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Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications, including full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
AccessScience (Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online)
Online science reference tool that includes the full-text of the latest editions of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms. New trends in science are covered via the full-text of the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. This content is supplemented by biographies of scientists, bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, links to evaluated related web sites, learning resources and study guides, as well as illustrations, animations, and image galleries.
ACM Digital Library
Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. As of September 30th, 1999, the library includes:
* Over 31,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
* Tables of Contents with over 7,000 citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward
* Tables of contents with nearly 35,000 citations from articles published in over 700 volumes of conference proceedings since 1985
Annual Reviews Online
Critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
ASCE Research Library
American Society of Civil Engineers
Online access to all ASCE journals, as well as conference proceedings back to 1983.
ASM Alloy Center Online
Also available via Knovel
Search ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.

The Alloy Center contains five content areas:

Data Sheets & Diagrams
Features thousands of documents in PDF format, including material data sheets from Alloy Digest and other ASM publications; heat treating data sheets from the Heat Treater's Guides; and time-temperature curves, creep curves, and fatigue curves. All organized by alloy and fully searchable.

Alloy Finder
Features alloy designations and trade names from around the world. Find key information, including composition, producer, tensile properties, and similar alloys.

Materials Property Data
Features mechanical properties, physical properties, and processing characteristics for most industrially important alloys. Find data plotted over a range of temperatures.

Coatings Data
Features detailed information for commercial coating processes. Search by trade name, manufacturer, process type, coating type, or key words.

Corrosion Data Features corrosion information for specific alloys in specific environments. Search by alloy or environment.
ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
Concurrent user limit: 2
The ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center allows you to explore, search and view more than 34,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 systems.
ASM Handbooks Online
Also available via Knovel
Online access to the complete content of 20 ASM Handbook volumes plus the Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition and the Metals Handbook Desk Edition.
ASME Digital Library
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Online access to ASME journals and journal archives.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface.
Indexes 2,500 periodicals published worldwide on architecture, urban design, historic preservation, urban planning history, city planning, interior design, and archaeology. Avery covers the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, including the publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Index was expanded in 2001 to include 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries. Avery is produced by the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. (Updated weekly)
Biotechnology Research Abstracts
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface..
Biotechnology Research Abstracts provides access to international research on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science.
Books24x7

(browse titles in Diamond Catalog)

Online library of thousands of titles covering information technology and finance. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles. Temple subscribes to the ITPro and FinancePro collections.

Britannica Image Quest
Over 2 million images from providers such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, and Getty. All images are rights-cleared for educational use.
BuildingGreen
BuildingGreen features comprehensive, practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building. It includes online versions of the GreenSpec directory of products and Environmental Building News.
Civil Engineering Database (ASCE Publications)
Provides access to all ASCE publications published since 1972 including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Engineering subject areas include: Aerospace Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Bridges, Cold Regions, Computer Practices, Construction, Earthquake Engineering, Education, Engineering Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Forensic Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Highways, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Irrigation and Drainage, Management, Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water Resources, Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.
Clase and Periodica
Indexes articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Clase indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, while Periodica indexes journals in the sciences and technology. Together, they provide more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Compendex

Note: New interface released July 2012.  Details available here.

This is the electronic version of The Engineering Index, the world's premier link to the engineering literature. The database adds about 500,000 records yearly. Compendex covers over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22of the database is conference literature, and 90of the source documents are in English. About half the citations (from 2,000 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Engineering Index Backfile. Including over 1.7 million records, the backfile covers the engineering literature from 1884-1968.

Diamond: The Libraries' Catalog
Diamond is the catalog of books, movies, music, and other materials held by the Temple University Libraries.
DOE Information Bridge
The DOE Information Bridge provides free and convenient access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) makes this web site available to the public in partnership with the Government Printing Office (GPO), through GPO Access.
Emerald Journals
Note: Access to Journal backfiles as far back as 1898 added June, 2012
Fulltext journals published by Emerald.
Energy Citations Database
Designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) the Energy Citations provides access to the Department's scientific and technical information. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. Covers literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
ENGnetBASE (CRCnetBASE)
(browse titles in Diamond Catalog)
The complete text of over 1,000 engineering titles from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Handbooks are in the fields of aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, engineering (general), engineering management, environmental engineering, industrial Engineering & manufacturing, industrial engineering management, lasers & optics, material science, mechanical engineering, nanoscience/nanotechnology, operations research, packaging, systems engineering.
ENVIROnetBASE (CRCnetBASE)
(browse titles in Diamond Catalog) / Concurrent user limit: 2
The complete text of over 500 handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from Taylor & Francis imprints. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content covers earth science, ecological economics, ecology, environmental modeling & systems analysis, envrionmental & ecological risk assessment, environmental & occupational health/safety, environmental chemistry & toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental law, management, & compliance, geology, GIS & mapping, landscape ecology, remote sensing & photogrammetry, resource management & sustainability, turfgrass science & engineering, and water science, technology, & engineering.

Concurrent user limit: 2
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface.
Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Offers indexing and abstracting of more than 700 primary journals. Over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings, are also monitored for relevant articles.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface.
Covers relevant fields across the environmental sciences and the primary sources for 11 abstracting journals. Date coverage varies. (Updated monthly)
esp@cenet

European Patent Office

Full-text of European (EP), World (WO) and other patents back to the 1970's. Also links to individual European country patent databases.

GEOBASE
NOTE: GEOBASE is no longer available via FirstSearch as of 7/1/11. Currently available search alternatives covering content similar to GEOBASE include Summon, GeoRef, Web of Science, and Environmnetal Sciences & Pollution Management.
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Over 2,000 journals fully covered, with an additional 3,000 selectively covered; also books, monographs, proceedings, reports are indexed. Coverage/update: 1980 to present; adds new records daily. (Updated monthly)
Google Scholar
Note: If you are off-campus, set-up your preferences to access Temple's full-text articles through Google Scholar. In preferences, you can also specify a bibliographic manager, such as Refworks.
Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search that searches specifically for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. By searching Google Scholar from Temple's library web site, you will automatically have direct access, both on and off campus, to subscription articles already paid for through the library. Just look for the "Find Full-Text @ TU" link within search results.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Concurrent user limit: 1

 

This database integrates four bibliographies—the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienzaand the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine—to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology and medicine. 

History of Science, Technology and Medicine reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present, and offers outstanding value for interdisciplinary research. This essential database includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials.
 
IEEE Xplore
Concurrent user limit: 15
Full-text access to over 120 IEEE journals, as well as transactions, conference titles, and standards from 1988 to the present with some items going back as far as 1950. (Updated weekly)

Concurrent user limit: 15
Inspec

Note: New interface released July 2012.  Details available here.

(Physics, Computing, Electronics, 1884-present). Covers all aspects of these subjects, in approximately 4,200 journals and 1,000 conferences as well as books, reports and dissertations. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Inspec Archive. Including over 800,000 records, the backfile covers the literature of physics, electrical engineering, and computing from 1884-1968. Corresponds to the print General Science Abstracts.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Provides statistical data about the impact factor of science and social science journals in a given fields. The Science edition covers about 5,700 international science journals from the ISI database; the Social Sciences Edition covers about 1,700 leading international social sciences journals from the ISI database. Note: JCR data is updated annually in the summer following the year of coverage (e.g. 2006 data becomes available in the summer of 2007).
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.

Key features of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Online include:

* Over 1,000 articles, with more than 600 new or updated -- over 10of the content is updated annually
* Monthly updates that keep the online version on the cutting edge of chemical technology
* Previous versions of revised articles archived for posterity
* An easy to use interface that allows one to Search or Browse through the articles for quick reference and convenience
(description provided by publisher)
Knovel Library

(browse titles in Diamond Catalog) / Note: Now includes ASM Handbooks and ASM Alloy data (7/12/10)

5 new titles added (3/7/13)

Knovel Library provides Temple with online access to over 450 titles included in the following subject collections:

--Aerospace & Radar Technology
--Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
--Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
--Electrical & Power Engineering
--Environmental Engineering
--General Engineering
--Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
--Metals & Metallurgy
--Oil & Gas
--Semiconductors & Electronics

Knovel expands the traditional ebook paradigm by adding the ability to interactively manipulate and search for content across this entire collection. Knovel's core technology is unique in that it aggregates text together with databases in an indexing structure that allows an unlimited number of products to work together. Users have the flexibility of navigating through e-References page-by-page or to search across the site and manipulate interactive tables, graphs, equations, spreadsheets, and other structured information.

MadCad.com Codes and Standards
Concurrent user limit: 1
Online access to the following codes/standards:
  • International Building Code 2009
  • International Energy Conservation Code 2009
  • International Mechanical Code 2009
  • International Plumbing Code 2009
  • NFPA 13: Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
  • NFPA 70: National Electrical Code
  • NFPA 101: Life Safety Code
  • ASHRAE Standard 90.1: Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
MATERIALSnetBASE (CRCnetBASE)
(browse titles in Diamond Catalog) / Concurrent user limit: 2
The complete text of over 300 materials applications handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content ranges from ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology.

Concurrent user limit: 2
NASA Technical Report Server
Access to NASA's current and historical technical literature since it was first released in 1994. NTRS provides access to approximately 500K aerospace related citations, 90K full-text online documents, and 111K images and videos. NTRS includes: conference papers, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos.
National Science Digital Library
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the NSDL is a digital library of exemplary educational resources for social science, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For all education levels, elementary through higher education.
NTIS Electronic Catalog (National Technical Information Service)
A database of 450,000 titles from the National Technical Information Service of the US Dept of Commerce. This database can be used to locate and order government publications and other products issued by NTIS since 1990. Searching capability is limited to titles and topics. Most records do NOT include product summaries (Abstracts).
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of digital records that began at the University of Michigan, built by harvesting records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster is one of the world's largest aggregators of records, boasting more than 19 million items from more than 1,000 contributors. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Digital resources in OAister include:

--Digitized (scanned) books and articles
--Digital text
--Audio fles (WAV, MP3)
--Video fles (MP4, Quicktime)
--Photographic images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF)
--Data sets (downloadable statistical information
Patent Searching and Images [via the European Patent Office]

Full-text of European (EP), World (WO) and other patents back to the 1970's. Also links to individual European country patent databases.

Patent Searching and Images [via US Patent & Trademark Office]
All US patents from 1790 - present. Download or view images of the actual patents (requires TIFF image plug-in). Patents from 1976 to the present are available full text in an HTML text format.
PGM Database
Platinum Metals Group Database
The PGM Database is a collection of published data and internal Johnson Matthey data defining the physical properties and characteristics of the six platinum group metals and their alloys. The database can display a datasheet of material properties, giving a comprehensive picture of a material and its capabilities. Also available at this site is the quarterly Platinum Metals Review E-journal, supporting the science and technology of the platinum group metals (see "PMR Home").
Proquest Dissertations & Theses
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface.
Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

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 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It provides coverage of biomedical journals from the United States and 80 other countries, dating back to the mid-1950's.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. SCI Expanded: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 forward. Averages 17,750 new articles per week. Includes approximately 362,000 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. Contains a current total of over 17 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)
Science Online
Online access to the prestigious journal Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1996 to the present. Also includes Science Express - electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print and ScienceNOW - daily science news from Science journalists.
Science.gov
A gateway to science information resources of the U.S. government. Users can search both government web sites and government databases. Full-text available.
ScienceDirect

Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, and medical journals and thousands of ebooks published by Elsevier.

Scirus
Indexing hundreds of millions of scientific items, Scirus allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Summon
Summon is a powerful, yet simple search tool that allows you to discover the breadth of Temple Libraries' collections. Whether you need to find books, scholarly articles, films, music, dissertations, archival material or other library sources, Summon has you covered.

Learn more about Summon...
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
The Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science consists of 50 to 100-page electronic books that synthesize important research or development topics.
TRID
Transport Research International Documentation
In 2011, TRB and ITRD released TRID, the TRIS and ITRD Database. TRID is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information. It is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the US National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities. ITRD is produced by ITRD member organizations under the under the sponsorship of Joint Transport Research Centre (collectively JTRC) of the International Transport Forum and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and ITRD.

TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 900,000 records of published research. Over 64,000 records contain links to full-text documents.
Water Resources Abstracts
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface.
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications.

Until 1994, the database was produced by the United States Geological Survey, when it was generally known as Selected Water Resources Abstracts. Since that time, Water Resources Abstracts has been produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, which broadened the scope by including more material published outside the U.S.A. This database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment, complements the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts database, ASFA, where there is greater coverage of the marine environment and biological material. (Updated monthly)
Web of Science
Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), 1975-present.
Wiley Online Library

Full-text of over 400 current journals published by Wiley-Blackwell. The great majority of journals (bot not all) are available to the Temple community online.

WorldCat
More than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. Coverage/update frequency: from about 1000 A.D. to the present; adds new records daily. Includes holdings of 6,700 OCLC Member Libraries & Institutions.