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  Compendex (Ei Village 2) [Details]

Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1969.

  Inspec (Ei Village 2) [Details]

  IEEE Xplore [Details]

Tables of contents of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, published since 1988.

  ScienceDirect [Details]

Provides citations and abstracts of articles in over 1800 journals (mainly scientific, technical and medical). Full-text is available only to the 327 titles to which Villanova University subscribes.

  Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Scientific / ISI Web Services) [Details]

Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from scientific and technical journals in a broad range of disciplines. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution). Coverage begins 1945 to present.

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  Academic OneFile (Gale) [Details]

A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

  ACM Digital Library [Details]

Full text of every article ever published by ACM.

  ASCE Civil Engineering Database (ASCE) [Details]

The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1970. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.

  Computer Science Index [Details]

Covers computer science at the highest scholarly and technical levels. Subjects areas include artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and much more.

  Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest) [Details]

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).

  EPA Publication Search [Details]

  European Patent Office (from EI Village) [Details]

This database provides a fulltext patent and mosaic image search of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, and Patent Abstracts of Japan.

  Expanded Academic Index [Details]

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  General Science Full Text (WilsonWeb) [Details]

Indexes articles from U.S and British publications on anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, etc. Includes articles, reviews, biographical sketches and letters to the editor.

  GEOBASE (OCLC) [Details]

Indexes the worldwide literature on geology, geography and ecology.

  JCR Web: Science & Social Sciences Editions [Details]

Provides the impact factor (the relative importance of journals within a given field) and other citation data for around 7,300 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is multidisciplinary and international, incorporating journals from 3,300 publishers approximately 200 disciplines, and 60 countries.

  Pollution Abstracts (CSA) [Details]

Abstracts articles from journals, conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents. Includes scientific research and government policies.

  SciFinder Scholar [Details]

Searches Chemical Abstracts PLUS (1907 - updated daily), CASREACT, REGISTRY files from Chemical Abstract Service and MEDLINE. Available at under Academic Applications in the Library folder.

  TRIS Online [Details]

"World's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information... produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board (TRB)." The TRIS Database contains references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings and journal articles in the field of transportation.

  US Patent Full-text and Image Database [Details]

The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent's full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent. Information from Certificates of Correction and Reexaminations is not included in the full-text database per se, but can be found as pages attached to the full-page images of the original patent. Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number and the current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only by those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent.