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One-stop source for industry codes and standards from around the world; Techstreet is most valuable for its comprehensive coverage of technical and engineering standards published by ANSI and other organizations. Many standards can be purchased and downloaded online. Techstreet also indexes books, software products, physical property data, and free engineering trade magazines.

Part of the Mental Measurements Yearbook, Tests in Print is produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
Licensed Number of Users (USM): 4

Directory of over 170,000 manufacturing companies in the United States and Canada. Includes over 70,000 product listings. The directory may be searched by company name, product or brand name. Requires free registration for access

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases, 1965 – present.
Coverage: Varies

Contains citations and abstracts for books, journal articles, and technical reports in all areas of transportation research. Search by author, title and subject. Produced by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science.
Coverage: 1960s +

Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.
Licensed Number of Users: 3
Coverage: 1999-

Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis as a result of retrospective conversion. UNBISnet also provides instant access to a growing number of full text resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward. Voting records, and index to speeches.
Coverage: 1979-

A data access system to UN databases ... pooling major UN databases and those of several international into one single internet environment. The innovative design allows a user to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search ... The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators

Directory of web pages to United States state legislatures, constitutions, statutes, session laws, codes and regulations. Text Only Version.
Coverage: Current

Find contact information for US and State elected officials, agencies, and more.

USA.gov is the official web portal of the U.S. government, but also provides organized access to state, local and tribal government sites. It gives answers to frequent questions from citizens, businesses and nonprofits, government employees, and visitors, including: government auctions, applying for government jobs or benefits.

For patents from 1976 to the present it provides searching by classification system, title and abstract words, inventor and company name and many other fields. For patents prior to 1976 you must search by patent number or the classification system. There is no searching by inventor or title for the older patents.
Coverage: From 1790

TESS contains more than 3 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.

The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Online titles include: The Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line Investment Survey – Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line Daily Options Survey, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Convertibles Survey, and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Value Line Research Center is available in Maine academic institutions. Updated daily.
Licensed Number of Users: 6

Index to and full text coverage of the nation's leading business daily from 1984.
Coverage: Coverage from 1984

Index to and full text coverage of the Washington Post from 1987 to the present. Coverage of national, international, and local news.

ISI Web of Knowledge provides cross searching for Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index), Biosis Previews, and a number of external free databases (including PubMed, Agricola, ERIC, NTIS, POPLINE, Civil Engineering Database, NASA Astrophysics Datasystem, and arXiv). ISI Web of Knowledge provides links to the ISI tools Journal Citation Reports, Citation Alerts, and EndNote Web, as well as selected free resources.

Provides access to the Science Citation Index® (1900 to present), Social Sciences Citation Index® (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™ (1975-present). Covers current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. 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.
Coverage: 2000+

Includes over 345,000 citations to the literature on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians found in journals, conference proceedings, monographs, theses and dissertations, and government reports. Database includes Wildlife Review Abstracts, which was published through 1995 by the National Biological Service. Searching is by keyword, subject, and author as well as by taxonomic and geographic identifiers. Abstracts are available for publications added to the database since September 1996. 8,000 records added annually. Updated quarterly.
Licensed Number of Users: 5
Coverage: 1935 to the present.

Wiley Online Library publishes more than 1,700 peer-reviewed journals from Wiley and Blackwell in the life and physical sciences, medicine and allied health, engineering, humanities and social sciences. Many of the titles are published for academic and professional societies. University of Southern Maine has access to most, but not all, journal titles from Wiley.