The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology is an authoritative first reference source for the increasingly broad and multidisciplinary field of materials. Subject areas include: Functional Phenomena, Fundamental Core Theory, Structural Materials, Structural phenomena, Functional Materials and Polymers and Materials Chemistry. It is available electronically.

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See also Electronic Reference Books for other important encyclopedias.

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Comprehensive Composite Materials provides a unique reference source for scientists and technologists in the field of composites research. The six volumes covers key aspects of naturally occuring and synthetic composite materials, including: history reinforcements, matrix materials, mechanical properties, physical properties, theory, structural design, structural analysis, manufacturing processes, quality assurance, test methods, applications, recycling and disposal. It is available electronically.

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Rexa is a digital library and search engine covering the computer science research literature and the people who create it. Rexa aims to facilitate research progress and collaboration by providing efficient browsing, search, associations and analysis among papers, people, organizations, venues and research communities. Rexa was developed by the members of the Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts. The primary distinguishing goal of Rexa is to create first-class, cross-referenced objects not only of research papers, but also people, universities, conferences, journals, grants, and research groups---and furthermore to leverage this inter-connected information to better understand and facilitate the progress of scholarly research.

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With the new Google Patent Search tool, one can search across more than 7 million patents. Each Google Patent Search result represents an individual patent. Click on the patent image to access full patent. It displays results based on their relevance to the specific search terms entered. One can also see number of details about each patent in the list of results. These include: patent title, U.S. patent number, filing date, assignee name, patent snippet, patent summary, claims, and drawings. 'Search within this patent' option is available to search the text of an individual patent for specific keywords and phrases. it also lists other patents that were cited by the patent described on the page and lists other patents that reference the patent described on the page.

Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO - from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. It does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months, but we look forward to expanding our coverage in the future

See About Google Patents for more information.

See Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching for comparison between the USPTO search and the Google search of the number of documents that show up for each year in a ten year period for the use of the word. See also Resourceshelf site to learn more about what Google Patents does not cover.

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ENGnetBase has broken out its holdings into 4 smaller netBASE sections, in addition to being searchable all under ENGnetBase.

ENGnetBASE
This award-winning site offers a critically acclaimed collection of best-selling engineering handbooks and reference titles. Additionally, this wide-ranging digital library has spawned the following vertical collections focused on specific engineering disciplines:

CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE
ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE
MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE
INFOSECURITYnetBASE
MATERIALSnetBASE
POLYMERSnetBASE
TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE

Each of the small netbase sections can also be found under Databases /Article Indexes page.

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AAAS Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment

Signal transduction is the study of how cells control their own and each others' behaviors through chemical signals. Signal transduction research is an intensely active field of biomedical research and is of interest to a broad array of scientists. Science's STKE should be useful to the scientists who specialize in signal transduction, as well as the many scientists who need to follow and apply the current findings of this field even though their primary interest may not be in signal transduction mechanisms themselves.

Access the current issue at: STKE Current

Access previous issues at: STKE archive

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The Computing Reviews blog lets you know about the latest Computing Reviews news. Here, you can find out about new features on the site, featured reviewers, the latest Hot Topics essay (and sneak peeks of those to come), conferences, and more. Computing Reviews helps you identify the best new books and articles across all areas of computer science.

Computing Reviews can be accessed from the ACM Digital Library or the ACM Guide to Computing Literature from the Electronic Databases by Title page. Click on 'Computing Review'. See 'Computing Reviews Search Tips' for more assistance on various features available in this database.

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AES Online Electronic Library provides access to the Full text of the Audio Engineering Society journals, convention preprints, and conference papers, over 3,100 articles. It can be accessed from Databases/Article Indexes for Engineering and then going to AES Online Electronic Library.

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'Lab on a Chip' provides a unique forum for the publication of significant and original work related to miniaturisation (on or off chips) at the micro- and nano-scale across a variety of disciplines including: chemistry, biology, bioengineering, physics, electronics, clinical/medical science, chemical engineering and materials science, which is likely to be of interest to the multidisciplinary community that the journal addresses.

To access, please go to: Lab on a chip [electronic resource].
After you see the journal page, click on 'Current Issue' in the left column under 'Reader Services'.

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