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IEEE Xplore
Complete full-text access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) - journals and magazines, transactions, conference proceedings and active IEEE standards. These publications are relevant to many disciplines, including electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, sensors, energy, aerospace, communications, nanotechnology and information technology.
EI Compendex
Ei Compendex provides citations to global engineering literature across 190 engineering disciplines.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a platform for full-text journals, e-books, and references from the publisher Elsevier.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines to uncover information relevant to their research.
Google Scholar (UM)
Coverage undefined, but good to check.
To get the most full text, go to the Menu bar in the upper left, click on Settings, then click on Library Links. Choose University of Maine - Full Text. Contains harder to spot empirical articles.

The CRC Electrical Engineering Handbook Series
This link will take you to the LibrarySearch results for all items in this series owned by Fogler. Fogler Library keeps its most recent editions in the Science & Engineering Reference Collection. Older editions of some titles are available for checkout in the stacks. Some are available online.
R.S. Means Cost Data and Estimating Methods Handbooks
Fogler Library keeps its most recent editions in the Science & Engineering Reference Collection. Older editions of some titles are available for checkout in the stacks. The link will take you to the LibrarySearch results for the most recent editions of each title owned by Fogler.
ASHRAE Handbooks
Fogler Library keeps its most recent editions in the Science & Engineering Reference Collection. Older editions are available for checkout in the stacks. The link will take you to the LibrarySearch results for the most recent editions owned by Fogler.

DOE Data Explorer
Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The DOE Data Explorer provides access both to collections and to individual datasets that have been submitted to OSTI by their creator, by a DOE National Laboratory, or by a DOE Data Center
Statistical Data Sources Guide
Lists sources for finding statistical data, plus some general-use statistical methods handbooks.

National Technical Reports Library
The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. Technical reports and documents in its repository may be available online for free either from the issuing federal agency, the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Federal Digital System website, or through search engines.

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA's technical literature from 1915-present, providing access to approximately 500K aerospace related citations, 90K full-text online documents, and 111K images and videos. The type of information found in NTRS includes: conference papers, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Publications
Search the database for NREL-developed publications from 1977 to the present on subjects related to renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies. The database includes both technical and nontechnical publications. Many publications are available electronically as Adobe Acrobat PDFs or through the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) link.

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Proxy Bookmarklet
When Fogler Library pays for content this can push you past a paywall.
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Interlibrary Loan
Can deliver electronic articles we don't subscrtibe to within a day or two.

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