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Internet Resources in Materials Science
[Professional Societies] [Conferences, Meetings and Symposia]
[Commercial Information Providers] [Publishers]
[Materials Science/Engineering Departments] [Super Sites]
These are the Web sites for the major materials science and engineering societies. Most have information on their publications, conferences, services, membership and so on.
If you know of Web listings for any meetings that you think should receive their own listings here, contact Chuck Huber (huber@library.ucsb.edu)
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts provides a number of subscriber-only databases and collections of Web-accessible science resources which can be reached through this site, including a number of biochemical databases, the METADEX metals and materials database, and the Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts file. UCSB users only can access selected Cambridge databases, including the biochemical files and Ceramic Abstracts through our Internet Database Services page.
- Chemical Abstracts
Service
Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society,
is the premier provider of current information from the literature of
chemistry. This site includes information on CAS's print and electronic
products and services, including documentation on STN International (the
online service provided by CAS) and its commands and databases. If you
have an STN account, you can access a number of STN databases via the STNEasy Web interface or use TELNET to search the
full STN command line interface.
- Derwent, Inc.
Derwent is the world's leading producer of patent information databases,
including the Derwent World Patents Index, and a number of specialty
databases. This site includes some brief descriptions of the nature of
patents and the patenting process. Derwent also maintains the Patent Explorer site, a Web-based tool for searching and displaying U.S. and European Patent Office patents. Membership is required, and there are fees for displaying patents, but membership is free for now.
- The Dialog Corporation
The Dialog Corporation is the world's largest provider of information access, including both traditional online and Web access to the DIALOG and DataStar systems. The site above is the new home site for Dialog, and some of the information at the Web site is still in transition from the old web site, but there are links to the older site where necessary.
- Engineering Information, Inc.
Engineering Information, Inc. (Ei) (a subsidiary of Elsevier Science Publishers) is the publisher of Engineering Index and the COMPENDEX database, available free to ucsb.edu users on the Web, as well as a variety of other formats. They are developing Engineering Information Village, a large collection of engineering resources available by subscription over the Internet.
- Fachinformationszentrum
Karlsruhe
FIZ Karlsruhe produces several databases and is the German host of STN
International)
- IFI/Plenum Data Corporation
IFI/Plenum produces a family of U.S. patent databases, including some with sophisticated chemical and polymer indexing.
- Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI)
ISI is the publisher of Current Contents and Science Citation Index.
This site includes a "What's Hot in Research" section, with articles on
recent highly-cited research,
and citation impact studies of various fields, institutions and researchers.
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center,
Inc.
OCLC produces the WorldCat international library catalog and provides
access to many other databases through its FirstSearch and EPIC services.
These may be accessed by subscribers via TELNET from this site.
- Questel/Orbit
Questel/Orbit is an international online information company specializing
in patent, trademark, scientific, chemical, business and news information. This web site
contains numerous links to other Web information, especially on patents, trademarks and other intellectual
property. If you have a current Questel or Orbit account, you can TELNET to search their
databases from here.
- SilverPlatter Information
SilverPlatter is a major distributor of databases on CD-ROM and over the
Internet (by subscription only.)
- UMI
Formerly known as University Microfilms, UMI is the primary supplier of copies of dissertations from academic institutions worldwide. UMI's site allows online ordering of dissertations in PDF file, microform or print versions. UMI also provides a number of databases on the Web and on CD-ROM, including their own Dissertation Abstracts, which is currently available on the Web free of charge for 1997-98 dissertations, but requires a subscription to search the full file. DA is also available on CD-ROM and from a variety of online vendors.
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- Academic Press
Includes browsable and searchable catalogs of books and journals. Chemistry publications are hidden in the "Physics, Engineering, Math and Computers" section.
- ACS Publications
Division
The American Chemical Society Publications home page includes information
on ACS journals, books and software, instructions to authors for ACS
journals, "hot articles" from C&E News, and more. UCSB users may use
this link to access downloadable
supplementary material from recent volumes of ACS journals.
- American Institute of
Physics Press
Includes a searchable and browsable catalog of AIP books.
- Annual Reviews,
Inc.
Includes an index of Annual Reviews publications from 1984-present, and is adding full text for its volumes from 1997-present..
- Association of American
University Presses Combined Online Catalog/Bookstore
Includes a searchable catalog and online ordering.
- Baltzer Science Publishers
Includes a browsable list of journals, with ordering information and
instructions to authors.
- Birkhauser Boston
Birkhauser primarily publishes books and journals in mathematics and life sciences, but has some materials of interest to chemists. Their book catalog is browsable by author, title or subject.
- Blackwell Science
Includes a browsable-by-subject list of a portion of their books and
journals catalog, with ordering information.
- Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
BNA publishes materials dealing with environmental, health and safety and
regulatory issues.
- Cambridge
International Science Publishing
Publishers in materials chemistry and materials engineering. Not to be
confused with the database publishers, the crystallographers, the university press or the
software publishers...
- Chemtec
Publishing
Chemtec is a Canadian publisher of books and journals, mainly dealing
with polymer science.
- CRC Press
Includes a browsable-by-subject list of current books and other products,
with ordering information.
- CSIRO Publishing
Australia's major publisher of scientific books and journals, including
Australian Journal of Chemistry. Includes a list of current
book titles browsable by subject.
- Elsevier Science
Includes a browsable and searchable catalog of books and journals, and an
Alerting service which includes searchable tables of contents Elsevier Science journals back to January 1995, updated weekly. ToC's appear about six weeks after publication.
- Gauthier-Villars
Includes a browsable-by-subject catalog of journals with ordering
information. Also available in French.
- IAPC Nauka
IAPC Nauka is the principal publisher of journals from the Russian Academy of Sciences in English translation. The site includes browsable tables of contents and abstracts for journals from July, 1997 to present. No electronic full text is yet available.
- Institute of Physics Publishing
Includes a browsable list of books and journals, with instructions to
authors and ordering information.
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Includes searchable and browsable catalogs, instructions to authors and
electronic journals and forums.
- Kluwer Publishing
Includes a searchable and browsable-by-subject catalog of books and journals.
- Marcel Dekker
Includes a browsable and searchable catalog of books and journals.
- Materials Research Society (MRS) Publications
- Plenum Publishing
Includes a searchable and browsable catalog of books and journals. Plenum is a major publisher of
Russian journals in translation.
- Prentice-Hall
Includes a browsable-by-subject catalog. See College Books/Math and
Science/Chemistry
- Royal Society of Chemistry Information Services
Includes a searchable catalog of RSC books and journals..
- Springer-Verlag (New York)
Includes an electronic journal preview service.
- VCH Publishing Group
Now a subsidiary of Wiley. Includes contact information for VCH and its
subsidiaries, online catalogs of books and journals, and electronic
tables of contents for a number of their journals.
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Author: Chuck Huber (huber@library.ucsb.edu). Last modified: September 21, 1998
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