Scope: allows subscribers to explore, search and view more than 28,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 systems from their Web browsers.
ASM Materials Information Online (MIO)
Coverage: 2006 - 2006 		  F M
Scope: ASM Materials Information Online enables you to search for information on engineered materials. Michigan Tech licenses access to: ASM Handbooks Online, ASM Alloy Center Online, ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center, ASM Micrographs Center and ASM Failure Analysis Center.
BioMed Central
Coverage: 2000 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.
Access Note: MTU is not a member of BioMed Central, which limits our access to Open Access journals. You will need to register to search BioMed Central.
BioOne
Coverage: 2000 - Present 		  F M
Scope: titles are published by major scientific societies and other nonprofit organizations with a focus towards biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC)
Coverage: 		    L
Scope: offical depository for crystal structre data for more than 8 journals. Includes the following programs. ConQuest: contains x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses of carbon-contaning molecules having up to 1000 atoms. Mercury: a program for visualing crystal structures in three deminsons. Mogul: is a knowledge base of molecular geometry from the Cambridge Structure Database System and provides rapid access to information on the perfferred values of Bond lengths, Valence angles and Acyclic torsion angles.
Access Note: Available on a workstation in the Library. For assistance please contact a librarian Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (906) 487-2507 or reflib@mtu.edu.
Common Chemistry
Coverage: 		    Open Access
Scope: a web resource that contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,900 chemicals of widespread general public interest. Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Registry NumberŪ of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of information. The CAS Registry Number is the universally recognized unique identifier of chemical substances and is often found on packaging and on articles of commerce. While not a comprehensive CAS Registry Number lookup service, Common Chemistry does provide a way to quickly and easily find names or CAS Registry Numbers for chemicals of general interest.
Compendex
Coverage: 1884 - Present     
Check for print issues in Library catalog 		  M
Scope: Scope: provides comprehensive access to the latest engineering research covering engineering and applied science, containing over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Compendex includes Engineering Index (1884-1969).
Access Note: Compendex is also commonly known as Engineering Village.
Dissertations and Theses @ Michigan Technological University
Coverage: 1968 - Present 		  F M
Scope: provides a searchable full text database of dissertations submitted by Michigan Tech to UMI's Dissertation database. Full-text PDF files are available for most dissertations from 1968. Also includes some theses.
Dryden Flight Research Center: Technical Reports
Coverage: 1947 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: covering reports ranging from validation of advanced aeronautical and control systems concepts and atmospheric flight testing of future space-access technology demonstrators to Earth science experiments.
EBook Collection
Coverage: 		  F M
Scope: Digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction. The J. Robert Van Pelt and Opie Library provides access to over 12,600 individual titles.
Access Note: eBook Collection was formally known as NetLibrary. To be able to download individual titles users need to create individual accounts. For assistance please contact a librarian Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (906) 487-2507 or reflib@mtu.edu.
Ebooks
Coverage: 		  M
Scope: online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including all subjects.
Access Note: If you are searching for electronic books from formerly known NetLibrary please see eBook Collection.
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
Coverage: 2004 - 2004 		  F M
Scope: addresses the fundamental discipline of biological chemistry underlying virtually all of the life sciences. This compilation of more than 500 different entries encompasses all aspects of biochemistry, as well as the extensions of this subject into the related fields of molecular biology, cell biology, genetics and biophysics.
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society
Coverage: 2010 - 2010 		  F M
Scope: provides a guide to understanding the challenges addressed by nanoscience and nanotechnology. Readers will find accessible descriptions of some of the key technical achievements of nanoscience, as well as its history and prospects. Readers will find overviews of the efforts of governments worldwide to fund nanoscience research and tap its potential for economic development, as well as to grapple with the possibility of regulating a new technology for the environmental, occupation, and consumer health and safety that emerge with it. They will find explorations and analyses of the cultural significance of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, as well as descriptions of some of the firms, and their products, that promise to make nanotechnologies an important part of the global economy.
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
Coverage: 2007 - 2007 		  F M
Scope: provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the whole topic of spectroscopy, from theory to applications. Short articles, each covering one aspect of spectroscopy, provide the professional spectroscopist working in academia or industry with the essential facts and background on areas of spectroscopy peripheral to their own.
Energy Citations Database (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Coverage: 1948 - Present 		    Open Access
Scope: includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
Espacenet
Coverage: 1836 - Present 		    Open Access
Scope: Free access through the European Patent Office (EPO) to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.
General Science Abstracts
Coverage: 1984 - Present 		  M
Scope: provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 periodicals dating as far back as 1984. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more.
GLTRS (Glenn Technical Reports Server)
Coverage: 1962 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: a service that allows users to search available online technical reports and abstracts. It is provided by Glenn's Logistics and Technical Information Division.
Google Scholar
Coverage: 1900 - Present 		F M
Scope: web search engine designed specifically to locate scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports across broad areas of research.
Access Note: click here for additional information about Google Scholar.
Also if you are coming from off campus you will be asked for your ISO Login and Password. This will grant you full text access to those full text resources that the JRVP library has secured.
Information Bridge (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Coverage: 1995 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: provides records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
Coverage: 		  F Open Access
Scope mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of binary, ternary and quaternary systems are presented. Typical solvents and solutes include water, sea water, heavy water, inorganic compounds, and a variety of organic compounds such as hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters and nitrogen compounds. For many systems, sufficient data were available to allow critical evaluation. Data are expressed as mass and mole fractions as well as the originally reported units.
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Coverage: 1799 - Present 		  F M
Scope: written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances?including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.
Knovel Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Coverage: 		  F M
Scope: Full-text handbooks and technical information in analytical chemistry, catalysis, dispersions & aggregation, electrochemistry, environmental chemistry, industrial chemistry & chemicals, industrial safety, physical chemistry, plant design, polymer chemistry, separation and transport processes. Specific titles include: Knovel Critical Tables, Yaw's Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds, Ullmann's Chemical Engineering and Plant Design, and Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
MatWeb Material Property Data
Coverage: 2003 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: database of material properties includes hermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, and polyolefins; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus a growing list of semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.
NMR Spectra Library
Coverage: 		    L
Scope: The Aldrich/ACD Library of FT NMR Spectra contains CNMR and HNMR spectra of 11828 organic compounds as well as information about their physico-chemical properties.
Access Note: Available on a workstation in the Library. For assistance please contact a librarian Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (906) 487-2507 or reflib@mtu.edu.
NTIS - National Technical Information Service
Coverage: 1964 - Present 		  M
Scope: a resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources.
Optics Infobase
Coverage: 1962 - Present 		  F M
Scope: Search engine providing a single unified search of all issues of Applied Optics from 1962 to the present.
Organic Syntheses
Coverage: 		  F Open Access
Scope: presents to the organic chemistry community detailed experimental methods in a standard format for the synthesis of organic compounds. In some 80 annual volumes and 9 collective volumes published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, OS compiles independently checked selected procedures and new reactions which, if carefully followed, permit the advanced research student or professional chemist skilled in the field to prepare compounds of research utility.
PGM Database
Coverage: 2013 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: assists you to find materials based on their properties, enabling you to find the right material for the job. The PGM Database is a collection of published data and internal Johnson Matthey data defining the physical properties and characteristics of platinum group metals and their alloys.
ProQuest
Coverage: 		F M
Scope: provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine.
ProQuest Engineering Collection
Coverage: 1966 - Present 		F M
Scope: contains engineering related full-text articles, granular access to millions of figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from the Engineering Research Database. Engineering Research Database contains a comprehensive index to world literature on technological and engineering innovations going back to 1966.

This collection includes the following sub collections: Abstracts in New Technology & Engineering, Biotechnology & BioEngineering Abstracts, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, and Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts.

ProQuest Environmental Science Collection
Coverage: 1967 - Present 		F M
Scope: contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM). ESPM provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

This collection includes the following sub collections: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality, Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), COS Conference Papers Index, Ecology Abstracts, Environment Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Impact Statements: Digests, Environmental Impact Statements: Full Text, Health & Safety Science Abstracts, Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A), Pollution Abstracts, Risk Abstracts, Sustainability Science Abstracts, Toxicology Abstracts, TOXLINE, Water Resources Abstracts

PubChem
Coverage: 		  F M
Scope: provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and BioActivity data in three primary databases, Pcsubstance, Pccompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively.
The Substance/Compound database, where possible, provides links to BioAssay description, literature, references, and assay data points. The BioAssay database also includes links back to the Substance/Compound database. PubChem is integrated with Entrez, NCBI's primary search engine, and also provides compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, BioActivity data, and other searching features.
SAE Digital Library
Coverage: 1998 - Present 		  F M
Scope: references thousands of SAE Technical Papers covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Sample coverage includes fuels and lubricants, emissions, electronics, brakes, restraint systems, noise, engines, materials, lighting, and more.
SAGE full-text collections
Coverage: 		    M
Scope: provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections.
Science.gov
Coverage: 		  F Open Access
Scope: contains reliable information resources selected by respective government agencies as their best science information. Two major types of information are included: selected authoritative science Web sites; and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings and other published materials.
ScienceDirect
Coverage: 2003 - Present 		F M
Scope: extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature. ScienceDirect is designed as a basic electronic version of Elsevier Science print allowing you to access full-text articles published since 2003.
SciFinder
Coverage: 1967 - Present 		  M
Must register to use. To do so click Here.

Scope: retrieves information from databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). The database contains over 16 million documents from more than 8000 chemical and chemistry-related journals covering literature from 1907 to the present. Partically indexed from 1907-1966. Search terms include research topic, author name, document identifier and chemical substance (including reactions and substructures)
Access Notes:
Complete abstracts available from 1967 to present. Abstracts from 1907 to 1966 accessible when available.
SciFinder is licensed for noncommercial use only by current Michigan Tech faculty, staff and students who are enrolled or employed on the Houghton campus.

SpringerLink - eBooks
Coverage: 2005 - Present 		  F M
Scope: offer accurate reproductions of high quality Springer print book publications, together with all the added benefits of an online environment, including exceptional search capabilities and bookmarks. These eBooks include Reference Works, Monographs and Books Series. 23 book series that are part of this Collection have access going back to 1997.
Stability Constants Database
Coverage: 1887 - Present 		    L
Scope: directs users to original literature references on all significant stability constants and associated thermodynamic data published from 1887 to the present day, including all stability constants included in the book volumes published by the Chemical Society, London (Royal Society of Chemistry) and by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Media include both aqueous, mixed and non-aqueous solvents. A number of data sets are reported for most important metal-ligand combinations, measured under a wide range of conditions and by varying methods. Thermochemical data, solubility products and other useful information are included with the experimental data as comments where appropriate..
Access Note: Available on a workstation in the Library. For assistance please contact a librarian Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (906) 487-2507 or reflib@mtu.edu.
TOXNET
Coverage: 1973 - Present 		    Open Access
Scope TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It includes Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER), Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS), Genetic Toxicology (Gene-Tox), Tox Town, Household Product Database, Haz-Map, and TOXMAP. In addition it includes TOXLINE, DART/ETIC, Toxics Release Inventory. Finaly, TOXNET also includes ChemIDplus.
Treesearch
Coverage: 2004 - Present 		  F Open Access
Scope: online system for locating and delivering publications by Research and Development scientists in the USDA Forest Service. Publications in the collection include research monographs published by the agency as well as papers written by our scientists but published by other organizations in their journals, conference proceedings, or books. Research results behind these publications have been peer reviewed to ensure the best quality science.
Web of Science
Coverage: 1973 - Present 		  M
Scope: Searches ISI citation indexes for Arts & Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences for articles that cite a known author or work, or search by subject, author, journal, and author address. Based on the Web of Knowledge platform. Covers over 12,000 journals.
Wiley Online Library
Coverage: 1997 - Present 		  F M
Scope: search across over 250 electronic journals covering many subject areas.

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