Online resources : subject listing
Use the links below to access subject lists of online databases, encyclopaedias, and dictionaries catalogued by the Library. An e-resources FAQ is also available.
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AccessScience
Collection of science reference materials based on the full text and illustrations from the latest edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus updates from the Yearbooks of Science and Technology, definitions from Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies from Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, headline news from Science News, bibliographies, study guides, and more.
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ACM digital library
Provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations. All material associated with an article is provided: bibliographic reference, index terms, abstracts, reviews, full-text.
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ArticleFirst
Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.
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Arts & humanities citation index (Web of knowledge)
ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
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British standards online
Catalogue of British standards publications. All current and most historic documents are available to subscribers for online viewing and electronic download.
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Digital dissertations (ProQuest dissertations and theses)
Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).
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Efunda
Provides engineers with rapid accesss to information on materials, processes, units and constants, formulas, and other resources pertaining to mechanical engineering.
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FirstSearch
Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.
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ICE virtual library
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) from 1836. The archive contains more than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by almost every leading British or British-trained engineer that ever lived.
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IEEE Xplore
Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals and magazines, and brings additional search and access features to IEEE/IEE electronic library users.
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Index to theses
A comprehensive listing of theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Abstracts are included for all theses as of 1986, and selectively from 1970-1986.
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Institute for Scientific information citation databases (Web of knowledge)
ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
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IoP electronic journals
Provides access to all tables of contents and to abstracts and full article text in Acrobat, PDF or PostScript formats for all Institute of Physics electronic journals. Now includes access to the Institute of Physics electronic journal archive covering IOP journals between 1874 and 1998.
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ISIHighlyCited.com
Tool to identify highly cited scientific researchers. Contains biographical information: education, faculty and professional posts, memberships and/or offices, current research interests, and personal Web sites. Also contains a researcher's full listing of publications: journal articles, book or book chapters, conference proceedings, web sites and other Internet resources. The bibliography is enhanced by links to the full bibliographic information indexed in the ISI Web of Science.
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McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology online (AccessScience)
Collection of science reference materials based on the full text and illustrations from the latest edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus updates from the Yearbooks of Science and Technology, definitions from Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies from Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, headline news from Science News, bibliographies, study guides, and more.
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OCLC ArticleFirst (ArticleFirst)
Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.
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OCLC FirstSearch Service (FirstSearch)
Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.
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ProQuest dissertations and theses
Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).
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RAM
Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings. The full-text of articles indexed in RAM can be ordered from the British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Smithsonian physical tables
This is an online version of the classic reference source which comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.
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SPIE digital library
Contains more than 70,000 full-text papers on optics and photonics from SPIE journals and proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1990. Plans are underway to expand the DL back to 1990 by the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers covering a wide scope of optical technologies and applications. Approximately 15,000 new papers will be added each year.
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SUNCAT
The Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.
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Web of knowledge
ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
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Welcome to IEEExplore (IEEE Xplore)
Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals and magazines, and brings additional search and access features to IEEE/IEE electronic library users.
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WorldCat
WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.
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Zetoc
The newly funded ZETOC service provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With almost 15 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily. A list of journal titles covered by the database is available. Copies of all the articles and conference papers listed on the database are available from the British Library's Document Supply Centre in Yorkshire.
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