Biotechnology Resources
Knovel interactive Reference books including: Biotechnological Innovations in Chemical Synthesis; Biotechnology for Waste and Wastewater Treatment; Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology (4 volumes); and Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine.
Provides comprehensive information on chemical engineering, chemical processes and reaction engineering.
Make an appointment with a librarian to perform your search.
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Covers all aspects of biotechnology, including genetic engineering, biochemical engineering, fermentation, cell culture, and waste disposal. Make an appointment with a librarian to perform your search.
THE medical resource produced by the National Library of Medicine. It's exhaustive database of over 12 million medical citations covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. (A required "Animal Protocol" research file.)
Check with the Library for passwords to the $$ version. Also see
PubMed (Free).
Provides access to over 80 NIST scientific and technical databases with a major emphasis on measurement methodology and the basic technology underlying standardization. Here are links to some of the main NIST database topics: Analytical Chemistry ~ Atomic and Molecular Physics ~ Biometrics ~ Biotechnology ~ Chemical and Crystal Structure ~ Chemical Kinetics ~ Chemistry ~ Environmental Data ~ Fluids ~ Materials Properties ~ Mathematical Databases, Software and Tools ~ Physics ~ Surface Data ~ Thermophysical & Thermochemical Each of these database sets is also described elsewhere on this page. Some databases may not be free.
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Science Citation Index Expanded (part of the "Web of Science"). Provides access to current and retrospective cited references from the world's leading science and technical journals. AFRL coverage 1990 to present. Prepaid version available on AFIT computers in library - 1988 to present.
It is one of "the world's largest collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information," and the library connects you to millions of scholarly articles available from 1995+. Includes all journals published by Elsevier, Academic Press, Pergamon, North-Holland and others.
We have access to most of the journals published by the American Institute of Physics; American Physical Society; Acoustical Society of America; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Vacuum Society; International Centre for Diffraction Data; Laser Institute of America; and MAIK (the Russian Academy of Sciences). Many older issues are in the Library.
Searches across 167 million science-specific Web pages including full-text journal sources like: BioMed Central, MEDLINE, Science Direct (Elsevier, Academic Press, etc.), Scitation (AIP, APS, ASME, SPIE, etc.), and the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, as well as NASA reports, and various e-print and patent databases. Connects to millions of full-text subscription and free files.
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