Physical Review

Formats: Articles
Full Text: All
Years: 1893 - current
Vendor: American Physical Society
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Searches journals published by the American Physical Society. Chambers Library subscribes to the entire database, including archives and current content, letters and series.

IOP Science (Institute of Physics)

Formats: Articles
Full Text: All
Years: 1874 - current (or journal's entire run)
Vendor: Institute of Physics
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Searches 86 journals published by the Institute of Physics, a British organization. Covers the subjects of physics, mathematics, engineering, chemistry and biological physics.

Compendex Engineering

Formats: Articles, books, patents, standards, and conferences, government, and technical reports
Full Text: No full text articles, but reference works, reports, patents are full text
Years: Compendex: 1970 to the present. INSPEC: 1969 - present.
Vendor: Elsevier Engineering
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: The following collections may be searched together or separately.
Compendex - Chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering. Abstracts from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.
INSPEC - Electrical and electronic engineering, physics, information technology, and computer and control systems. Citations from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings.
ENGnetBASE - 190+ full text engineering books. Techstreet Standards - Industry standards and specifications from 350+ organizations.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Six million U.S. patent details.
Esp@cenet - Patent information from Europe, the World Intellectual Property Organization and Japan.
Scirus - Searches both free and journal sources by covering science-related Web pages

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

Formats: Articles, conference proceedings, newsletters
Full Text: Articles only; all other sources are not full text
Years: Complete coverage of every ACM issue
Vendor: Association for Computing Machinery
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Computer science. Full text articles from 15 ACM periodicals. Requires Acrobat Reader for articles, which are in .pdf format.

Compendex Engineering

Formats: Articles, books, patents, standards, and conferences, government, and technical reports
Full Text: No full text articles, but reference works, reports, patents are full text
Years: Compendex: 1970 to the present. INSPEC: 1969 - present.
Vendor: Elsevier Engineering
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: The following collections may be searched together or separately.
Compendex - Chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering. Abstracts from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.
INSPEC - Electrical and electronic engineering, physics, information technology, and computer and control systems. Citations from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings.
ENGnetBASE - 190+ full text engineering books. Techstreet Standards - Industry standards and specifications from 350+ organizations.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Six million U.S. patent details.
Esp@cenet - Patent information from Europe, the World Intellectual Property Organization and Japan.
Scirus - Searches both free and journal sources by covering science-related Web pages

Computer Science Index

Formats: Articles, professional publications, and reference works
Full Text: Some
Years: Some journals indexed from 1950s
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and related topics.

Encyclopedia of Analytical Science

Formats: Reference work
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Elsevier
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: The articles in this encyclopedia cover the scope of modern analytical science. The articles fall mainly into three classes: • Analysis for particular analytes • Analysis of particular types of samples • Analytical techniques

Inspec

Formats: Citations for articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, patents and reports
Full Text: Linked full text
Years: 1969 - present.
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Inspec provides citations and abstracts to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. Inspec provides coverage from over 3,800 journals and 3,000 conference proceedings. In addition to the core subject areas, Inspec also provides significant coverage in related disciplines such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and many more.

Oxford Reference: Earth & Environment

Formats: Online reference works
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Oxford Reference
Number of Users: 5 concurrent users
Description: These five specialized dictionaries cover earth science, ecology, geography, geology, climatology, oceanography, vulcanology, planetary science, remote sensing, statistical measures, and related disciplines.

Oxford Reference: Physical Science & Math

Formats: Online reference works
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Oxford Reference
Number of Users: 5 concurrent users
Description: These seven specialized reference works cover topics relating to physical sciences, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, and statistics. Includes a dictionary of weights, measures, and units.

Oxford Reference: Science

Formats: Online reference works
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Oxford Reference
Number of Users: 5 concurrent users
Description: These 20 reference works cover astronomy, biology, anatomy, chemistry, ecology, mathematics, medicine, history of science, nursing, physics, plant sciences, psychology, statistics, climatology, zoology, and related disciplines.

Sage: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

Formats: Reference work
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Sage Publications
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change helps readers learn about the astonishingly intricate processes that make ours the only planet known to be habitable. These three volumes include more than 750 articles that explore major topics related to global warming and climate change ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes.

Scitation Physics and Engineering

Formats: Articles
Full Text: Very little
Years: Complete coverage for all journals
Vendor: American Institute of Physics
Number of Users: Library only/2 concurrent users
Description: Scitation searches 110 journals from physics and engineering societies such as AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and others. Scitation contains approximately 600,000 articles and grows at the rate of more than 6,000 articles per month. Please note: if you click on an article citation and are prompted for login, this means that Chambers Library does not have online access to that article. You may use Interlibrary Loan to request articles that are not online or in print on 4th floor of the library.

Academic Search Complete

Formats: Articles
Full Text: Some
Years: Varies; most publications are full run
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Multi-disciplinary, general database covering most academic topics. Includes more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

ArticleFirst

Formats: Articles
Full Text: Some links to full text in other databases
Years: 1990 - current
Vendor: FirstSearch
Number of Users: 20 concurrent users statewide
Description: Multidisciplinary database indexing over 16,000 journals, more than any other library database. Contains citations for articles taken from the tables of contents of each issue of the journals covered.