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AgeLine Database: Produced by AARP. English language books, articles, research reports, and videos about older adults and aging. 1978-.

AGRICOLA: Coverage of worldwide literature on agriculture and related subjects, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, etc. Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, technical reports, and other materials. 1970- (books) and 1981- (articles). Updated daily.

CiteSeer.IST Scientific Literature Digital Library: Offered by the NEC Laboratories America and Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology, this database is a free, full-text index of computer science research articles. Allows for citation searching and linking. Updated daily.

DOE Information Bridge: Indexes Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored scientific and technical reports. Replaces the print publication Energy Research Abstracts. 1995-. Updated weekly.

Energy Citations Database: Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), this database indexes and provides abstracts for technical reports in energy-related disciplines. Includes links to full text when available. 1948-.

Ingenta: Ingenta provides free access to article summaries of millions of articles from over 27,000 publications. You may use a personal credit card to view and print online articles.

Narragansett Times Index: Index to the Narragansett Times newspaper by keyword, location, article type, and date. Covers time period from May 5, 1855 to September 17, 1897.

National Sea Grant Library Database: Database of citations to the holdings of the National Sea Grant Library in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The NGSL collection consists of about 30,000 Sea Grant funded titles on the topics of oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation, and law. Included in the collection are journal reprints, books, technical reports, maps, proceedings, newsletters, advisory reports, handbooks, videos, CD-ROMs, computer programs, and more. In some cases the full text of the document is available online. 1970-. Updated monthly. (See also Sea Grant Abstracts, below.)

National Technical Information Service (NTIS): A title keyword index to over 750,000 NTIS reports, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual materials. 1990-.

New York Times Article Archive: Search the complete backfile of The New York Times by keyword, author, or headline. Includes articles, advertisements, and listings through 1995; articles only after 1995. Full content in PDF format (1851-1995) or text-only format (1996-) may be purchased online. (Note that articles are also available on microfilm in many libraries and online in library databases.) 1851-. Updated daily.


NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server: Database of NASA-produced literature. Also indexes selected aerospace-related reports from other government agencies. Selected historical reports back to 1958 are included.

Population Index: Indexing and abstracts of journals, books, and other materials on demographics and population studies. 1986-2000.

Science.gov: A subset of FirstGov, this gateway links to all government scientific and technical Web sites.

Science Inventory (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency): Searchable, EPA agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional information, and electronic links to final reports and related research. Users can conduct keyword searches of search within nine cross-cutting science topics.

Sea Grant Abstracts: Cites the majority of literature which is received by the National Sea Grant Library. This literature covers pure and applied science, engineering, business management, shipping and navigation, fisheries, wetlands management, law and policy, economics, and education. It is available in a variety of formats, such as manuals, handbooks, technical reports, journal reprints, etc. Annual subject and author indexes. Table of contents provides a subject classification scheme which includes cross-referencing. Each reference contains a headline for rapid scanning, a short abstract and bibliographic information for obtaining the document. 2002-. Updated quarterly. (See also National Sea Grant Library Database, above.)

TRANweb Transportation Article File: TRAN, produced by the Northwestern University Transportation Library, is an index of transportation and law enforcement articles and conference proceedings.

TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service): Offered by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, this site indexes and abstracts transportation research covered in books, journal articles, technical reports. Other media, federal, state, local, and association publications and conference proceedings are also covered. The database extends from the 1960s to the present, with some coverage before 1960.

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