For one-on-one database search assistance and for group instruction contact:

Bette Finn, Subject Librarian for the Georgia Tech Research Institute
E-mail: bette.finn@library.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech Library, mail code 0900
Phone 404/894-1790, 1-888-225-7804, Fax 404/894-8190

• Document Delivery for GTRI Faculty and Staff (Interlibrary loan and in-house photocopies and book loans)
• ILLiad request form
• LENDS faculty/staff document delivery of photocopies & book loans.
• Summary sheet
• Information Delivery Department (document delivery): Email: delivery@library.gatech.edu. Phone 404-894-4511. Fax 404-894-8190
• Circulation Department.   Borrowing -- See "Recalls:"
• Services for Students

• Aerospace & High Technology Database.  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Aerospace & High Technology Database  (1962 -   ) indexes aerospace proceedings and journals, and technical reports.  Includes aerodynamics, energy production and conversion, environmental pollution, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, materials, mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, atomic and molecular, nuclear and high energy, optics, acoustics, plasmas, propellants and fuels, and structural mechanics.  Search multiple CSA databases at one time: to the right of  "Change:" click on "Specific Databases" "Mark" then "Continue to Search."  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts search hints and CSA search example. CSA Illumina "Help & Support" (top right corner, blue bar).  Print section called International Aeronautical Abstracts 1942-1962 at Call Number TL501 .A326.  Full text technical reports.
• NASA/NACA Technical Reports.  National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (1917+).  Examples of NASA's STI include research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data.  Many NACA reports (1917-1958) and selected NASA reports are full text.
• NASA Thesaurus.
• Technical reports are primarily in the microfiche technical reports collection on the 2nd floor east, or in electronic format.  Selected NASA and NACA reports are listed in the Classic GT Catalog, and selected reports are available full text at Government websites.  Selected reports are available in the Library's local Government Funded Technical Reports databases.  Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports.  (1963 - 1995).  Call Number: TL500 .S35.  Indexes aerospace technical reports. Available in an on-line service, 1962 to present, for a fee.  International Aerospace Abstracts.  (1961-2002) Call Number: TL500 .I57.    U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Index of NACA Technical Publications.  Z5063 .U592  (1915-1956/58) .  U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.  Research Abstracts. TL501 .U5X   (1951-1958).   U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Index of NASA Technical Publications.  Z5063 .U592  (1958-1959). U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Publications Announcements.  TL501.U5895.  (1958-1962).  Location of indexes: 2nd floor East.
• Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports.  (1963 - 1995).  Call Number: TL500 .S35.  Indexes aerospace technical reports. Available in an on-line service, 1962 to present, for a fee.  International Aerospace Abstracts.  (1961-2002) Call Number: TL500 .I57.    U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Index of NACA Technical Publications.  Z5063 .U592  (1915-1956/58) .  U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.  Research Abstracts. TL501 .U5X   (1951-1958).   U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Index of NASA Technical Publications.  Z5063 .U592  (1958-1959). U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Publications Announcements.  TL501.U5895.  (1958-1962).  Location of indexes: 2nd floor East.

• Agricola. National Agricultural Library.  Covers every major subject in agriculture and veterinary science including agricultural marketing, entomology, environmental pollution, pesticides, rural sociology and more. Cited works include journal articles, book chapters, books, conference proceedings and technical reports.  Free National Agricultural Library Agricola.  NAL Agricultural Thesaurus.  Print Bibliography of agriculture begins in 1942, Call Number S493 .B53.
• BIOSIS Previews.  (1969 to present) BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive reference database for life science research. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. Also included are interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology. The database covers content summaries, books, meeting abstracts, papers, and posters.  Biological Abstracts (1926-2003) Call Number: QH301 .B37.
• For biological or medical topics, combine Web of Science’s Science Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, and Medline into one search, using ISI’s Web of Knowledge Portal (choose "All Databases").
• NTIS National Technical Information Service. (1964 to present) NTIS technical research reports.  All topics. Own most reports in microfiche (2nd floor east).   Full-text Availability of Technical Reports

• Society of Automotive Engineers. SAE's web page http://www.sae.org/jsp/jsps/advancesearch.jsp.
• SAE Technical Paper TL1 .S58X, 1969 to 2004 (partial)  -- microfiche papers by SAE paper#, located on the 2nd floor east.   SAE Papers TL1 .S55X (hard copy 1961-1968).
• SAE Technical Literature Abstracts  TL1 .S67X (1975 - ) Annual Index/Abstracts of SAE Technical Papers   TL1.S62X  (1984 -    ).  Cumulative Index of SAE Technical Papers  Z5170 S62X (1965-1993), Z5170.S612X 1990 (papers 1906-1964). SAE Publications Catalog.  Z5170.S6X (1962-1981). Annual Index/Abstracts of SAE Technical Papers TL1.S62X.
• SAE's on-line mobility databases are available for a fee through an on-line database service (1906 -   ).  The fee based SAE Global Mobility Bibliographic Database (1MOBILITY) is a bibliographic database that contains information on worldwide literature of technologies for self-propelled vehicles. Vehicles include those for land, sea, air, and space. Contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu for additional information. Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.

• Association and Research Center Directories
• Gale's new Directory database platform (Encyclopedia of Associations directory of associations, Research Centers directory, etc.) will eventually migrate to a new online interface.  Temporarily, search the Classic GT Catalog for print versions.
• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory.  Directory of journals (periodicals), grouped by general subject areas.

• Inspec (1896 to present) Bioelectronics, biophysics, computers, modeling, automation in any field.  Journals and conferences. Includes a thesaurus.
• Compendex (1884 to present) All areas of engineering. Journals and conferences. Includes a thesaurus. Search hints
• Combine Inspec and Compendex together ("Select Database"); 20% overlap.  "Remove Duplicates" -- "Database Preferences:" -- choose Inspec.
• NTIS National Technical Information Service. (1964 to present) Technical research reports. Full-Text Availability of technical reports.
• Web of Knowledge Portal.  ISI. Combines multiple databases.  For biological, bioengineering,  and medical topics, combine Web of Science’s Science Citation Index , BIOSIS Previews, and Medline into one search (choose "All Databases").
• MEDLINE. NLM's medical and biomedical Medline database. NLM provides free access to Medline 1966+ and OLDMedline 1958-1965 (PubMed). NLM MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).  PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) includes over 16 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. PubMed help. Also available through ISI's Web of Knowledge Portal for Medline "All Databases" (1950's+), Galileo's Ebscohost's Medline, Galileo's FirstSearch Medline (1964 to present), and SciFinder Scholar's Medline.  PubMed Central NLM's digital archive of life sciences journal literature; access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles.  Print begins 1941 -- Current List of Medical Literature, Call Number: Z6660 .C8. Web of Knowledge Portal combines BIOSIS Previews, Web of Science's Science Citation Index, and Medline together.
• BIOSIS Previews. (1969 to present) Biological sciences. Journal papers, meeting abstracts and books.  Biological Abstracts (1926-2003) Call Number: QH301 .B37. Bioresearch Index/BA/RRM (1967-1988) Call Number: Z5321.B672.  Web of Knowledge Portal combines BIOSIS Previews, Web of Science, and Medline together.
• Science Citation Index (1900 to present).  Web of Science. Institute for Scientific Information. ISI. Web of Science's Science Citation Index indexes major science and technology journals, including major medical and major biomedical journals.  Web of Knowledge Portal combines BIOSIS Previews, Web of Science's Science Citation Index, and Medline together.
• PsycINFO. (1887 to present) Psychological Abstracts.
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

• Georgia Tech Library Classic GT Catalog    https://gil.gatech.edu   The Classic GT Catalog contains books, journals, conference proceedings, maps, and other materials owned by the Georgia Tech Library.  Classic GT Catalog search hints at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/gilei.htm and Classic GT Catalog  search example at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/2gil.pdf
• WorldCat. Galileo database. Indexes over 35 million bibliographic records of books and other types of materials catalogued by OCLC libraries worldwide (2150 B.C. to present).  WorldCat overs all disciplines, including engineering and science.   WorldCat includes library locations for journals/serials (OCLC Union List of Periodicals Georgia group gr:gl$d;  Georgia Libraries Journal List/GOLD). Example.   Borrow many through interlibrary loan.
• Book Index with Reviews.  EBSCO Publishing.  Galileo database. http://www.library.gatech.edu/galileo/galConnect.php?db=zbir.  Galileo password.

• Chemical Abstracts, SciFinder Scholar (1907 to present).
• SciFinder Scholar.
• CAPlus (Chemical Abstracts) (1907- ) provides access to journal articles, patents, dissertations, conference proceedings and technical reports in all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences.
• CAS Registry (1957- ) provides access to over 20 million records for organic and inorganic substances and more than 24 million sequences. Records include CAS Registry Numbers, CA index names, synonyms, molecular formulas and structures.
• CASREACT (1907- ) provides access to more than 6 million single and multi-step reactions of organic substances including organometallic and biomolecules.
• CHEMCATS (Chemical Catalogs Online) (1996- ) provides access to catalogs and chemical libraries containing information about commercially available chemicals and their worldwide suppliers.
• CHEMLIST (Regulated Chemicals Listing) (1979- ) provides access to information about regulated chemical substances listed on National inventories.
• With the web version you can create "Keep Me Posted Alerts" for both references and substances.
• Instructions for downloading the client
• "Exit" when finished. Simultaneous user limitations. SciFinder Scholar Help, Support & Training
• Complex and efficient searches using Boolean operators, proximity operators and manipulation of previous search statements are available in the STN Chemical Abstracts 1907+ database. Contact Bette Finn, bette.finn@library.gatech.edu. Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.
• The Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. Call Number: Z5523.A525. Location: Information Services Desk, 1st Floor West.
• A SciFinder Scholar slide presentation with examples is available at  http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/7cas.pdf.
• CrossFire.  The Georgia Tech Library provides access to CrossFire's Beilstein organic chemistry handbook and to Gemlin's inorganic chemistry handbook.
• NTIS 1964+ technical reports, Compendex 1884+ and Inspec 1896+
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology. (1999 to present). The online version began with the 3rd edition and will be updated regularly as changes occur.
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (1999 to present)  The online version began with the 4th edition and will be updated regularly as changes occur.

• Web of Science. Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
• Science Citation Index (1900 to present)
• Social Science Citation Index (1956 to present)
• Arts & Humanities Search (1975 to present)
• Web of Science provides access to research literature through standard access points and to cited references (bibliographies, footnotes) published with a scholarly paper.  A tutorial is available.  Use the first author named in the bibliography reference or footnote; use author initials.  Web of Science has simultaneous user restrictions.  Please "Log Out" when finished.
• Web of Science Science Citation Index search example is at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/5sci.pdfISI Web of Science "Help" (top, upper right corner).
• "Cited Reference Search." Use "first author" name.  "Cited Author" (with and without middle initial).  If too many records, use "Current Limits" -- "Timespan" before using "Cited Year(s)" -- conferences can be held one year and published 1-3 years later. Avoid using "Cited Work" search box.  Review all screens, looking for all possible title variations.  Watch for typographical errors -- incorrect page numbers, volume numbers, years etc.  Click on "Finish Search"  then "Output Records" -- "Records _ to _" then Print, Email or Save To.
• Science Citation Index. (1900 to present)   Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Web of Science
• Cited reference searching locates articles that have cited a previously published work. Through a cited reference search, one can determine how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected. Steps for Cited Reference Search: (1) Enter the name of a Cited Author (FIRST AUTHOR). Then click Search. (2) If you too many hits are retrieved, return to the form "Limit to Timespan."  If necessay use Cited Year. (3) After clicking Search, note references from the citation index that contain the cited author/cited work data entered. Look for variants; papers are sometimes cited incorrectly.  (4) Select reference(s) from the citation index, and then click Finish Search.  Clicking on "Finish Search" will retrieve records of articles that cite the references selected from the citation index. Tips: Enter the name of the first author of a multi-authored article or book. Try doing the cited reference lookup without entering a Cited Year in order to retrieve variations of the same cited reference.
• The Citation Index is a useful way to find articles that cite classic references.  The "classic reference" can be of any date and from any source, such as patents, dissertations, books, conference paper, technical reports, or from journal articles.  The Citation Index is also used by scientists and engineers to determine whether their work has been applied or criticized by others.
• Author names.  Web of Science captures full author names as they are listed in original records.  This feature is NOT available for records prior to 2006. These full author names are not searchable. Later, ISI plans to make the full names searchable.  The full author names will not be retrospective (old records will remain author initials only). After ISI begins to make full names searchable (at a future date), both author full names and author initials should be searched.
• Other sources:
• SciFinder Scholar's Chemical Abstracts includes "Get Related" "Citing References" -- Get references that cite the selected document(s).
• Selected Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases (Metadex, etc.) have limited linking -- the searchable "References, RE=" field, the ["Cited by x"] hyperlink, and the "References"  brief format link.   PsycINFO has "Times Cited in this Database."
• Full text.  Cited references searched in the "References" field in Elsevier "In Press/Corrected Proof" journal articles will appear in ScienceDirect, before they are formally published and then indexed by Web of Science's Science Citation Index. Other full text searchable databases may search bibliographic references at the end of "full text" articles --  such as IEEE Xplore (Search/Advanced "Full  Text & All Fields" or view "AbstractPlus" --"Citing Documents"), U.S. Patent & Trademark Office "Referenced By" patent numbers, PROLA (APS; "Cited Author"), SPIN (physics "Cited Author"), OpticsInfobase, IOP, etc.  Google "Scholar" indexes selected references in bibliographies.

• Business & Management Research Guides (includes "Databases" left column):  See relevant categories in the Research Guides list.    General Business & Management, Company Information, Georgia & Atlanta Business, Industry Information, International Business, Statistics, and Legal Resources.
• Company Directories. Business Databases and Company Subject Guide.   See also categories in Research Guides
• Thomas Register's ThomasNet.com"Supplier Finder" database http://www.thomasnet.com/. Industrial companies are listed free; about ThomasNet. Call Number: TS199 .T45A (2005) reference collection 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• MacRAE's Blue Book http://www.macraesbluebook.com/  is an industrial directory sourcing tool for North American industrial products. Search by company or product. American industrial directory since 1893.
• Reference USA.  Reference USA is one of the Library's company directories.  Company directory of over 13 million U.S. businesses. Create customized lists ("Data Summary") by combining geographical, size of business and line of business variables ("Custom Search"). Geographical search options are: zip code, MSA, county, city, state and area code. Size of business search options are: sales volume and number of employees. Line of business search options are: yellow page heading and SIC code. Can also search directly by company name or ticker symbol. Each record also contains contact name(s).
• D&B Million Dollar Database is a directory of over 1.6 million U.S. and Canadian public and private businesses.
• Georgia and Regional Directories.
• D & B Regional Business Directory Atlanta area HG4058.A4D86 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Dun's Regional Business Directory Georgia (Excluding Atlanta) HG4057.G4 D86 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Regional Industrial Buying Guide Southeast HD39.5.S647 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Georgia Business Directory HF5065 .G4 G46 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner, Georgia Manufacturers Register HD9727 .G4 G43 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• ReferenceUSA geographic search
• Atlanta Business Chronicle "Book of Lists," Georgia Trend's Largest Public Company or Largest Private Company issues.
• Other Directories: LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations HG4057 .A219 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner. International Directory of Company Histories HD2721 .I56X 1988 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner. D&B Principal International Businesses HF54.U5 P74 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Business and Industry Databases.  See also categories in Research Guides
• Business & Management Databases and Business & Management Research Guide.
• Computer Database.  Gale.  Business/computer trade industry database. (1980+)
• ABI/Inform Complete  indexes U.S. and international journals covering all aspect of business and management. Covers 1971+ and full text from 1991+ (about half full text). Boxes for "Show Results with Full Text Availability Only," "Show Peer Reviewed Articles," and "Show Total Number of Articles." ABI/Inform search example
• Search Hints for ABI/Inform and Ebsco Business Source Premier.  ABI/Inform search example
• Gale Business and Company Resource Center databases. Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
• Wilson Business Abstracts (1913+). Provides abstracts to articles in 6000 major English-language business magazines.
• Business and Industry. 1994+ Contains important facts and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and  markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Approximately 700 trade magazines, newsletters, and general business and international business dailies are covered.  RDS TableBase for statistical tables.
• LexisNexis Academic. Newspapers, legal news, general interest magazines, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications, law reviews.
• Mergent Online. Company Data Direct, which offers Internet access to information on more than 15,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges (including EDGAR® (SEC) filings back to 1993).
• Business Source Premier EBSCOhost 1984+ Provides company profiles, country reports, industry profiles, and abstracts and indexing.ABI/Inform and EBSCO Business Source Premier search example
• EconLit. 1969+ Economics.  Print titles begins in 1886, various call numbers such as HB1 .I53 and HB1 .J6.
• Executive Briefing. Industry and strategic intelligence for the world's 60 leading markets, organised around automotive, consumer goods, energy, financial services, food and drink, healthcare, miscellaneous, telecoms and IT, travel and transport industries.
• Factiva. Factiva covers global business information from 8,000 sources from 118 countries, including more than 120 newswires.
• Statistical Universe. Statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.
• ABI/INFORM Dateline is a full text database (1985+) that focuses on local and regional business news.
• Business, management and economics databases -- see Research Guides "Databases" on left column
• Associations and Research Centers Directories.
• Gale's new Directory platform (Encyclopedia of Associations, Research Centers directory, etc.) will soon migrate to a new online interface.  Temporarily, search the Classic GT Catalog for print versions.
• Industry/Company profiles and rankings.  See also categories in Research Guides
• Company Overviews;   Industry Overviews;   Market Share & Rankings.
• Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys HC106.6 .S74, Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.  In-depth analysis for 50 major industries.
• Market Share Reporter HF5410 .M35, 1st Floor West
• Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles in ProQuest or Factiva or Lexis/Nexis
• Encyclopedia of American Industries HC102 .E53 2001, Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Business Rankings Annual HG4050 .B88, Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• D & B Business Rankings HG4057.A237 Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• RDS TableBase (text of tables from Business and Industry database)
• Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies ranking sales/SIC.  HG4057 .A46X, Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Manufacturing USA ranking, HD9721 .M364
• Handbook of Common Stocks in Mergent under tearsheets
• Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries HC102 .E54 2000 and also Encyclopedia of Global Industries HD2324 .E53 (1998) Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner --selective text in Business and Company Resource Center
• U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook C61.48: (2000).
• Value Line Investment Survey (one page industry information for 97 industries)
• Patent, Standards and Trademark Information.   http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/patprod.htm
• Government Information. The Georgia Tech Library is a depository for United States federal government publications. Government Information Research Guide.    GPO guide.
• Consumer and business information through SKS WebSelect's online database of internet resources, such as consumer, career, job, etc.

• FedBizOpps is a list of U.S. Federal Government procurement invitations, contract awards, subcontracting leads, and foreign business opportunities published each business day. FedBizOpps website.  FBO Vendor Guide "Search Agents" or "Search Agent Emails" ('advanced searches can be saved as "search agents" that can be scheduled for recurring exploration, or executed on an ad hoc basis') approximately page 54, section 4.9 or 4.10. FedBizOpps replaces Commerce Business Daily. Commerce Business Daily and FedBizOpps are also available on-line 1982 to present, for a fee.
• Funding Opportunites includes Grants.gov and Community of Science's Funding Opportunities and other funding information. Georgia Tech Office of Sponsored Programs.   Finding Funding.
• Technical reports, federal government sponsored research reports

• Electronic Press At Georgia Tech.   Scholarly Communication
• SMARTech is GT's trusted repository for archiving the intellectual output of campus (pre-prints, post-prints, technical reports, research reports, etc.) http://smartech.gatech.edu/
• EPAGE@Tech (Electronic Publishing At Georgia Tech) is a suite of journal, conference proceedings, and lecture recording services. http://epage.gatech.edu
• Publishing (electronic books, journals, conferences)
• Capturing (instructional materials, multimedia)
• Hosting (conferences, symposia, lecture series)
• Scholarly Communication
• Open Access @ GT
• Copyright
• Copyright & Fair Use Guidelines
• Board of Regents Copyright Guidelines
• Obtaining Publisher Permission
• Four Factors of Fair Use
• Topics: Copyright. GT Office of Legal Affairs
• Copyright Policy, Board of Regents  http://www.usg.edu/copyright/ and http://www.usg.edu/legal/copyright/, or at GT course Reserves
• Understanding Copyright

• Dissertation Abstracts On-line (UMI),  (1861 to present).
• Dissertation Abstracts On-line covers Ph.D. dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. Detailed abstracts.  It selectively covers masters theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations.  The full range of academic subjects is found in this index.  Abstracts for doctoral dissertations begin July 1980, and masters theses begin spring 1988.  Updated monthly. Abstracts earlier than July 1980 are in the printed Dissertation Abstracts InternationalatCall Number Z5053 .D57 (1938-2001, 1861-2001).  Borrow many through interlibrary loan
• Theses & Dissertations by GT Authors
• Theses & Dissertations by Other Authors
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations offers subscribers access to dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward. Free preview copies of the first 24 pages of many dissertations 1997 to present are available to all users of the database. UMI Express.
• Free Georgia Tech PDF 1997+. Users affiliated with participating doctoral granting institutions may download for free PDF copies of dissertations granted by their own institutions (but not from institutions other than their own).   Georgia Tech authors.
• NTIS. National Technical Information Service.  (1964 to present).  Indexes selective masters theses and selective doctoral dissertations.  U.S. government sponsored research reports. Library owns most NTIS reports in microfiche on the 2nd floor east.  Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• WorldCat.  Galileo database. Indexes bibliographic records of books and other types of materials catalogued by OCLC libraries worldwide.  Includes master theses and doctoral dissertations.  Borrow many through Interlibrary Loan.
• Library's "Search & Locate" dissertation and theses guide
• Georgia Tech masters theses and doctoral dissertations (electronic and print copy) are listed in the GIL Library Catalog http://gil.gatech.edu/.  Beginning in Fall 2003, students have the option of submitting their theses or dissertations electronically. These theses and dissertations are available using the Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection and through the library catalog. The ETD collection also contains Dissertations prior to 2000 from the former Institute of Paper and Science Technology. Selected Georgia Tech theses and dissertations are available electronically before Fall 2003.  Many older Georgia Tech theses and dissertations have been scanned and are now in SMARTech.

• ERIC. (1966 to present). The ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center, database covers all aspects of education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics (including educational technical reports).
• Free ERIC government database (links to selected full-text).  Galileo ERIC databases: FirstSearch and Ebscohost.
• ERIC provides users with free online access to the full-text of over 107,000 ERIC documents published from 1993 in PDF image format.   Selected pre-1993 full text documents are available.  Search ERIC
• Kennesaw State University, Georgia State University and the University of Georgia libraries (microfiche) have large holdings of documents indexed in ERIC.
• ERIC Thesaurus.
• ERIC corresponds to the printed indexes of RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).
• NTIS 1964+ technical reports (index educational reports)
• ProQuest and Galileo EbscoHost databases (index educational papers)

• Inspec (1896 to present)
• Inspec provides access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering, communications, optics, photonics, control engineering, theory, electronics, computers, computing, automation, simulation and modeling, biomedical technology, radar, electrical power, robotics, telecommunications, radio, systems theory, artificial intelligence, manufacturing and production engineering, and information technology.  Includes Inspec Thesaurus online.
• Inspec database search hints are available at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/eintis.htm
• Database search examples from class presentations are available at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/3ei.pdf
• Engineering Village "Help" (upper right corner) Ei Training
• Information is derived primarily from journals and conference papers published in all countries and languages of the world, and also include some information from reports, books, and dissertations.
• Search Inspec and Compendex together ("Select Database"): about 20% overlap between Inspec and Compendex.
• "Remove Duplicates" --  using "Database Preferences" -- choose "Inspec" (fewer errors in Inspec).
• IEEE Xplore.
• Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) is now Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET).
• Full image content available in IEEE Xplore: IEEE journals, transactions, letters, and magazines from 1988 with select content back to 1913; IEEE conference proceedings from 1988 with select content back to 1953; IEEE standards from 1948 and draft standards; IET (earlier IEE) journals, letters, and magazines from 1988 with select content back to 1965; IET (IEE) conference proceedings from 1988. IEEE books are indexed from 1974.
• IEEE Xplore includes one-hour long interactive educational online courses developed by leading experts recognized in their field .
• Some joint publications may not be in IEEE Xplore. Some full text searching is possible in IEEE Xplore.
• Use Inspec/Compendex  (1896+/1884+) for searching! IEEE Xplore is a subset of the Inspec database.
• INSPEC writes the abstracts for IEEE Xplore.  Inspec is the world's foremost electronics and electrical engineering index, far superior to IEEE Xplore's capabilities of searching only IEEE/IEE publications.
• Search Inspec/Compendex and use IEEE Xplore as document delivery for IEEE, IEE and IET papers.
• Inspec/Compendex index a very large number and wide variety of Library owned electronic and print publications (such as ACM, SPIE, ASME, OSA, AIP, IOP, IPC, APS, SIAM, MIT Press, MSA, Elsevier, Pergamon Press, Springer, Kluwer, Wiley, North Holland, Academic Press, Chapman and Hall, Taylor & Francis, VNU, and many others) not covered by IEEE Xplore.
• Please "Log-Out" when finished (simultaneous users limit).
• PapersFirst. (1993 to present).  Galileo database.  Index to conference papers received by the British Library.  Good for conference paper verifications.
• NTIS National Technical Information Service. (1964 to present) Technical research reports. Full-Text Availability (electronic or 2nd floor east microfiche)
• IEEE Standards Style Manual.   Other style guides.

• Energy Citations Database (ECD). (1948 to present)  Energy and nuclear energy.  Free DOE database. Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration  (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines.  It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.  Energy Citations Database indexes selected full text reports (overlaps full text DOE Information Bridge 1996+).  Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• Although selected reports are in the Catalog, most DOE reports before 1996 are in the microfiche technical reports collection on the 2nd floor east
• ETDE World Energy Base -- ETDE Web (1995 to present).  In addition to information from International Energy Agency countries, ETDEWEB contains worldwide information in the nuclear, coal, and global climate change areas. This broader coverage comes through cooperative alliances with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Nuclear Information System (INIS) and IEA Coal Research - The Clean Coal Centre. This database is available free to U.S. citizens, but registration is required to obtain an account and password for remote access.  It contains much of the same information as DOE's Energy Science & Technology Database.
• Energy Science and Technology. (1974 to present)  The free Energy Citations Database and the free DOE Information Bridge are both subsets of the fee-based Energy Science and Technology database 1974- (which corresponds to the print indexes Energy Research Abstracts, INIS Atomindex, and others such as Coal Abstracts).  For information about the comprehensive fee based database Energy Science and Technology contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu.  Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.  Description of this fee-based database.
• DOE Information Bridge. (1996 -   )  Full text DOE research and development reports
• IAEA Nuclear Information database available online for free.  INIS is a leading international database on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. INIS Atomindex International Atomic Energy Agency (1970 - 1996)  Call Number: Z7144 .N8 I18; location:  storage; available through a fee-based on-line database service, 1974 to present.
• Nuclear Science Abstracts QC770 .U64 (1948-1976). Energy Research Abstracts Z5853 .P83 U5441X (1976-1995). See IAEA and free Energy Citations Database.
• Compendex 1884+, Inspec 1896+, NTIS 1964+ technical reports. Combine Inspec and Compendex together.

• Compendex.  (1884 to present).  Major engineering journal and proceedings papers database. Produced by Engineering Information. Search Inspec and Compendex together (Select Database): about 20% overlap with Inspec.
• Compendex Ei Village search hints
• Compendex Ei Village slide search examples
• Includes Compendex Thesaurus online.
• Engineering Village "Help" (upper right corner) Ei Training
• Inspec (1896 to present).  Journal and conference paper index. electrical engineering, radar, computers, controls, control engineering, automation, physics, optics, electronics, simulation and modeling, biomedical technology, robotics, systems theory, artificial intelligence, communications, telecommunications, manufacturing and production engineering, and information technology.  Inspec slide examples. Inspec search hints
• Search Inspec and Compendex together ("Select Database"): about 20% overlap between Inspec and Compendex.  "Remove Duplicates" --  using "Database Preferences" -- choose "Inspec" (fewer errors in Inspec).
• NTIS (1964 to present). NTIS technical researchreports database.  Most are owned by the Library in electronic or miicrofiche on the 2nd floor east.  NTIS search hints.  NTIS search example. Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (1913+) Provides bibliographic references in major scientific, trade, and technology periodicals. Coverage spans many specialties.  Library owns many of the periodicals.
• PapersFirst. (1993 to present).  Galileo database.  Index to conference papers received by the British Library. Good for conference paper verifications.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers Indexes
• ASME Seventy-Seven Year Index Technical Papers 1880-1956. Section One 1880-1939 and Section Two 1940-1956. Call Number: TJ1 .A774, TJ1.A7741X.  Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• Subject & Author Cumulative Index to Transactions of the ASME, 1957/70.   Call Number: TJ1.A7741X.  Reference Stacks, Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.
• ASME Indexes to Publications.  (1968-1981) Call Number: TJ1 .A7745.  Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner. Composed of three sections:
• ASME Miscellaneous Papers
• Index to Mechanical Engineering
• Index to Transactions of the ASME.
• Index to Place of Publication of ASME Papers 1950-1977 Call number: Z5853 .M2 I52X 1981.  Information Services Desk 1st Floor West.
• ASME Technical Paper Number List Call Number: Z5853.M2 S33, 1979+ No longer updated after 1987.  Information Services Desk Ready Reference 1st Floor West.
• Applied Mechanics Reviews. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. (1948 -    )  Call Number: TA1 .A63953. Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East; SE corner.  Online is from 2001 issue: 4.
• ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section II - Materials.  Selected electronic versions available in Knovel, linked in Classic GT Catalog record.
• American Society of Civil Engineers.  Online index 1970-present and selected non-abstract records extend to 1956.  Print index begins in 1930 Call Number Z5852 .A42X.  Print abstracts begin 1966, Call Numbers TA1 .A48X and  Z5852 .A421X
• Royal Society (Great Britain).  Catalogue of Scientific Papers.  19 volumes.  Z7403.R88 1800-1900. Author index.  German literature Call Number: Z2221 .K23 1750-1876.

• NTIS (1964 to present). NTIS provides citations and summaries of U. S. government sponsored research, development and engineering reports as well as many reports prepared by foreign government agencies and their contractors or grantees.  Coverage includes all disciplines, including science and engineering. The Library owns most of these reports in microfiche on the 2nd floor east or in electronic format.    Search hints.  Full text.
• BIOSIS Previews.  (1969 to present)
• Compendex (1884 to present).  Major engineering conference and journal papers (approximate 20% overlap with Inspec). Search hints.
• Inspec (1896 to present) Modeling and simulation, automation, electrical and computer engineering, physics, information theory, controls. Journal and proceedings papers database.  Search hints.  Search Inspec and Compendex together (20% overlap)
• Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE). Specialist data on chemicals with environmental impact.
• TOXNET. NLM. A cluster of  databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals,  and related areas. http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
• EPA.   EPA's web site provides access to over 6,000 technical and public information publications distributed by EPA (note: many EPA publications are distributed only by NTIS). An  alphabetical list of the available titles is available at National Environmental  Publications Information System (NEPIS). NTIS is one index to EPA publications. "Major Indexes" and "Full-text Availability of Technical Reports."
• GeoRef  (1785 to present) and GeoBase (1980 to present).  Geophysics, geochemistry and geoscience.
• Toxline.  NLM Toxline.  Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Toxicology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, antidotes
• Science Citation Index (1900 to present).  Web of Science. Institute for Scientific Information. Indexes major science and technology journals, including major environmental journals. ISI Web of Knowledge Portal.
• Multiple database search.  For biological, medical, and environmental topics, combine Web of Science’s Science Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, and Medline into one search, using ISI’s Web of Knowledge Portal.  Choose "All Databases"
• Biological, agricultural, chemical, geophysics databases

• GeoRef  (1785 to present).  Geoscience literature of the world, including geophysics and geochemistry. Geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
• Search multiple CSA databases at one time: to the right of  "Change:" click on "Specific Databases" "Mark" then "Continue to Search."
• CSA Search hints.  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) search example. [Get Acrobat]  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts search hints and CSA search example. https://www.library.gatech.edu/gtonly/csa.htm.  CSA Illumina "Help & Support" (top right corner, blue bar)
• GeoBase (1980 to present).  Geophysics, geochemistry, geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines, Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, meteorology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology.
• Inspec database (1896 to present) indexes physics and geophysics journals and proceedings.
• USGS

• DTIC DoD classified, limited distribution technical research reports database
• DTIC public technical reports database
• Government Information Research Guide.   Government databases. Additional information.  U.S. federal & state and international government.
• Patents
• Standards
• Technical Research Reports (classified and unclassified; DoD, NASA, other government agencies)
• NTIS technical reports database
• Statistical Universe
• Congressional Universe
• Law databases
• GPO Monthly Catalog. Directory of current and past publications from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Online July 1976- Galileo; print begins in 1907/08; multiple call numbers, such as GP3.8: and Z1223 .A181x.  GPO Access.
• Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals 1988-.  Print volumes begin in 1949, Call Number Z6723 .U27.
• PAIS International/PAIS Archive 1915- (public affairs, political science)

• Knovel   Handbooks. Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics materials, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, food sciences, and mechanical engineering.
• Referex Engineering. (Elsevier) Provides access to the full text of over 300 engineering books, including handbooks, reference books and academic books (materials and mechanical; electronics and electrical; and, chemical, petrochemical and  process). Referex is available through the Engineering Village platform (along with Inspec and Compendex).
• ENGnetBASE. CRC Press' engineering handbooks
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology. (1999 to present). The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology is a comprehensive account of polymer sciences and technology. Coverage includes physical and chemical properties, manufacture, uses, economic aspects, methods and processes and general subjects. The online version began with the 3rd edition and will be updated regularly as changes occur.
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (1999-)  An important chemistry encyclopedia with a major emphasis on the applied aspects of chemistry and chemical engineering. Coverage includes chemical substances including properties, manufacture of the substances and uses. Other coverage includes industrial processes, unit operations and unit processes, fundamentals, analytical  methods and general subjects such as patents and regulatory agencies. The online version began with the 4th edition and will be updated regularly as changes occur.
• Electronic encyclopedias.
• Selective handbooks and encyclopedias in electrical and computer engineering.
• A large number of handbooks are listed in the Library Classic GT Catalog at http://gil.gatech.edu/.

• Books.  Handbook databases Knovel, EngNetBase, Referex Engineering and Referex. Electronic books such as Netlibrary and Safari. Electronic encyclopedias such as the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Chemistry and other encyclopedias
• WorldCat (Galileo):  Search “Advanced Search” “Limit type to” “Internet Resources.”
• SKS WebSelect is an online database of Internet resources.
• Finding Information on the Internet (tutorial).  Primary Sources on the Web. Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching. Search Engine Watch, SearchEngines.com
• Library Research Guides.
• Electronic subscription, aggregator and open access journals are linked in the Catalog "Internet"/"Electronic Version:" "Get fulltext copy." "Find It GT" field gives coverage after "Available from."  The E-Journal list and the Catalog electronic journal records contain aggregator e-journals with selective coverage and embargo date restrictions (EBSCOhost, ProQuest, GaleGroup, Factiva, Lexis Nexis, etc.).  Check title changes (separate records) and the years (holdings) of the Library's print subscription in the "Library has:" fields (General collection, Storage, Recent issues). "Find It GT" can fail when in fact the the Library owns the publication, such as a conference proceedings in the Classic GT Catalog, a patent, or a report in the technical reports collection. Separate records may exist for print and electronic volumes; electronic records may be listed before print records.

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts -- "Specific Databases"
• Search multiple materials and metals databases at one time: To the right of  "Change:" click on "Specific Databases" then "Mark" then "Continue to Search."
• CSA materials and metals databases:
• Aerospace & High Technology Database 1962+
• CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX set 1966+
• Aluminium Industry Abstracts 1972+
• Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts 1975+ {Print Ceramic Abstracts begins in 1922, Call Number TP785 .A621X.  Print World ceramics abstracts begins 1954, Call Numbers TP785 .C422X and  TP785 .C42X}
• Copper Data Center Database 1965+
• Corrosion Abstracts 1980+ {Print Corrosion Abstracts begins 1954, Call numbers TA462 .C651 and TA462 .C652; TA462 .C65 special section called Corrosion Abstracts begins 1945}
• Engineered Materials Abstracts set 1986+ [set contains: Advanced Polymers Abstracts 1986+, Composites Industry Abstracts 1986+, Engineered Materials Abstracts Ceramics 1986+]
• Materials Business File 1985+
• METADEX/metals 1966+ {Print call numbers TN1 .A58 years 1944-1963 and TN1 .I58 years 1931-1967}
• WELDASEARCH 1967+
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts search hints    http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/csa.htm
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts search examples   http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/4camb.pdf
• CSA Illumina "Help & Support" (top right corner, blue bar)
• Chemical Abstracts 1907+ (SciFinder Scholar) and CrossFire Beilstein & Gmelin organic and inorganic chemistry handbooks
• Compendex 1884+, Inspec 1896+  Aerospace 1962+.  Combine Inspec and Compendex together ("Select Database"); choose Inspec when removing duplicate records .  Combine CSA databases.
• NTIS 1964+ technical reports
• Alloys Digest.  v.1-v.7.  Looseleaf. (current subscription) Call Number: TA483 .A4X.  Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.   Alloys property handbook.

• MathSciNet.  Mathematical Reviews' Web gateway to MathSciNet (1940 to date); updated daily.  MathSci contains evaluative reviews and abstracts of the international research literature in mathematics, computer science, statistics, simulation/modelling, econometrics, and applications in areas such as physics, engineering, biology, and information systems.  It has seven subfiles online.  "Quick Links" "Databases"

• PaperChem via PaperVillage2 (1967 to present). The PaperChem database covers international journal literature related to pulp and paper technology. PaperChem includes abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and technical reports with more than 480,000 records. Produced by Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc.  PaperChem was formerly produced by the Institute of Paper Science & Technology.
• Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Chemistry (Institute of Paper Science and Technology).  Sept 1930 - June 1998.  Call Number: TS1105 .I57
• PIRA (Packaging, Paper, Printing and Publishing, Imaging and Nonwovens Abstracts) is a fee based database.  Contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu.  Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.
• Thesaurus of pulp and paper terminology. [3rd ed.] Atlanta, Ga. : Institute of Paper Science and Technology, 1991.  Call Number: Z695.1 .P83 T483X 1991
• Georgia Tech’s Institute of Paper Science & Technology (IPST). http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/
• Chemical Abstracts, SciFinder Scholar (1907 to present).

• Patents, Standards, Products, and Trademarks.  Detailed patent guide.
• Patent database search slide examples (USPTO & EPO).
• Additional patent information
• Patents are a valuable source of information.  Two main reasons are:  1.  if you are developing a new machine, process, product, chemical substance, etc, it is important to be sure that you are not infringing on someone else's legal rights (even if you do not plan to get a patent yourself).--Therefore, you need to be sure that no one else has a patent on the invention.  2.  the patent document can give you valuable information about other people's inventions, which you could use in the development of your product.  The invention cannot have been publicly described or sold for more than one year before the patent application is submitted.--Therefore, the patent document is often the first place an invention is described. Patents can be useful for cutting edge technology.  Also the patent must be written in enough detail that another person, familiar with that area, could reproduce the invention.
• Patents and Trademarks Research Guide   Patent Research Guide -- Tutorials and Guides.Patents Searching Tutorial
• Patent and product information guide is at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/patprod.htm
• Patent search examples  (USPTO and EPO).   Additional, detailed patent and trademark information
• How to Conduct a Preliminary Patent Search computer based training module (USPTO PTDLP)
• Conducting a Patent Search at a Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL): A Seven Step Strategy
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Home Page.
• General Information Concerning Patents USPTO.
• U.S. Patent Databases.
• USPTO Patent Database. United States patents. Full Page Images 1790 to present.  Full text is searchable back to 1976.   The USPTO Web Patent Database is now searchable in five year blocks back to 1976, and in one additional block covering the years 1790-1975. The full text of a patent includes all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the  assignee's name, as well as the abstract, the full description of the invention, and the claims; all of the words (text) in the patent are searchable from 1976 to present.  Current US classifications have been added to the Full Text Database in place of issue classifications.  However, the 1790-1975 block contains only patent numbers and current U.S. Classifications, and thus will produce search results (hits) in only those two fields.  Remember to change the year (“Select years”) on the search screen.
• CASSIS. CASSIS CD-ROM system. The Georgia Tech Library has a complete collection of full image U.S. patents (DVDs) from 1790 to the present.  The Georgia Tech Library is a USPTO Depository Library.  Patents BIB contains searchable bibliographic information for utility patent grants issued from 1969 to the present and for other types of patent documents issued from 1977 to the present. In addition, bibliographic information for patent application publications is provided starting in March 2001. There are 15 searchable fields including patent title, patent abstracts from September 1988 to present, current classifications, assignee at time of issue, date of issue, serial number, inventors' names and full addresses (if not assigned at time of issue), and status.  Classes are searchable back to 1790.
• PubWEST Patent Searching.  Contact Bette Finn at bette.finn@library.gatech.edu for information about searching the USPTO PTDL's PubWEST patent search system.  The PubWEST system uses powerful BRS search software -- proximity operators, field searching, manipulation of previous search statement lines, etc.  Available databases include USPT (full text of most patents 1971+), USOCR (Optical Character Recognition to scan patent copies 1920-1970 and 1971-1976 that are missing from the USPAT file), PGPub (utility applications that have been pending for 18 months), JPAB (English language abstracts of unexamined Japanese patent applications, Oct 1976+), and EPAB (published documents from the European Patent Office, selected EPO member countries, USPTO, and the World Intellectual Property Organization; dates vary).
• U.S. Patent Classification Guides
• The Manual of Classification is used to determine the appropriate U.S. patent classification. Classes/Subclasses are hierarchical. The print (paper) version, located in the Library's patent area (ask at the Information Services Desk 1st Floor West), may be easier to use than the online version
• The Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System is available in paper copy or online.
• Classification Definitions are available online or in microfiche.  Detailed patent guide.    http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/patprod.htm
• Class Subclass Searching.  Although searching by keywords can be easier than searching by classes and subclasses, classification searches will often retrieve patents that are right on target.  Searching by classification is more thorough than searching by keywords.   Keyword searches will miss relevant patents and will also retrieve irrelevant patents.
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office homepage: http://www.uspto.gov
• Full Image Patents. http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
• Free sites for printing patents:
• pat2pdf.org (http://www.pat2pdf.org/, U.S. patents)
• Google
• Patent Fetcher (http://free.patentfetcher.com/, U.S. Patents)
• esp@cenet "worldwide patents" (http://ep.espacenet.com/)
• USPTO Patent Database
• How to Access and View Full-Page Images -- USPTO full page patent images in TIFF format  http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm
• Commercial on-line searches of U.S. and international patent databases are available for a fee. Contact Bette Finn at bette.finn@library.gatech.edu.  Description of patent fee-based databases.
• Patent Web Resources.
• Foreign Intellectual Property Offices Web Sites.
• Foreign patent databases.
• European Patent Office search. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) PatentScope Search
• Patent database search examples slides (U.S. & EPO).
• Foreign patents and treaties. Rights granted by a United States patent extend only throughout the territory of the United States and have no effect in a foreign country.

• Inspec database (1896 to present) “Quick Links” “Databases” electrical engineering, radar, computers, controls, control engineering, automation, physics, optics, electronics, simulation and modeling, biomedical technology, robotics, systems theory, artificial intelligence, communications, telecommunications, manufacturing and production engineering, and information technology.
• Inspec Ei Village search hints
• Inspec Ei Village search examples
• Includes Inspec Thesaurus online.
• Combine Inspec and Compendex together, removing duplicate records ("Select Database"); 20% overlap.  Duplicate "Database Preference" -- use Inspec ("Remove Duplicates").
• Selected AIP, IOP, OSA electronic journals go back before 1969, such Proceedings of the Physical Society 1874+ or Physical review 1893+.
• Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.  SPIE. Optics & photonics.  Indexed in the Inspec and Compendex databases.  SPIE Digital Library SPIE Proceedings and Journals 1990+ (full coverage 1998+). Search.  Library owns print volumes in the Classic GT Catalog for earlier years.
• NTIS 1964+ technical reports
• GeoRef  (1785 to present) and GeoBase (1980 to present).  Geophysics, geochemistry and geoscience.

• Electronic Press At Georgia Tech.   Scholarly Communication
• SMARTech is GT's trusted repository for archiving the intellectual output of campus (pre-prints, post-prints, technical reports, research reports, etc.) http://smartech.gatech.edu/
• EPAGE@Tech (Electronic Publishing At Georgia Tech) is a suite of journal, conference proceedings, and lecture recording services. http://epage.gatech.edu
• Publishing (electronic books, journals, conferences)
• Capturing (instructional materials, multimedia)
• Hosting (conferences, symposia, lecture series)
• Scholarly Communication  http://www.library.gatech.edu/scholarlycommunication/index.html
• Open Access @ GT  http://www.library.gatech.edu/scholarlycommunication/openaccess.html
• Copyright
• Copyright & Fair Use Guidelines http://www.library.gatech.edu/services/reserves/copyright.php
• Board of Regents Copyright Guidelines
• Obtaining Publisher Permission
• Four Factors of Fair Use
• Topics: Copyright. GT Office of Legal Affairs    http://www.legalaffairs.gatech.edu/topics.html#anchor363252
• Copyright Policy, Board of Regents  http://www.usg.edu/copyright/ and http://www.usg.edu/legal/copyright/, or at GT course Reserves http://www.library.gatech.edu/services/reserves/index.php
• Understanding Copyright   http://www.library.gatech.edu/scholarlycommunication/copyright.html

• Standards and specifications are documents that stipulate or recommend minimum and/or optimal levels of performance, quality, conditions and procedures for production, evaluation, distribution, and use of materials, products, and services.  Standards can be set by law. Others are voluntary and are established by societies with particular interest in the field in question.  Specifications are usually narrower in scope than standards.
• Search example for Standards.  http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/p4stand.pdf
• The Library's print and electronic standards.
• "Standards at Tech" or "Standards Vendors" or "Society Standards."  Standards Subject Guide.
• The Library subscribes to full image electronic ASTM and IEEE standards and has access to many free governmental electronic standards.
• Selected standards are cataloged in the Classic GT Catalog at http://gil.gatech.edu/
• Index to standards.  The Library subscribes to a bibliographic IHS database with indexing to identify standards produced by over 730 organizations from around the world at "Databases" "Specs" (IHS).  IHS's standards database has a limitation of one simultaneous user.
• Standards which are set by the federal government.
• A selected list of groups of standards or standard producing organizations follows:
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) issues test methods for all kinds of materials, products, systems, etc.  Available full image at http://www.library.gatech.edu/gtonly/policy_astm.php.  Database is limited to one simultaneous user.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards are available full image at IEEE Xplore  http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org  (log-out when finished).  Database is limited to 15 simultaneous users.
• Department of Defense DTIC Specifications and Standards
• Code of Federal Regulationscodifies federal government rules and regulations.  These are set by law and cover a very wide range of subjects, including:  agriculture, energy, financial practices, aerospace, commerce, food and drugs, housing and urban development, national defense, education, environmental protection, public health, telecommunications, transportation, etc.
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• DOE (Department of Energy) Technical Standards
• European Computer Manufacturers Association
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
• International Telecommunication Union standards produced by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
• National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) (formerly National Bureau of Standards (NBS)) develops national standards to ensure product reliability, to promote public health and safety, to improve the environment, to maintain the national measurement system, etc.  One large set of NIST standards are the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) which deal with computer hardware, software, data representations, ADP operations, and telecommunications. The NIST site at http://www.nist.gov/ contains indexing to and/or fulltext of some Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and Standards Reference Data material.
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a nonprofit association, accredited ANSI to identify, develop, maintain, and publish voluntary, consensus based technical standards for managing information. Most NISO standards and technical reports are available for FREE download at NISO Press Online
• OSHA
• AGARDographs (Advanced Guidance for Alliance R&D) - selective coverage
• NATO TR (Technical Reports of NATO Research and Technology) - selective coverage.  RTO publications.
• Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI)
• Building Codes.

• Defense Technical Information Center.  DoD classified and limited distribution technical research reports.
• Contact Bette Finn(bette.finn@library.gatech.edu, phone 404-894-1790) for information about searching DTIC's bibliographic Department of Defense classified and limited distribution Technical Reports and Research Summaries databases (only for Georgia Tech researchers).  Classified and limited distribution DTIC Research Summaries and Technical Reports.
• The Library owns a large collection of public microfiche DTIC AD/ADA reports and selected public DTIC reports are available full text online.  Contact Bette Finn for fee-based ordering of hard copy unclassified/unlimited distribution DTIC reports.
• NTIS. National Technical Information Service database (1964 -  ) Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=gitec&access=gitec303&cat=ntis CSA Illumina "Help & Support" (top right corner, blue bar)
• Try searching the NTIS database before requesting items through interlibrary loan (theses, dissertations, papers).  Search author last names ("or") and important title keywords.
• Most technical reports are available in microfiche on the 2nd floor east, or available in electronic format.  A few selected reports are listed in the Catalog (VUFind) {repository searching coming soon}. Government websites have selected full text reports. Some selected reports are available in the Library's locally loaded Government Funded Technical Reports databases.  GT students and faculty/staff can request the purchase of missing reports for the Library's collection (ask the Special Formats & Maps staff to verify that the Library does not own the microfiche report).
• NTIS slide examples for class presentations http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/4camb.pdf
• NTIS search hints are at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bw21/csa.htm.
• CSA Illumina "Help & Support."  NTIS's Database Guide.
• NASA Thesaurus
• Dept of Defense DTIC Thesaurus
• Library’s Technical Report Collection   Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• Microfiche. The Georgia Tech Library holds over 2,500,000 microfiche technical reports, located on the 2nd floor East. The period from 1960 to 2007 is the most heavily represented, although older reports dating from 1900 are available.   Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• PDF copies and print enlargements and email scans can be made from the 2nd floor east microfiche technical reports.
• NTIS indexed microfiche technical reports are shelved on the 2nd floor east by the NTIS "Accession Number."  Other reports may be shelved under the "Report Number."
• Selected NTIS database records have an extra "check digit" at the end of the CSA report number (ignore it).  Watch for irrelevant zeros at the beginning of selected NTIS report numbers (after agency code).
• Microfiche technical reports indexed by non-NTIS databases might be shelved on the 2nd floor east by the Report Number listed in the "Report Number" field.  Report numbers "PBs to Zs" are shelved out of order on the back wall, 2nd floor east.
• The largest areas in the Library's microfiche technical reports collection include AD, ADA, DE, N, PB, TI and Y technical research reports.
• Print and Electronic. A few selected technical reports are listed in the Catalog (VUFind) {repository searching coming soon}.  Selected reports are available full text at Government websites.  Some selected reports are available in the Library's locally loaded Government Funded Technical Reports databases.
• Purchase.  For individual technical reports that are not currently held in the Georgia Tech microfiche collection, a request (bette.finn@library.gatech.edu) may be made to add a title to the Library's collection. This service is free of charge for Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff.  Ask the Special Formats & Maps Department, 2nd floor east, to verify that the Library does not own the microfiche report.
• Government sites have selected full text:  Department of Defense/DTIC, Department of Energy/DOE,World Energy Base,  Environmental Protection Agency/EPA, NASA, NACA.   Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• Major Indexes for Technical Reports.
• Unclassified Georgia Tech research project reports from GTRI and academic departments. For recent Georgia Tech project reports not listed in the Classic GT Catalog, contact Records Management (http://www.library.gatech.edu/about/archives.php).  Recent Georgia Tech project reports are available electronically or else in Records Management remote storage.  Many older Georgia Tech project reports are in the General Collection and Archives (two copies).  Selected GT project reports are available in the Classic GT Catalog "Electronic Version"/Internet field.
• Government Reports Announcements and Index and various title changes.  (1946 to 1996) Call Number: Z7916 .B47, 2nd floor East.  Available through NTIS database 1964 to present. Major technical reports indexes (before 1964, such as NTIS Reference Files Z1223 .A1 N85X 1943-58--1964/67 microfilm, 2nd floor East).  Technical Reports Research Guide.
• RAND reports.  The majority of publicly available RAND research documents 1998+ have free downloads. Searchable RAND archive back to 1948.

• World Textiles. For fee-based electronic database (1970 to present), contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu. Description of Dialog's fee-based World Textiles.  Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.  International coverage of scientific, trade, technical, and economic publications.  World Textiles covers a broad range of topics including plant development, computer control, manufacturing and finishing processes, commercial development, performance of textile products, and environmental concerns. It is also a source of American, British, and European patents and international standards information.
• World Textile Abstracts (1969-Nov 2004) Call Number: TS1300 .W94, 6th floor east. Various other titles and call numbers TS1300 .T2151X   1922-1969; Z5701 .S5X 1921--1968 ; TS1300 .T215, 1910- Jan. 1969.
• Textile Technology Digest/Index (1944-2002).  Formerly published by the Institute of Textile Technology (now by Ebsco). Call Number: TS1300 .T35, Reference Collection, 2nd Floor East SE corner.

• World Translations Index.  (1967 to 1997). Call Numbers: Z7401 .W622X and Z7401 .T7X.  World Translations Index is available through an on-line database service, 1984 to present, for a fee (contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu).  Fee-based database description.
• Transdex: bibliography and index to the United States Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) translations/Bell & Howell transdex v.9--v.12, July 1970--June 1974 Call Number:  Z7403 .C38 2nd East, and microfiche Z7403 .C38 july 1974--1989.  Index to the United States Joint Publications Research Service JPRS,  Technical Translations  (1959 - 1967)  Call Number:  Z7401 .T712.  Translations Register-Index.  (1967 - 1986)  Call Number:  Z7401 .T7X.  Consolidated Index of Translations into English  National Translations Center (U.S.)  Call Number:  Z7401.W63X 1969.  Consolidated Index of Translations into English II:  1967-1984, Cumulation of Translations Register-Index National Translations Center Call Number: Z7401.W63X 1986.  World transindex Z7401 .W62X 1978--1981. World index of scientific translations  Z7401 .W6X 1967-1977.
• NTIS. (1964 -   ) indexes selected translations.

• Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS Online).  The TRIS Database contains almost half a million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation.
• The free TRIS Online database is a subset of the larger, fee-based Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) database. The major fee-based Dialog TRIS subfiles are HRIS, IRRD, TLIB, UMTRIS, ATRIS, HSL, MRIS, and RRIS.   Contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu. Description of the comprehensive fee-based TRIS database.  Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.
• Search the TRB Research in Progress (RIP) Database for current research projects.   Transportation Libraries Catalog.
• Fee based International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database -- international transportation material.  Contact bette.finn@library.gatech.edu. Preliminary "title only" searches can often be provided for free to Georgia Tech students and faculty.
• NTIS government funded technical reports 1964+  Full-text Availability of Technical Reports
• Compendex 1884+ and Inspec 1896+

• Linking to Library Resources: Add GT Proxy Bookmark; LinkMaker, link to a Library resource, prefix http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=
• GT Web Localizer
• "DOI" Citation Linker
• Access to Library electronic resources requires authentication through the Library's Proxy server: a Georgia Tech "GT Account" ID and password is required (used for PASSPORT, BuzzPort, or GT email, etc.).  Enter at http://www.library.gatech.edu  "Articles (Databases)" "eJournals" "Classic GT Catalog – Electronic Version" field, Galileo Password or "Course Reserves."  If you have never activated your "GT Account" ID, or if it has been inactive for four months or longer, you will need to activate or reactivate it. Note: the GT "Active Directory" password has stricter rules than does the "GT Account" password. The PASSPORT website https://passport.gatech.edu/ offers tools for GT Account and GT Active Directory password changes, student activation, email aliasing and GT Directory options.  OIT Support Walk-in Support: Resource Center, Library West (ground floor) Hours: 8:00am - 6:00pm, Monday - Friday E-mail: support@oit.gatech.edu, phone: 404.894.7173.  OIT Help.  OIT FAQ.  OIT User Accounts. How do I change my "GT Account" password?  Your password is set to expire every 90 days.

• Free automatic current awareness searches are available in most Library databases. For assistance contact Bette Finn at bette.finn@library.gatech.edu.

• Defense Technical Information Center's DTIC STINET classified and limited distribution Technical Reports and Research Summaries databases (only for Georgia Tech researchers).
• Several STN or Dialog databases can be searched at one time, removing duplicates. STN and Dialog databases include Derwent World Patents (1963+), RAPRA (polymers, 1972+), CAB (agriculture, 1972+), Food Science & Technology (1969+), World Surface Coatings (1976+), Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (1970+), Enviroline (1975+), Environmental Bibliography (1973+), FLUIDEX (1973+), Textile Technology Digest (1978+), Jane's Defense & Aerospace News/Analysis, PASCAL, TEME - Technology and Management, JICST-EPlus - Japanese Science & Technology, World Textiles (1970+), Cambridge Scientific's Life Sciences Collection (1982+), and many others.
• Examples of vendor databases that overlap free databases are Chemical Abstracts (1907+, boolean logic and proximity operators), Aerospace Database (1962+), Inspec (electrical engineering, computer science, controls, automation, physics), Compendex, NTIS (technical research reports, 1964+), FedBizOpps &Commerce Business Daily (1982+ contract awards), U.S. Claims Patents (1950+), Dissertation Abstracts (1861+),  Energy Science and Technology (1974+), Transportation Research Information Services(1968+), Medline (biomedicine, 1966+), Metadex (alloys and metals), Engineered Materials Abstracts (1986+), MathSci  (1940+),  Psychological Abstracts (1887+), Biosis/Biological Abstracts (1969+), and management databases. Contact Bette Finn at email bette.finn@library.gatech.edu or phone 404-894-1790.
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) biological and environmental databases are available for a fee through STN.

• GT CrossSearch.  Search multiple Library databases at one time.
• Databases with simultaneous user restrictions must be searched using the original platform, such as IEEE Xplore or SciFinder Scholar.
• Good for very simple, quick, brief, limited searches across multiple databases. Good for short phrases, such as new terminology.  Can use to quickly identify a few papers on a general topic.
• Can result in large numbers of irrelevant records. The best database may not be listed first (such as Inspec for ECE).
• Does not utilize advanced search capabilities of native platforms. Conduct in-depth or complex searches using the original vendor platforms (Ei Village Inspec/Compendex, CSA NTIS, etc.).

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Professor Bonnie Heck Ferri's ECE 8010 library orientation lecture recorded by DLPE/Distance Learning (temporary file)

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