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Compendex Engineering Village 2 Premier engineering database, covering the core literature of the engineering field, including related specialties and technologies. PubMed (1947 - present) The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free MEDLINE database - the premier index to biomedicine covering 4800+ journals and indexing 19 million citations from 1947 - present. Web of Science Online access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Use for: citation analysis of research journals. IEEE Xplore Digital Library Primary full text database for Electrical and Electronics Engineering, containing journal articles, conference proceedings and standards. BIOSIS Previews Current life science information covering fields such as Agriculture, Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Ecology, Pre-Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pharmacology, Veterinary Sciences and Zoology. SportDiscus International database that covers all aspects of sport and fitness, including biomechanics and sports medicine SAE Digital Library Full-text Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Papers only from 1906 to the present. Also included are citations from IRCOBI, AAAM, STAPP, ANSI, ASTM, and many more - full text may be available at the Library. SPIE Digital Library Provides access to research on all topics of optics and photonics research published in SPIE journals and conference proceedings. COS Funding Opportunities A compiled database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Opportunity sponsors come from the public and private sector, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies, and corporations. RefWorks and RefShare - Citation Management Software RefWorks allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references and links from online databases and catalogues.
Look in the UBC Catalogue for books in print and ebooks. Also see the list below for some eBook collections.
ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online CRC Handbooks in Civil Engineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Metals and Materials Engineering. MATERIALSnetBASE Includes handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias that explain the theory, data, and processes shaping diverse materials applications. Covers from ceramics and textiles, to bioscience and pharmacology. SpringerLink Full-text online access to books and journals published by Springer. Knovel Basic Academic Online handbooks in science and engineering, particularly good for chemistry and related disciplines AccessMedicine AccessMedicine comprises approximately 40 e-books, including a clinical library (Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine and more) and the Lange Educational Library (LANGE Basic Science and LANGE CURRENT Clinical Science Series), as well as a USMLE self-assessment tool and more than 50 clinical cases. ASM Handbooks Online Provides online access to the complete ASM Handbook series including the multi-volume ASM Engineering Materials Handbook and ASM Metals Handbook. More UBC Library eBooks
cIRcle: UBC's Institutional Repository UBC theses and dissertations submitted after Fall 2007 are available in full text in cIRcle: UBC's Institutional Repository. A project is underway to digitize older UBC theses, starting with 1992. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text Searchable index of dissertations, some theses. The full text of dissertations and theses added to the database since 1997 are available to UBC users. UBC Library FAQ: Dissertations and Theses More information about locating theses and dissertations - OAI, WorldCat, Theses Canada, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) Project, On-line Database of Dissertations of China (DOC)(Abstracts) and more...
UBC Biomedical Engineering Information portal for UBC's Biomedical Engineering programs. UBC Medical Physics Research activities within UBC's Physics and Astronomy Department, including an MSc program in Medical Physics. CHBE: Biotechnology Research Biomedical research in UBC's Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society Canada's main association for biomedical engineering; affiliated with the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society The world's largest international society of biomedical engineers with over 8,000 members. BMES: Biomedical Engineering Society Another major biomedical association. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (US) Many full text papers on crash avoidance, crashworthiness, biomechanics and trauma.
