Engineering: Reference Data

By computing properties of all known materials, the Materials Project aims to remove guesswork from materials design in a variety of applications. Experimental research can be targeted to the most promising compounds from computational data sets. Researchers will be able to data-mine scientific trends in materials properties. By providing materials researchers with the information they need to design better, the Materials Project aims to accelerate innovation in materials research.

Hub for links to databases for high temperature superconducting materials (WebHTS), structural ceramics (WebSCD), property data summaries (WebPDS), and some specific material properties.
AKA Ceramics WebBook

Scientific Data is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. Our primary article-type, the Data Descriptor, is designed to make your data more discoverable, interpretable and reusable.

A joint project between NIST and the MGI aiming to leverage computer modeling and simulation to reduce the cost and development time of materials discovery, optimization, and deployment.

Provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.

A catalog of NIST’s free, web interface SRD databases. NIST also has paid SRD products.

Workplace safety and health topics and a bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports

Find key data on all the elements. This site is most useful if you know the atomic number or symbol.

We don’t have a subscription giving access to the articles, but it’s a nice index of the ASM Handbooks (which we do have in print in Ready Reference). It also has a comprehensive dictionary.