Fogler Guide to Spatial Information Science
& Engineering
The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library
or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information
related to Spatial Information Science & Engineering, please contact the
Science and Engineering Center at 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our
Ask a
Librarian service.
Many databases can be useful to find citations for journal
articles and technical reports related to spatial engineering. search URSUS by
journal title to determine if Fogler Library owns a journal of interest. See also
the GIS
Journalsinformation page for a listing of journals that are
available through Fogler Library or available freely over the Internet.
IEEE Xplore & IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). Complete full-text
access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). Includes over 160 journals
published by the IEEE and IET, transactions, conference proceedings and
active IEEE standards. Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and
conference proceedings and further back to 1913 for selected publications.
Offers an alerting service, saved searches, and other valuable Web 2.0
capabilities for users who register for free personal accounts.
INSPEC. Coverage is 1969 - Present. Provides worldwide coverage of the
research literature for the fields of physics, electrical engineering,
electronics, computer hardware and software, control engineering and
information technology. It is produced by the Institution of
Electrical Engineers, Great Britain. Literature is reviewed from over
3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings each year. Database is
updated weekly. Searching in combination with Compendex is recommended and
utilize the "Remove Duplicates" feature.
Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best
multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering
journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to
obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes:
author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the
abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference
title). Compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also
provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards
database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy located at Sci Index
TA1.E6, 1884 - 1995.
Web
of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version
of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and
Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for
bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most
important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been
cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals
but do not include technical reports, conference papers or
theses.
Academic
Search Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over
3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering,
and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more
comprehensive search, search Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose
Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
AGRICOLA. Coverage is 1978 - Present. An electronic database with records
for articles, technical reports, and book chapters on all aspects of agriculture and
allied disciplines, including agricultural economics, and GIS analysis. (Non-UMaine users may want to use the AGRICOLA database at the National Agricultural Library website. )
ASCE Research Library. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. The ASCE Research Library is a
full text database that covers 1995 to the present of ASCE journals and
proceedings. The Civil Engineering Database covers ASCE documents published
1970
to present. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings,
books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. A unique
feature of the database is that it links discussions, closures, and erratas
back to the original records. For coverage prior to 1970, use the
"Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications," 1950 - 1979. Print copy at Sci Index TA1.A53.
Business
Source Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is
back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed
company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies
Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
Citidel. Computing and
Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. Guide to
internet tools and research resources developed by a university consortium.
CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer
Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison,
learning, speech, neural networks). Access is provided by browsing a subject
category or searching by keyword. Full text of the cited references is
available.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. A collection of bibliographies on
subjects such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer graphics, etc.
maintained by researchers worldwide. Journal articles, conference papers, and
technical reports are listed. Some links to the online fulltext.
Computing Research
Respository (CoRR). This service is sponsored by the ACM,
arXiv.org, NCSTRL and AAAI. This is a database of preprints in
computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting
preprints are provided. These preprints are not referreed.
CountryWatch Country Reviews. Accessible as a subset of
Business Source Premier. Two pages of navigation links (A-Macedonia;
Madagascar-Z) take you to tables of contents for all editions of Country
Reviews of 191 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. These online
publications in pdf format include demographic, political, economic,
business, cultural and environmental information, updated annually within
the Business Source Premier database. For further information please
contact Stephen Fadel email stephen.fadel@umit.maine.edu or call
207-581-3610.
Digital
Dissertations Indexes
dissertations and theses written by graduates of North American and European
universities. The complete text of dissertations written at the University of
Maine after 1996 is included.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free scholarly
journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also
provides access by broad subject areas.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added
into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in
full text.
Ecology
Abstracts. Coverage is 1982 - present. Indexes
the broad area of the interactions of organisms with their environment.
Includes information on conservation, pollution, ecosystem management, and
GIS.
EECS Technical Reports. A searchable database of computer science technical
reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are
available in full text.
Energy
Citations Database. Coverage is 1948 - Present. Contains
bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical
reports and papers sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its
predecessor agencies. It provides coverage of traditional and alternative
forms of energy production and conservation. Contains many
citations to GIS related projects.
Environmental
Engineering Abstracts. Coverage is 1990 -
Present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The focus
of this database is engineering aspects of air and water quality,
environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals
are covered and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and
conference proceedings. Also indexes evaluated internet sites.
Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management Produced by Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts. Provides access to several databases at
once: Agricultural & environmental biotechnology abstracts (1993-present); AFSA Aquatic pollution
& environmental quality (1990-present); Ecology abstracts
(1982-present); EIS Digests of environmental impact statements
(1985-present); Environmental engineering abstracts (1990-present); Health
& safety sciences abstracts (1981-present); Industrial & applied
microbiology abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982-present); Bacteriology
abstracts (Microbiology B) (1982-present); Pollution abstracts
(1981-present); Risk abstracts (1990-present); Toxicology abstracts
(1981-present); Water resources abstracts (1967-present). Helpful to
search all the files at once. Also indexes evaluated internet sites.
ESRI Virtual
Campus: GIS education and training on the web. This database
contains over 17,500 references to GIS research information for 1991 to
present. Very comprehensive. Contains links to online journals
and magazines and the table of contents and abstracts for many conference
proceedings. Some conference proceedings have the full text
available.
Forest
Products Abstracts. current 10 years online. Index to all aspects of the
forest products literature including wood properties, timber extraction and
damage, composites and laminates, pulp industry, and business issues. This
databases is updated bi-monthly and indexes over 450 journals. Print index located at Sci
Index SD 430 F66.
Georef. Coverage: 1785+ for North America and 1933+ for the rest of the world. Produced by the American Geological Institute,
it covers geology and related disciplines including: geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, mineralogy, and paleontology. Indexes over 3,500 journals as well as books, reports, theses and dissertations, maps, and conference proceedings and corresponds to the following print indexes: Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Updated monthly.
Print copy located at Sci Index QE1.G2145
Google
Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes
scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar
includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results
based on their relevance criteria.
Ingenta. A multidisciplinary database
containing citations and some abstracts for articles in over 17,000 journals from
1988-present. Access is only really available by title words and
author. Valuable because of the wide multidisciplinary coverage.
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science. WWW Database. PARTIAL
FULL TEXT DATABASE. Freely available on
the web and allows searching and provides abstracts for volume 500 of the
series to the present. Also we have a subscription to
Springer-Verlag
Link searching service. Allows access to full text papers from
Lecture Notes in Computer Science and searching by author, title, abstract
keywords, conference title, etc. First time login requires User-ID: roj575uj
Password: qvh706ye
MasterFILE
Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 1,830 general
reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text
extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is
available for an additional 1,000 journals.
MathSciNet. Coverage is 1940 - Present. Searchable database of citations and
abstracts of mathematical journal articles and books. It also includes
full-text reviews of many of the articles. This is the electronic
version of Mathematical Reviews (Sci Index QA 1 M7) and Current
Mathematical Publications (shelved in Sci Periodicals).
MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
National Standards
Systems Network (NSSN). Searchable bibliographic database of thousands of
industrial standards and specifications and links to many standards-issuing
organizations.
NASA
Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects,
archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other
relevant worldwide research.
Oceanic
abstracts. 1981-present online. Material covered includes
ecology, environmental protection, and marine pollution. Over 3,500 journals
and other resources including conference proceedings and technical reports
are indexed.
Pollution
Abstracts. 1981 - present. Presented by Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts this resources covers air, water, land and noise pollution. Industry pollution problems and solutions are covered. Updated
monthly.
Rural
Development Abstracts. Part of the CABDirect Package. Use
the advanced search option to restrict to the Rural Development subset only.
Indexes journals as well as books, reports, and conference proceedings.
Updated weekly.
Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
Science.gov. New improved gateway to
U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are
collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked
order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700
web sites.
Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index
Q1.A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you
to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles
that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how
to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online
access is available through
Web
of Science.Coverage is 1900 to present.
ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect
interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for
full text searching and across a variety of databases.
Scitopia.
Search over 3.5 million science and technology documents, technical reports, and
patents from Esp@cent, Japan Patent Office, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office.
Spatial Odyssey. This database includes a
list of GIS journals
with information on which indexes cover each; searchable tables of contents for conference
proceedings and monographs in GIS, 1991-1997; and searchable full-text contents of
selected GIS conference proceedings (1994 only).
SPIN:
Searchable Physics Information Notices. A bibliographic database
published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks
with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also
includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical
Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
Transportation
Research Information Service(TRIS).
The Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) database is the
largest online bibliographic database of transportation research. TRIS
contains more than 750,000 citations and abstracts of books, journal
articles, conference papers and technical reports covering all modes and
disciplines of transportation. There are links provided when the
full text document is available on the internet. Searchable fields include
keyword, author, title, agency, conference and subject. TRIS is produced and
maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
with sponsorship by state Departments of Transportation and the
administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors
of TRB’s core technical activities. A
Transportation
Research Thesaurus
is available to download and provide guidance on
searching TRIS. Also be sure to see the Help page for valuable
search tips.
Virtual
Technical Reports Center.Maintained by the University of
Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text
and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.
Water
Resources Abstracts. Index to international
scientific literature on all aspects of water resource issues. Includes
abstracts of journal articles, monographs, technical reports, books, and
conference proceedings. Updated quarterly.
Coverage is 1967 to the present.
MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
New York Times Article Archive. 1851− present. Full text of articles can be purchased online or use the microfilm collection in Fogler Library.
News
on the Web - Archive. Provides links to U.S. and international
newspaper archives that are searchable. Also has links to TV and radio
broadcast archives.
ProQuest
Newspapers. Full text of more than 500 U.S.
and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news
sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers
included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and
selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine
Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
SciCentral. Gateway to the best
scientific and engineerting research news sources
URSUS- University of Maine System
catalog. Use the Request function to request items from other
campuses. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
MaineCat - College and
university libraries in Maine. Use the Request function to request
items from other libraries. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
WorldCat. International catalog containing the holdings of over 8,000 libraries.
GIS
WWW Resource List. University of Edinburgh and the Association for
Geographic Information maintain this site. Lists software, societies,
journals, map and statistical databases and corporate web sites.
Access
Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science
& Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. 31st ed. CRC
Press, 2003. (Sci
Ref QA47.C17 2003)
Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. Wiley,
2002. (Sci Ref GE45.S73E53 2002 vol. 1 - 4) Covers the use of
quantitative measurements in the analysis of environmental phenomena and
problems.
The water encyclopedia : hydrologic data and Internet resources / edited
by Pedro Fierro, Jr., Evan K. Nyer; CRC/Taylor & Francis. (SciRef
TC403 .W38 2007)
Several kinds of Library resources are informally
referred to by the term "maps" including: sheet maps, nautical charts, atlases
and globes, each of which represents a different format compiled for a specific
purpose. The Library's collection includes maps from the United States federal
and state and Canadian federal and provincial governments, as well as those of
other foreign national governments, and intergovernmental and international
bodies, commercial organizations and scholarly societies.
Paper is no longer the sole medium, as maps and charts are available in
microform, CD-ROM, and DVD. Also, via video and other visual media, maps may
sometimes include motion, development and web links. Much geographic coverage
is now available in various new formats including orthophotoquad, false color,
geomagnetic and infrared, blurring the lines between conventional maps and
aerial photographs or computer plots.
Fogler Library has about 85,000 sheet and folded maps, 3000 atlases of various
kinds, and an estimated 200,000 maps enclosed within publications. Physical
locations include the Map Area on the first floor, the closed stack areas of the
Special Collections and the Government Publications, Maps, GIS & Microforms
Departments. Further, thousands of maps not on the premises are accessible
online via links in URSUS and web search engines. Inquire at the Reference Desk
for assistance.
Cartographic
Boundary Files. From the U.S. Census Bureau. Files from the
2000 census containing congressional districts, school districts, urban
areas, etc. Files are for use with GIS systems.
GeoData.gov. Federal, state
and local geographic data. Provided through the cooperative program
called Geospatial One-Stop. Managed by the Dept. of Interior.
GEO Data Portal. Produced
by the United Nations Environment Programme. (UNEP) Authoritative
source for data sets used by UNEP in their reports.
National Snow and Ice Data Center. National
information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research.
They archive and distribute digital and analog snow and ice data.
National Transportation
Library. Maintain access to statistical and other information needed for
transportation decision-making at the Federal, State, and local levels and
to coordinate with public and private transportation libraries and
information providers to improve information sharing among the
transportation community. A service of the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
PANGAEA is a
public data library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing geocoded
data with special emphasis on environmental, marine and geological research.
Land Surveyor Reference Page. A collection of links to Web sites and full-text articles, including links to all state
surveyor associations and licensing boards.
Remote Sensing and
Image Analysis. This is a textbook created by faculty at the
University of California, Berkeley. Also contains a list of remote
sensing web sites.
Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages
including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials
are extensive.
National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
Federal Geographic Data Committee. This is a 19 member interagency committee that is developing the National
Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies,
standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and
share geographic data. See their list of Clearinghouse
participants.
Society of Women
Engineers (SWE). A not-for-profit educational and service
organization that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career
aspiration for women.
Dictionary of Canadian
Biography Online. This first phase presents persons who died
between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls
within these years. Contains many mathematicians and scientists.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (Sci Ref Q141.D5)
World of Scientific
Biography. (Eric Weisstein's). Interactive encyclopedia listing
over 250 important researchers in mathematics. Links to information
about their contributions.
Web sites that describe the engineering profession, link to college and university web sites, and that provide guidance on choosing a major field of
study.
