Here for users purpose we are providing freely available online some
of General Reference Sources, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesaurus, Almanacs
/ Fact Books, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Biographies.
Index
to international agricultural literature. Includes articles, technical reports,
proceedings, theses, and documents primarily from, or related to, the developing
world. 1975 - present. [Open Access]
One of the most innovative
and successful experiments to date in scholarly communication. First
developed in 1991 by the Los Alamos National Laboratories, the arXive-print
server was the first successful automated electronic archive and distribution
server for research papers in physics and related disciplines: mathematics,
nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
ASCE
(American Society of Civil Engineers) CE Database (1970-) [Open
Access]
This database contains bibliographic references and abstracts to all ASCE
publications, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards
and manuals published since 1970.
BioMed
Central [Open Access]
Offers online publishing of research articles in all areas of biomedical
research with full peer review and barrier-free access for all. All original
articles are published in one of the BioMed Central journals as well as
being posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed.
China
Historical GIS Webmaps [Open Access]
The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project provides
searchable databases containing images of Harvard's map collections, including
maps from Qing Dynasty, Chinese place names, East Asian Maps, and other
GIS Resources.
ChemIDplus (chemical
dictionary searchable by name, formula, registry number, and structure) [Open Access]
CrossRef [Open
Access]
Is a citation linking service based on DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
standards. It provides access to millions of citations and abstracts of
articles from over 1,600 scholarly and professional publishers. Full-text
is only available for open access content or for those resources to which
the Library has a subscription.
Energy
Citations Database (1948-) [Open Access]
Provides citations to literature on energy and related subjects from the
U.S. Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. It indexes journal
articles, books, conference papers, patents, reports and theses
Esp@cenet
(Europe's Network of Patent Databases) [Open Access]
Are
maintained by the European Patent Office. The databases provide bibliographic
information, abstracts, and full text/images of US patents, British patents,
French patents, German patents, Swiss patents, and patent applications
published by the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property
Office. Bibliographic information and abstracts of Chinese and Japanese
patents, and bibliographic information of patents from over 50 other countries
are also available.
GenBank
(the NIH
genetic sequence database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI))[Open Access]
GrayLIT Network
Full
text of 100,000+ technical reports located at the Department of Energy (DOE),
Department of Defense (DoD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[Open Access]
IDEAS [Open
Access]
The largest database dedicated to Economics available on the Internet.
Over 200,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 120,000
can be downloaded in full text! It includes working papers and articles
from over 150 archives, such as IMF, NBER, US Federal Reserve Bank, central
banks and major universities in the world. Contains the complete RePEc database.
MatWeb:
Material Property Data [Open Access]
A free materials information database with over 24,000 materials including
metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites. Users can search by material
type, trade name, manufacturer, property, and metal composition. It also
provides other useful resources like conversions table and weight calculator.
Map Viewer
(provides special
browsing capabilities of genes or chromosomes for a subset of organisms in
the Entrez Genomes database)[Open
NASA
Astrophysics Data System [Open Access]
A NASA-funded project that includes four abstract services: Astronomy and Astrophysics
(500,945 abstracts); Instrumentation (516,298 abstracts, including 90,000 from
SPIE); Physics and Geophysics (429,653 abstracts); ADS/LANL Preprint Abstract
Service (2,905 abstracts and full articles). In addition, they include links
to scanned images of over 40,000 journal articles from most of the major astronomical
journals and proceedings in its Article Service. There are also online books
relating to astronomy and astrophysics.
NIST
Chemistry WebBook [Open Access]
Compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the
USA, this database provides data of thermochemistry (5,000 compounds), enthalpy
of reaction (3,000 reactions), infrared spectra (5,000 compounds), mass
spectra (8,000 compounds), ion energetics (14,000 compounds), etc. Data
can be searched by name, chemical formula, Chemical Abstracts Service Registry
Number, molecular weight, ionization energy, or proton affinity.
NIST
Data Gateway [Open Access]
Provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data that covers
a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific
disciplines. Also includes links to selected free online NIST databases.
One can search by keywords, properties and substances across a collection
of NIST databases.
NSSN:
A Global Resource for Standards [Open Access]
Contains over 250,000 references to standards from more than 600 developers
worldwide. It includes industry, international and U.S. Government approved
standards and standards under development.
NTIS (1988-) [Open Access]
The official source for government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide research
reports and studies in the fields of science, engineering, business and
social sciences. "Search for Products" provides citations and
selected abstracts to 370,000 publications, CD-ROMs and audio-visual materials
added to the NTIS collection within the last ten years.
OAIster [Open
Access]
Provides free access to a wide range of full-text resources made available
by the academic community. You can search and retrieve books, journal articles,
technical reports, preprints, theses, working papers, audio files, images,
etc. by harvesting digital resources from over 100 research libraries and
institutions worldwide.
OMIM (a
catalog of human genes and genetic disorders ) [Open Access]
Population
Reference Bureau [Open Access]
A very rich information source on world population. Includes country profiles,
data sheets and full-text reports on population, health, and environmental
topics. Under DataFinder, there is also a searchable database with data
on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries and 28 regions.
PubChem [Open
Access]
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules and
a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. It consists of three linked
databases, PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay, within
the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system.
RefSeq
(provides
a comprehensive, curated, integrated, non-redundant set of sequences including
genomic DNA, transcript (RNA), and protein products ) [Open Access]
Scirus [Open
Access]
Searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages for scientific,
scholarly, technical and medical data, including peer-reviewed
articles, patents, preprints, technical reports, etc. It incorporates both
subscription and open access full-text scholarly literature such as arXiv.org,
BioMed Central, Cogprints, government patent servers, Medline and NASA technical
reports
Searching
PAJ (Patent Abstracts of Japan) [Open Access]
The PAJ database provides full-image access to English translations of
Japanese patents. It has over 6 million records with bibliographic data,
summarized texts and major drawings. Users may also link to a facsimile
of the original Japanese patent from the English version.
SEC
Filings & Forms (EDGAR) [Open Access]
Provided by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, this database
contains the electronic filings that corporations are required by law to
make with the SEC. The filings include company annual reports and prospectuses,
and other reports.
TRIS More than 420,000 books, journal articles, and technical reports
on transportation research from the 1960's to the present. [Open Access]
USPTO
Web Patent Databases [Open Access]
Provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office, it contains full-text
images of US patents from 1790 to present.
USGS National Geologic Map Database
Searchable
Geoscience Map Catalog, Geologic Map Image Library, Lexicon of Geologic Names
of the United States, and links to related resources. Most of the maps in
the Catalog are from the U.S. Geological Survey, and therefore available in
our Ansari Map Library. [Open
Access]
Water and Climate
Bibliography
Pacific Institute's database of scientific
literature pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources worldwide.
Includes abstracts where available.[Open Access]
WorldCat [Open
Access]
This open access version of the WorldCat union catalog provides access to millions
of bibiographic records contributed by thousands of OCLC member libraries worldwide.
Books, journals, Internet resources and virtually any type of materials are
included. It supports searching by keyword, title, author, ISBN and several
limiting options, and provides links to the catalogs of the holding libraries.
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