Computer, Engineering, and Related Databases

Amy Prendergast 5/20/09js

SOUTHcat Catalog:

Search for books, journals(not articles), dvds and government documents owned or subscribed to by USA. Publicly available at http://library.southalabama.edu

Our Journal List:

This is a database of all the journals we subscribe to in print and electronically. Once you have a citation to an article, go here to see if the Libraries have a subscription to this particular volume, issue and year of the journal you need. Occasionally the information is incorrect and/or unclear. Call us at 460-7025 if you have any question about the availability of these journals. NOTE: Some magazine and journal publishers "embargo" the latest year of electronic versions. This means that the most recent issues will not be available online for a year from their publication date.

InterLibrary Loan:

For students holding Jag cards, the library will borrow books and articles we don't have from other libraries for you. The process requires creating a profile, login and password which are invoked when you need this service called ILLIAD. If we are able to find the items in libraries with which we have reciprocal agreements, there is no charge. NB: If you are in a medical, BMD, nursing or allied health field use the Biomedical Library Interlibrary Loan. All other disciplines use the University Library ILL

 

Articles, Indexes, Databases: http://www.usouthal.edu/univlib/other.html

Title

Academic Search Premier: selected full-text articles. (EBSCO)
ACM Digital Library: index to Computer Science. Choose Search the Digital Library to search and Browse the Digital Library for tables of contents access.
ACS Journals: full-text access to all the American Chemical Society journals. Available in pdf or html.
American Mathematical Society Journals: access is for the journals to which we have print subscriptions, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Representation Theory, Journal of the AMS, Proceedings of the AMS, and Transactions of the AMS
ASCE Civil Engineering Database: ASCE's electronic information retrieval service to all its publications.
ASME Technical Publications: the American Society of Mechanical Engineer's electronic information retrieval service
Astrophysics Data System: from NASA. Covers astrophysics, planetary science, and solar physics
Auto Repair Reference Center
Blackwell-Synergy Journal Collection
Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics
Emerald Library: journals in engineering and more
Energy Citations Database: bibliographic records on topics such as chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics and environmental sciences
Expanded Academic Index :  selected full-text articles. Contains indexing and abstracting for IEEE Transactions. (InfoTrac)
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
IEEE Xplore: Electronic access to the full-text of IEEE journals (1998 and above) except IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Potentials, and Proceedings of the IEEE. Journals and proceedings not subscribed to may be searched for citations. The University Library has older issues on microfiche.
IET Digital Library
Information Bridge: links to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy research and development reports
Ingenta  database of tables of contents from 17,000 journals. Fulltext available for journals to which USA subscribes
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
Knovel K-Essentials access to International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Knovel Critical Tables, Smithsonian Physical Tables, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, Military Handbook, Metallic Materials Properties Development & Standardization and Engineering Problem Solving: A Classical Perspective.
MathSciNet  database for mathematics and statistics
NASA Astrophysics Data
Physical Review Online Archive
Physics Reviews: review articles published in Institute of Physics journals -- full text is available for Journal of Physics B, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Measurement Science and Technology
ScienceDirect: full-text journals from Elsevier. Access is to journals from 1995 - current.
Scirus: searches both free web sites and journal sources such as ScienceDirect.
Scitation: searches AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME journals
Scopus: includes the ability to do citation searching
Smithsonian Physical Tables
Springer-Verlag Journals: access is for the journals to which the University Libraries subscribe; available years depends on the journal.
TC Library: articles about technical communications
US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Databases
Web of Science: Science Citation Expanded. You may get this message if you're using WoS remotely: "Your session has expired. You will need to establish a new session if you wish to continue." Clicking on establish a new session will connect you to the database.
Wiley Interscience Journals : fulltext is generally 1997 to current; some journals vary.
WorldCat.org  database of library holdings around the world.
xxx.lanl.gov  electronic archive of full-text research papers in physics, computation and language, math and nonlinear sciences

General Databases

InfoTrac's Academic OneFile: "1980 - MAY, 2007
Academic OneFile is the 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times"

Ebsco's Academic Search Premier: Some full-text. Includes book reviews.

Free Internet Databases and Journals

AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library's (NAL) Web Gateway to AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access). It indexes books and articles on all aspects of agriculture. Publicly available.

DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals. Free online journals.

Highwire --repository of free online journals.

National Academies Press --free books and reports full-text and searchable. " The National Academy Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy."

Internet Searching:

Google Advanced
Google Advanced Scholar
Google Advanced Book

More Resource Guides to Books, Articles and Websites:

Science and Technology

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Computer Science

CIS 518

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Patents and Patenting

Style Guides:

Research and Documentation Online

Other Style Guides

Plagiarism

Turnitin

page by Amy Prendergast, Science & Technology Reference Librarian
460-7025
last modified May 20, 2009 js