Core Databases
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Full-text scholarly journal articles. - PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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Human factors/psychological scholarly research - Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Searchable access to doctoral and master's final papers. - AIAA Aerospace Research Central This link opens in a new window
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Full-text AIAA books, papers and journals in aviation and aerospace. - CRCnetBASE (now part of Taylor & Francis) This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to human factors- and ergonomics-related books. CRCnetBase content is now available in Taylor & Francis eBooks. - Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, accident reports, case studies, lectures and interviews on engineering failures and successes.
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Engineering publications from McGraw-Hill.
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowFull-text archive of biomedical and life science journal literature at the NIH/Nat’l Library of Medicine.
- SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals (human factors, ergonomics, etc.).
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Other Useful Databases
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text access to all IEEE journals, magazines, conference proceedings, transactions, and standards - Jane's All The World's Aircraft (IHS) This link opens in a new window
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All the World's Aircraft modules: In Service, Development & Production, and Unmanned are available under the Products Menu (on right) under "View All." - Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
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Includes news articles, legal cases, and company information. - Proquest One Academic This link opens in a new windowProQuest One Academic includes these collections: ProQuest Central, Academic Video Online, Academic Complete, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
- United States Census Bureau Census Data This link opens in a new window
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Demographic and economic statistics. Search by geography down to the local level, including cities and towns and census designated places. View detailed race, age and gender breakdowns, and compare communities - United States Census Bureau QuickFacts This link opens in a new window
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Facts about people, business, and geography. Provides profiles for the nation, states, counties, and places.
Databases or Websites?
Databases
- 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 accessable.
- 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).