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AIAA articles and papers. Full text: meeting papers 1963 - current, journal articles 2007 - current. For earlier content, please check hard copy in the Kings Norton Library.
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Nearly all Forum Proceedings from 1943 to today and papers from more than 50 Specialists' Meetings. Full text: Includes all downloadable content ('no payment' will display during checkout), excludes content that requires shipping.
American Petroleum Institute (API) provides online public access to key industry standards, most of which were previously only available for purchase. These standards will be available as "Read Only" access, and will be accessible on publications.api.org. These documents are available for public interest purposes only, and will not be able to be edited, downloaded, printed, or shared.
Note: Please create an account for read only access to the standards.
Focuses on the programs and technologies shaping all sectors of the aerospace and defence industry market – commercial, military, space, business aviation and MRO. It enables you to monitor engine and airframe programs, global manufacturers, the short and long-term impact evolving technologies are having, and more. Note: this subscription does not include access to Data Tools content.
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Bloomberg (terminals available only in SOM Library) includes information on Equities, mergers and acquisitions, stock indices, commodities, currencies, economic data and statistics, government bonds, hedge funds, futures, credit default swaps, shipping and news. It also has company profiles, financial statements, analysts’ forecasts, industry sector information and stock ticker data for the last 3 months.
BMI provides access to global financial data, including reports, analysis, strategic content and forecasting. Subjects include autos, defence and security, oil and gas, power, renewables and water. It also provides full text access to reports on Hot Topics and areas of special interest, for example the implications of Brexit.
Access British Standards and ISOs as well as technical handbooks, codes of practice, guidelines, specifications for product dimensions and performance.
Relevant and up to date airline intelligence and insightful news on the industry. The following modules are included in ch-aviation university PRO access: News, Airlines, Airports, Fleets, Fleets Ownership, PSS. (Excludes: Schedules, Capacities, Contacts, Downloads.)
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An eBook collection covering a wide range of subjects including business, management, engineering, technology and computing. Full text access: available only to our purchased and subscribed titles, all of which are also listed in LibrarySearch. Mobile app available.
A broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed for research including: Business Source Complete, E-Journals, eBook Collection, ERIC, GreenFile, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Regional Business News.
Index providing comprehensive coverage of educational related literature. Major subjects covered include higher education, information resources, testing and evaluation, and teacher education.
Full text access to IEEE journals, transactions and conference proceedings from 1988 onwards, select content from 1872. Also includes all current IEEE standards and the Morgan & Claypool Computer & Information Science (CIS) Collection 5.
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Register for access to shared INCOSE documents including the Systems Engineering Handbook and INCOSE symposium papers via Wiley Online Library (available under the "Content Library" on the INCOSE site). Registration instructions under “more …”
Online access to freely available eBooks published by IWA in the field of water and wastewater.
Information and analysis on the air, land, naval and joint defence platforms, weapons and systems in service and under development around the world. Includes Data Analytics and specifications analysis.
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Online eBook collection and technical reference centre for engineers and scientists. The individual eBooks are also listed in the Library Catalogue.
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Libby (OverDrive) hosts a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, including some foreign language books. To access:
1. Download the Libby app from Google or Apple, or go to https://libbyapp.com/ to use Libby in a browser.
2. Find your organization, e.g. Cranfield University.
3. Enter your Cranfield University username and password
4. Start borrowing or browsing the digital library!
A Libby help guide is available at https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/index.htm.
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
A collection of more than 32,000 IT and software, engineering, maths, business and personal/professional eBooks from leading publishers.
Overton contains over 7 million policy documents and guidelines from over 31,000 organisations across 180+ countries. It includes grey literature from leading global universities, research funders, NGOs, publishers, and think tanks, as well as government reports and legislation.
Articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. Mobile app version available. Coverage: 1894 current.
Index of international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Full text of over 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Mobile app available.
Access all SAE Standards, all SAE International Journals, SAE Magazines, and SAE EDGE reports. Also includes every SAE Technical Paper published since 1906.
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A huge index covering publications from 5,000 publishers in all areas of science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. It has several functions that allow searchers to personalise it to their own interests. You can set up email alerts for this database. Learn more about how to best use Scopus's advanced search. If you see an authentication error message, please clear Elsevier cookies from your browser.
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Access to Springer and Kluwer journals, books, series, protocols (1980 - 2012), reference works, and proceedings.
Provides access to purchased eBooks in the area of computer science, engineering, business and management, economics and life sciences. To display purchased titles only uncheck the Include Preview-Only content option at the top of the screen.
All Cranfield staff and students can get free access to Times Higher Education. With our institutional subscription, you can read online articles and digital editions using the THE website. You can also download the app to your device to get the magazine wherever you are.
The UK's largest collection of social research data, providing access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, cross-national surveys, census data, international macrodata, business microdata and qualitative studies.It has been formed by the merger of four established data services, including ESDS to which we previously subscribed.
Previously known as Web of Knowledge, WoS includes the Conference Proceedings, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Medline databases, and the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index. It covers a very broad range of subjects relating to science, technology, social sciences and medicine. The ability to carry out citation searching is a key feature.
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Workspace provides access to the world’s stock markets with access to daily and historical data. As well as providing global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials and economic data, it also provides access to IBES estimates and value chain data.