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• AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics) - Can search citations & abstracts of papers back to 2000.



• Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography - Can browse citations of journal articles, conference papers, etc. Many links to full-text.



• Artistic Representations in Virtual Reality (VRArt) - Can browse 200 citations of books, journal articles, theses, etc., on art & technology. Links to online exhibits, performers/artistis, etc. Last updated in 1999.



• arXiv.org - Can search over 374,400 eprints on physics, mathematics, computer science, etc.



• Biological and Environmental Research Abstracts Database - Can search citations & abstracts of research reports.



• CAS Science Spotlight (Chemical Abstracts Service) - Can search the most cited & requested journal articles (many full-text) & patent families (downloadable [pdf]) back to 2001.



• CERN Document Server (CDS) - Can search, browse over 650,000 citations & abstracts (320,000 full-text) of preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, etc., on particle physics.



• Chemical Physics Preprint Database - Can search, browse articles on theoretical chemistry posted by scholars back to 1994.



• CogPrints - Can search, browse, download (pdf) self-archived cognitive sciences eprints.



• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, The - Can search, browse over 1.4 million citations of journal articles, conference papers, technical reports from over 1,400 bibliographies back to 1950. Includes the Bibliography on Computer Based Assessment and Distance Learning.



• Computer Science Bibliography - Can browse 6,000 citations of books, journal articles, Web sites, etc.



• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) - Can browsebrowse over 520,000 citations of conference proceedings & journal articles on databases & logic programming back to 1993. Has several thousand links to home pages of computer scientists.



• Cover Pages Technology Reports - Has over 700 documents on standards development & XML, SGML/XML, academic, government applications.



• Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy - Can search 3.6 million citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference proceedings, observatory reports, dissertations, etc.; browse a library of over 300,000 journal & conference articles, current & historical.



• Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) - Can search, browse working papers on the commons (environmental policy, equity, experimental economics, game theory, gender, participatory management systems, sustainability, etc.) by Indiana University faculty.



• DPD (DNA Patent Database) - Can search, browse text & analysis of all DNA patents issued by the USPTO.



• EECS Technical Reports - Can search, browse reports from departments, industrial & government, research laboratories worldwide.



• El Nino Bibliography, The - Can search, browse citations of journal articles, conference papers, etc.



• Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC). - Can search, browse links to research reports, monographs, lecture notes, survey reports, theses.



• Electronic Theses and Dissertations - Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 290 ETDs completed at Worcester Polytechnic Institut.



• Energy Citations Database - Can search citations of technical reports, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, patents on chemistry, physics, mathematics, environmental science, geology, etc., back to 1948.



• e-print arXiv - Can search articles on 15 general & specialized servers.



• E-print Network - Can search, browse over 13,750 sites with eprint servers & over 1 million articles on physics, chemistry, biology, biotechnology, geosciences, medicine, etc. Has links to over 2,200 scientific societies.



• EPrints Repository - Can search, browse over 1,500 journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., by Australian National University faculty.



• eScholarship Repository - Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 13,900 articles in journals & peer-reviewed series, working papers, etc. Covers business, education, the social sciences.



• esp@cenet: The European Patent Office - Can search EPO databases & 30 million documents worldwide.



• ETDEWEB - Can search over 3,762,000 citations & 117,000 documents on the environmental impact of energy production & use (climate change; renewable energy technologies; etc.). Requires free registration.



• EurekAlert - Can search, browse science news releases & archives in 14 categories. Has links (100 science, technology, medical peer-reviewed journals; etc.).



• Federal R&D Project Summaries - Can search citations & abstracts of Federally-funded projects of the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation.



• FreePatentsOnline.com - Can search full-text U.S. patents (3,930,271 to 6,959,451) & applications (20,010,000,001 to 20,050,241,041), European patents( EP1,200,001 to EP1,561,423).



• FreeScience.info - Directory. Can browse links to over 800 ebooks, formularies, notes, lectures, theses, software, links, etc.



• GeoRef Preview Database - Can search over 2.4 million citations to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, theses.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography, The - Can browse links to journal articles, reports, etc.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• GSA Publications Search Page (Geologic Society of America) - Can search citations & abstracts of journal articles back to 1972, full-text back to 1995; meeting astracts back to 1997; the bookstore.



• Guide to Computing Literature, The - Can search, browse over 750,000 citations of books, journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, theses, technical reports by ACM & other publishers.



• HazLit Database - Can search citations (some abstracts) of books, journal articles, reports on how society prepares for, reacts to, etc., natural hazards & catastrophic events.



• Help-Site Computer Manuals - Main Index - Directory. Can search, browse over 17,800 support documents & 160 sites (FAQ lists, tutorials, manuals, etc.).



• High-Energy Physics Conferences Database - Can search papers back to 1865.



• High-Energy Physics Literature Database - Can search over 500,000 journal articles, preprints, technical reports, conference papers, etc., on back to 1974.



• HP Labs Technical Reports - Can search Hewlett-Packard reports on computer science, communication networks, applied mathematics back to 1990.



• HSRC Research Abstracts (Beginning in 2002) (Hazardous Substance Research Centers) - Can search citations & abstracts of papers.



• Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography - Can browse citations (some links to full-text) of journal articles, books, theses, etc.



• IBM Research Technical Paper Search - Can search reports on chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics back to 1987.



• ICASE Technical Reports (Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering) - Can browse reports on mathematics, computer science, physical sciences back to 1991.



• IEEE Computer Society Digital Library - Can search, browse journal articles & conference papers.



• Index of Cryptography Papers Available Online - Can browse citations with links to over 1,400 journal articles, conference papers, etc., back to 1978.



• Information Bridge - OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information). Can search, download (pdf) U.S. Department of Energy reports back to 1995. Covers physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, environmental science, etc.



• Intellectual Property Digital Library - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Can search, browse collections that include PCT (patents), Madrid (trademarks), Hague (industrial designs), Article 6ter (state emblems, official hallmarks, emblems of intergovernmental organizations), etc., back to 1997.



• Internet Archive - Can search, browse, download historical moving images, audio (music, presidential speeches, etc.), software, etexts (over 9,560 Million Book Project titles, 5,100 Project Gutenberg titles, Arpanet, 360 Open Source Books, 20,000 Internet Archive Bookmobile titles, 290 Internet Archive Children's Library titles, 200 Dance Manuals).



• IT Road Maps - Can search 5,000 citations of data sets, journal articles, conference papers, books, Web sites, etc., on the social & economic implications of IT.



• Japan Patent Office (JPO) - Can search patents, trademarks, applications. Has information, statistics, etc.



• JPL Technical Report Server (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) - Can search over 8,000 preprints, meeting papers, journal articles, etc, back to 1992.



• lanl.arXiv.org - Can search over 392,000 papers on physics, mathematics, computer science, etc.



• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) - Can search over 7 million documents on the advertising, marketing, sales, scientific research, etc., of tobacco products in the U.S. back to the 1950s.



• Material Safety Data Sheets - Can search over 250,000 files from the U.S. Government Department of Defense MSDS database & those maintained by Cornell University.



• MathDiss Database - Can search, browse, download (pdf) research completed at Gottingen State & University Library in Germany.



• Mathematics Genealogy Project, The - Can search, browse over 96,870 citations of dissertations worldwild.



• mathpreprints.com - Can search, browse over 1,000 articles.



• MIT Theses - Can search, browse citations of theses back to 1888.



• MPRESS (Mathematics Preprint Search Service) - Can search articles.



• MSDS Online - Can search MSDSs with limited access to free MSDSs. Requires free registration. Unlimited MSDSs for a fee.



• NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) - Can search NASA documents (meeting presentations, journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports) prior to 1959.



• Net Advance of Physics, The - Can browse journal review articles & tutorials.



• NetLib - Can search, browse mathematical software, data, papers, address lists, etc.



• Network Bibliography - Can search 50,000 citations of journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, all RFCs & Internet Drafts back to 1998 on performance evaluation, computer networks, computer supported cooperative work, network security, digital signal processing, etc.



• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research worldwide.



• Networking White Papers - Can search, browse over 1,500 papers.



• New Communication Technologies, Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography - Can search over 2,600 citations of journal articles, books, government publications.



• NTIS Library (National Technical Information Service) - Can search citations & abstracts of scientific, technical, engineering, business publications from all U.S. government agencies back to 1990.



• NTRS: NASA Technical Report Server - Can search unclassified research reports, journal articles, conference papers, etc.



• OAIster - Can search & link to over 9.7 million ebooks, ejournal articles, audio files, images, movies in digital collections of over 700 academic institutions.



• On-line CS Techreports - Can search, browse links to 395 sites worldwide that have online computer science technical reports.



• PhilSci Archive - Can search, browse preprints in the philosophy of science. Requires free registration.



• PhysDoc - Physics Documents Worldwide - Can search links to preprints, research reports, annual reports, publications by institutions & physicists.



• PrimateLit - Can search citations of journal articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, etc., back to 1940.



• PROW (Protein Reviews on the Web) - Can search, browse expert reviews on human proteins.



• Publications - Can search, browse, download (pdf) statistical reports, newsletters/journals, etc.



• Publications Warehouse - Can search 70,000 citations (some full-text) of reports & thematic maps.



• QUAKELINE - Can search over 44,900 citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, etc., back to 1987 on earthquakes, natural hazard mitigation, etc.



• Rand's Publications - Can search, browse titles before 1998 in 16 categories (child policy, civil justice, education, energy & environment, health & healthcare, international affairs, national security, population & aging, public safetly, science & technology, substance abuse, terrorism & homeland security, etc.).



• Scirus - Search engine. Can search over 135 million science-related Web pages, including citations & abstracts of peer-reviewed journals, conferences, preprints, etc. Covers economics, business, management; medicine; neuroscience; psychology; social & behaviorial sciences; etc.



• STMA-Z (Statistical Theory and Methods Abstracts - Zentralblatt) - Can search over 384,100 citations of books, journal articles, conference papers.



• Superconductivity Papers Database - Can search over 87,510 citations of journal articles & conference papers.



• SurfIP - Can search the USPTO, IPOS, WIPO, EPO, SIPO, CIPO databases for patents, trademarks, designs, etc.



• Technical Report Archives in Computer Science (By Institution) - Can link to & search over 120 institutional & project archives.



• Theses Canada Portal - Can search over 220,000 citations, with abstracts back to 1995, download (pdf) theses submitted between 1998 & 2002.



• Theses Link Collection - Has links to collections in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, Sweden, the U.S., etc.



• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - Can search for patents, expired patents, trademarks, patent classifications, trademarks. Has information on applications, depository libraries, patent attorneys & exams, etc.



• UNESCO Documents & Publications - Can search citations (some full-text) of documents, publications, periodicals.



• University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - Can search, browse journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., back to 1945.



• University of Washington Statistics Technical Reports - Can browse over 400 reports.



• Virtual Technical Reports Center, The - Can browse links to institutions with technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, research reports.



• Visual Language Research Bibliography - Can browse citations (some links to full-text) of journal articles, conference papers, etc.



• VT ETDs (Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 9,000 etexts.



• Zentralblatt MATH - Can search 2 million citations of books, journal articles, conference papers, etc., back to 1931.