descriptions: engineering & science      
  article indexes:
    

  
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts

Starting date: 1983 (1994 for abstracts).
Updated monthly.
Availability: campuswide.

  

    

  
Covers scientific and technical publications, including trade and industrial publications, and journals of professional and technical societies.

For a list of the titles indexed, click here.

For references to material published from 1913-1983, see Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective.
  

 

  
Applied Science & Technology
Index Retrospective

Dates: 1913-1983.
Availability: campuswide.

  

 

  
Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983), offering unique coverage of business and industry up through 1957.

For a list of the titles indexed, click here.

For more recent information, see Applied Science & Technology Abstracts.
  

 

  
Compendex on Engineering Village


Starting date: 1969.
Updated weekly.
Availability: campuswide.
  

  

  
Covers the disciplines of engineering, applied physics, electronics, optical technologies, and other areas of significant technology. Contains citations and abstracts from journals, technical reports, books, proceedings, and conference papers.

Corresponds to the printed Engineering Index.
  

 

  
IEEE Xplore

Starting date: 1988
Also includes select content from 1913-1987.
Availability: campuswide.
  

  

  
Includes full-text articles from the All Society Periodicals Package (ASPP), journals and magazines from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Conferences and standards are searchable, but full text is not included.

See also the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library for materials from 1988-1999.
  

 

  
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Dates: 1988 - 1999
Availability: Standalone workstation in the back of the Library's main reading room.
  

     
Journal articles and conference proceedings from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), as well as IEEE Standards.

For current articles, see IEEE Xplore.
  
    
SciFinder Scholar
(with Chemical Abstracts)


Starting dates vary. See http://www.cas.org/expertise/cascontent/ataglance/index.html

Journal article references: 1907, with some pre-1907 content.
Substance information: 1957, with some from early 1900s.
Chemical reactions: 1840.

Availability: Library, Chemistry Lab,
Cooper Union Computer Center.
 
 

  
References from nearly 9,500 currently published journals and patents from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities; the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information; more than 13 million single- and multi-step reactions; more than 1 billion predicted and experimental properties; the CAS REGISTRY(SM) database.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • Use of SciFinder Scholar at The Cooper Union is restricted to students, faculty, and staff of The Cooper Union.
  • The license agreement allows for only one simultaneous connect at The Cooper Union.
  • Access to this database requires the installation of a proprietary client application. (There is no direct link on the Library Web site.) For more information, contact Julie Castelluzzo, Electronic Services Librarian.
 
MEDLINE on FirstSearch

Starting date: 1966.
Updated monthly.

Availability: campuswide.
 
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains citations and abstracts from current biomedical journals.
  
 

  
PubMed (MEDLINE and more)

Starting date: 1951.
Updated monthly.

Availability: public.

  

    
Direct from the National Library of Medicine. Includes MEDLINE (see above description) and OLDMEDLINE (1951-1965), as well as the out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
 

  
Health Reference Center-Academic

Starting date: 1980
Updated daily.

Availability: campuswide.

  

  
Consumer and professional health information from respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines, newsletters and pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overview; and reference books. Includes some full text and images.

For a list of titles indexed, click here.
  

  descriptions: engineering & science       
  e-journals / e-texts:
    
Open J-Gate
  
Starting dates vary.
Availability: public.

  

 
An electronic gateway to global journal literature in the open access domain, including over 4,400 journal titles. Browse the journal list here.
    
ASCE Online Journals   
  
Starting date: 1993
Availability: campuswide.

  

 
Online editions of the publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers, including
Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Journal of Architectural Engineering, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Energy Engineering, Journal of Environmental Engineering and many more.
 
ASME Digital Library (Journals)

Starting dates and updates vary

Availability: campuswide.
 
  
  

  
Online editions of the publications of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, including Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Journal of Heat Transfer and many more.
  

 
(ASME) Mechanical Engineering

Starting date: 1993

Availability: campuswide.
 
  
    
Browse issues or search using the EBSCOhost interface. Includes HTML and PDF full text articles.
 


AIChE Journal

(AIChE) Environmental Progress

(AIChE) Process Safety Progress

Starting date: 2004
Availability: campuswide.
  

 
Online journals published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

For earlier issues, and for other publications from AIChE, see our print collection.
 
Water Environment Research

Starting date: 2005 for full text,
2000 for abstracts

Availability: campuswide.
  
 
Online journal published by the Water Environment Federation.
 
Knovel: Engineering & Scientific
Online References


Starting dates and updates vary

Availability: campuswide.

  
 
Offers the full text of over 800 titles in Engineering and Chemistry (and growing). Users can search by subject area, keyword or data parameters. Interactive data tables allow users to sort data and export data points or curves to a spreadsheet. The many titles include: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics; Lange's Handbook of Chemistry; Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook; Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.
          
       
  last updated October 8, 2008