Engineering Databases
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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAcademic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos in all subjects.
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ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library This link opens in a new windowArticles from ACM journals and magazines back to the 1950s, plus conference proceedings and Guide to Computing Literature that has non-ACM journals, proceedings, and reports back to 1985.
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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost) -- 1983-present This link opens in a new windowCore journals and magazines in chemistry, energy, engineering, physics, etc.
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IEEE Xplore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE standards. Full coverage is back to 1988, with selected coverage back to 1893.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals that are mainly medical or scientific and indexing for additional journals. Most of the journals are published by Elsevier, but includes titles from 15 other scientific publishers as well.
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Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexes articles and analyzes citations from 20,000+ journals in the sciences and social sciences back to 1970, though some are as far back as 1788. Search this database in lieu of Web of Science.
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SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals that are mainly scientific and medical back to 1997 with indexing for additional journals, books, and protocols. Includes ebooks in the field of education.
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Patents and Trademarks
What are Patents and Trademarks?
A patent is a government license that gives the holder exclusive rights to a process, design, or new invention for a designated period of time. In the U.S. granting a patent means “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time.
A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark.
U.S. Patents
Worldwide Patents
Regulations and Standards
What are standards?
Standards are published documents created to ensure the reliability of the materials, products, methods, and/or services. They establish requirements, specifications, guidelines, characteristics, and/or procedures designed. Typically, they are developed through a consensus process and approved by various national and international agencies, professional societies, or industry organizations. Standards are the minimally accepted professional practice and/or quality that must be observed.
The EWU libraries may not have access to the standards that you need. However, what I suggest is that you use the WorldCat Catalog once you find your standard and then place an Interlibrary Loan request for it. Or you may contact me directly and I can see what I can do to get you access.
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United States Environmental Protection AgencyFull text of more than 7,000 archival and current EPA documents.
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FDA StandardsLink to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's standards, including standards for medical devices.
What are Regulations and Codes?
A regulation is a type of standard that has been mandated by law. Regulations specify legally obligated requirements that must be met under specific laws and implement general agency objectives. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Regulations are an example of this type of standard.