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The AIAA Electronic Library contains more than four decades of technical information and documents on aerospace technology, engineering, science and the most important developments and research in air and space history. Searchable through the AIAA Electronic Library advanced search are: all the meeting papers from all the AIAA conference proceedings from 1963 onwards, AIAA journals contents and the IAC Archive.

Subjects covered include: Chemical engineering, Civil engineering & construction, Earth sciences & agriculture, Electrical engineering, Environmental engineering, Industrial management, Mechanical engineering, Medical/Biomedical engineering & pharmacology, Mining engineering & Metallurgy and Physics.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
EBSCO EDS is an online research tool that "pulls together" many external sources so that they can be explorer using a single search box . In other words, rather than searching several sources, you can do and EDS search and get a single list of results coming from various sources. In fact, you could think of EDS as the Library's version of Google.
EDS is available to all Library users on- and off-campus. Authentication with your ISU network ID will be required.

 

Search publications from IEEE, transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings.
 

IMecheE (Institution of Mechanical Engineers)

As publisher to the IMechE we have been publishing leading edge research content since 1847 and our current portfolio represents the best in mechanical engineering. The online search engine enables searching across 11 engineering databases to find books, journals and papers.

 

Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts to technical reports from NASA collections as well as external collections not maintained by NASA. Subjects covered include aeronautics, space science, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, and physics. Includes links to full text of reports available digitally in pdf or PostScript formats.

Science & Technology Collection is a foundational full-text science database. It provides scholarly journals covering an array of science subjects, including chemistry, biology, computer technology and physics.

 

Web Of Science is a citation index that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline.

(On-campus access)

Additional resources

ASCE Research Library
Online tool for locating articles and conference papers published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in all disciplines of civil engineering, including extraterrestrial environments.

Search engine for academic open access web resources. Contains records for more than 50 million documents and the majority is available in full-text.50 million documents from more than 2700 sources.

CRCnetBASE
Online tool for locating articles, book chapters, books and conferences published by CRC press covering disciplines like Biological science, biomedical science, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental engineering, science, general engineering, life science, material science, military science.

Topics cover: DISPAD tool, Master model interface, Sat'track interface, solar & geomagnetic activity data, ESA data on launch events, NASA satellite situation report, CSA bibliographic references, population statistics, SRM firing events, re-entry forecasting, object identification from observation.
(on-campus access)

This site is a university repository providing access to the publication output of the MIT.

Searches declassified Department of Defense and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related documents from the Defense Technical Information Center.

ECSS
The European Cooperation for Space Standardization is an initiative established to develop a coherent, single set of user-friendly standards for use in all European space activities.

Bibliographical databases which enables to search for academic and scientific articles or papers. Many are available in full-text.

Ingenta Connect offers access to over 4.5 million articles. 13,500 electronic publications can be accessed by subscription or pay-per-view. Multidisciplinary.

The Science and Technology Organization database has an abundance of technical reports covering various topics in aerospace. Includes reports sponsored by AGARD (Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and development). 

The NTIS Database contains summaries of scientific, technical, engineering, and business information products acquired by NTIS from 1964 to the present. The NTIS Database is updated on a weekly basis by NTIS. However, commercial vendor update schedules can vary. The NTIS Database combines unclassified input from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA, with that of numerous other government agencies, among which are the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of the Interior, to offer users a wide range of information resources. The full reports are available from NTIS for almost 90 percent of the titles announced on the database.
 

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers

(SUPAERO - ISAE) and makes it freely available over the web where possible. It can include articles, book chapters, reports, conference papers, etc.

PubSpace NASA-funded research results

NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. Beginning with research funded in 2016, all NASA-funded authors and co-authors (both civil servant and non-civil servant) will be required to deposit copies of their peer-reviewed scientific publications and associated data into NASA?s publication repository called NASA PubSpace.  This EXCLUDES patents, publications that contain material governed by personal privacy, export control, proprietary restrictions, or national security law or regulations.
 

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Digital Library provides access to thousands of SAE Technical Papers covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology.
 

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to 300,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. Approximately 18,000 research papers are added each year. SPIE eBooks includes over 130 monographs, reference books, tutorial texts, and field guides.
 

SpringerLink
 

All fields of engineering

The database currently features details of 301 Earth observing satellite missions and 843 instruments (423 distinct instruments, some being repeats), which are currently operating or planned for launch in the next 15 years - funded and operated by around 30 CEOS space agencies worldwide.
 

Info on Rockets, Launch Vehicles, Satellites, Astronauts.
 

This database began and most of the information has been collected during the European Commission FP7 NANOSAT project from 2013 to 2014.
 

NSSDC provides on-line information bases about NASA and non-NASA data as well as spacecraft and experiments that generate NASA space science data. NSSDC also provides information and support relative to data management standards and technologies.
 

NASA Technical Diagrams and Drawings 

This evolving series of diagrams should be especially interesting and useful for modelers and other space enthusiasts who want to see "blueprints" of various U.S. piloted spacecraft.
 

This webpage from the NTSB provides a description of the safety management issue in transportation and provides a list of related NTSB reports.
 

Satbeams.com is global Web 2.0 reference website that provides consolidated information about the Geostationary/Communications satellites, their technical details, coverage zones and frequency charts. At the same time Satbeams.com is also a powerful tool for antenna positioning that makes it helpful not only for the satellite professionals, communication companies, multiple government services, international and military organisations but also for the Sat-DX communities and broad audience of Sat-TV enthusiasts from all over the world. Satbeams.com has an advanced search functionality that allows to lookup satellites, beams, channels and locations on the maps in just a few seconds. In addition to that, registered users can also create RSS-feeds linked to satellite charts and personalize them in order to stay up-to-date with the latest news from Satbeams.com.
 

Categorized from A to Z and by Space Agency, there are over 600 in-depth articles of satellite missions from 1959 to 2020. The missions database can be filtered by a range of criteria using the Search Missions filter drop down menus below, enabling you to find specific missions easily.
 

Provided by the United States Strategic Command, this site includes orbital elements for just about every man-made object orbiting the earth, including debris. Free to use, but registration is required.
 

Contains summaries of system failures in all different industries.
 

Assembled by experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the Satellite Database is a listing of the more than 1000 operational satellites currently in orbit around Earth.