Biomedical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Engineering - General & Broad Interest Sites
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Environmental Engineering
- American Water Works Association (AWWA)
- Chemical Scorecard - access to EPA's
Toxic Release Inventory, rankings, etc.
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information
Network - CIESIN - specializes in global and regional network development, science data
management, decision support, and training, education and technical consultation services.
- Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing
- ENN - Environmental News Network
- EarthTrends - Environmental Information from World
Resources Institute
- Envirofacts Warehouse Website - access to select
U.S. EPA environmental data.
- EnviroLink Home Page - non-profit organization
providing comprehensive links to up-to-date environmental resources.
- Enviromapper (EPA) - maps
several types of environmental information, including drinking water, toxic air releases, hazardous
waste, water discharge permits, and Superfund sites.
- Environmental and Waste Technology Center -
Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Environmental Measurements Lab - provides
DOE and other federal agencies with responsive and objective sampling, measurement and
analysis of human exposure to radioactivity and other energy-related pollutants
- Environmental Organization WebDirectory! -
thousands of sites from over 100 countries.
- Environmental Protection Agency: Great Lakes Program
Office
- Environmental Resource Center
- GNET: The environmental technology, business, and clean-up
network.
- National Ground Water Association - premier water
professionals organization
- National Library for the Environment - excellent central
site for information
- National Water Information System - USGS
- National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program
- USGS
- Water Resources of the United States - from USGS
- Water Quality Infomation - USGS
- WEF Reporter - Weekly
newsletter of the Water Environment Federation
- Wisconsin DNR Environmental Protection -
links to programs and information
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Ergonomics
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Portals and Directories
- GIS.com - a portal to GIS
information created by ESRI, a GIS software developer.
- GIS Internet Resources -
pointers to GIS companies, associations, and government web pages as well
as sources of software, data, publications, and services.
- GIS Gateway
- from the US Census Bureau
Software
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ArcExplorer - a lightweight GIS data viewer from ESRI written in Java
that is used to perform basic GIS functions (e.g., view, navigate, and
query). Free download. Also available ArcGIS Explorer and ArcWeb
Explorer. ESRI produces some of the most popular GIS software.
- Geographic Resources Analysis Support
System (GRASS) - open source software used for data management, image
processing, graphics production, spatial modelling, and visualization of
many types of data.
- GIS Tools - clearinghouse
for useful 3rd party data conversion tools for GIS, 3D & imagery.
- USGS
Digital Data Viewer - dlgv32 Pro, a limited-feature version of
commercial Global Mapper
Data Sources
Wisconsin Sites & Sources
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Government Sites
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Materials Science
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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Mega Sites
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Technical Reports - search tools
- Science Accelerator -
developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U. S.
Department of Energy, uses a single query to search multiple science resources
including Information Bridge, E-print Network, Science Conference Proceedings, DOE R&D
Accomplishments, Energy Citations Database, DOE R&D Project Summaries, Federal R&D
Project Summaries, DOE Patents, and Energy Files.
- CiteSeer - a search engine and digital library that
focuses primarily on the scientific literature in computer and information science. Provides
useful metadata including cited references, reference linking, related references,etc.
- Energy Citations Database - bibliographic
records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of
Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration
(ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Some full text documents available.
- Information Bridge - provides free public access to
full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report
literature. Documents, primarily from 1994 forward, were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor
community, and/or DOE grantees and include the areas of physics, chemistry, materials, biology,
environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science,
renewable energy, and other topics of interest to DOE's mission.
- NTIS - largest
central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related
information; over 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas.
- NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
- NASA aerospace information, domestic and international scientific & technical information (STI)
pertinent to NASA's missions.
- Science.gov - gateway to government science
information allows searches across 30
databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites. Science.gov currently accesses over 47
million pages of government science information. Some full text documents available.
- Scientific & Technical Reports Collection (STINET)
- DoD and other technical reports. Some full text documents available.
- TRIS Online - Transportation Research
Information Services Database contains well over half a million records of references to books,
technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of
transportation. Some full text documents available.
- WorldWideScience - multilateral partnership to
enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases. Includes Technical
Reports, journal literature and other.
Time Series and Other Data Sets
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Transportation
- American Public Transit Association (APTA) - aims to improve
public transportation through advocacy, innovation and information sharing.
- Federal Highway Administration Bridge
Technology - links to federal bridge policy, research and resources
- Bridges - Webliography of
bridge information from Northwestern University
- DoT Library Services for the Public - links to
Online Catalog, Online Digital Special Collections and other resources
- Federal Highway Administration - central site for
federal highway programs. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center - FHA's Research &
Development center
- Federal Transit
Administration - Research and Reports
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Government Transportation Financial Statistics - transportation revenues and expenditures for
Federal, state and local governments.
- National Transportation Library - online access to documents
and databases covering all aspects of transportation in the United States. Material is contributed by
public and private organizations around the country and access to all documents is free.
- National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB) - investigate significant aviation, highway, railroad, marine, and pipeline accidents,
determine probable causes and recommend safety measures
- Pocket guide to
Transportation - Bureau of Transportation, annual 1999-
- State Transportation
Profiles
- TranStats: The Intermodal Transportation Database
- "one-stop" source for transportation data, providing an integrated searchable index of
more than 100 databases
- TRIS Online - Transportation Research
Information Services Database
- United States Local and State Transit Links
- statewide, regional, and local transit systems and transportation providers
- Wisconsin Department of Transportation - portal to
state DoT services and resources
- WisDoT Research and Library - online
reports and documents, Transportation Library info
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