The University of Waterloo maintains a site that lists conference information for a variety of societies. Argonne Brookhaven Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos Oak Ridge Princeton Plasma Physics Sandia Dept of Defense Dept of Energy Energy Information Administration statistics, energy production, reserves, demand, etc. The University Libraries at Penn State maintains a Web site on patent information which should be checked for evaluated patent information. An increasing number of publishers are putting their publications catalogs, order forms, and in some cases, partial texts on the Web. In addition to the publishers listed below, check society homepages for their publications lists.
Most societies have Web sites.
Some of the major societies in engineering are listed below. Some sites are full text, others have indexes and ordering information. Several sites include excellent lists of standards Web sites. In addition, there are a number of commercial companies that have web pages to make location and ordering of standards easier. There are a number of sites available to locate technical reports.