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Research and information literacy skills identified as essential for Engineering majors at Smith College.
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Points to collections of scientific research data prepared by or for the U. S. Department of Energy.
The EoE is a collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, practitioners and other experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
"A virtual library, INFOMINE is a...collection of [22,000] annotated and indexed links" to substantive databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, textbooks and conference proceedings created by UC Riverside Libraries
Provides critical annotations for over 16,000 newly discovered and past selections of Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
Provides access to over 80 scientific and technical databases that contain reference data and properties on a wide of substances.
Dirrectory and access to over 1,200 open access publication repositories.
A gateway to key Federal Government agencies that provide scientific and technical information.
Search across several databases in engineering, mathematics and computer science for articles, websites, books, news,
jobs, technical reports, dissertations and other material.
Government technical reports issued prior to 1975.
A federated search engine of national and international scientific databases maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Covers the development of emerging green technologies, drawing on newspapers, magazines & refereed journals; videos, podcasts & images; and case studies. Navigate by issue, organization & country portals.
Provides biographical information and the major publications of over 250 researchers whose papers are among the most highly cited in the sciences.

