This is a collection of links to online databases of technical reports, preprints, articles, and citations that can be accessed by anyone. Registered Library patrons can get articles through submitting a research request or an interlibrary loan request. Library patrons are encouraged to subscribe to our Alert Services to get updates of new articles on specific topics.

Databases

AIAA Conference Papers - Brief records for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference papers, 1999 to present.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Publications - Includes books, meeting papers, journal papers, and standards. Many can be puchased online.

ArXiv - A repository of electronic preprints in the hard sciences.

Astrophysics Data System - Includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics/planetary sciences/solar physics, containing 674,411 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 605,446 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 1,073,145 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,902 abstracts. Also includes links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.

Air University Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) - Indexes significant articles from military and aeronautical periodicals from 1988 to present. No full-text, but includes links to some journal's websites.

Computational Sciences Division Papers and Publications Archive - searchable list of mostly full-text papers from Ames Research Center's Computational Sciences Division, 1998-present.

DoD Scientific and Technical Information Network - The public version of the Defense Technical Information Center's STINET database.

Electronic Preprints - Catalog of web sites offering electronic preprints of journal articles. Compiled by Goddard Space Flight Center Library.

FindArticles.com - "...a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals."

Google Scholar - Specialized search engine that searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. An Advanced Search option is also available.

HighWire Press - 317,940 free full-text articles as of 9/17/01. HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines.

IEEE Xplore - Browse tables of contents and access Abstract records of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings and standards. NASA HQ employees can request interlibrary of articles and conference papers by contacting the Library an interlibrary loan request. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Ingenta - Free searching of 20,000 journals from 1988 forward.

Kidon Media-Link - Links to Major Media around the globe.

Lexis-Nexis - A full-text database with articles from major newspapers, trade journals, and newswires. Also an excellent source for legal and legislative information. Request a search Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Medline/PubMed - A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. To search only space life sciences click on Limits and under Subsets select Space Life Sciences.

NASA Technical Report Server - The NTRS is a publicly accessible subset of the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database. Researchers should use the NASA Thesaurus to find the proper search terms

Science.Gov - A science portal of technical reports. Search multiple databases at once, a product of the Department of Energy (DOE).

Science Research Portal - A free, publically available web portal which searches thousands of high quality science journals and databases at one time.

Scitation - List of online journals hosted by the American Institute of Physics.

Space Future Papers & Publications - collection of conference papers and published articles on every aspect of space exploration. Many are available in full-text.

Virtual Technical Reports Center - lists institutions that offer full-text technical reports or searchable abstracts on the web (University of Maryland Libraries).