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Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni features business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
ASCE Library
The ASCE Library is an extensive resource for civil engineering research, with ASCE Journals, and hundreds of Conference Proceedings. ASCE Library provides online access to E-books and Standards.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Foundation Directory Online Professional provides information on U.S. grantmakers and their grants.
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.
EI Compendex
Ei Compendex provides citations to global engineering literature across 190 engineering disciplines.
Google Scholar (UM)
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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.

National Technical Reports Library
The National Technical Reports Library provides indexing to a collection of historical and current U.S. government-sponsored technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Subject coverage includes engineering, computer science, transportation, medicine, biology, energy, communications, agriculture, and more.

Bureau of Land Management Policy
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Manuals, Handbooks, Instruction Memorandum and Information Bulletins
National Geodetic Survey
Includes NOAA Technical Memorandums, NOAA Technical Reports, NOAA Manuals and NOAA Special Publications as well as historical publications.
United States Geological Survey (USGS) Library
U.S. Geological Survey Library is recognized as one of the world’s largest Earth and natural science libraries.
National Transportation Library
United States Coast Guard, NAVCEN, GPS Technical References
United States Army, Corps of Engineers

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