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Selective Information Resources to Support Fuel Cell Research
Pathfinder for the UCI National Fuel Cell Research Center

The UCI Libraries homepage is designed to be a gateway or portal to information resources to serve the UCI community. The ANTPAC online catalog contains all information resources in all formats available to users. The Melvyl Catalog is the holdings of all 10 UC campuses. In order to access resources from off-campus, UCI users will need to install VPN Software as described. Most of the print collection will be found at the Ayala Science Library (ASL) with the Government Information, Environmental Economics, Policy and Business Literature at the Langson Library (LL)

Selective Subject Headings may include the following terms and can also be searched by keyword to retrieve element in title, abstracts, table of contents, authorship, and subject headings and likely a broader range than only when searched by Subject Heading: (you can also browse online by corresponding call number to see related titles)

  • Electric automobiles
  • Energy conservation
  • Energy policy
  • Fuel cells
  • Hybrid electric cars
  • Hybrid electric vehicles
  • Hydrogen as fuel
  • Hydrogen cars
  • Internal combustion engines
  • Motor vehicles - Fuel consumption
  • Power resources
  • Renewable resources

Databases: (Indexing and abstracting services covering journal literature, some conference proceedings and related content) - in many of these databases, links to full-text coverage and library holdings are provided by UC eLinks. * refers to resources that are restricted to UCI community

  1. Energy Central Professional *– current hub on the Internet for greatest variety of information from and about the Industry for all energy professionals. Contains technical, governmental, regulatory, news, employment, data for those interested in all forms of alternative fuels and power and nuclear energy. Highly Recommened.
  2. Compendex *(1884-) Engineering Index via Engineering Village (EV2) platform
  3. Web of Science * (1900-) access to the Science Citation Index and the related Journal Citation Reports which is an analytical tool for ranking journals by citation and impact factor - select Science Edition and Subject: Energy & Fuels and a ranking of 62 journals can be ranked or sorted by different factors back to 1997.
  4. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management* - major indexing & abstracting database in the Environmental Sciences.
  5. The Most - the most cited, most read, and most influential articles from the American Chemical Society publications. Rankings of Most-Cited Articles listed are based on data from Thomson ISI® Web of Science. Hot Papers listed are articles published within the last 2 years receiving the most citations over the most recent 2-month period, as identified by Thomson ISI® Essential Scientific Indicators. Most-Accessed Articles listed are based on article web view data collected following COUNTER-compliant ACS Usage Reports. Listings are organized by journal.
  6. SciFinder Scholar *- Chemical Abstracts Services - requires that search be conducted from a computer where special software has been downloaded. Additional information is available at explanatory page about installation of client software. Also covers patent literature and structures database. Full-text coverage of the ACS publications from 1996 is available.
  7. INSPEC * (1969-) covers physics, electrical engineering & computer science and interdisciplinary subjects in engineering, technology and related areas.
  8. INSPEC Archive * (1898-1968) - coverage of entire database archive
  9. Transport* - database divided into 3 categories of coverage, 2003-; 1998-2002; and pre1998. Covers transportation literature from Transportation Research Information Services affiliates around the world via OECD, etc.
  10. TRIS Online * – database from the National Transportation Library including the output of the Transportation Research Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
  11. Google Scholar - index to selective scholarly and scientific literature in periodicals, books, and other formats with UC eLinks.
  12. BNA Environment & Safety Library * (ESL) - weekly news updates in the Environmental Reporter, and International Environment Reporter and easy access in the main ESL to federal and state regulations and statutes.
  13. PAIS International *– index to public administration and public policy. Covers books, book chapters, journal literature, government information.
  14. Dissertations and Theses Fulltext * (1863-) this is the UMI Dissertation Abstracts Database. Free online access to all full-text from 1997 dissertations is available for theses and dissertations from any University of California campus to this database. Otherwise citation, abstract and first 24pp available from rest of database of most universities in North America that participate. If thesis or dissertation is not available, faculty and graduate students can request title needed via ILL and all costs are subsidized by the UCI Libraries. Additional electronic theses from around the world can be found in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
  15. Academic Search Complete – an increasingly full-text database of scholarly and current topical coverage from a variety of sources spanning many disciplines.
  16. GreenFILE - offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

Conference Papers, Proceedings, Abstracts, Posters, Literature - selective access to full-text content via Antpac, MELVYL, and the indexing tools and databases, see Conference Papers Index* and Inspec

Specialized Full-text Resources

  • Professional Society Databases
    • AIAA - access to full-text online journals, papers and proceedings (2000-2006) from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    • ASME- access to the full-text journals and transaction publications of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Online access to individual titles is available via ANTPAC
    • ASCE- access to the journals and proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers including full backfile. Access to individual journal and book titles is available via ANTPAC
    • SAE- access to technical papers and standards from the Society of Automotive Engineers is restricted due to an inability to negotiate digital rights management – individual titles for journals and papers found in ANTPAC
    • MRS OPL- conference papers from the Materials Research Society in the Online Proceedings Library
    • SPIE- access to Proceedings of the SPIE and journals of the International Society for Optical Engineering
    • Annual Reviews- this series of review literature may be of interest in Fluid Dynamics, Chemistry, Materials Science or any of the other series with full archive
    • Energy Central- Contains news of the Energy Industry from a range of commercial news services and business sources, including industry data and company profiles; arranged in an updated news release chronology easily searchable; provides access to many blogs on different topics in the energy sector like power generation and emissions, power delivery, energy use and management, etc; job listings; interviews; etc
  • Business Databases – see below for references to numerous databases
  • News Sources - there are many
  • E-Books - there are several series including:
    • CRCNetBase.com content for EngNetBase ( over 800 titles currently) and specifically for Mechanical Engineering where you will find handbooks and reference titles with a range of subject coverage - all titles are also listed in ANTPAC
    • Knovel - Online Interactive Books and Database reflecting subject strength in Chemistry, Engineering and Materials Science, with a large number of online science & engineering handbooks, and a total of 1200+ titles, also all in Antpac.
      • Explore Knovel Features - Try some of Knovel's features: Interactive Tables; Tables with Equation Plotter; Graph Digitizer; Tables with Graph Plotter; Spectra Viewer; Chemical Structure Search; Phase Diagram Viewer; Excel SpreadSheets; Periodic Table of the Elements; Unit Converter
      • Knovel Tutorials - Examples of search features including interactive tables, equation plotter, and interactive graphs

Other Strong References

  1. Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, 2006-07 edition
  2. Access Science - online equivalent of McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
  3. Atomic Archive - contains extensive collection of data and interactive maps about nuclear stockpiles, facilities and forces in almanac, many different reference sources including biographies of people who shaped the atomic age, timeline of the nuclear age, a significant resource library and the science behind developing nuclear energy

Additional Government Resources & Databases – US Federal, California, & International

  1. Science.gov– Energy Section of primary federal government science database indexing fulltext materials from many agencies.
  2. NASA- a rich source of content from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and searches for research information can best be done with this search interface.
  3. TRIS Online - National Transportation Library Database hosted by the Transportation Research Board.
  4. Official Energy Statistics from the Energy Information Administration containing official energy statistics.
  5. DOE Information Bridge from the Department of Energy (DOE) contains report literature in chemistry, physics, materials, environmental sciences, energy technologies, renewable energies, engineering and computer/information sciences. From 1994, also contains contractor reports.
  6. Energy, Science, & Technology Information Resources – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) - provides full-text access to DOE research from 1995, bibliographic citations to DOE research from 1948.
  7. The Energy Information Portal is another excellent source for access to energy information.
  8. Energy Citations Database from 1948 maintained by DOE
  9. DOE Reports Bibliographic Database – from 1994, maintained by OSTI
  10. Energy Files from the Energy Science & Technology Virtual Library – has EnergyPortal to search technical reports; and a subject search guide to relevant energy content from a range of related subjects
  11. Energy Information Administration – Full-text access to energy statistics – covers 3 geographic levels – State, U.S., World; Diverse information sources and content. Good global conference list.
  12. NTIS – Index to Technical reports issued by government agencies from 1964.
  13. National Renewable Energy Lab - full coverage of the work and output of the National Lab in Golden, CO
  14. Online Fuel Cells Information Resources - not totally current but identifies a variety of resources including many government reports and publications and some content we have at UCI Libraries and some we do not have. Consult ANTPAC for specific holdings.
  15. California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaboration - public/private collaborative sponsored by the California Air Resources Board.
  16. California Energy Commission - contains links to the State Annual Integrated Energy Policy Reports and other work of the Commission and data that it releases.
  17. WorldwideScience– global science gateway
  18. Source OECD - materials from European Community members

Patent Information

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    http://www.uspto.gov and

    Official source for U.S. patents and trademarks in full text from 1976 (full page images available since 1790) with links to the Library of Congress for copyright information. Definitions, application forms and instructions, handbooks, notices, and patent attorney directory are just a few of the products provided. Includes design patents and reissued patents as well as patents currently in application process (coverage starts March 2001). Full-text searching is available.

  • Google Patents - latest of the patent indexes to appear - there is lots of help; not as formalized a search process - contains 7 million patents
  • LexisNexis Academic Universe
    http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe"

    Under "Legal Research" is a Patent Research section for searching of Patents (1971 to date), by individual category of Design Patents, Plant Patents or Utility Patents. Can also search by keyword, assignee, inventor, patent number, classification, and lawyer.

  • Other valuable patent resources:
    • European Patent Office - index of patents originating in Europe
    • Japan Patent Office - index of patents originating in Japan
    • Freepatentsonline - fulltext and images of US patents beginning with patent number 4,000,000
    • Scirus - indexes over 13 million patents from the US, European and Japanese Patent Offices and WIPO
    • Patent Lens - independent, public-good global resource for increasing patent transparency; can search the fulltext of more than 8 million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia and WIPO, including their status and counterparts in up to 60 countries
    • Patent Searching Tutorial – from the University of Texas, Austin
    • Subject Guide for Patents

Selective Business & Statistics Resources - there is wide coverage of trends, statistics, data in the commercial applications of energy, fuel cells, hybrid and electric vehicles, public utilities and green or environmental initiatives.

  • Business Source Premier - major indexing of business journal literature; contains much full-text content.

     

  • Plunkett Research Online - this is a database that is organized by industrial sectors. Scroll down left toolbar for section on Energy and Utilities and then the top entry will be "Market Trends and Analysis" and provide a snapshot of the recent industrial trends

     

  • Global Insight - Contains daily news updates, competitive company reports, industry profiles, and country and industry risks analysis services, including statistics and five-year forecasts. Special analysis is provided in the areas of regulations, health care, the automotive industry, energy, and telecommunications.

     

  • Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage - Company and industry information. Use the "keyword" search at the top and consider entering fuel cells, energy, alternative energy, hybrid vehicles, etc. Industry surveys include; Current Environment; Industry Profile; Industry Trends; How the Industry Operates; Key Industry Ratios and Statistics; How to Analyze a Company, and Industry References. Also, check Sub-Industry Review for Automobile Manufacturing.

     

  • IBIS World - Contains research reports on hundreds of U.S. industries. Each report provides key statistics for the industry, and discusses market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, e.g. barriers to entry, cost structure, industry outlook, technology and impact of globalization, the major companies in the industry and the current and historic performance of the industry. Look under “Business Environment" or "Industry Market Research" under topics such as, Energy, Fuel Cells, Alternative Fuels, Alternative Vehicles, etc.

     

  • Investext Plus - Investment research, industry analysis and reports. Look under “Automobiles" or "Energy" and refine search with keyword amplification and geographical point of reference and restrict to a time period and you will retrieve fulltext business reports, news & trade publication articles.

     

  • Forrester Research - Forrester focuses on the business implications of technology change and is considered the leading source for forecasting. Forrester's research publications analyze a broad range of technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester reports include up-to-date industry statistics, as well as illustrative graphs and charts. Does cover emerging technologies, "green or environmental" trends and some business coverage on energy companies. Requires login using UCINetID and password.

     

  • Gartner - Web site provides access to the research and advisory firm's information technology news, research reports, and business and market analysis, and includes product descriptions and comparisons, information on trends, and a calendar of upcoming conferences and events for IT managers, specialists, and business interests. Reports data in "hypercycles" with standard output for interpretation. Requires login using UCINetID and password.

     

  • STAT-USA - Economic and foreign trade statistics.

     

  • Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe

     

Selective Recent Books – all with entries in Antpac

  1. Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources: A Reference Handbook – ASL REF TJ 808.3 S65 2008

     

  2. Energy Management and Conservation Handbook, 2008 – ASL TJ 163.2 E4833 2008

     

  3. Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology, 2007

     

  4. Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 2007 – ASL TK 2931 R42 2007

     

  5. Advances in Fuel Cells, 2007 – ASL TK 2931 A384 2007

     

  6. Energy for the 21st Century: A comprehensive guide to conventional and alternative sources, 2007 – LL HD 9502 A2 N465 2007

     

  7. Energy Management Handbook, 6th ed., 2007 - ASL REF TJ 163.2 T87 2007

     

  8. Dictionary of Energy - ASL REF TJ 163.16 D53 2006

     

  9. Energy Technology Perspectives: Scenarios & Strategies to 2050 in support of the G8 Plan of Action by the International Energy Agency, 2006 - ASL TJ 163.2 E493 2006

     

  10. Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: A Comprehensive Guide, 2005 - ASL TJ 359 H8 B87 2005

     

  11. Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Emerging Technologies and Applications, 2005 - ASL TP 359 H8 S67 2005

     

  12. Handbook of Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications, 2003 - ASL TK 2931 H35 2003

     

Additional Miscellaneous Resources