Product description: The Dialog database specializes in professional content and workflow solutions for pharmaceutical, engineering, and patents research. Access is limited to library staff, as the service is priced based on the amount of usage. The AFRL Library has access to the following databases with Dialog:

- AGRICOLA

- Environmental Abstracts

- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts

- Toxicology Abstracts, ToxFile®

The ProQuest Polymer Science Collection is the only database in the world which is dedicated exclusively to information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives, and polymeric composites. The Materials Research Database (MRD) provides bibliographic coverage of serial and non-serial literature on metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering applications.

Product characteristics an equal item must meet to be considered:

- Covers a broad range of pharmaceutical and engineering disciplines, with a focus on pharmaceutical testing and evaluation literature.

- Covers a focused area of the polymer sciences.

- Search interface that includes numerous primary categories and ability to perform keyword and other specialized topical queries for effective searches.

- The ability to download HTML or PDF versions of documents.

- eJournals, eBooks, and papers and chapters dating back several decades.

- Multiple language translations of content.