University of Dayton students, faculty and staff can access most electronic resources on or off-campus. For off-campus access, use your UD Porches username and password to authenticate.
Access journals, conference proceedings, and technical papers from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, supporting research in engineering and applied sciences.
This is the publishing platform of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and its publishing partners, including ASTM International. This platform provides access to ASME journals, ASTM journals, and ASTM e-books, including ASTM symposia papers, manuals, monographs, and technical reports. These cover a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Conference proceedings date back to 2008; journal papers date back to 1970; other publications date back to 1880.
Access engineering literature, including journals, conference papers, and technical reports across various engineering disciplines for research and innovation. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This resource is the premier database for professionals and researchers across all engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental, structural, and software. It includes hundreds of full-text engineering journals, magazines, and trade publications, plus books, conference papers, and more.
Provides access to American Chemical Society journals and publications, featuring peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, and news in chemistry and related fields.
As a division of the American Chemical Society, ACS Publications supports researchers through peer-reviewed journals, e-books, scientific programs, and the news magazine "Chemical & Engineering News." For reference, browse ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication, ACS In Focus, ACS Reagent Chemicals, ACS Symposium Series, Advances in Chemistry, and Medicinal Chemistry Reviews. Search journals focused on analytical, applied, biological, organic-inorganic, and physical sciences as well as materials science and engineering.
A comprehensive database offering access to standards, specifications, and technical documents from ASTM International, supporting research and compliance in materials and engineering.
Formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM International develops and delivers voluntary consensus standards to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence. ASTM Compass is the repository for industry standards and technical information produced by ASTM International. Content includes the Book of Standards, research reports, journals, manuals, monographs, technical papers and reports, data series, and market intelligence reports. It covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Topics covered include Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Guide for Sampling and Analysis, Metallography and Resinography, Testing of Metallic and Inorganic Coatings, Performance and Durability of Building Sealants, and more.
A research database providing access to chemical literature, including articles, patents, and chemical properties, supporting research and discovery in chemistry and related fields. New Users must register for an account with their UD email address.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is a source of chemical information. CAS SciFinder is the world's most current and relied on source for chemical substance information with authoritative details on chemical substances and their related chemical structures, chemical names, regulatory information, and properties, including CAS Registry Numbers. NOTE: New Users must register for an account with their UD email address. This database is for UD students, staff & faculty only. UDRI employees are not eligible to use this database.
Scholarly articles, reports, and other resources in environmental science, covering topics such as ecology, conservation, and sustainability. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This full-text database for environmental studies provides top environment journals and monographs and an environmental thesaurus. Topics covered include ecosystem ecology; energy; environmental law, policy, & technology; geography; marine & freshwater science; natural resources; pollution & waste management; renewable energy sources; the social impact of the environment; and urban planning.
Access resources on environmental topics, including articles, reports, and government documents on sustainability, ecology, and environmental impact. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This database provides an index of publications on the environmental impact of human activity. Subjects covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. GreenFile deals with connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines, such as agriculture, education, law, policy, health, and technology. It includes indexing, citations, and abstracts for scholarly journals, government sources, and general interest sources. A small amount of full-text content is included.
A search tool with a Google-like relevancy ranking to help you retrieve all types of scholarly research sources with one search. New look and functionality coming June 23.
This search tool lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search, simultaneously searching the UD catalog, OhioLINK catalog, and many of the online resources available through the University Libraries, in addition to institutional repositories and open-access resources. With UDiscover, you can access millions of journal articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, videos, and primary sources. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
A citation database with coverage in the physical and social sciences. Contains 150 million records.
This database indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, reports, and other formats. Its major subject areas include sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Users may search Web of Science Core Collection or any of the following databases: BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, Grants Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Preprint Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation index, SciELO Citation Index, and Zoological Record.
A collection of journal articles and book chapters published by Elsevier. Subjects include physical, health, life, and social sciences.
This collection of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, published by Elsevier, provides content in the fields of physical sciences & engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences & humanities. Browse narrower topics such as chemical engineering, computer science, mathematics, biochemistry, immunology, neuroscience, medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, economics, psychology, and more. All abstracts are available, but only subscribed content is full-text.