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Subject Guide for Nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology is the science and engineering of creating materials, functional structures, and devices on a nanometer scale. One nanometer is equivalent to one thousandth of a micrometer, one millionth of a millimeter, and one billionth of a meter. (Adapted from Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology)

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Abstracts and Indexes to Academic or Scholarly Articles
Although many databases contain links to full-text articles, when you find book or article citations in the index databases, you need to search Chinook to see if University Libraries own that book or periodical title.

CU Biological Abstracts SilverPlatter Science Files
A comprehensive index and abstract for the life sciences, including plants, animals, microorganisms, and natural habits. Coverage: 1969 - present.

CU Biological Sciences Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Provides access to multiple biological databases, including Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, BioEngineering Abstracts, and ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts. Choose "Search Subfiles" to access components of the database. Coverage: varies.

CU Engineering Village 2—Compendex, INSPEC, and NTIS
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature. Contains references and abstracts to engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Subject areas include: chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications as well as civil and mechanical engineering. Includes links to full text when available. Coverage: 1884 - present.

INSPEC is a bibliographic database that indexes physics, astronomy and astrophysics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. The database contains full-text links when available. Coverage: 1898 - present.

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database from the U.S. Department of Commerce provides access to unclassified reports from influential U.S. and international government agencies. The database contains over two million critical citations from government departments such as NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense. Most items cited in this database are available in microfiche format in the Government Publications Library. Coverage: 1964-present. 

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PubMed: Medline
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on all aspects of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Includes links to full text when available. Subscription restrictions to full text may apply.Coverage: 1965 - present.

SciFinder Scholar
Software is available for download here.

The front-end software is also available in the Engineering, Earth Sciences, Math/Physics and Science Libraries. SciFinder Scholar provides access to journal articles and patents, substance data, chemical reactions, chemical regulatory data , and chemical suppliers. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information. Coverage: 1907-present.

 

Scitopia

This federated vertical search portal was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies. It searches the entire electronic libraries of these societies, including more than three million documents, peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site. Though the search is freely available, access to many documents requries authentication. Coverage varies.

 

CU SPIE Digital Library

Provides full text of articles published in the Proceedings of the SPIE and the society's journals from 1990 to the present.

CU Web of Science
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 5,700 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 164 disciplines. The database allows you to search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography) the database is often used to search for articlesthat cite a known author or work. Coverage: 1900 - present.

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Although many databases contain links to full-text articles, when you find book and article citations in the index databases, you need to search Chinook to see if University Libraries own that book or periodical title.

CU Applied Science and Technology Index
Indexes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1983 - present.

CU General Science Abstracts/Full Text
Abstracts popular and scholarly journals in the fields of Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, and Zoology. Coverage: May 1984 - present.

Dictionaries
These publications provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.

CU Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations

Directories

Nanotechweb.org Directory

Encyclopedias
These publications provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.

CU Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science & Technology

Dekker encyclopedia of nanoscience and nanotechnology
Engineering Library Reference T174.7 .D455 2004

 

CU Encyclopedia Of Polymer Science And Engineering

 

Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology: Concise Edition
Engineering Library Reference TA 418.9 N35 N35 2002

Handbooks and Manuals

CU ChemNetBase--CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and other tools available online.

 

CU EngNetBase--over 400 CRC handbooks online.
Available to campus IP addresses. Remote access information.

 

CU Knovel Library --Combines essential and authoritative reference books and databases from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Covers 17 industrially important subject areas in the fields of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.

 

Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology
Engineering Library Reference T174.7 S67 2004

 

Internet Links

InfoMine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Math

 

Science.gov

 

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

 

Nanotechweb.org

 

TechXtra: Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing

 

Scitopia

This federated vertical search portal was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies.

 

CU Refworks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

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