Science/Engineering

AgDB: Agriculture-Related Information Systems, Databases, and Datasets

AgDB is a database directory of quality agriculture-related databases, datasets, and information systems. All the AgDB metadata records cover over 700 resources and may be viewed through the alphabetical list, arranged by resource name. The full text of all metadata records is searchable through a keyword index. Using AGICOLA subject codes.”

AGRICOLA (free access)

AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) is a database contains bibliographic records for documents acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Citations are for publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. The searchable AGRICOLA database, offered free online, is organized into two data sets: Online Public Access Catalog (which contains citations for books, audiovisual materials, serial publications) covers 672,000 records dating from 1970 to the present; and Journal Article Citation Index covers 1.8 million records dating from 1979 to the present.

Center for Aerospace Information (CASI) Technical Report Server (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

An online database that contains bibliographic citations for the NASA STAR file series, journal articles and conference proceedings (Open Literature file series), Also included in the database are reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the NASA predecessor.

DOE Information Bridge

DOE Information Bridge offers full-text and bibliographic records of DOE-sponsored report literature produced by the DOE and DOE contractor research and development community since January 1996 (contains more than 37,000 reports).

Envirofacts

Envirofacts provides direct access to report literature by searching one or several databases at the same time. Mapping data and the ability to create maps is also available on this site.

EPA: Databases and Software

This site provides links to major databases at the Environmental Protection Agency, including is access to the GIS system, technical tools, etc.

EPA National Publications Catalog (Environmental Protection Agency)

The National Center for Environmental Publications and Information (NCEPI), a central repository for all EPA documents, has over 5500 titles in paper and/or electronic format available.

National Academy Press Reading Room (National Academy Press)

Online access to more than 1000 full-text publications in science, technology, and public policy. National Academy Press is the publisher for the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

NTIS Collection Locator (National Technical Information Service)

Users can search the entire NTIS Web site, which contains references to 370,000 technical publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material added to the NTIS collection within the last 10 years.

Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Geological Survey)

This site contains searchable list of titles published in the bulletins, professional papers, circulars, water-supply papers, thematic maps, and series dating from 1879 to the present.

PubSCIENCE: Scientific and Technical Publishers and Journals

An access point for numerous electronic journals, PubSCIENCE facilitates searching and accessing peer reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. PubSCIENCE allows users to search across abstracts and citations of multiple publishers at no cost.

Smithsonian Institution: Collections Databases

This site contains searchable lists of specimens, illustrations, and biological collections in the National Museum of Natural History collections.

STINET Scientific & Technical Report Collection (Defense Technical Information Center)

The scope of this collection includes areas normally associated with U.S. Department of Defense research, including the hard sciences, biology, medicine, behavioral, and social sciences.

USGS Publication Index

A searchable database of references (some with abstracts) detailing the entire published output of the U.S. Geological Survey since its beginning.

U.S. National Climatic Data Center

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) page offers information about NCDC products and provides access to NCDC online systems. The Online Data Access section provides access to NCDC Internet data, databases, and datasets.