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Comprehensive and authoritative information featuring content from a broad range of seminal McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Dictionary of Science and Technology , and many more.

Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI)

PDF fulltext of Hydraulic Institute (U.S.) standards that relate to pump specification, selection, design, testing, installation and operation.

Provides access to the fulltext of 21 ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions produced by the society for materials engineers and scientists. View complete title list.

The ASME collection of electronic journals and entire collection of ASME ebooks. You can browse journals by title volumes or search for articles within a title.

Contains document summaries from over 11,000 standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials International as well as fulltext page images of all the current ASTM standards.

Compendex, the online version of Engineering Index, is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over nine million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.

A collection of ebooks in engineering, including handbooks and manuals from CRC Press.

Statistical datasets from the International Energy Agency, including energy prices, technology and R&D statistics, oil and natural gas statistics and more.

A collection of journals in the field of mechanical engineering. Includes journals on maritime, transport, medical, aerospace engineering and more.

Provides direct access to over 200,000 pages of unique material, including technical papers, obituaries, meeting reports, technical drawings, and editorial comment, all covering some of the most influential and innovative years of engineering development. The IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996 is a valuable resource for engineers, scientists, historians, social commentators, biographers and genealogists

A collection of leading technical books for engineering, technology, manufacturing and education.

A collection of reference ebooks in science and engineering, many of which are embedded with Knovel's productivity tools that help users analyze and manipulate information into a more usable form. Fulltext is available in PDF format.

A good starting place for research, including a range of dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Limit search results to quick reference or include the full reference library.

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

The SAE Digital Library includes over 175,000 standards, papers, ebooks and related documents in mobility engineering, published in partnership with over 30 publishers. It includes full-text access to over 9,000 SAE standards, 90,000 SAE technical papers, and nearly 250 ebooks.

A cross-disciplinary academic database with significant content of interest to all QUT Faculties. Content includes journal titles in fulltext, online books, book series, handbooks and reference works.

First time users of this service must register for an individual SciFinder username and password using their QUT email address. Note that by licence agreement staff and students may only register for ONE login.

The world's largest science specific search engine, Scirus allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

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SIAM Journals Online is the collection of online publications from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

SIAM Online titles include:

• Multiscale Modeling & Simulation;
• SIAM Journal on Applied dynamical Systems;
• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics;
• SIAM Journal on Computing;
• SIAM Journal on Control & Optimization;
• SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics;
• SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences;
• SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis;
• SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications;
• SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis;
• SIAM Journal on Optimization;
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing;
• SIAM Review;
• Theory of Probability and Its Applications.

LOCUS SIAM Online Journal Archive (1952 - 1996)

• Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (1953 - 1965);
• Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Series A: Control (1962 - 1965);
• Journal of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Series B: Numerical Analysis (1964 - 1965);
• SIAM Journal on Control (1966 - 1975);
• SIAM Journal on Algebraic & Discrete Methods (1980 - 1987);
• SIAM journal on Scientific & Statistical Computing ( 1980 - 1993).

A web service providing information to professionals from maintenance technicians to top-level decision makers, enabling efficient and effective decision-making for improved reliability results. SKF @ptitude Exchange focuses on three key categories to support efforts to optimize asset efficiency:

• Asset Management - Achieving the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) of an asset with maximum availability, performance efficiency and product quality.
• Reliability Engineering - Maintenance strategy, improvement programs, procedures, targets, planning, systems implementation and evaluation, stores and spare parts planning.
• Mechanical Maintenance - Mechanical maintenance functions and tasks such as alignment, balancing, bearing installation, equipment history tracking and more.

A database platform specialising in science, technology and medicine journals, book series, books and reference works.

Sugar Industry Abstracts is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research on the sugar industry. Sugar Industry Abstracts brings you the latest information on the sugar industry, from the agronomy of sugarcane and sugarbeet to economics, nutrition and health.

A search of digital copies of theses from Australian universities and other Australian research institutions. Trove includes the full back catalogue of the former Australian Digital Theses service and other research materials from the former Australian Research Online.

Citation databases:

• Book Citation Index - Science (BKCI-S) --2005-present 2012 eTrial
• Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) --2005-present 2012 eTrial
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1980-present
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1980-present
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1980-present
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)--1990-present
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present

A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.