Manufacturing

Databases: find journal articles, technical reports, standards, etc.

• Academic Search Premier. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
• Business Source Premier. Provides full text for over 2500 business journals.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Scientific and Technical Information Network. Access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
• 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 (Formerly UnCover). Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• MasterFILE Premier. 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.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.  
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Database. 1990 to present.
• National Standards Systems Network (NSSN).
• NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects, archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other relevant worldwide research. 
• Recent Advances in Manufacturing. . Covers over 500 journals.
• Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
• 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.
• TechStreet: Technical Information Superstore. Most comprehensive index for engineering standards. Also indexes books, materials physical property data, software and free professional trade magazines.
• U.S. Dept. of Energy. Scientific and Technical Information.
• U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Publications database. Full text is available.
• U.S. Patent Database.

Library Catalogs

• URSUS - University of Maine System catalog.  
• MaineCat - College, university, and major public libraries in Maine.  
• Library of Congress. Online catalog.
• British Library. Catalogue.
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Catalog.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• 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.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.
• Bartleby.com. Dictionaries, thesaurus, quotations, etc.
• Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus in one resource with good science and technology coverage. Nobel and science awards page. 

Patents

• Patent and Trademark Depository Library at Fogler Library. Reviews information about searching the U.S. patent database and obtaining copies of patents. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site and databases are at: www.uspto.gov.
• European Patent Office. esp@cenet. Search EP, PCT, Japanese, and other worldwide patents.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). PatentScope Full Text Database. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) full-text, bibliographic data and image coverage from 1978 to present, over 1.4 million international patent applications indexed. International Patent Classification system. List of Patent Databases in Different Countries.

Educational Resources

• Discover engineering.
• Engineer Girl - For everyone with lots of links and information.
• Engineering your Future.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems. Great links to great resources for students, parents, teachers, etc. Sorted by categories and grade levels.
• Future Scientists & Engineers of America (FSEA).
• How Stuff Works.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Math/Science Network. Expanding Your Horizons.            
• National Engineers Week.
• Try Science. Sponsored by the New York Hall of Science.

Maine Resources

• Maine Business Works. This web site brings together business development resources for Maine.
• Maine Department of Economic and Community Development.
• Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
• Maine Technology Institute.
• River Valley Precision Manufacturing Incubator. Maine's Applied Technology Development Centers.

Government Agencies and Resources

• Fedstats.gov. Provides access to statistical information from over 100 U.S. government agencies.
• Navy Manufacturing Technology Program. MANTECH.
• NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory.
• NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
• Sandia National Laboratories. Science, Technology, and Engineering.
• Science.gov. Catalog of U.S. government science and technology web sites.
• U.S. Dept. of Defense. Manufacturing Technology Information Analysis Center (MTIAC).
• U.S. Dept. of Energy.  Office of Industrial Technologies.

Professional Societies

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers. (ASME)
• Association for Manufacturing Excellence.
• ASTM International.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society. (CPMT)
• Institute of Industrial Engineers. (IIE)
• National Association of Industrial Technology. (NAIT)
• National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
• National Center for Manufacturing Sciences. (NCMS)
• National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing. (NACFAM)
• National Shipbuilding Research Program. (NSRP)
• National Tooling and Machining Association. (NTMA)
• Robotic Industries Association (RIA)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers. (SME)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE). A not-for-profit educational and service organization that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women.

Company Directories

• Building Materials by McGraw-Hill Sweet's. Construction industry marketplace that lists close to 60,000 products.
• GlobalSpec.com.
• Hoover's Online.The business information authority.
• IQS Directory. Industrial Quick Search Manufacturer Directory.
• ManufacuringNet.The manufacturing marketplace
• ThomasNet Register.Lists over 173,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers.
• Thomas Global Register Europe. European industrial buying guide.
• Yahoo Business directories and yellow pages.

Internet Resources

• Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP).
• Calculator's Online Center: Engineering. Martindale.
• Cool Companies. cutting pollution and saving money using energy efficient technology.
• Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
• Engineers Edge. contains design and technical data, equations, current news, job announcements, links to free trade journals.
• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS).
• Machinery Manuals Online: includes maintenance, service and operating manuals, etc.
• Maintenance Resources.com.
• ManufacturingNet. The manufacturing marketplace
• Nanotechnology Now. Background articles, glossary, news digest, etc.

Internet Directories

• Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.

Updated: 11/16/2009
by Martin Wallace