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The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.
Lens provides a patent and scholarly search for nearly all of the patent documents in the world, integrated with scholarly and technical literature along with regulatory and business data. Patent Lens has a better search interface than the United States Patent & Trademark database.
United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) gives access to full-text copies of US patents since 1976.
The ACM Digital Library is the full-text repository of all ACM publications. It also hosts a collection of full-text publications from select publishers focused on the field of computing.
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical journals. Access to articles is different for this database. Because there is a charge for each article downloaded, students need a professor or librarian to retrieve articles.
SciFinder-n is the interface to the database of chemistry literature, Chemical Abstracts. It provides full-text access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
You must have Calvin credentials in order to use the SciFinder-n database, and you will need to request registration from this page before using the site for the first time.
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. Disciplines covered include: architecture & design, biomedical sciences, business & management, chemistry, earth sciences & geography, economics, education & language, engineering, environmental sciences, food science & nutrition, medicine, philosophy, physics, psychology, public health, and social sciences.
OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for Department of Energy (DOE) science, technology, and engineering research and development information.
Web of Science (WoS) indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Its major subject areas include the natural and social sciences and arts and humanities, with coverage for all areas back to 1900. The heart of WoS is the "Core Collection," which contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals.
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