Overview of Science & Engineering E-Resources

The Chemistry, Engineering, and Math-Physics-Astronomy Libraries each contain extensive holdings in print format, including a variety of books, conference proceedings, reference works, and journals. A selection of our growing number of electronic information resources is listed here (or search/peruse the full listing of E-Resources):

Databases

• BIOSIS Previews (Biological and biomedical research)
• Cambridge Structural Database (from Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre; in-library at Chemistry)
• Compendex (Engineering)
• Derwent Innovations Index (Worldwide patents)
• Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts; full-text of Penn Dissertations 1997 - present)
• INSPEC (Computing, electronics, physics, robotics)
• MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews)
• PubMed Plus (Biomedical)
• Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
• SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)

E-Books and E-Reference Works

• AccessMedicine (medical texts and reference works)
• Beilstein/Gmelin (organic and inorganic substances properties databases)
• Cambridge Engineering Selector (for materials selection and processes; only available in-library)
• Knovel Science & Engineering Reference Works Online( full-text of nearly 800 major engineering and scientific reference works )
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science (mostly volumes published since 1990)
• Lecture Notes in Mathematics (mostly volumes published since the year 2000)
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (AccessScience)
• Morgan Claypool Synthesis (engineering and computer science topical summaries)
• Safari Tech Books Online (nearly 300 online full-text computer science books from publishers such as O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Prentice-Hall)
• Wiley Online Reference Works
  • Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
  • e-EROS : Encyclopedia of Reagants for Organic Synthesis
  • Encyclopedia of Smart Materials
  • Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

E-Journal and Conference Proceedings Collections

• ACM Digital Library(Association for Computing Machinery) all journals and conference proceedings
• ACS (American Chemical Society)
• AIP (American Institute of Physics) journals and conference proceedings
• Annual Reviews (analytic topical reviews from 32 disciplines)
• APS (American Physical Society)
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
• IEEE/IET Electronic Library (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Institution of Engineering and Technology) journals and conference proceedings since 1988
• IOP (Institute of Physics)
• MRS Symposia Proceedings (Materials Research Society) proceedings 2000 - present
• OSA (Optical Society of America) Optics Infobase
• RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) journal archive from 1952 - present
• SPIE Digital Library (International Society for Optical Engineering) journals and conference proceedings since 1990
• Selected titles from publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc.