a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.
Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
Full text access to quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Includes most IEEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards.
IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) includes access to the full text of IEEE content published since 1988 with select content published since 1872 from: - IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents - IEEE conference proceedings - IET conference proceedings - IEEE published standards - IEEE Standards Dictionary Online VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings includes complimentary access to the AbstractPlus records and select full text published since 2005 Bell Labs Technical Journal includes access to the AbstractPlus records and full text articles published from 1922 IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library includes full text access to all IEEE-Wiley eBooks titles copyrighted in the year(s) 1974-2013 Individual Online Journals includes access to all AbstractPlus records and full text published since 2005 from: - Systems Engineering and Electronics, Journal of -IET journals are now largely Open Access at the IET Research Hub on Wiley Online Library
Materials Science
Advanced Polymers Abstracts* (CSA)
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This database centralizes information on advanced plastics and is a subset of the Engineered Materials Abstracts database.
This is a comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics.
print index (1939+) General Collection TP 785 .A64
The growing importance of polymers, ceramics, and composites in a variety of structural and other advanced applications requires the in-depth coverage provided by Engineered Materials Abstracts.
the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development.
indexing 1966+; abstracts 1979+
"METADEX contains over 1,425,000 references and is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index, and Alloys Index.
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases." Subject coverage:
- Steels
- Metals
- Alloys
- Compounds
- Metal matrix composites
- Nonferrous metals
- Processing
- Properties
- Testing
- Analysis
- Applications
- Microstructure
- Strength
- Refining
- Casting
- Coatings
- Heat treatment
- Corrosion
- Extracting and smelting
- Blast furnaces
- Machining
- Welding
- Environmental and safety issue
"provides global coverage on all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices - as well as the new high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology, now highlighted in every issue."
"Some of the topics covered are phase, crystal, and mechanical properties of solids, optical and dielectric properties, conductive and magnetic properties, exotic electronic structure and energy gaps, SQUIDs, impurity effects, flux structures and critical current, ceramics, twinning phenomena, and more. This database provides international coverage as well as coverage of numerous non-serial publications.
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases."
publications from the U.K. & the U.S. covering new technologies such as information technology & computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical & chemical engineering) & allied subject areas.
(formerly Current Technology Database)
Sources covered include over 350 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
Applied Science & Technology Source offers extensive coverage of research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines by combining high-quality databases from both EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson. This premier resource offers full text for almost 1,200 journals, citations to millions of articles. The content within Applied Science & Technology Source derives from numerous sources, including leading trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings.
formerly called Applied Science & Technology (EBSCOhost/Wilson) (1983+)
"Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics."
-IAOR ceased at the end of 2017
-The archives moved from Palgrave to International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).
-Print version (1961-2008) is available from the Main Library
UCF ARC MAIN General Collection -- Q500.I 5
-Contains bibliographic and abstract information in operations research and management science - sourced from over 180 of the world's leading journals.
Placement of the abstracts is arranged according to four major divisions:
- Process oriented where the emphasis is on the modelling of operations, functions, or activities common to various enterprises (Accidents, Allocation-Resources, Behaviour, Bidding, Communication, Computers-Information, Control, Cybernetics, Decision-Applications/Rules/Studies, Demand, Design, Distribution, Experiment, Facilities, Financial, Forecasting, Gaming, Information, Innovation, Inventory-Order Policies/Storage, Investment, Knowledge Management, Learning, Location, Maintenance/Repair & Replacement, Management, Marketing, Measurement, Organization, Performance, Personnel & Manpower Planning, Planning, Production-FMS/JIT/MRP, Project Management, Quality & Reliability, Queues, Retailing, Risk, Scheduling, Search, Service, Soft Systems, Storage, Supply & Supply Chains, Systems, Timetabling, Values, Vehicle Routing & Scheduling, Yield Management)
- Application oriented where the emphasis is on certain arenas, and models which are specialized to an arena (Advertising, Agriculture & Food, Biology, Commerce, Cummunications, Community, Construction & Architecture, Cutting Stock, Ecology, E-commerce, Economics, Education, Energy, Engineering, Finance & Banking, Forestry, Geography & Environment, Government, Health Services, Internet, Law & Law Enforcement, Manufacturing Industries, Marketing, Medicine, Meteorology, Military & Defence, Mineral Industries, Petroleum, Politics, Recreation & Tourism, Social, Space, Sports, Transportation-Air/General/Rail/Road/Water, Union Affairs, Water)
- Technique oriented where the emphasis is on abstract or mathematical models, methods, topics, techniques and solutions (Analytic Hierarchy Process, Artificial Intelligence-Decision Support/Expert Systems, Combinatorial Analysis, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Analysis, Control Processes, Cost Benefit Analysis, Datamining, Decision Theory, Differential Equations, Fuzzy Sets, Game Theory, Graphs, Heuristics-Ant Systems/Genetic Algorithms/Local Search/Tabu Search, Lagrange Multipliers, Markov Processes, Matrices, Networks-Flow/Path/Scheduling, Neural Networks, Numerical Analysis, Optimization-Simulated Annealing, Probability, Programming-Assignment/Branch & Bound/Constraints/Convex/Dynamic/Geometric/Goal/Integer/Linear/Mathematical/Multiple Criteria/Nonlinear/Parametric/Probabilistic/Quadratic/Traveling Salesman, Queues, Sets, Simulation-Analysis/Applications/Data Envelopment Analysis/Decision/Distributions/Empirical/Experiment/Inference/Multivariate/Regression/Sampling, Stochastic Processes, Time Series & Forecasting Methods)
- Professionally oriented where the emphasis is on the practice and development of operations research itself (Developing Countries, Education in OR, History, OR in a Region/Country, Philosophy, Practice)
Safety Science & Risk* (CSA) (1981+)
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provides comprehensive, timely information across the fields of public health, safety, and industrial hygiene, cited studies are geared to help researchers identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards from environmental and occupational
See Risk Abstracts and Health & Safety Science Abstracts
is the world’s largest and most comprehensive research platform dedicated to information on materials, their properties and uses.
The Landolt-Börnstein Database - 400 volumes, 250,000 substances and 1,200,000 citations
The complete Linus Pauling Files - A comprehensive database about the properties of inorganic solid phases, consisting of 255,000 documents
A subset of the Dortmund Database of Software and Separation Technology - Covering the Thermophysical Properties of pure liquids and binary mixtures, with 425,000 data points
An Adsorption database - covers over 1,000 reversible, equilibrium isotherms
A Polymer Thermodyamics database - that contains 140,000 datapoints about 150 polymers
44,000 Chemical Safety Documents
- REACH Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals
- GHS Globally Harmonized System
- RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances
- WEEE Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Provides options to search by elements, search by structure, or search the corrosion database by material name and/or environment.
Morgan & Claypool's Synthesis Digital Library was acquired by Springer-Nature in 2022. These eBooks are now available on SpringerLink Each eBook is also in the Library's Primo Discovery service.
50- to 100-page electronic books that synthesize important research or development on topics related to engineering and computer science.
Series included are:
- Advances in Automotive Technology
- Algorithms & Software in Engineering
- Antennas
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Assistive, Rehabilitative & Health-Preserving Technologies
- Biomedical Engineering
- Case Studies in Engineering
- Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
- Communication Networks
- Communications
- Computational Electromagnetics
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Science
- Computer Vision
- Control & Mechatronics
- Data Management
- Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
- Digital Circuits & Systems
- Distributed Computing Theory
- Electrical Engineering
- Emerging Trends in Librarianship
- Emerging Engineering Technologies
- Energy & the Environment: Technology, Science & Society
- Engineering
- Engineers, Technology, & Society
- Games & Computational Intelligence
- Global Engineering
- Human Language Technologies
- Human-Centered Informatics
- Image, Video, & Multimedia Processing
- Information Concepts, Retrieval, & Services
- Information Security, Privacy & Trust
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mobile & Pervasive Computing
- Nuclear Technology & Society
- Power Electronics
- Professionalism & Career Advancement for Scientists & Engineers
- Quantum Computing
- RF/Microwaves
- Semantic Web: Theory & Technology
- SEM Lectures on Experimental Mechanics
- Signal Processing
- Software Engineering
- Solid State Materials & Devices
- Speech & Audio Processing
- Sustainable Development
- Synthetic Biology
- Technology, Management, & Entrepreneurship
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Tissue Engineering
- Visual Computing: Computer Graphics, Animation, Computational Photography & Imaging
- Visualization
Call Number: General Collection Z 7403 .R8813
An index by subject and author to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals and other periodical works.
Digitized copy of some volumes available in HathiTrust -- UCF Users log in after retrieval for enhanced access.
See also Science, Technology, & Medicine: 1780-1925 (Nineteenth Century Collections Online) which includes some full text periodicals from this Catalogue.
v.1-6, 1st Series, 1800-1863
v.7-8, 2nd Series, 1864-1873
v.9-11, 3rd Series, 1874-1883
v.12, Supplementary volume, 1800-1883
v.13-19, 4th Series 1884-1900 Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Subject Index
Call Number: General Collection Z 7403 .R8813 suppl.
v.1, Pure Mathematics
v.2, Mechanics
v.3, Physics
- pt.1, Generalities, Heat, Light, Sound
- pt.2, Electricity & Magnetism
Call Number: General Collection Z 7401 .I622
Digitized copy of some volumes available in HathiTrust -- UCF Users log in after retrieval for enhanced access.
A. Mathematics
B. Mechanics
C. Physics
D. Chemistry
E. Astronomy
F. Meteorology
G. Mineralogy
H. Geology
J. Geography, mathematical & physical
K. Paleontology
L. General biology
M. Botany
N. Zoology
O. Human anatomy
P. Anthropology
Q. Physiology
R. Bacteriology
World List of Scientific Periodicals Published in the Years 1900-1960
Call Number: General Collection Z 7403 .W923
World List of Scientific Periodicals: Scientific, Medical & Technical Entries from the British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals: New Periodical Titles (1960-1978)
Call Number: General Collection Z 7403 .W923 Suppl.
Bibliography of American Natural History: The Pioneer Century, 1769-1865
Call Number: General Collection Z 7408 .U5 M52
"The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums & botanical gardens; state geological & natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise & progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology & zoology"