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Index to articles, news items, and editorials from approximately 80 English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1962. Full text archived via HathiTrust.

Journals and conference proceedings from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). UW Restricted.

The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource intended to support researchers and librarians who need accurate bibliographic information. Use this free tool to quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.

Department of Energy Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science is the DOE discovery tool, developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), that makes peer-reviewed scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible.

DOE PAGES offers free public access to the best available full-text version of DOE-funded scholarly publications – either the peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript or the published scientific journal article – after an administrative interval of 12 months. Explore additional OSTI databases for DOE data, code and patents.

Defense Technical Information Center
Covers AD/ADA/AD-B/AD-D, etc. Back to 50s – many are in full text. (.pdf).

With over 3.3 million bibliographic records, the INIS (International Nuclear Information System) collection offers online access to a unique set of non conventional literature (NCL) of over 280,000 full-text documents, such as scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents and theses, not available through commercial channels. In order to improve your search results you may want to consult the INIS Multilingual Thesaurus. The database is a product of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).

In 2019, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) released Inspec Analytics, a research intelligence tool to help research professionals explore global trends in physics, engineering and technology research. Explore the interconnected data within Inspec to uncover patterns and trends in engineering, computing & physics research to understand your place in a global landscape. With these precision research analytics, you can set the direction for your research outputs and monitor their impact.
Inspec Analytics can also be accessed when using the Inspec database within EngineeringVillage. Choose “Search” then “Inspec Analytics” from the drop down menu. UW Restricted.

NOTE: You must connect using HuskyOnNet VPN configured to “All Internet Traffic” in order to access Inspec Analytics.

Knovel’s Magnesium Alloy Database is a comprehensive compilation of typical and representative mechanical and physical properties for over 50 well-known wrought and cast magnesium alloys in a number of tempers and product forms. 22 interactive tables and 72 interactive graphs offer values in both metric and US units. Included are high and low temperature data, in addition to creep, stress rupture and fatigue properties. UW Restricted.

The Materials Project was created to accelerate materials discovery through advanced scientific computing and innovative design tools. By computing properties of all known materials, the e-science site aims to remove guesswork from materials design in a variety of applications.
The Materials Project wants to promote materials discovery through advanced scientific computing and innovative design tools, which include: Materials Explorer, Phase Diagram App, Lithium Battery Explorer, Reaction (Enthalpy) Calculator, Crystal Toolkit, Structure Predictor, Band Structure and Density of State App. Register for free, full access to all the tools.

MCEER (formerly the Multidisciplinary and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research) Publications Catalog contains most MCEER/NCEER publications. Research focuses on earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics. Additional features include records for various publication types, such as books, journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, CDs, slides, and videos.
Headquartered at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, MCEER was originally established by the National Science Foundation in 1986, as the first National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER). In 1998, it became known as the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), from which the current name, MCEER, evolved.

This database displays citation information from NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program. Examples of NASA’s STI include research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data. These are not full-text documents, although links to online full-text are provided when available.

The Public Access NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) is open to all users for search and retrieval of federally funded science and technology research. However, in order to display a full text document you need to register. Registration is free but Terms and Conditions of use need to be accepted and signed. Covers 1964 to the present.

The Knovel Optical and Filter Glass Database is a comprehensive resource of optical and filter glass property data compiled from 16 optical and filter glass manufacturers worldwide. The database includes extensive optical, mechanical, and chemical property data for more than 1700 commercially available optical and filter glasses. UW Restricted.

OSTI (Department of Energy, Office of Scientific & Technical Information) maintains a database of all the full-text documents and citations previously found in Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database. OSTI.gov contains over sixty-five years of energy-related citations created and/or collected by OSTI. There are over 2.5 million citations, including citations to 1.4 million journal articles, 364,000 of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers’ websites. OSTI.gov also has over 313,000 full-text DOE sponsored STI reports; most of these are post-1991, but close to 85,000 of the reports were published prior to 1990.
OSTI.gov includes technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information sponsored by DOE through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today. This collection continues to grow as new scientific and technical information resulting from DOE research becomes available.

Web-based patent search application from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Includes issued patents and patent applications.

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Included in Web of Science Core Collection, includes worldwide research literature in the sciences. Used primarily for cited author (determining who has cited an author’s previous works) & cited reference (determine who has cited a previous work and where) searching. Covers 3300 major journals across 100 scientific disciplines, indexing every article & significant item (including letters, notes, editorials). Covers 1975 to the present. UW Restricted.

This searchable database contains information about where to find most of the print standards shelved in the UW Engineering Library.

Freely search information about industrial products and services in the following categories:
Downloadable 2D and 3D CAD models for mechanical parts, plant components, and building products for easy insertion into drawings; product catalogs searchable by specification; parts catalogs for class and competitive projects.
ThomasNet also offers an Industrial Market Trends (IMT) blog and newsletter that offers insight to industry’s hot topics, latest developments, best practices, market trends and opinions of our readers giving students a look at the real-world; an active forum community; and product news.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Trademark Search system contains pending, registered, and dead federal trademarks. Online Help is available for search assistance. The "Announcements" section provides update-to-date information about database status and system development.

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The RiP database contains over 8400 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by Federal and State Departments of Transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database now serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research.

The catalog contains over 1.9 million titles held by all the UW libraries across three campuses.