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Surveying

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

  • Academic Search Premier. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Database. The database covers ASCE documents published 1973 to present.
  • Business Source Premier. 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.  
  • 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.
  • U.S. Patent Database.

Maine Resources

Professional Societies and Government Agencies

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.

Government Resources

Technical Information

Electronic Journals

Internet Directories

Raymond H. Fogler Library University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-1661
Updated: 01/21/2008
by Martin Wallace

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