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Handbooks and Manuals

AccessEngineering
Collection of full text engineering reference and handbooks, including Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook and Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.
ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
Provides access to an extensive collection of binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated data.

ASM International
ASM Handbooks Online
Covers metals as well as engineered materials such as composites, ceramics, and plastics.
ASTM Digital Library
Full-text access to ASTM Standards, ASTM Special Technical Publications, and manuals.

• CAS Source Index (CASSI)
Contains listing of publications indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service since 1907.

CHEMnetBASE
A collection of chemical dictionaries and handbooks published by CRC Press.

A collection of chemical dictionaries and handbooks providing descriptions, properties and uses for various compounds and substances.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Classic reference includes the revised Physical Constants of Organic Compounds table, new data on chemical carcinogens, an expanded Critical constants table, and more.

84th edition which includes the revised Physical Constants of Organic Compounds table, new data on chemical carcinogens, an expanded Critical constants table, and more.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Thousands of handbooks, scientific and technical resources and databases that can be searched together or in subject-based groupings.
International Tables for Crystallography
Contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials.

Contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. The series is planned, edited and maintained by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).

Knovel
Collection of full-text engineering and scientific handbooks and databases, with built-in software tools.

Collection of over 8000 engineering and scientific reference handbooks, texts, and databases. Can be searched by topic across the aggregated set, or users can browse the content of a specific title. Advanced features include numerical range searching and interactive graphs and tables.
SpringerMaterials: The Landolt-Bornstein Database
A comprehensive database that covers the physical and chemical properties in materials science.

Collection of fully evaluated data from all fields of physics, physical chemistry, geophysics, astronomy, biophysics and materials science & engineering.
Safari Tech Books Online
Online collection of computer manuals published by O'Reilly.

Online collection of over 1000 computer manuals published by O'Reilly. Additional books will be added as published.

Dictionaries

AccessScience
Online version of the the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

A Dictionary of Units

The Free Online Dictionary of Computing

The Internet Acronym Server

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

Encyclopedias

AccessEngineering
Collection of full text engineering reference and handbooks, including Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook and Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.