Science and Engineering Resources

https://dl.acm.org/

ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library. ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics. In addition to articles published between 1951 and 2000, ACM has also opened related and supplemental materials including data sets, software, slides, audio recordings, and videos.

https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/

A digital repository of the results of work conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology. Current and past issues are available at this website.

http://bioone.org

Search more than 200 research journals that cover biology, ecology and the environmental sciences.  Look for the open access icon (open lock) for freely available articles that alumni can access.

http://www.ieee-security.org/cipher.html

Cipher is the electronic newsletter of the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy of the Computer Society of the IEEE.

http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine (CMC) is published continuously on the Web and covers the latest news in the online world, including information technology, knowledge management, and e-business.

http://www.doaj.org/

This independent database contains over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.

https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/open-access-journals

From Elsevier website: "All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download."

https://www.jhuapl.edu/TechDigest

The Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest is an unclassified technical journal published quarterly by the Applied Physics Laboratory. The purpose of the Technical Digest is to communicate the work of the Laboratory to its sponsors and to the defense, scientific, and academic communities.

https://plos.org/

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) makes it possible for scientists and researchers to share their discoveries with each other and the public. PLOS promotes a model of scientific publishing that makes scientific biomedical publications freely available to read and use online.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

BioMed Central is an independent publisher providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Original research articles published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge.

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu

CiteSeer.IST is a scientific literature digital library that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. In addition to full-text, it provides citation information. It is currently hosted at the Pennsylvania State University's College of Information Sciences and Technology.

https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/paleo.shtml

Provides access to seven paleomagnetic databases.

http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/

The NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides a search engine for its four bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Instrumentation; Physics and Geophysics, and ArXiv Preprints. Each database contains abstracts from articles and monographs published in the different disciplines. The databases cover all the major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, several Observatory reports and newsletters, many NASA reports, and PhD theses. The abstracts database contains data from several sources, including NASA's Scientific and Technical Information group (STI), journal publishers SIMBAD, NED, and OCR'd from table of contents.

http://RePORT.nih.gov

A comprehensive website of reports, data and analyses of NIH-funded research projects. Provides search capabilities across all NIH databases, and is the new home of CRISP, the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects website.

http://www.osti.gov/

From the U.S. Department of Energy, OSTI is responsible for collecting and making available the research sponsored by the DOE. Includes technical documents, conference proceedings, papers, multimedia, software and articles.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Click here to view a short video about this topic. PubMed is a publicly-available database that provides citations and abstracts to millions of biomedical journal articles. It also includes full-text articles from Open Access (OA) and freely-available journals. PubMed itself does not provide full-text access to commercially published articles. As students, you were able to access medical articles because the library had subscriptions to the journals in PubMed and created the links to the articles, but that behind-the-scenes work was transparent to you. Access is not available after your JHED ID expires.
In HKNET, we have a database called ProQuest Medical Database that has full-text articles from nearly 2,000 medical journals routinely cited in Medline. You can run your searches in PubMed and then look up the citations in ProQuest Medical Database using the “Find a Journal” search. Or, you can simply run your subject/author searches in ProQuest Medical Database and view full-text articles from your results list. PubMed is produced by the National Library of Medicine. NLM produces a companion database called PubMedCentral that has over 6 million freely available full-text articles.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

"PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature." Includes full-text access to BMJ.com, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and over 2,000 other journals. Click here to view a short video about this topic.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/

EERE's mission is to "enhance energy efficiency and productivity; bring clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace; and make a difference in the everyday lives of Americans by enhancing their energy choices and their quality of life." This website helps in that effort, with useful information for consumers, educators and researchers alike.

http://www.dot.gov/

The US Department of Transportation web site provides information and links that support and describe all DOT agencies, including the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) and RSPA (Research and Special Programs Administration. RSPA focuses on intermodal transportation research and technology. DOT oversees the formulation of national transportation policy and promotes intermodal transportation.

http://www.epa.gov/

The US Environmental Protection Agency web site. "EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment, air, water, and land upon which life depends." The web site includes useful information tailored to specific areas. From the "Where you Live" page, you can enter your zip code and choose from four databases to retrieve environmental information about your community.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

NASA missions are as varied as the mandate of the agency. From using satellites imaging to studying climate change to the Hubble Space Telescope scanning deep space, NASA's goal is to further mankind's knowledge of our universe." NASA seeks to advance exploration and discovery in aeronautics and space technologies.

http://www.si.edu/

From: The Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institute website includes information, publications, images and music from the museums, affiliate museums and research centers that make up this national resource.

http://www.uspto.gov/

For over 200 years, the basic role of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution). This is the authoritative source for information regarding U.S. patents.

http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/methods/innovation.html

Collaboration between Stanford and the EU; peer-reviewed information about accommodating gender differences in the engineering design process.

http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/

The National Academy of Engineering has identified 14 engineering challenges of the next millenium needing innovative solutions.

https://www.innocentive.com/

From website: "InnoCentive is the global leader in crowdsourcing innovation problems to the world’s smartest people who compete to provide ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges." Institutions such as NASA and The Cleveland Clinic post scientific challenges; “solvers” can submit written solutions.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/3-d-printing.html

Interesting news about MIT's progress with 3-D printing!

http://www.pgrn.org/

"The Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN) is a network of scientific groups focused on understanding how a person’s genes affect his or her response to medicines. It has been supported since 2000 by the NIH. Research projects, collaborations, and partnerships are funded through the PGRN."

https://www.proquest.com/pqrlalumni?accountid=44369

ProQuest's Alumni Research Library contains over 5,300 journal titles across all subject disciplines, including arts, business, education, humanities, literature, political science and psychology. For many of these journals, citations and abstracts are available from 1971 to the present. Full text coverage varies by journal, but typically begins with the mid-1990s. Browse a list of titles included in ProQuest Research Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

http://www.annualreviews.org

Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scholarly professionals with a definitive academic resource in 45 disciplines in the life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

https://link.gale.com/apps/GDCS?u=jhu_alum

Primary sources from over 48 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.

https://www.proquest.com/medicalalumni?accountid=44369

Provides full text and full image articles for nearly 2,000 key biomedical journals. It has a powerful search interface with 17 searchable fields, and it uses the MeSH subject thesaurus. Full text/full image coverage dates from 1992. Browse a list of titles included in Proquest Medical Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://data.sagepub.com

SAGE Data, formerly Data Planet, is a collection of billions of multidisciplinary, global statistics for research and instruction. It is a data aggregation tool that allows you to create custom tables and charts.

http://journals.sagepub.com/

Provides full-text access to over 1,000 scholarly and professional journals spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

http://sk.sagepub.com/

Sage's ebook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content. Also contains CQ Press ebooks, including Historic Documents of 2020, The CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the Unites States, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th ed., Washington Information Directory 2022-2023, Congress A to Z, Vital Statistics on American Politics 2017-2020, State Rankings 2017: A Statistical View of America, State Rankings 2018: A Statistical View of America.

http://methods.sagepub.com/

Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Built upon SAGE’s legacy of methods publishing, SAGE Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.”

http://methods.sagepub.com/cases

Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 1100 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves.  They explain why the researchers chose the methods they did, how they overcame problems in their research and what they might have done differently with hindsight: the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.”

http://www.aaas.org/

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publishes Science. The primary program areas addressed by the AAAS are science and policy; international programs, and education and human resources.

http://www.aimbe.org/

The web site for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, whose aim is to be a "bridge between the principles of engineering science and practice, and the problems and issues of biological and medical science and practice." Activities include participation in the formulation of public policy; the dissemination of information through publications and forums; and education.

http://www.asee.org/

The American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education. The ASEE membership represents more than 12,000 deans, professors, instructors, students and industry representatives.

http://www.asme.org/

Founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical organization with a membership of 125,000. ASME conducts technical publishing operations, holds technical conferences and professional development courses and sets industrial and manufacturing standards.

http://www.ame.org/

AME, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence is a not-for-profit volunteer-run organization that provides educational opportunities, a forum for developing management and operational techniques and publications for the manufacturing community.

http://www.bmes.org/

The web site of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The purpose of the Society is: "To promote the increase of biomedical engineering knowledge and its utilization.

http://www.faseb.org/

FASEB (the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) provides educational meetings and publications to disseminate biological research results. The Federation is composed of fourteen member societies plus associate member societies.

http://www.fbresearch.org/

The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) is dedicated to improving human and animal health by promoting public understanding and support for the humane and responsible use of animals in medical and scientific research.

http://www.ieee.org/index.html

The IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association. It is an authority in technical areas including computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics. It is also known for technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities.

http://www.ifmbe.org/

IFMBE, the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, is a federation of organizations that represent national interests in medical and biological engineering.

http://www.iupesm.org/

"The principal objective of IUPESM is to contribute to the advancement of physical and engineering sciences in medicine for the benefit and well being of humanity." The IUPESM represents the combined efforts of more than 40,000 medical physicists and biomedical engineers working on the physical and engineering science of medicine.

http://www.jcvi.org/

The J. Craig Venter Institute is a large multidisciplinary genomic-focused organization. Its primary research interests are in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms including viruses, eubacterians, archaea and eukaryotes.

http://www.nationalacademies.org/

The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council are private, non-profit, membership organizations that advise the federal government, upon request and without fee, on questions of science and technology.

http://www.nsf.gov/

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the U.S. Government. It consists of the National Science Board of 24 part-time members and a Director, each appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. The NSF's mission is to promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and to secure the national defense.

http://www.sme.org/

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is the world's leading professional society supporting lifelong manufacturing education. Through member programs, publications, expositions and professional development resources, SME promotes an increased awareness of manufacturing engineering and helps keep manufacturing professionals up to date on leading trends and technologies.

http://ee.cleversoul.com/

Created by Randy Rasa, The EE Compendium website, compiled by an electrical engineer contains useful information for professional electronics engineers, students, and hobbyists. "The EE Compendium is a collection of Electronics Engineering information on the World Wide Web. It grew out of an earlier site called "Randy's Electronic Engineering Page". Like its previous incarnation, the EE Compendium is based on the information and links that the creator finds interesting or useful. This site in not meant to be comprehensive -- it's a highly individualistic look at the world of electronics."

http://www.eng-tips.com/

Eng-Tips is a free site produced by Tecumseh Group, Inc., an independent forum management company. It is linked to the TipMaster ( http://www.tipmaster.com ) web site which provides a free and confidential "public knowledge system" for various groups of professionals and permits collaboration on pressing and complex issues while building a searchable database. Users are asked to register on the site.

http://www.arxiv.org/

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science and quantitative biology, owned, operated and funded by Cornell University. ArXiv is partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Scope is international.

http://bioinformatics.org/

Bioinformatics.Org is a non-profit international organization that provides free and open resources for research in bioinformatics. Bioinformatics.Org hopes to lower the barrier to entering and participating in the field of bioinformatics, as access to cutting-edge resources can be prohibitively expensive for those working individually, in small groups, at poorly-funded institutions or in developing nations.

http://bioone.org

Search more than 200 research journals that cover biology, ecology and the environmental sciences.  Look for the open access icon (open lock) for freely available articles that alumni can access.

http://www.controleng.com/

Control Engineering Online is a free subscription website covering control, instrumentation and automation systems worldwide. Control Engineering seeks to be the voice of the global control, instrumentation, and automation marketplace, providing information on technology, products, news, and trends in print and online.

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/pblctns.htm

The National Wetlands Research Center is a significant publisher of wetland studies. Because the center has operated under several missions and names, its publications and information products list is a myriad of peer-reviewed journal articles, technical publications, maps and posters, and outreach publications. Some of the publications on this list are available in full from this web site, as PDF files; others can be requested as reprints from the NWRC library.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Click here to view a short video about this topic. PubMed is a publicly-available database that provides citations and abstracts to millions of biomedical journal articles. It also includes full-text articles from Open Access (OA) and freely-available journals. PubMed itself does not provide full-text access to commercially published articles. As students, you were able to access medical articles because the library had subscriptions to the journals in PubMed and created the links to the articles, but that behind-the-scenes work was transparent to you. Access is not available after your JHED ID expires.

In HKNET, we have a database called ProQuest Medical Database that has full-text articles from nearly 2,000 medical journals routinely cited in Medline. You can run your searches in PubMed and then look up the citations in ProQuest Medical Database using the “Find a Journal” search. Or, you can simply run your subject/author searches in ProQuest Medical Database and view full-text articles from your results list. PubMed is produced by the National Library of Medicine. NLM produces a companion database called PubMedCentral that has over 6 million freely available full-text articles.

http://westernwaters.org/

The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) contains government reports, classic water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and video materials about the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins. Please see the Guide to the Collections for more information. The WWDL is a collaborative regional project created by twelve university libraries in eight western states. Clicking on a search result will take you to the website of the contributing institution where you can search further, create your own list of favorites, and manipulate or compare and contrast images. How to Use this Site explains these features. [from website]