ASM Handbooks Online

USCD now has access to the ASM Handbooks Online. The collection can be browsed or searched (use the Advanced Search option).

• Engineered Materials Handbook, Desk Edition
• Metals Handbook, Desk Edition
• ASM (Metals) Handbook: 21 volumes, including “Alloy Phase Diagrams,” “Fatigue and Structure,” and “Mechanical Testing and Evaluation.

Huygens Lands on Titan

Today, after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe has successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and safely landed on its surface. –Full Story

For details and updates on the Cassini-Huygens mission:

• European Space Agency

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• NASA

SIAM (math) and Wiley General Chemistry Backfiles

As of January 2005, UCSD now has access to LOCUS, the SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) journal archives, covering 1952/3-1996. That’s approximately 14,000 articles, about 285,000 pages, and more than 250,000 reference links for 17 journals.

The Wiley InterScience Chemistry Backfile Collection, launched in November 2004, contains more than 170 years of digitized back-issue content across 11 leading journal titles. The collection provides a backfile resource for core research across the discipline of chemistry, and includes full coverage, back to inaugural issues, of seminal titles, including the Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal für Praktische Chemie (now known as Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis), Helvetica Chimica Acta, and Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie.

All journal records in Roger and in Sage have been updated to reflect the years available to UC campuses.

Over 100 Years of Engineering & Physics Citations

COMPENDEX (Engineering Index) has a new location and archive back to 1884. Search COMPENDEX via Engineering Village and multiply your research results with cross-searching of CRC’s ENGnetBASE and 2 major patent databases.

The INSPEC (Science Abstracts) archive for the years 1898-1968 is available for research in physics, electronics, electrical engineering, computers and control engineering.
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Search Web of Science back to 1955

UCSD has purchased access to 20 additional years of the Web of Science database.
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