Subject Guides: Biological Systems Engineering

Engineering / Technical

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Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Applied Science (1983-) Find It Enabled, logo Covers more than 400 English language scholarly and trade journals in the general fields of engineering, computers, chemistry, applied mathematics, energy, and a wide variety of applied sciences
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. ASM Handbooks Online Find It Enabled, logo Searchable and fulltext contents for the 20 volume ASM handbook series. Has practical data and information about the selection, processing, performance, and analysis of structural materials. Wendt tips on using.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts(1982-) Find It Enabled, logo Covers research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents. It surveys biotechnological aspects of medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, the environment and marine biology.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. CAB Abstracts
(1972-)
Find It Enabled, logo Covers agricultural engineering, forest products, biofuels, dairy science and technology, irrigation and drainage, postharvest, animal and plant science production, and soil science and fertilizer technology. One of the best!
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Dissertation Database Options   Gets you to Current Research at UW-Madison as well as ProQuest Digital Dissertations 1861-.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Engineering Village (1884-)
Find It Enabled, logo Provides searchable access to multiple engineering databases through one interface. Databases include: Compendex (Engineering Index); INSPEC; ENGnetBASE, with over 160 handbooks; patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office; esp@cenet, the European Patent Organisation database: Scirus, a comprehensive science-specific web search engine; and daily news feeds from LexisNexis on a broad spectrum of engineering topics.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Environmental Engineering Abstracts (1990-)
Find It Enabled, logo Topic coverage includes international literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety and energy production.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. FSTA: Food Science and Technology Abstracts (1969-) Find It Enabled, logo Indexes journals, patents, standards, etc. in food technology. Includes fermentation and commodities technology, and food additives and engineering.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. GrayLit Network (1960-)   Portal to technical report information (and full-text documents) generated through federally funded research and development projects. Pulls information from DOE, DTIC, EPA and NASA.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. GEOBASE (geography) (1994-) Find It Enabled, logo Provides citations and abstracts to the scholarly literature of human and physical geography, geology and ecology.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. GeoRef (geology)
(1785-)
Find It Enabled, logo Supplies citations and abstracts to international earth sciences literature--including conferences, dissertations, guidebooks and maps.
Open to everyone. NASA Technical Report Server   Provides citations to NASA's technical literature, journal articles, and conference proceedings.
Technical Reports Database Options
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. NTIS Bibliographic Index (National Technical Information Service) (1983-)
Find It Enabled, logo Topic coverage includes U.S. government agency-sponsored research in astronomy, biotechnology, energy, engineering, environment, and materials science.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Web of Knowledge
(1982-)
Find It Enabled, logo Includes Science Citation Index. Can track important old papers to see who is currently citing them.
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Business / Economics

Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Business and Industry (1994-) citations/fulltext Find It Enabled, logo Business and trade journals from 190 countries. Has info on public and private companies, industries, products, new technologies, market size, and trends.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. EconLIT(1969-) Find It Enabled, logo Indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly periodicals and books in the field of economics.
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Natural Resources

Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Biological Abstracts (1980-) Find It Enabled, logo Topic coverage includes anatomy, bacteriology, biotechnology, clinical medicine, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, pharmacology, toxicology, virology, and zoology.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Ecology Abstracts (1982-) Find It Enabled, logo Provides bibliographic access to approximately 350 research journals in ecology.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Environmental Science & Pollution Mgmt.
(1981-)
Find It Enabled, logo Topic coverage includes pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Human Population & Natural Resource Management (1995-) Find It Enabled, logo Topic coverage includes human population dynamics, population statistics, poplulation policy, ecotourism, sustainable living, sustainable consumption, environmental awareness and environmental education.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Water Resources Abstracts (1967-) Find It Enabled, logo Provides access to international scientific and technical literature on water resource-related aspects of the physical, social, and life sciences.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Wildlife & Ecology Studies
(1935-)
Find It Enabled, logo Indexes and abstracts literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians from journals, monographs, conference proceedings, government reports, dissertations, field studies, and surveys from US state agencies.
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Newspapers / Popular Magazines

Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. Academic Search (1984-) Find It Enabled, logo Full text database of more than 3000 journals covering a broad range of material.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. ProQuest Newspapers Find It Enabled, logo Lists articles from 41 national and Wisconsin newspapers, and includes full text for most.
Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff. ProQuest Research Library (1988-) Find It Enabled, logo Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals, and provides the full text of nearly 1,000 of them.