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 ABI Inform
Primarily business and economics (management, finance and banking, accounting, trade, etc.), but includes journals from other fields as well, more than a third of which are available in fulltext. ABI Inform Global and Trade&Industry are included in the subscription. |
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ACM Digital Library
Information Technology:
- ACM Digital Library: all their publications available in full-text (journals, conference reports, newsletters, special interest groups)
- The Guide to Computing Literature: references to other - non-ACM - literature including dissertations and technical reports. |
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EI Compendex Plus
Electronic edition of the Engineering Index: Mechanical engineering, construction, electrical engineering, light and optics, computers, communication, applied physics, biotechnology, aviation and astronautics, etc. |
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Espacenet
Patents: Espacenet, the database of the European Patent Office, contains patent information (original documents including illustrations) from 72 countries and regions. |
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FIZ Technik - FHNW Zugang
Access to FIZ Technik databases for FHNW. |
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FIZ Technik - FHO Zugang
Acces for FHO to FIZ Technik database. |
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
The IEL contains the full-text articles of recent publications (from the beginning to the present) in the fields of electrical engineering and computer sciences published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET):
IEEE Transactions
IEEE Journals
IEEE Conference Proceedings
IEEE Standards
IET Journals |
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Inspec
Published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE): Physics, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology as well as interdisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Geophysics, Biomedical and Material Sciences. |
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Journal Citation Reports
Provides information on academic journals, such as the impact factor, as a measure to assess the significance of a publication. |
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LexisNexis - deutsche Suchoberfläche
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, Le Temps, Le Monde, Washington Post, The Economist) as well as country and company information. |
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LexisNexis - interface française
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, Le Temps, Le Monde, The Economist) as well as country and company information. |
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NZZ Online
Archive of the NZZ from 1993 to the present and the NZZ am Sonntag from 2002 to the present. |
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OECDiLibrary
The Swiss Fachhochschulen have a subscription to the OECD Statistics, Books & Periodicals, such as OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Economic Surveys, OECD Journal. |
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Perinorm
Information on important national and international norms.Please request user name and password in your library. |
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SpringerMaterials - The Landolt-Börnstein Database
Most important source for data in the fields of physics, chemistry and material science. Contains 91'000 documents with 165'000 chemical substances, 3'000 product characteristics and one million bibliographic references from scientific journals. |
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Web of Knowledge
Search interface for Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Under "additional resources" access to: ISI Highly-cited.com, BiologyBrowser, Index to Organism Names, etc. and the search engine "Thomson Scientific WebPlus". |
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Web of Science
Multidispiplinary database including the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index (with economics) and Arts&Humanities Citation Index (with architecture). Cited reference search. |
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Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Pure and applied mathematics (mechanics, physics, economics, biology, chemistry, information technology, communications, operations research, statistics, etc.) |
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| Reference books |
A Dictionary of Computing |
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A Dictionary of Physics |
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A Dictionary of Statistics |
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A Dictionary of the Internet |
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A Dictionary of Weights, Measures and Units |
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Brockhaus and Duden
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Brockhaus Duden. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Complete Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Internet Dictionary. |
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Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
Information about polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers and polymerization processes. |
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Enzyklopädie der Wirtschaftsinformatik
Encyclopedia for business informatics. This encyclopedia is still in the development stage. |
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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Information on chemical substances:
- properties, manufacturing and uses
- chemical engineering
- environmental and health issues |
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Oxford English Dictionary Online |
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Oxford Reference Online
Collection of reference works for specific subjects, such as sociology, chemistry, statistics. |
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PONS dictionaries
German - English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and vice versa. |
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Publicus
Swiss yearbook of public life. |
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Römpp Online
Chemistry reference (Accessible for HEVs, HEF, BFH, FHNW and ZHAW) |
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics |
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Ulrich's
Worldwide directory of available journals, series, yearbooks and newspapers. |
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| Statistics |
Swiss statistical encyclopaedia
Statistical tables and reports on the Swiss population, society, state, economy and environment. |
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Superweb
Contains data of the |
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COMPASS
Communication Portal for Accessing Social Statistics in Switzerland. |
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DARIS
Data and research information services for the social sciences. |
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Eurostat
Statistics of the EU member countries; cooperation with the OECD and UN as well as with Central and Eastern European countries, the former Soviet Union and Mediterranean countries. |
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OECD Statistics
Statistical databases of the OECD. |
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| Further links for «Engineering and IT» |
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arXiv
Preprint server at Cornell University (previously Los Alamos) with articles in physics, mathematics, IT, quantitative biology, statistics. |
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| ETHZ Research Database |
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CERN documents
900'000 bibliographic references and 360'000 full-text documents from CERN: preprints, articles, books, journals, photos, etc. |
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Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
Internet portal incl. cross search function for freely accessible e-journals created by a network of British universities. |
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TechXtra
Cross search of engineering and technology ressources on the internet. |
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Department of Energy: DOE InfoBridge
Bibliographical references and full-text research reports published by the US Department of Energy in teh fields of physics, chemistry, biology, environmental and material sciences, engineering, energy technology, etc. |
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ViFaTec - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Technik
Engineering website published by the TIB/UB (Technische Informationsbibliothek / Universitätsbibliothek Hannover) |
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Medical physics web
Website created by the Institute of Physics for the medical physics community (fundamental science, engineering and clinical applications). |
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