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The Expert Index Collection by IHS , delivered The Expert Index Collection allows users to leverage the on Engineering Workbench, is the most next-generation search capabilities in Engineering comprehensive collection of trusted, authoritative Workbench to quickly find answers in relevant reference engineering and technical reference content, sources and rapidly make the best decisions. aggregated and readily accessible in one place, to The Expert Index Collection provides index-level access help , scientists and other technical to all 75+ million documents across dozens of "knowledge professionals quickly make the best decisions. bases," or sets of content from individual publishers. With the Expert Index Collection, engineers, researchers "Index-level access" means that users can elect to have and scientists are able to discover answers across a relevant documents from all knowledge bases returned in comprehensive, vetted collection of more than 75 million search results for their queries, and users can review technical articles, publications, reports, design principles / information about, or read dynamically generated best practices and more, including more than 100 eBook summaries of, the items returned in their search results. titles. Some of the content available through the Expert Index The Expert Index Collection is delivered on Engineering Collection is freely accessible in full, and is defined herein Workbench, a unified technical knowledge platform that as "full-text access content." This means that a user can accelerates technical research and problem solving click through to the full-text original document directly through single-point access to critical information from their search results. resources, combined with next-generation search Other content requires a subscription to access, either analytics and specialized tools tailored to the needs of through IHS Markit or through a third party; this restricted technical professionals. content is defined herein as "index-only content." Users Types of Data: Authoritative Engineering and can review information about, and read summaries of, the Technical Reference Sources "index-only content" in their search results. (Users have The content for the Expert Index Collection is provided by the option to limit search results to specific knowledge dozens of vetted, authoritative publishers, as well as IHS bases, including those that provide them with full-text Markit sources, ensuring that users are able to access access.) trusted content from the best-known and most widely More detail on the content included in the Expert Index respected publishers. Collection index follows.

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Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), Industry are included in the leading abstracting and indexing Associations and Commercial Content Partnerships databases, including the Science Citation Index, Full-text Access Content – This third-party content is Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, and indexed within the Expert Index Collection and will Chemical Abstracts. appear, with citations and document summaries, in  IEEE GlobalSpec — IEEE GlobalSpec is the leading search results. In addition, users may access to this media platform serving the engineering, manufacturing content via the indicated third-party sites: and related scientific and technical market segments.  ArXiv.org provides access to more than 830,000 e- Documents from IEEE GlobalSpec are inclusive of the prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Product Selection Guides, Technical Library, and the Quantitative , Quantitative Finance and CR4 Forum. Statistics. o Product Selection Guides provide users with  ClinicalTrials.gov – ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and domain-expert details on a broad range of products results database of publicly and privately supported and services that help engineers and related clinical studies of human participants conducted around professionals understand key operational the world. The ClinicalTrials.gov results database was parameters, and select proper components and launched in September 2008 to implement Section 801 services with the highest levels of accuracy and of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act productivity. of 2007 (FDAAA 801), which requires the submission of o The Technical Library contains technical and "basic results" for certain clinical trials, generally not reference articles from suppliers and textbook later than 1 year after their Completion Date. The abstracts from top scientific and engineering results information that is submitted includes the publishers. following: Participant Flow; Baseline Characteristics; o Engineering Web – Provides no-charge access to Outcome Measures and Statistical Analyses; and 3 million pages of supplier/product and other Adverse Events. ClinicalTrials.gov results are available technical information. for free to all users. o The Conference Room 4® (CR4) is a forum for  DSpace@MIT – DSpace@MIT is MIT's institutional engineers, scientists, technical researchers, repository built to save, share, and search MIT's digital technical buyers, students and anyone interested research materials. DSpace@MIT contains over 25,000 enough in technology to discuss engineering news, theses and an increasing number of conference papers, seek technical help or get answers to fervent images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, questions. Users can register with IEEE technical reports, working papers, and more. GlobalSpec for free, after which the index and  Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®) – following content is freely accessible: Tech Library, DTIC has served the information needs of the Defense Engineering Web, CR4 Forum, Product community for more than 70 years. DTIC reports to the Announcements, Newsletters, Specsearch, and Assistant Secretary of Defense For Research and Company Profiles. Engineering ASD (RE). DTIC's mission is to provide  KTA - Nuclear Safety Standards Commission – The essential, technical research, development, testing and Nuclear Safety Standards Commission evaluation (RDT&E) information rapidly, accurately and (Kerntechnischer Ausschuss - KTA) has the task, to reliably to support our DoD customers' needs. The issue nuclear safety standards for topics in the area of DTIC knowledge base provides full text searching of nuclear technology where a consensus between final reports on Defense funded research, development, experts of the manufacturers and the operators of test and evaluation activities. nuclear power plants, of authorized experts and state  Hindawi Publishing Corporation – Publishes 500+ officials is apparent and to support their application. open access, peer-reviewed journals. Hindawi’s The Nuclear Safety Standards Commission (KTA) was journals maintain the highest standards of peer review, founded 1972 by the Bundesministerium für Bildung with more than 50,000 internationally-recognized und Wissenschaft (BMBW; now responsible: Editors serving on the Editorial Boards of Hindawi’s Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und journals. Many of the journals that Hindawi publishes Reaktorsicherheit - BMU) following the example of the

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well-established "Deutsche Dampfkessel-Ausschuss radioactive materials to protect public health and safety, (DDA)". The KTA knowledge base provides access to promote the common defense and security, and protect over 300 Standards and Reports. the environment. Specifically, the NRC regulates  NASA Tech Briefs features exclusive reports of commercial nuclear power plants; research, test and innovations developed by NASA and its industry training reactors; nuclear fuel cycle facilities; and the partners and contractors that can be applied to develop use of radioactive materials in medical, academic and new and improved products and solve engineering or industrial settings. The agency also regulates the manufacturing problems. Authored by the engineers or transport, storage, and disposal of radioactive materials scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array and waste, and licenses the import and export of of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, radioactive materials. While the NRC only regulates materials, computer software, mechanics, industries within the United States, the agency works machinery/automation, manufacturing/fabrication, with agencies around the world to enhance global mathematics/information sciences, and life sciences. nuclear safety and security.  NASA STI Articles – STI (scientific and technical  OSTI is the Department of Energy (DOE) office that information) is the collected set of facts, analyses, and collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored conclusions resulting from scientific, technical, and R&D results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or related engineering research and development efforts, other funded activities that take place at DOE labs and both basic and applied. The NASA Scientific and facilities nationwide and grantees at universities and Technical Information (STI) Program was established to other institutions. The information is typically in the form support the objectives of NASA’s missions and of technical documents, conference papers, articles, research. It is dedicated to the advancement of and software, collectively referred to as scientific and aeronautics and space science. The NASA STI technical information (STI). Program acquires, processes, archives, announces,  ResearchWorks at the University of Washington and disseminates NASA STI and acquires worldwide contains more than 15,000 works in a range of STI of critical importance to NASA and the Nation. The communities including Dissertations and Theses, STI Program is a critical component in the worldwide Faculty and Researcher Data and Papers, Student activity of scientific and technical aerospace research Research Papers, and the University Libraries and development. Collected from U.S. and international Collection. sources, STI is organized according to content prior to  Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is a being added to the NTRS Registered, which is a world- bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative class collection of STI that includes bibliographic electronic publishing model of open access journals. records and a growing number of full-text documents SciELO was created to meet the scientific The NASA Scientific and Technical Information communication needs of developing countries and knowledge base provides access to the information provides an efficient way to increase visibility and from the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). access to scientific literature. 14 countries are currently NASA Scientific and Technical Information abstracts represented in the SciELO network and its journal and documents are available for free to users of collections: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Engineering Workbench. Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, South  National Institute of Standards and Technology Africa, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Subject areas (NIST) – NIST is one of the nation's oldest physical covered include: Agricultural Sciences, Applied Social science laboratories. From the smart electric power grid Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Exact and and electronic health records to atomic clocks, Earth Sciences, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, advanced nanomaterials, and computer chips, along with Literature and Arts. innumerable products and services rely in some way on Index-only Content – This content is indexed within the technology, measurement, and standards provided by Expert Index Collection and will appear, with citations and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. document summaries, in search results. However, access  Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) - The NRC to this third-party content may require additional licenses and regulates the Nation's civilian use of

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subscriptions. Index-only content includes documents profession. Through its network of 36,000 members from such organizations as: worldwide, ASM provides authoritative information and  The American Institute of Aeronautics and knowledge on materials and processes, from the Astronautics (AIAA) is the preeminent publisher of structural to the nanoscale. Separate subscription cutting-edge aerospace books and journals, and the required to access ASM content. leading source of aerospace industry archives - dating  The American Society of Quality (ASQ) is a global back to the early 1900’s. AIAA titles record the most community of experts and the leading authority on important developments and the latest research in air quality in all fields, organizations, and industries. ASQ and space history. The AIAA Knowledge Base provides is a professional association dedicated to advancing the index access to more than 69,000 documents from professional development, credentials, knowledge and journals, eBooks, meeting papers and the AIAA information services, membership community, and Education Series. advocacy on behalf of its more than 85,000 members  The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is the premier worldwide. The ASQ journal articles include: Journal for professional society for the nuclear industry. Online Quality Technology, Six Sigma Forum Magazine, offerings include meeting information, nuclear news, Software Quality Professional, Quality Management and publications. Separate subscription required to Journal, Journal for Quality and Participation, Quality access ANS content. Engineering, and Quality Progress Technometrics.  American Society of Agricultural and Biological Separate subscription required to access certain ASQ Engineers (ASABE) – The American Society of content. Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ mission is to  ASTM International content includes journals, facilitate the exchange of technical information and manuals, and special technical publications (STPs) that promoting the science and art of engineering in are world-class articles and papers for engineering from agricultural, food, and biological systems. Industry top researchers in their fields, and is used widely documents and journal articles published by the society throughout industry and academia. The data covers represent over 70,000 pages of technical content. research articles from metals, petroleum and ASABE documents can be purchased separately. construction to the environment, forensics and  American Society of Mechanical Engineers – consumer products. Access to ASTM documents Founded in 1880 as the American Society of requires a separate subscription, or many documents Mechanical Engineers, ASME is the premier can be purchased individually. professional membership organization for more than  Begell House – Begell House is a source of scholarly 127,000 mechanical engineers and associated publications in the area of science and engineering. members worldwide. ASME also conducts one of the Established in 1991, Begell House publishes books, world's largest technical publishing operations in the journals, references and conference proceedings world, offering thousands of titles including some of the focused on various engineering subject areas and on profession's most prestigious journals, conference biological sciences. The Begell House Knowledge Base proceedings, and ASME Press books. The ASME includes close to 6,000 documents drawn from the Digital Collection, previously known as The ASME publisher’s collection of journal articles and reference Digital Library, is ASME’s repository of current and books. Access to full text of these documents requires a archival literature featuring: ASME's Transaction separate subscription. Journals from 1960 to the present. ASME's Conference  Crambeth Allen – Crambeth Allen Publishing Ltd Proceedings from 2002 to the present. ASME Press publishes magazines, books, manuals, directories, eBooks selected from 1993 to the present. The ASME websites and events covering engineering, architectural articles index provides full text indexing of abstracts in and urban design. Since 1991 Crambeth Allen has the ASME digital collection. Access to the articles been engaged first in contract publishing and, since requires a subscription or document purchase. 1994, in publishing its own titles. The Crambeth Allen  ASM International, formerly known as the American articles knowledge base contains an index to articles on Society for Metals, ASM International is dedicated to two websites: serving the materials science and engineering

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o ePTQ.com: This site has articles from PTQ development, as well as professional recognition and magazine since 1998. PTQ is the authoritative technical and scientific knowledge resources on energy magazine covering process technology in all its forms and applications. The EI was set up in developments in the refining, gas and 2003 as a result of a merger between the Institute of petrochemical industries. Each issue of PTQ Petroleum (IP) and the Institute of Energy (InstE). Both carries at least 15 in-depth technical feature Institutes had a proud and distinguished heritage articles from around the world charting experiences developed over many years supporting their particular under operating conditions in improving production energy sectors. Increasingly these sectors have or safety or meeting environmental targets. It is the converged, creating an integrated global energy market practical and detailed nature of these articles that which has been mirrored by the development of the makes PTQ required reading for engineering Energy Institute - established to address both the depth decision makers everywhere. and breadth of the subject. The Energy Institute o hydrocarbonchina.com: This website is the knowledge base provides full text searching of more bilingual Chinese version of digitalrefining.com than 800 technical publications. Access to articles which (launched in 2012) is a groundbreaking requires a subscription. venture that makes the largest quantity of refining  Fire and Blast Information Group – FABIG was technology information freely available on the web. created in March 1992 to continue the collation, Access to the articles index is free to all users. Full appraisal and dissemination of knowledge on text access to content on ePTQ requires a hydrocarbon fires and explosions for the design of subscription. Articles on hydrocarbonchina.com are offshore and onshore facilities. The key activities of freely available to users upon registration. FABIG as set out at its inception were to produce  Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences (EDP Science) – specialist design guidance on fire and explosion EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences), a engineering so as to update the IGN and provide a subsidiary of several learned societies, works closely forum for sharing technical knowledge through with the scientific world. It specializes in the Technical Meetings and Newsletters. FABIGS’s mission communication and dissemination of scientific is to disseminate knowledge and best practice, and to information to specialist audiences alike (general public, develop guidance on the prevention and mitigation of decision makers, teachers). EDP Sciences produces fires and explosions and the protection of people and and publishes international journals, books and internet facilities from such hazards. The FABIG Articles sites with a predominantly scientific or technical Knowledge Base contains Technical Notes, Technical content. The editorial activities of the company cover Meeting Proceedings, Newsletters and more. Access to , Engineering & Technology, General some FABIG documents may require a membership or Knowledge, Health Sciences & Dentistry, Life Sciences, purchase. Mathematics & Computer Sciences, Physics &  IEEE — The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Astronomy, Social Sciences & Humanities. EDP Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical Sciences offers a specialist publication platform. The professional society and a leading authority on quality of its contents is validated by international technology-related matters ranging from aerospace scientific committees. The majority of its journals are systems, telecommunications and computers, to indexed in the JCR (Journal Citation Reports) by the ISI biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer (Institute for Scientific Information). Access to full text electronics. The IEEE publishes 30 percent of the EDP Sciences content requires a subscription. world’s literature in the electrical and electronics  Energy Institute (EI) – EI is the professional body for engineering and computer science fields, and has the energy industry, developing and sharing knowledge, developed nearly 900 active industry standards. Access skills and good practice towards a safe, secure and to IEEE documents requires a separate subscription via sustainable energy system. The EI supports over IEEE, or documents can be purchased individually. 23,000 individuals working in or studying energy and  International Association of Plastics Distribution 250 companies’ worldwide, providing learning and (IAPD) – IAPD, established in 1956, brings together networking opportunities to support professional distributors, fabricators, manufacturers, manufacturer's

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representatives, recyclers and service providers in an symbols and forming a focus for the relations of environment which encourages a free flow of ideas and crystallography to other sciences. Separate information that help members build their businesses. subscription required to access IUCr content. IAPD provides training, connections with customers and  The Institute of Physics (IOP) provides access to suppliers and information about developments that more than 340,000 research articles from 58 of the impact the industry. What makes IAPD unique is a world’s leading research institutes, including Journal of commitment to educating customers and other key end Biofabrication, Journal of Geophysics & Engineering, users about plastics. The IAPD knowledge base and the Journal of . Separate provides index access to articles from the IAPD subscription required to access IOP content. Magazine, Designing with Plastics newsletter, and other  The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is technical materials and resources. Access to full text the global professional membership organization for IAPD content requires a subscription. people with relevant experience or an interest in  International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – chemical engineering. IChemE’s broad range of ICAO is a UN specialized agency, established by technical and general publications is essential reading States in 1944 to manage the administration and for all process professionals. Publications indexed as governance of the Convention on International Civil part of this Knowledge Base include: the Loss Aviation (Chicago Convention). ICAO works with the Prevention Bulletin, which provides detailed reports on Convention's 191 Member States and industry groups accidents in the process industries, as well as to reach consensus on international civil aviation examples of best practice; IChemE’s journal archive Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and containing over 70 years of essential research and over policies in support of a safe, efficient, secure, 3,000 original papers published to the highest peer- economically sustainable and environmentally reviewed standards; and, the Hazards symposium responsible civil aviation sector. These SARPs and archive that covers topics such as inherently safer policies are used by ICAO Member States to ensure design, safety management systems, risk assessments that their local civil aviation operations and regulations and analyses, and the human behavioural aspects of conform to global norms, which in turn permits more safety in the process industry. The iChemE Articles than 100,000 daily flights in aviation's global network to knowledge base contains close to 1,000 documents operate safely and reliably in every region of the world. from the Loss Prevention Bulletin. Access to full text In addition to its core work resolving consensus-driven iChemE content requires a purchase or subscription. international SARPs and policies among its Member  InterRegs is the premier online resource for up-to-date, States and industry, and among many other priorities global vehicle safety and emissions regulations. If you and programmes, ICAO also coordinates assistance are an OEM, an automotive component manufacturer and capacity building for States in support of numerous or a supplier to the vehicle manufacturing industry, you aviation development objectives; produces global plans don't have to struggle to search for up-to-date vehicle to coordinate multilateral strategic progress for safety regulations - InterRegs does all that for you. All and air navigation; monitors and reports on numerous documents are also translated into English and air transport sector performance metrics; and audits constantly kept up to date. Automotive regulations for States' civil aviation oversight capabilities in the areas sixty countries and subjects are covered. This includes of safety and security. The ICAO Knowledge Base regulatory information on vehicle emissions, vehicle provides index access to ICAO Journals, MRTD noise, occupant protection, pedestrian protection, type Reports, Annual Reports of the Council and Doc Series approval/certification and more. Also covered are off- publications. Access to full text ICAO content requires a highway construction equipment regulations and non- purchase or subscription. road engine emission regulations. Whether you require  The IUCr, International Union of Crystallography, is passenger car regulations, bus regulations, motorcycle an International Scientific Union promoting international regulations, truck regulations or off-highway cooperation in crystallography, promoting international regulations, InterRegs can help you save time and publication of crystallographic research, facilitating the money searching. Access to full text InterRegs content standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and requires a subscription.

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 Maney Journals – Maney Publishing, formed in 1997, American Petroleum Institute (API), American Rock is a leading independent publisher of academic and Mechanics Association (ARMA), American Society of professional journals. Specializing in materials science Safety Engineers (ASSE), International Petroleum and engineering, health and life sciences, and the Conference (IPTC), International Society for Rock humanities, Maney is committed to technical and Mechanics (ISRM), Offshore Technology Conference editorial innovation for the international dissemination of (OTC), NACE International (corrosion engineers), peer-reviewed scholarship and research. Maney’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), portfolio includes more than 150 scholarly journals, Petroleum Society of Canada (PETSOC), Pipeline most published in partnership with societies, Simulation Interest Group (PSIG), Society of Petroleum universities, and institutes. This knowledge base Engineers (SPE), Society of Petroleum Evaluation contains more than 100,000 journal articles that are Engineers (SPEE), Society of Petrophysicists and Well part of the Maney Journals collection. Access to full text Log Analysts (SPWLA), The Society of Underwater Maney Journals requires a subscription. Technology (SUT), and the World Petroleum Council  MATDAT Materials Database – MATDAT is a material (WPC). Separate subscription required to access properties database that contains over 1,500 detailed OnePetro.org content. datasets with properties of design-relevant metallic  PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group materials. The database includes standard and (PICMG) is a nonprofit consortium of companies and advanced material properties (cyclic, fatigue - strain-life, organizations that collaboratively develop open stress-life) and all material data are from relevant, standards for high performance telecommunications, published literature (and fully referenced). The content military, industrial, and general purpose embedded in the database is divided into the following groups: computing applications. There are over 250 member unalloyed steels, low-alloy steels, high-alloy steels, companies that specialize in a wide range of technical aluminium alloys, titanium alloys, cast irons/steels, weld disciplines, including mechanical and thermal design, materials, other (copper alloys, etc.) Access to the single board computer design, very high speed material information on MATDAT requires a signaling design and analysis, networking expertise, subscription. backplane and packaging design, power management,  McGraw-Hill AccessScience – A subscription to High Availability software, and comprehensive system McGraw Hill’s Access Science includes access to more management. Equipment built to PICMG standards is than 8,000 articles on various topics related to science used worldwide and anyone can build or use equipment and technology – a veritable online science without restriction (although certain technologies used encyclopedia. Separate subscription required. for some military applications may be subject to U.S.  National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) -– The export restrictions governed by ITAR rules). Key National Fluid Power Association was formed in 1953. standards families developed by PICMG include NFPA's mission and priorities include: connecting the CompactPCI®, AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA®, fluid power community, increasing the use of fluid AdvancedMC®, CompactPCI® Serial, COM Express®, power intelligence, growing the fluid power workforce, SHB Express®, and HPM (Hardware Platform and promoting innovative use of fluid power. The NFPA Management). The PICMG Articles Knowledge Base Fluid knowledge base provides index access to more contains information related to PICMG Open Standards than 2,000 technical papers presented at National and the online catalog of products from PICMG Conference on Fluid Power (NCFP) conferences member companies. Access to the articles index is free covering 1947 through 2008. The papers are the work to all users. Full text access to PICMG of distinguished technical and engineering standards/specifications requires a purchase. professionals in the fluid power industry.  PLASA is the lead international membership body for  OnePetro.org, operated by the Society of Petroleum those who supply technologies and services to the Engineers, is a multi-society library, which provides event, entertainment and installation industries. The access to 85,000 documents of technical literature association, which operates from offices in Europe and related to the oil and gas exploration and production North America, has over 1,200 members and acts as industry from participating organizations including: the worldwide voice for the industry, providing a wide

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range of business resources, technical support and  Royal Aeronautical Society is the world's only commercial benefits to its members. PLASA is actively professional body dedicated to the entire aerospace involved in the development of standards and directives community. Established in 1866 to further the art, worldwide. PLASA owns and manages the PLASA science and engineering of aeronautics, the Society Show and PLASA Focus events and publishes leading has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace industry magazines Lighting&Sound America, ever since. The Royal Aeronautical Society Articles Lighting&Sound International and Protocol. Access to knowledge base provides access to a variety of full text PLASA content requires a subscription. different publications including journal articles,  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences conference proceedings and discussion papers. Access (PNAS) is one of the world's most-cited and to full text Royal Aeronautical Society Articles and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, Publications requires a subscription. publishing more than 3,100 research papers annually.  SAE International is a global association of more than Established in 1914, PNAS publishes cutting-edge 128,000 engineers and related technical experts in the research, science news, Commentaries, Reviews, aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle Perspectives, Colloquium Papers, and actions of the industries. SAE International’s core competencies are National Academy of Sciences. The journal's content life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards spans the biological, physical, and social sciences and development. Access to SAE documents requires a is global in scope. Nearly half of all accepted papers separate subscription. come from authors outside the United States. PNAS  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE) publishes only the highest quality scientific research. was founded on February 1, 1947. Its aims are to Every published paper is peer reviewed and has been promote scientific culture, expand the industrial approved for publication by an NAS member. economy, and improve the quality of people’s lives by Submissions are accepted from all researchers; authors furthering the development of automobile science and do not need to have a connection to an NAS member to technology. The organization comprises a number of publish in PNAS. The PNAS knowledge base provides committees under the Boards of Technology, full text searching of more than 100,000 technical Publishing, Standards, Education and Planning. publications. Access to most recent articles requires a Members of each committee voluntarily participate in a subscription. range of activities in order to exchange information on  ProjectEuclid@Duke University – Duke University automotive technologies and to pursue innovation. The Press publishes approximately 120 books annually and JSAE knowledge base provides full text searching of over 40 journals, including several electronic JSAE Articles and Proceedings. Access to articles collections. Euclid Prime is a collection of high-impact, requires a subscription. peer-reviewed journals in theoretical and applied  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics mathematics. Separate subscription required to access (SIAM) is an international community of over 13,000 ProjectEuclid content. individual members. Almost 500 academic,  PubMed – developed by the National Center for manufacturing, research and development, service and Information (NCBI), comprises over 20 consulting organizations, government, and military million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE organizations worldwide are institutional members. (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System SIAM fosters the development of applied mathematical Online), life science journals, and online books. and computational methodologies needed in these PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of various application areas. Applied mathematics in , nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the partnership with computational science is essential in health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed solving many real-world problems. Through is developed by the National Center for Biotechnology publications, research, and community, the mission of Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of SIAM is to build cooperation between mathematics and Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of the worlds of science and technology. SIAM publishes Health (NIH).Separate subscription required to access 16 peer-reviewed journals. Approximately 25 books are PubMed content.

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also published each year by SIAM. Access to SIAM promote innovation and progress in transportation journal articles requires a subscription. through research. TRB's varied activities annually draw  The Society for the Advancement of Material and on over 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other Process Engineering (SAMPE), an international transportation researchers from the public and private professional member society, provides information on sectors and academia, who contribute expertise in the new materials and processing technology either via public interest by participating on TRB committees, technical forums, journal publications, or books in which panels, and task forces. TRB disseminates professionals in this field can exchange ideas and air transportation research results and technology their views. Separate subscription required to access information including books and reports assessing the SAMPE content. state of the art or practice in specific areas of  SPIE, the International Society for Optics and transportation functions, disciplines, and modes. The Photonics, publishes the SPIE Digital Library, TRB index provides access to more than 50,000 containing research papers from the Proceedings of papers, journal articles, reports, circulars, and SPIE and the Society's 9 scholarly journals. Separate conference proceedings. Access to full text TRB subscription required to access SPIE content. content requires a subscription.  Springer for R&D content includes coverage of  TWI – TWI is one of the world’s foremost independent science, technology, business and architecture. Access research and technology organizations, with expertise to Springer content requires separate subscription. in materials joining and engineering processes as Springer (available in English, French, German) applied in industry. TWI specializes in innovation,  The SpringerMaterials database, based on the knowledge transfer and in solving problems across all Landolt-Börnstein new series, is available for aspects of manufacturing, fabrication and whole-life subscription access as part of Knowledge Collections. integrity management. The TWI Articles Knowledge Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global Base contains Published Papers, Case Studies, Best scientific, technical and medical publisher, providing Practice Guides, Technical Literature Reviews and researchers in academia, scientific institutions and more. Access to some TWI documents may require a corporate R&D departments with quality content via membership or purchase via TWI. innovative information products and services.  Wiley Journals – Wiley is a global provider of content-  Techniques de L’Ingenieur represents the largest enabled solutions that improve outcomes in research, collection of scientific and technical literature in French, education, and professional practice. Wiley produces covering topics Industrial Computing, Measurement scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, Analysis, Quality and Safety, Embedded Systems, reference works, books, database services, and Metrology, Nanotechnology, automation, sensors, and advertising; professional books, subscription products, a broad range of analysis techniques. Separate certification and training services and online subscription may be required to access Techniques de applications; and education content and services. The L'Ingenieur content. Wiley Journals knowledge base includes close to 4  Total Materia by Key to Metals AG – Engineers and million articles covering multiple subject areas to others use Total Materia to quickly obtain accurate, up- include: Agriculture, Aquaculture & Food Science; to-date and verified material property data. Total Architecture & Planning; Chemistry; Computer Science Materia, from Key to Metals, is the world’s most & Information Technology; Earth, Space & comprehensive materials database, available in 26 Environmental Sciences; Life Sciences; Mathematics & languages and covering metals, polymers, ceramics Statistics; Medicine; Physical Sciences & Engineering; and composites with data updated monthly, so Veterinary Medicine. Access to Wiley Journals requires engineers always have access to the most current a subscription. information available. In total, covers more than 12 IHS Markit Content Sources (Full-text Access Content) million properties from over 450,000 materials. Technical Web Collection by IHS Markit — This  Transportation Research Board – The mission of the collection provides a pre-indexed subset of over seven Transportation Research Board - one of six major million documents from both Deep Web sites (World Wide divisions of the National Research Council - is to

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