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# FREE TRIAL Academic Search Complete

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Ranked as the second largest database within the Academic Search family, Academic Search Complete stands as a distinguished resource for scholarly investigation. Providing access to 5,759 active full-text journals, this multidisciplinary database supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study.

# FREE TRIAL Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate

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Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate, the flagship database for STEM research, boasts an extensive collection of 2,337 active full-text journals, a significant portion of which undergo peer review. It covers a wide range of science and technology topics, as well as the business and social implications of new technologies. It stands as the largest database in the Applied Science & Technology database suite.

# FREE TRIAL Arab World Research Source

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Arab World Research Source is a dedicated resource of scholarly journals, quality magazines, trade publications, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports and conference papers related to the Arab World. It reaches across all major subject disciplines, including business, economics, science, technology, humanities and sociology.

# FREE TRIAL Mathematics Source

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Mathematics Source is a new full-text database for mathematics studies. It provides access to hundreds of leading journals covering topics in both pure and applied mathematics and related fields.Created by subject matter experts, the robust thesaurus in Mathematics Source contains over 4,000 terms. It was developed to ensure that students and researchers can understand and easily navigate the unique terminology used in mathematics.Mathematics Source includes 560 active full-text journals not available in any version of Academic Search.

# FREE TRIAL Petroleum Source

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Petroleum Source is a new full-text database for petroleum studies. It provides access to the largest collection of leading journals covering the extraction, refining and transportation of oil, gas and petroleum products. Petroleum Source also includes essential content beyond journals and magazines that cover the petroleum industry and related fields.  236 Company Profiles 152 Industry Reports 66 SWOT Analyses 100 E-Books (Companion Collection)

Petroleum Source includes 72 active full-text journals not available in any version of Academic Search.

# FREE TRIAL STM Source

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STM Source is the most complete full-text database designed specifically for research and development (R&D) teams, product management and engineers. It includes thousands of journals, magazines, reports and other sources to drive innovation in many industries.

STM Source provides access to vital information to drive innovation. Titles include industry-leading academic journals, magazines, reports, books and monographs, trade publications and other valuable sources. Cover-to-cover full text includes images, tables, charts and other graphical content.

Subjects Include:

  • Agricultural science
  • Aircraft and aviation
  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Biological science
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer science
  • Defense and military
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Environmental studies
  • Food science
  • Forestry
  • Geology
  • Information technology
  • Marine science
  • Mathematics
  • Medical science
  • Pharmaceutical science
  • Physics
  • Veterinary science

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

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ASME publishes some of the most prestigious engineering content in the world as one way to fulfil its ongoing mission of being an essential resource for professionals seeking engineering solutions to global challenges. 
The ASME Digital Collection provides unparalleled depth, breadth, and quality of peer-reviewed content: 
ASME’s Journals from 1933 – present 
ASME’s Conference Proceedings from 2000 – present, plus select proceedings back to 1955 
ASME eBooks 
 

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library

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The ACM Digital Library (DL) is the world’s most comprehensive database of full-text articles and bibliographic literature covering computing and information technology. This renowned repository includes the complete collection of ACM publications plus an extended bibliographic database of core works in computing from scholarly publishers.

 

ASTM Digital Library

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Explore the ASTM Digital Library
Access ASTM books, proceedings, and journal articles covering engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

Britannica Academic

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Britannica® Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information and multimedia collection. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research—all from one resource. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations

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EBSCO Open Dissertations is a free portal that increases the discoverability of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The database provides researchers worldwide with seamless access to ETDs.

Content Highlights:

  • Over 1,500,000 electronic theses and dissertations
  • Contributions from 320+ universities worldwide
  • Free access to dissertation records and institutional repository link

Engineering Source via EbscoHost

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Engineering Source is the premier database for professionals and researchers across all engineering disciplines, including biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental and software. It includes hundreds of full-text engineering journals, magazines and trade publications, plus books, conference papers and more.   

Engineering Disciplines Include:

  • Aerospace
  • Biomedical
  • Civil
  • Electrical
  • Environmental
  • Mechanical
  • Software
  • Structural

ERIC via EbscoHost

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ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. ERIC contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers. ERIC also includes an education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,800 terms. 

GreenFILE via EbscoHost

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GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 

GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Subjects Include:
Global climate change
Green building
Pollution
Sustainable agriculture
Renewable energy
Recycling

IEEE Explore Digital Library

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IEEE Explore Digital Library is the single source for approximately 30% of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, electronics, and computing. Through IEL users can access: 
Unlimited, full-text access to nearly 6 million documents 
More than 1.3 million articles from over 200 top-cited IEEE journals, magazines, and transactions 
Over 4.2 million conference papers back to 1936, with as many as 200,000 new papers added each year 
Approximately 5,000 approved and published IEEE standards documents, with the option to add draft standards 
Proceedings from IET conferences and events 
IEEE Redline Versions of Standards (where available), select VDE conferences, IET’s E&T magazine, and seminal articles from Bell Labs Technical Journal archive 
Backfile to the late 1800s for many titles, complimentary with an active subscription 
 

OnePetro

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OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. With contributions from 20 publishing partners and providing access to over 180,000 items, OnePetro.org is the definitive resource on upstream oil and gas. 

Proquest Ebook Central

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Ebook Central is an all-in-one ebook platform for research, discovery, selection, acquisition and administration for libraries. It brings content from an unparalleled selection of publishers into one unified experience giving students, faculty and researchers seamless and immediate access to the eBooks they need.

Royal Meteorological Society

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The Royal Meteorological Society publishes eight world-leading science journals covering a wide range of topics within weather, climate and associated disciplines.

List of Journals:

  • Weather (Subscribed)                                                                                                                     

Weather publishes articles written for a broad audience, including those having a professional and a general interest in the weather, as well as those working in related fields such as climate science, oceanography, hydrometeorology and other related atmospheric and environmental sciences. 

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (Subscribed)                                         

The aims of the journal are to communicate and document the results of new research in the atmospheric sciences and associated fields. 

  • Atmospheric Science Letters (Open Access)

Atmospheric Science Letters (ASL) publishes research that advances the understanding of atmospheric and climate science using observations, modelling                      and novel methodologies (including machine learning).

  • Geoscience Data Journal (Open Access)

Geoscience Data Journal is a scientific data journal advancing the understanding of Earth system science through the publication of data. Meteorological Applications (Open access)

  • Meteorological Applications (Open access)                                                                                            

The aim of Meteorological Applications is to serve the needs of applied meteorologists, forecasters, and users of meteorological services by publishing papers on all aspects of meteorological science.

  • Climate Resilience and Sustainability (Open access)      

Climate Resilience and Sustainability is an interdisciplinary open access journal focusing on the approaches, methods, and tools to enhance climate change adaptation and climate change resilience in human and natural systems, in the context of broader sustainability. 

  • International Journal of Climatology      
  • WIREs Climate Change      

Science Direct

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Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. 1.4 million open access articles. 

Scopus

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A comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. Finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts and provides access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools. 
 

Taylor & Francis eBooks

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Taylor & Francis eBooks is a single-destination platform with eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science. It includes a librarian dashboard, which provides quick access to MARC and KBART reports, usage data, entitlements and much more. Researchers have a single point of discovery for eBook content, multiple search options, and more. Access to the platform will allow users to: search ebook content at both the book and chapter level, filter search results by subject area, publication date and year published, and create citations in APA format.