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ISO / IEC Standards
Search for national and international standards from such organizations as ISO, IEC and ASTM. The full text of standards is available for individual purchase and download or may be freely available to faculty for use in the classroom via the ANSI Unversity Outreach Program. |

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Chemical
Abstracts via
SciFinder Scholar 2004
Via the Scfinder Scholar interface search CAS
databases: Chemical Abstracts; The Registry File; CASReact;
CHEMLIST; CHEMCAT and Medline.
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Science
Citation Index Expanded via Web of Science
Produced by the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) this multidisciplinary database covers 5,900 major journals
across more than 150 scientific disciplines. MORE
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1983+ |
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ACS
Journals Online
Current fulltext online journals from the American Chemical Society.
Note: Legacy Archives: first page only
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1996+
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SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE Digital Library from the International Society for Optical Engineering currently includes more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings . MORE DETAILS... |

1998+ |
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Chemical
Channel via Dialog1
Covers chemical related news and industry, patents, R&D , etc..
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Applied
Science & Technology [via Wilson Omnifile]
Features full-text articles in virtually every area of science,
engineering, and technology.
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1983+ |
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ChemIDplus
via the National Library for Medicine
A chemical dictionary file for over 339,000 compounds.
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |

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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong
in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics,
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life &
Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE
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Environmental
Science and Pollution Management via CSA
Covers key areas of environmental science:toxic hazards, air,
marine, and freshwater pollution, etc. MORE
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1984+ |
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European Patents (Espacenet)
Free patent access from the European Patent Office. |

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General
Science Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science,
environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology.
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Abstracts: 1993+
Full text: 1995+ |

choose Omnifile with Gen. Sci as subject |
ISI Proceedings
Updated weekly, ISI Proceedings provides Web access to bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. MORE DETAILS... |
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Knovel
Knovel is an interactive full-text database that contains over 700 of the leading scientific and engineering reference handbooks and conference proceedings in full-text format. MORE DETAILS... |

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MSDS
On the Internet
Web site telling here to find Material Safety Data Sheets on
the Internet. |
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Optics InfoBase
InfoBase is the Optical Society of America's online database of both current and past volumes of all its journals. It also contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences. MORE DETAILS... |
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Pharmaceuticals
Channel via Dialog1
Covering pharmaceuticals related info: drug pipeline summaries,
intelligence, newsletters, pharma patent information, literature
and news. MORE
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PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides
access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's. |
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Science
Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical,
mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier.
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1995+ |
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Scientific American Archive Online
Scientific American Archive Online is a comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from 1993 to the present. In addition, the newly introduced Scientific American Mind monthly title will also be included. Among the topics covered in the archive are: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, and much more. MORE DETAILS... |

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Toxicology Abstracts via CSA Illumina (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgt database)
Covers pharmaceuticals, chemicals, contaminants. |

1981+ |
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TOXLINE
via the National Library of Medicine
Covers the toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical, and
physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals. |

1965+ |
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TOXNET
via the National Library of Medicine
A
cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and
related areas. |
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U.S. Patent Database
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) access to the full-text patent databases. |

patents - 1976+ |
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