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Find government information
- Science.govSearch across 14 federal agencies' websites
Find patents
- US Patent and Trademark OfficeOfficial site for finding U.S. patents and trademark information.
- European Patent OfficeIncludes patents from more than 80 countries
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Find data for your projects and papers
- Knovel Find data whether buried in a table, graph, or chart inside hundreds of ebooks. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel, ASCII, and HTML.
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Find journal articles
- ASCE Online Research LibraryFull text to the journals and conference papers from ASCE.
- GeoRefGood for topics of air/water/soil quality. From American Geological Institute
- ScienceDirectFull text of Elsevier journals, the largest publisher of science and technology journals
- CompendexCovers all engineering disciplines.
- Web of ScienceHighly cited journals in the sciences and engineering. Find who cited who from 1955-present.
- SCOPUSSimilar to Web of Science for citation searching. Find who cited who from 1996-present. Covers more publications than Web of Science.
- SciFinder ScholarPremier database for chemistry. Search by topic and by substance. Do a structure search!
(NOTE: You must register using the link below in order to access Scifinder.) - Register here for Scifinder Scholar
- ReaxysOriginally combined data from the Handbook of Organic Chemistry, the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, and the Patent Chemistry Database and is now updated directly from the source literature.
- ACS PublicationsPeer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences from the American Chemical Society
- Academic Search CompleteMultidisciplinary database that includes peer reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers
- Environment Complete
- WorldCat Look for books in other university libraries
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