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Databases by Subject - Fire Protection Engineering

See also Civil Engineering, Science & Technology, Environment and General & Multidisciplinary.

advanced | off campus | For databases searched, see below

Database Title	In Quick Find	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...†
Academic OneFile		Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
ACS Journals Search		Full text and search access to American Chemical Society journals.Titles Included	1879-	Y
Building and Fire Research Laboratory		Document abstracts and complete publications produced by or for BFRL staff.	1973-	Y
Engineering Village		Abstracts from Compendex and INSPEC databases, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.Search Tips	1884-	Y
ENGnetBASE		745+ Engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Search Help	Current	Y
FIREDOC		Fire literature search of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.	1912-	Y
Google Scholar		Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press		From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included | Search Tips	Varies	Y
Homeland Security Digital Library		Documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.	Current	Y
Knovel		Collection of 1300+ science and engineering handbooks. Titles Included | Search Tips	Current	Y
National Fire Codes - NFPA Codes Online		Electronic version of the National Fire Code from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).	Current year	Y
Oxford Journals Online		Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas.	1995-	Y
ScienceDirect		Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Contains full text of Fire Safety Journal, Combustion and Flame, and Construction and Building Materials. Search Tips | Tutorial	Varies	Y
Wiley Interscience		Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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