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Electronic Databases

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• Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
• Applied Science Full Text
  Indexes and abstracts for 760 science and technology journals, from as far back as 1983.
• Emerald Full Text The full text of 130+ journals, published since 1994 onward. Subjects include Engineering, Management, Human Resources, Library & Information Services,Marketing among others.
• GEOREF This database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy, engineering geology and geophysics.
• IEEE Xplore Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
• Knovel Scientific & Engineering Online References Online collection of scientific and engineering reference books. Searchable by keyword or titles. Best used with Internet Explorer.
• Readers' Guide Full Text
  Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area Index Tables)
• Web of Science Citation Databases Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Together they index over 8,000 scholarly journals and can be searched by author, topic or citation.
• General Electronic Databases

Internet Sites for General Engineering Research

• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• The Engineer Online Articles on design, products, news, and job searches worldwide
• EquPlus Equations, constants, conversions and more
• FAS - Federation of American Scientists
• IEEE History Center Articles, interviews and images related to the history of electrical engineering and technology.
• Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• NASA Astrophysics Data System Site is sponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• NTIS - National Technical Information Service From the U.S. Department of Commerce
• Scirus Science Internet Search Engine
• TechXtra Key web sites and industry news
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• WWW Virtual Library for Engineering

Related Sites at the UW-Platteville Karrmann Library

• Guide to print resources in Engineering
• Guides to Karrmann Library Resources

Engineering at UW-Platteville

• The College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science at the University of Wisconsin--Platteville consists of six departments: Chemistry and Engineering Physics, Mathematics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Software Engineering, General Engineering, and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Please contact the individual departments for further information regarding their programs.
• Kay Young is the Karrmann Library's division librarian for the General Engineering program. Contact Kay at (608) 342-1134 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in engineering. Her e-mail address is young@uwplatt.edu.