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IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text access to IEEE journals and magazines from 1988-present, conference proceedings, and IEEE standards.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database incorporating the Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and the Social Science Citation Index. Indexes over 8,000 high impact research journals, many of them peer-reviewed, and provides access to cited and citing references. Includes access to Journal Citation Reports.
Compendex with Inspec (via Engineering Village 2) This link opens in a new window
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Search both Inspec and Compendex at the same time. Together, these databases index the entire spectrum of engineering, in depth, with abstracts from international journals, conference papers and technical reports. You may set up a profile, save searches, and have search results emailed bi-weekly.

arXiv.org e-Print archive
Coverage: Full Text
Open access e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
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Abstracts for over 4 million journal articles, conference proceedings, NASA reports, newsletters and theses in astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, physics and instrumentation.
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)
The scope of the SCOAP3 repository is neither to duplicate arXiv nor the publisher platforms, nor offer value-added services such as those of INSPIRE. It is rather a staging platform, for further distribution of information.The repository will provide access to the full-text of all articles published under SCOAP3 in several formats, including PDF, PDF/A and XML. Articles are published under a CC-BY license and can be further disseminated. Metadata will include of course the article DOIs and the ORCID IDs of all authors, when available.

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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.
American Institute of Physics Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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Search Scitation, an online database of scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications. Includes full-text of some journals published by the American Institute of Physics.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Search across Journals, Magazines, Transactions, Proceedings (including USENIX), Newsletters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in the ACM Digital Library. Now includes indexing for non-ACM publications: use Find It for full text availability. Subscription does not include access to ACM books.
Science Direct (Elsevier Journals Online) This link opens in a new window
Search or browse over 2,500 science, technology, and medicine journals (1,700 currently subscribed). Full text is available ONLY for those titles subscribed to by UMBC. Abstracts and bibliographic information is available for all other titles.
Optics InfoBase This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Some Full Text
Search and access the full text of JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Letters, Optics Express, JOSA (1917-1984), Applied Optics, J. Lightwave Technology, J. Optical Technology, J. Optical Networking and Optics and Photonics News.
MathSci Net This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Index Only
Includes Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. The core index/abstract of mathematics.

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