Rensselaer Libraries

Getting Started

• Best Bets
• Access Science
  Encyclopedias
  Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology plus additional links.
• Annual Reviews Online
  Academic Journal Articles; Annual Reviews
  Analytic reviews in 30 focused disciplines within the Biological & Medical, Physical and Social Sciences. Synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
• ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL)
  Standards
  Includes all active ASTM standards as well as historical, withdrawn, and redlined standards, along with symposia papers (Special Technical Publications), ASTM journals, manuals, monographs, and data series.
• Credo Reference
  Dictionaries; Encyclopedias; Handbooks & Manuals
  Content from hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects.
• Knovel
  Encyclopedias; Handbooks & Manuals; Properties
  Electronic reference titles in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering & Construction Materials, Environment & Environmental Engineering, General Engineering & Engineering Management, and Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering.
• National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)
  Citation Databases; Government Documents Indexes; Technical Reports
  Provides indexing and abstracts for more than two million historical and current government-sponsored technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service. Over 500,000 documents are available in full-text.
• ProQuest Deep Indexing: Technology
  Photographs and Images
  Provides searching of indexed figures, tables, graphs, maps, charts, and other illustrations from scholarly journals.
• ScienceDirect
  Academic Journal Articles; Electronic Journal Collections
  ScienceDirect is a web information source for scientific, technical, and medical research (STM) that offers access to more than 1,100 journals across 16 fields of science. ScienceDirect offers full-text articles, browseable tables of contents, and article abstracts.
• USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office)
  Government Documents; Government Documents Indexes; Patents
  The USPTO provides quick and advanced interfaces to US patents and applications.
• Web of Science (with Conference Proceedings)
  Academic Journal Articles; Citation Databases; Conference Proceedings
  Includes all five ISI citation products: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science; and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities. Citation databases treat the references of an article as index terms, allowing them to be searched.