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Includes more than 1,700 leading academic journals and 45,000 Ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as other materials valuable for academic work.

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A collection of over 30,000 films and includes titles from BBC, Criterion Collection, and Media Education Foundation. Kanopy features include browsing by subject or using a search box, setting up clip/play lists, and sharing or embedding videos.
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Government Documents

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Catalog of Government Publications (CGP)
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ScienceCinema
DOE ScienceCinema is a multimedia search tool provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information, with video and audio files produced by DOE National Laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

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ADAMS Public Documents
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*Publicly Available Records System (PARS) Library
*Public Legacy Library
Aerospace Medicine Technical Reports
From the Federal Aviation Administration, the Aerospace Medicine Technical Reports index is a listing of aviation research reports from 1961 to the present.
Defense Technical Information Center
Our mission is to preserve, curate, and rapidly share the knowledge gained from DoD’s annual multi-billion dollar investment in S&T, multiplying the value and accelerating capability to the warfighter.
Knowledge Core
From the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center this is a service of ERDC's Information Science and Knowledge Management Branch that collects, preserves and distributes the ERDC's research publications and historical knowledge. The growing collection includes articles, technical reports, papers, photographs, and videos.
NASA STI Repository
The NASA STI Program manages a world-class collection of aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, images, and videos created or funded by NASA.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publications and statistics available from NHTSA.
National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
You can search, retrieve, and download EPA technical, scientific, and educational materials from this site – all free of charge!
National Technical Report Library -- Public Access Portal
Search one of the world's largest repositories of U.S. Government-sponsored research results -- 2.2 million titles -- over 700,000 of which link to digitized full-text technical reports.
National Environmental Methods Index
NEMI is a searchable database that allows scientists and managers to find and compare analytical and field methods for all phases of environmental monitoring.

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Formerly SciTech Connect, this resource is the primary search tool for the Department of Energy (DOE) funded science, technology, and engineering research and development results. Contains nearly 3 million citations, with citations for 1.5 million journal articles and 445,000 full-text DOE-funded reports. Also provides information about the history and organization of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Resources date back to 1948.

ROSA P: Repository and Open Science Access Portal
ROSA P is the National Transportation Library's Repository and Open Science Access Portal. The name ROSA P was chosen to honor the role public transportation played in the civil rights movement, along with one of the important figures, Rosa Parks.
Science.gov - Physics
Browse a list of U.S. federal sites related to physics by searching for "physics" in the search box.
Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)
Full-text access to technical reports from federally funded research including the reports from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).

TRID This link opens in a new window
Integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Board’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.

USGS Publication Warehouse
Provides access to over 150,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.

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