Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County - Online Services
If you have a Cincinnati Public Library card, which is available free of
charge from any of its 40 branches, you can reach several databases of
interest to engineers. Link to CINCH
-Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County:
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choose Internet Resources
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then OCLC FirstSearch
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type your Cincinnati Public Library card number, and your pin number,
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then choose All Databases
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Of particular interest is:
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CAStudentEd - Chemical Abstracts Services's Student Edition, designed
for undergraduate students, indexes journals and abstracts over 200 of
the most widely held chemistry journals, as well as over 200,000 dissertations.
It covers 1967 to the present and is updated weekly.
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Other FirstSearch databases of interest to engineers include:
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BasicBIOSIS is a subset of BIOSIS Previews. It covers 96 major subject
areas such as biotechnology, bioengineering and ecology from 1988 to the
present and is updated weekly.
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EventLine provides global coverage of conventions and conference
from the present into the 21st century. You can search by subject, year,
location or type of event. The database is updated weekly.
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GEOBASE covers worldwide literature of geology, geography and ecology
from 1980 to the present. It includes journals, books, conference proceedings
and reports, It is updated monthly.
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MicrocompAbs - Microcomputer Abstracts covers popular and professional
literature on microcomputing in education, business and industry. Abstracts
of the reviews for software, hardware and books include manufacture or
publisher information and product price, and employ a 5 point grading system.
The index covers literature from 1989 to the present and is updated monthly.
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