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#Free Trial ProQuest One Applied and Life sciences

Description

ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences is a comprehensive collection of full-text resources, including scholarly journals and technical reports, spanning subjects such as biological sciences, engineering, materials science, and computer science. It supports researchers with specialized tools for comprehensive literature reviews and access to cutting-edge research and grey literature.

Key benefits

  • A vast collection of full-text resources, including scholarly journals, technical reports, and government publications from the most important publishers in the field
  • High-quality A&I, enabling users to efficiently identify impactful research articles, saving valuable time
  • Diverse content including scholarly journals, reports, trade journals dissertations, conference papers, magazines and more

Key Themes & Topics:

AI & Computer Science             Animal Science            Biotechnology

Biological Sciences                   Chemistry                     Engineering

Materials science                      Mathematics                 Robotics

At a glance

4,900 Scholarly Journals | 140k Dissertations | 1,500 Trade Journals & Magazines  | 300k Reports | 200k Conference Papers | 2.7M Preprints

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.

Engineering Source via EbscoHost

Description

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

Description

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

Description

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

Description

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. 

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.