This will give you an introduction to using and searching engineering and scientific databases. These are subject specific and provide peer-reviewed and /or trade journals. Using these will save you time and make your research much easier.
Article Databases
There are the major engineering and agricultural article databases that contain information specifically useful to BAE majors and researchers.
AgricolaPrimary agriculture agriculture and veterinary database from the NAL.
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American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Technical Library (ASABE)The Technical Library was launched in January 2001 with technical documents added as they were published throughout the year. Each year nearly 20,000 pages of content will be added. Some material published prior to 2001 has been added to the site in PDF only format. More is scheduled to be added as funds allow.
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BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts/RRMBIOSIS Previews combines journal content from Biological Abstracts with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings).
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BIOSIS Citation IndexThe Biosis database has over 5,300 high quality journals with overage back to 1926.It contains than 27.9 million records which includes journal and non-journal coverage, abstract meetings, as well as books (serials and monographs), and U.S. patents.
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CompendexThis link opens in a new windowPrimary engineering article database. Covers all fields of engineering back to 1882. Includes links to cited references in Scopus.
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IEEE XploreInterdisciplinary engineering and technology database which covers all fields as technology affects all aspects of our lives. Full-text PDFS make this an easy database for research.
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MEDLINE (ProQuest)Academic version of PubMed.which allows you to seamlessly comment to interlibrary loan. This database also contains a significant amount of biological and veterinary research.
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ProQuest SciTech Premium CollectionThis link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary sci-tech databases including civil engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering and other engineering and science databases on one platform.
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ScopusMultidisciplinary science-technology-medical database. Includes cited references.
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CAB Abstracts (CABI) with Full TextCAB Abstracts provides access to research from an incredibly wide range of subjects across the applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition.