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Engineering Databases

Direct links for key engineering databases:

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Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Compendex

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The electronic version of Engineering Index, Compendex indexes the engineering literature (part of Engineering Village platform). (Note: make sure to check Compendex under Select Database on the upper left of the database screen). Indexes the engineering literature. (1884- )

IEEE Xplore

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The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library database delivers full-text access to all journals, conference proceedings and active standards in electrical engineering, computer science and related technologies from the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Inspec

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Provides citations, abstracts, and links to full-text of the worldwide literature in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.
Note: This is on the Engineering Village platform; make sure to check *Inspec* next to Database selection on the upper left of the database screen.

Scopus

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Indexes over 15,000 journals, as well as several million web pages and U.S. and international patents. Database includes article citations from 1996, and permits citation tracking, and (both) saving searches and email or RSS alerts of new material. The system will export records into major citation managers and prepare a bibliography according to major formats. (1966- )

Web of Science

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The Web of Science is a database on the Web of Knowledge platform that integrates three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences.

NTIS.Gov (National Technical Information Service)

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Billed as the preeminent resource for accessing the latest research (1964+) sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments.

Springer Link

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Ebooks, journals, and reference works from Springer.

Engineering Resources: Articles

Finding journal articles

Engineering Databases