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55 titles of journals covers research on: chemistry; chemical engineering; food Science; environmental science; material science; energy & fuel; biochemistry & molecular biology; physical chemistry.
XJTLU Library has subscribed to the following contents in ACI: ACI Materials Journal, ACI Structural Journal, Symposium Volumes
Founded in 1904, ACI (American Concrete Institute) is a technical and educational society dedicated to improving the design, construction, maintenance and repair of concrete structures.
ACI has 30000 members and 93 technology and education associations in more than 30 countries. ACI made more than 400 relevant concrete technical documents, reports, guidelines, specification and standard. ACI Held more than 150 education conferences each year. There are 13 different concrete professional certification programs, in addition to academic programs to promote industrial development. Since 1906 ACI set standards and all standards were set by ANSI program. Draft standard can provide comments.
A full-text database of civil engineering research and practical publications, offering online access to technical and professional papers. The resource includes all ASCE journals with coverage from 1986 to present; and the complete ASCE conference papers published from 1996 to present.
Art & Architecture Complete is a leading database for the study of art and architecture, this database provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books.
AIAP collects more than 2500 journals covering the subjects of architecture, urban design, city planning, interior design and historic preservation. AIAP collects more than 2500 American and international journals and a total of more than 440000 records. Subjects mainly include architecture, urban design, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Other specials also provide the obituary citations of nearly 13000 architects, architectural historians and researchers. The database is updated weekly.
The CSD is the world’s repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Containing over one million structures from x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses, this unique database of accurate 3D structures has become an essential resource to scientists around the world.
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Compendex, the computerized version of the Engineering Index, is a bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing over 13.3 million records and references to over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented.
ICE Virtual Library is the online content platform for ICE Publishing. Patrons can benefit from its enhanced platform functionality with integrated search, user-friendly design, full text features, and a powerful search engine. The ICE Virtual Library hosts all of ICE Publishing's e-content, including over 1500 eBooks in 13 subject-specific collections, representing the most comprehensive eBook collection in the world.
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) includes Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers full series. All journals can be recounted to issues and the earliest can date back to year 1836.
NOTE: For most disciplines, you may access to the recent 5-year journal fulltexts.
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database of Elsevier. Journal coverage is back to the first volume for some titles in subjects- Business, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Social Science.
NOTE: Registration is required. You may use your account in Scifinder if you have already registered. Otherwise, please register using your XJTLU email address (e.g. @*.xjtlu.edu.cn) by clicking here. Refer to the PDF icon for the detailed registration URL and instruction for use.
SciFinder-n is a new generation of SciFinder. It offers easy ways to search all reactions, substances and references at once. Retrosynthesis planning(new function) is a computer-aided synthetic design tool that helps generating and organizing synthetic routes for a given molecule.
A series of informative webinars were designed to help you get the most out of SciFinder-n: https://www.cas.org/about/events/scifinder-webinars
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.
Web of Science provides access to the world’s leading citation databases, more than 10,000 academic Journals are selected to provide coverage of all fields of scholarly research. XJTLU's subscription includes Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E, 1900--present), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI, 1900--present), Art & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI, 1975--present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S, 1990--2018), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH, 1990--2018), etc.
As one of the world's largest and most comprehensive online multi-disciplinary resource platforms, Wiley Online Library covers a wide range of disciplines including life sciences, social sciences and humanities. It includes more than 1,500 journals, both in print and electronic. In addition, backfiles of 1100+ journal titles covering multiple subjects are accessible now. The content coverage is from starting year to1997. For full list, click the Excel icon.
World Scientific Publishing has established itself as one of the leading academic and professional publishers in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. World Scientific has published more than 12,000 titles. Many of its books are recommended texts adopted by renowned institutions such as Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Princeton University.
The CSD is the world’s repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Containing over one million structures from x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses, this unique database of accurate 3D structures has become an essential resource to scientists around the world.
Refer to the PDF to find detail information about CSD client download and webpage login guide.
Any queries about CSD please contact: Askalibrarian@xjtlu.edu.cn.
JoVE, is a peer reviewed scientific video journal, which publishes scientific research in a visual format to help researcher overcome two of biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today, poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.
Subscription includes: JoVE Biology, JoVE Science Education (General Lab Techniques, Basic Methods, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Biochemistry)
Material ConneXion is a database of innovative materials, including polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, metals, natural materials, and natural material derivatives. Includes high-quality graphic representations, technical information, and manufacturer information. Search by keyword, product name, manufacturer’s name, or Material ConneXion index number.
Reaxys has extensive coverage of quality, authoritative information in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Expert chemists carefully select facts from journals and patents so that only high-quality, experimental data are included in Reaxys.
NOTE: Registration is required. You may use your account in Scifinder if you have already registered. Otherwise, please register using your XJTLU email address (e.g. @*.xjtlu.edu.cn) by clicking here. Refer to the PDF icon for the detailed registration URL and instruction for use.
SciFinder-n is a new generation of SciFinder. It offers easy ways to search all reactions, substances and references at once. Retrosynthesis planning(new function) is a computer-aided synthetic design tool that helps generating and organizing synthetic routes for a given molecule.
A series of informative webinars were designed to help you get the most out of SciFinder-n: https://www.cas.org/about/events/scifinder-webinars
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