Fogler Guide to Spatial Information Science & Engineering

The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information related to Spatial Information Science & Engineering, please contact the Science and Engineering Center: 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our Ask a Librarian service.

INDEXING AND DATABASES

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. Access all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals, magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, and newsletters back to early 1950s.
• INSPEC. Coverage is 1969 - Present. Provides worldwide coverage of the research literature for the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computer hardware and software, control engineering and information technology. It is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Great Britain. Literature is reviewed from over 3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings each year. Database is updated weekly. Searching in combination with Compendex is recommended and utilize the "Remove Duplicates" feature.
• Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title). Compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy located at Sci Index TA1.E6, 1884 - 1995.
• Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or theses.
• Academic Search Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more comprehensive search, search Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
• AGRICOLA. Coverage is 1978 - Present. An electronic database with records for articles, technical reports, and book chapters on all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including agricultural economics, and GIS analysis. (Non-UMaine users may want to use the AGRICOLA database at the National Agricultural Library website. )
• ASCE Research Library. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. The ASCE Research Library is a full text database that covers 1995 to the present of ASCE journals and proceedings. The Civil Engineering Database covers ASCE documents published 1970 to present. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. A unique feature of the database is that it links discussions, closures, and erratas back to the original records. For coverage prior to 1970, use the "Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications," 1950 - 1979. Print copy at Sci Index TA1.A53.
• Business Source Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies
• Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
• Citidel. Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. Guide to internet tools and research resources developed by a university consortium.
• CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks). Access is provided by browsing a subject category or searching by keyword. Full text of the cited references is available.
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. A collection of bibliographies on subjects such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer graphics, etc. maintained by researchers worldwide. Journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports are listed. Some links to the online fulltext.
• Computing Research Respository (CoRR). This service is sponsored by the ACM, arXiv.org, NCSTRL and AAAI. This is a database of preprints in computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting preprints are provided. These preprints are not referreed.
• Digital Dissertations Indexes dissertations and theses written by graduates of North American and European universities. The complete text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996 is included.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free scholarly journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also provides access by broad subject areas.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
• Ecology Abstracts. Coverage is 1982 - present. Indexes the broad area of the interactions of organisms with their environment. Includes information on conservation, pollution, ecosystem management, and GIS.
• Energy Citations Database. Coverage is 1948 - Present. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical reports and papers sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. It provides coverage of traditional and alternative forms of energy production and conservation. Contains many citations to GIS related projects.
• Environmental Engineering Abstracts. Coverage is 1990 - Present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The focus of this database is engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals are covered and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings. Also indexes evaluated internet sites.
• Environmental Protection Agency. Databases and Software for Geographic Information Systems.
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Provides access to several databases at once: Agricultural & environmental biotechnology abstracts (1993-present); AFSA Aquatic pollution & environmental quality (1990-present); Ecology abstracts (1982-present); EIS Digests of environmental impact statements (1985-present); Environmental engineering abstracts (1990-present); Health & safety sciences abstracts (1981-present); Industrial & applied microbiology abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982-present); Bacteriology abstracts (Microbiology B) (1982-present); Pollution abstracts (1981-present); Risk abstracts (1990-present); Toxicology abstracts (1981-present); Water resources abstracts (1967-present). Helpful to search all the files at once. Also indexes evaluated internet sites.
• ESRI Virtual Campus: GIS education and training on the web. This database contains over 17,500 references to GIS research information for 1991 to present. Very comprehensive. Contains links to online journals and magazines and the table of contents and abstracts for many conference proceedings. Some conference proceedings have the full text available.
• Forest Products Abstracts. current 10 years online. Index to all aspects of the forest products literature including wood properties, timber extraction and damage, composites and laminates, pulp industry, and business issues. This databases is updated bi-monthly and indexes over 450 journals (see Serials cited in Forest Products Abstracts). Print index located at Sci Index SD 430 F66.
• Georef. Coverage: 1785+ for North America and 1933+ for the rest of the world. Produced by the American Geological Institute, it covers geology and related disciplines including: geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, mineralogy, and paleontology. Indexes over 3,500 journals as well as books, reports, theses and dissertations, maps, and conference proceedings and corresponds to the following print indexes: Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Updated monthly. Print copy located at Sci Index QE1.G2145
• Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. Searches over 250 spatial data servers.
• Google Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results based on their relevance criteria.
• IEEE Xplore. IEEE Xplore is a searchable database which includes the 130+ journals published by the IEEE and IEE and also their conference proceedings and the current edition of IEEE standards. Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and conference proceedings and further back to 1950 for selected publications. Full text of IEEE journal articles is available for 1998 to present. Full text is not available through IEEE Xplore for the IEE journals or IEEE and IEE conference proceedings and standards. Check URSUS to determine our holdings of these publications. The database allows simple keyword and phrase searching or complex search queries employing a variety of operators. Tables of contents are available for browsing and there is also a useful alerting service. Register to have an email alert sent of the table of contents when a new issue is published. We have contracted for 5 simultaneous users.
• Ingenta. A multidisciplinary database containing citations and some abstracts for articles in over 17,000 journals from 1988-present. Access is only really available by title words and author. Valuable because of the wide multidisciplinary coverage.
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science. WWW Database. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Freely available on the web and allows searching and provides abstracts for volume 500 of the series to the present. Also we have a subscription to Springer-Verlag Link searching service. Allows access to full text papers from Lecture Notes in Computer Science and searching by author, title, abstract keywords, conference title, etc. First time login requires User-ID: roj575uj Password: qvh706ye
• Literature Search of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences
• Maine Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Index. (MEMAP). Listing of programs that monitor and assess Maine's environment.
• MasterFILE Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 1,000 journals.
• MathSciNet. Coverage is 1940 - Present. Searchable database of citations and abstracts of mathematical journal articles and books. It also includes full-text reviews of many of the articles. This is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews (Sci Index QA 1 M7) and Current Mathematical Publications (shelved in Sci Periodicals).
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) Publications list and access to many full text documents.
• Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL). A searchable database of computer science technical reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are available in full text.
• National Standards Systems Network (NSSN). Searchable bibliographic database of thousands of industrial standards and specifications and links to many standards-issuing organizations.
• NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects, archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other relevant worldwide research.
• Oceanic abstracts. 1981-present online. Material covered includes ecology, environmental protection, and marine pollution. Over 3,500 journals and other resources including conference proceedings and technical reports are indexed.
• Public Educational Access to Environmental Information in Maine. (PEARL). Database of environmental data on Maine lakes.
• Pollution Abstracts. 1981 - present. Presented by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts this resources covers air, water, land and noise pollution. Industry pollution problems and solutions are covered. Updated monthly.
• Rural Development Abstracts. Part of the CABDirect Package. Use the advanced search option to restrict to the Rural Development subset only. Indexes journals as well as books, reports, and conference proceedings. Updated weekly.
• Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
• Science.gov New improved gateway to U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700 web sites.
• Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index Q1.A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online access is available through Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present.
• ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
• Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for full text searching and across a variety of databases.
• Spatial Odyssey. This database includes a list of GIS journals with information on which indexes cover each; searchable tables of contents for conference proceedings and monographs in GIS, 1991-1997; and searchable full-text contents of selected GIS conference proceedings (1994 only).
• SPIE Abstract Search Service. Bibliographic database of publications of The International Society for Optical Engineering.
• SPIN: Searchable Physics Information Notices. A bibliographic database published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
• State of Maine. Department of Transportation. They have a publications page which has some recent reports in PDF format.
• Transportation Research Board. Fogler owns almost all of their publications. They publish several technical reports series that disseminate important transportation research results. Use the TRB Publications Index or the URSUS online catalog to locate reports on your topic. Technical report series include:
  National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Report (TE7.N25)
  National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Web Documents
  Synthesis of Highway Practice (TE7.H51)
  Synthesis of Transit Practice (TA1001.5.N381)
  Transit Cooperative Research Program. Report (TA1001.5.N361)
  Transit Cooperative Research Program. Web Documents
  . Transportation Research Board. Special Report (TE1.N25)
• Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS). TRIS Online indexes over 420,000 records covering books, journal articles, technical reports and other articles. Coverage includes Federal, state, local and association publications and conference proceedings from the 1960s to the present. There are links provided when the full text document is available on the internet. Search the database by author, title, subject, corporate author/publisher, journal/conference title.
• URISA Proceedings and Journal articles index. Coverage is 1987 - 2002. Keyword search and table of contents available.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Databases and Software for Geographic Information Systems.
• USA Information Systems. Provides free database of military, government and society technical standards. Also a good resource for vendors of technical services, products and parts.
• Virtual Technical Reports Center. Maintained by the University of Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.
• Water Resources Abstracts. Index to international scientific literature on all aspects of water resource issues. Includes abstracts of journal articles, monographs, technical reports, books, and conference proceedings. Updated quarterly. Coverage is 1967 to the present.