Information Technology Division
George C. Gordon Library

Databases by Subject - Energy

See also Environment, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering.

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Academic OneFile

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Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included 1980- Y
MBLC
ACS Journals Search

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Full text and search access to American Chemical Society journals.Titles Included 1879- Y
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Blackwell Synergy

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Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included | Search Help 1879- Y
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EBSCOhost Business Source Premier

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Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included | Other Sources | Tutorial 1922- Y
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Encyclopedia of Energy

Entries by scholars on all aspects of energy, from Basics of Energy; Energy Flows; Conservation and End Use; Renewable and Alternative Sources; Nuclear Energy; Sustainable Development; and more. 2004 Y
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Contains entries written by experts in their specialties and reviewed by authorities on renewable and alternative energy sources, global climate change and carbon control, sustainable buildings and green development and many more important topics in this field. 2007 Y
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Engineering Village

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Abstracts from Compendex and INSPEC databases, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.Search Tips - Y
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ETDEWEB

Energy Technology Data Exchange includes information on the environmental impact of energy production and use. Requires free account unless you are within the WPI IP range. Search Tips 1995- Y
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Google Scholar

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Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities. Varies Y
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WPI

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Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included | Search Tips 1800s- Y
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Knovel

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Collection of 900+ science and engineering handbooks. Titles Included | Search Tips Current Y
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Searches R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Varies N
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ScienceDirect

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Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips | Tutorial Varies Y
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Scitation

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Search abstracts of several journals from American Physical Society (APS), and science and engineering societies. Search Tips 1957- Y
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SpringerLink

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Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included Varies Y
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