Surveying

Databases: find journal articles, technical reports, standards, etc.

• Academic Search Complete. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
• ASCE Civil Engineering Database (CEDB). ASCE's CEDB covers bibliographic records of ASCE documents published back to 1958, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Some full-text available.
• Business Source Complete. Provides full text for over 2500 business journals.
• Cooperative Extension Publications by State. Full-text reports.
• 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.
• Ingenta (Formerly UnCover). Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• MasterFILE Premier. 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.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.  
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Database. Contains over 2.0 million bibliographic records to research reports, computer products, software, video cassettes, audio cassettes and more from the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. The complete electronic file dates back to 1964. Most records include abstracts. Full text to research reports may be purchased from NTIS using the links in the bibliographic records.
• Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
• U.S. Patent Database.

Maine Resources

• Maine. Agriculture and Industry web site.
• Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station (MAFES). The University of Maine. They conduct research in agriculture, forest resources, aquaculture and rural economic development. Many of their publications are available in PDF format through their web site.
• Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. Office of Licensing and Registration. Land Surveyors.
• Maine Forest Service.
• Maine Society of Land Surveyors.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Spatial Information Science and Engineering.
• University of Maine. Surveying Engineering Technology. (SVT).

Professional Societies and Government Agencies

• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM).
• American Land Title Association (ALTA).
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
• Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS).
• Council of Professional Surveyors (COPS).
• National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). See section on Licensure for Land Surveyors.
• National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS).
• State Surveying Societies Find local associations from each state.
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
• Bartleby.com. Dictionaries, thesaurus, quotations, etc.
• Surveying Units and Terms. Also has slang.

Patents

• Patent and Trademark Resource Center at Fogler Library. Reviews information about searching the U.S. patent database and obtaining copies of patents. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site and databases are at: www.uspto.gov.
• European Patent Office. esp@cenet. Search EP, PCT, Japanese, and other worldwide patents.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). PatentScope Full Text Database. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) full-text, bibliographic data and image coverage from 1978 to present, over 1.4 million international patent applications indexed. International Patent Classification system. List of Patent Databases in Different Countries.

Government Resources

• Geocommunicator. A land management and a land records data system. Produced by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
• Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
• U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Bureau of Land Management.

Technical Information

• Geocommunicator. A land management and a land records data system. Produced by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
• Land Surveyor Reference Page. Excellent resource including state rules, regulations and statutes, white pages, position announcements, maps, etc. 
• Land Surveying and Geomatics.
• National Society of Professional Surveyors. Certification information.
• POB: Point of Beginning. Online journal and products, classified and events for the geomatics professional. Full text online 2000 - present.  
• Professional Land Surveyors. Requirements for Licensing in Maine.
• Professional Surveyor Magazine.  Archives available from 1996 to present. Has searchable database and links to other internet sites.
• Virtual Museum of Surveying.

Electronic Journals

Internet Directories

Raymond H. Fogler Library University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-1661

Updated: 02/05/2013
by Martin Wallace