Many are fee-based; the library pays to license them.
Are available to registered members of the library.
Focus on a specific body of information (i.e. Aeronautics, Engineering)
May contain articles, books, gov documents, maps, technical reports.
Contain information written by professional writers and subject experts.
Websites
Are searched with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Ask.com
Are generally freely accessible.
Are available to anyone with an internet access.
May NOT be current, updated, or show no date at all.
Can cover any topic at all.
Contain information written by anyone (convicts, teachers, children, students, or psychopaths).
REMEMBER: Most instructors want information from databases first. If needed, use the Web to supplement your research (after making sure the Web sources are good).
Provides citations, abstracts and some full text articles to aeronautics, astronautics, computer & information technology, meteorology, communications and space sciences journal articles, conference proceedings, NASA documents, and technical reports.
To create a shareable link to a document, click the Copy URL button.
Journals, ebooks and papers published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Users can only view standards online in the HTML viewer. We do not have PDF access.
To create a shareable link to a document, copy the URL in the browser's address bar and use the Create Proxy Links tool to create an authenticated link.
Locates articles, theses, books, abstracts, court opinions, etc. from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other scholarly-focused web sites.
Provides full-text access to All the World's Aircraft, Aero-Engines, Airport Review, International Defense Review, News Module, and more.
Good to Know
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Search Tips
Click the Products tab at the right, then Air & Space. To narrow results filter under Publication/Section to see Jane's All the World's Aircraft, All the World's Aircraft: Development & Production, and All the World's Aircraft: In Service.
Use the Search box on the home page to search all of the database's content.
For help using and searching in the database, click the question mark symbol in the top center and click View Help.
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
To create a shareable link to a document, copy the URL in the browser's address bar and use the Create Proxy Links tool to create an authenticated link.
Provides complete (full text) access to the full compilation of papers published in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR Journal). TRB's journal contains technical papers peer-reviewed by TRB committee members. Included are selected papers from the TRB Annual Meetings, along with some papers from other sources and conferences.
Four core multi-disciplinary content sets - ProQuest Central articles, Academic Complete eBook Collection, Academic Video Online, and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global – can now be searched together.
To create a shareable link to a document, click the Copy URL button.
