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E- Resources (Technology and Science)

Government Resources
Health Resources
Industry Standards

Government Resources Online

• University of Michigan Documents Center
• Michigan State Government
• Michigan Electronic Library
• Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
  This contains most of the information available through the Federal Depository Library Program and is available for on-line searching as part of GPO Access. Information is from January 1994 - date.
• Sales Product Catalog (SPC)
  Serves as a guide to Government information products currently offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents.
• Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
  Identifies, locates, and describes publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic equipment.
• Yahoo! - Government Agencies
  A listing of Government Agencies with a direct link to individual homepages.
• FirstGov Search
  Intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web.
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies
  Lists Federal Agencies with direct link to the particular agency.
• Google - Uncle Sam
  Searches all .gov and .mil sites

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Health Resources Online

• MedlinePlus
  Consumer health information and medical dictionaries
• PubMed
  Free database for searching medical literature back to 1966. Some articles have links to fulltext articles
• PubMed Central
  Search engine to locate only medical journal articles that are free and appear in fulltext on the web
• NCBI Bookshelf
  Biomedical textbooks with searchable content on the web
• AMA Doctor Finder
  To find out a doctor's credentials and location, click on "Doctor Finder" and follow the directions
• Verifying a Doctor's license in Michigan
  Search by name, profession or license number
• Verifying a Doctor's license in other states
  Click on state you want to search and check menu under "licenses". Most but not every state makes this data available for free.
• Cancer.gov
  Comprehensive, updated information on all types of cancer, for both health professionals and the public. You can choose your reading level.
• Centers for Disease Control
  Disease and travel information
• Michigan Electronic Library Health Information Resources
  Comprehensive menu of health sites for any type of medical information, including pharmaceuticals

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Industry Standards

The Technology and Science standards collection contains the most recent editions of suggested standards provided by sponsoring organizations to help industry and business achieve uniformity of product or process. Current holdings may be verified by calling the Technology and Science Reference Desk at (313) 833-1450. A representative list of sponsoring agencies from which we receive standards follows.

U.S. Standards and Organizations

• Aerospace Industries Association (National Aerospace Standards)
• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• American Petroleum Institute (API)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• ASM International (Alloy Digest)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• American Welding Society (AWS)
• Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
• Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)
• Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL)

 

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