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Applied Science and Technology Abstracts restricted Basic undergraduate engineering database. It covers only English-language journals, no conferences. WMU libraries own about 60% of the titles indexed. Good first choice for engineering/technology. Coverage: 1983-present. Tutorial

Ei Compendex restricted The most comprehensive index for scholarly research in engineering and applied science. Includes conference papers and foreign language material. Coverage 1969-present, updated weekly.
Available through Engineering Village 2.
A handy guide to this database is located here.

Librarian's Comment: Some of these citations will be available fulltext online but many will have to be obtained either in print or through interlibrary loan.

ACM Digital Library restricted Full text of every article ever published by the Association of Computing Machinery. Material included as part of our subscription includes journals, magazines, newsletters and proceedings.

AIAA Electronic Library restricted This searchable database provides access to AIAA Meeting Papers from 1963 to present and nine AIAA Journals.

  • AIAA Journal
  • Journal of Aerospace Computing Information, and Communication
  • Journal of Aircraft
  • Journal of Energy
  • Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
  • Journal of Hydronautics
  • Journal of Propulsion and Power
  • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, and
  • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer.
Journal coverage dates from the first volume of each title.

Article @ INISTArticles, books, conferences, and dissertations in the catalog at the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique. Most seem to be in English, but includes material from around the world.

ASCE Research Library (American Society of Civil Engineers) restricted This digital library provides full text access to ASCE Conference Proceedings beginning in 2003, and all 30 ASCE Journal and Periodical volumes published since 1995. (Some journals are available going back a little further.)

Ergonomics Abstracts Online restricted Index with abstracts of over 400 journals and other publications in all aspects of ergonomics and human factor engineering. Coverage: 1985-present. Updated 4 times a year.

IEEE Xplore restricted Full text access to many of the transactions, proceedings, journals and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' since 1998. Provides tables of contents to all IEEE publications from 1988 and titles of current IEEE standards.

INSPEC restricted Indexes scientific and technical journals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.

Materials Science Journal Collection - Sage Journals Online
The Sage Full Text Materials Science Journals collection online provides you with full text access to the following list of journals.




Metadex restricted A comprehensive index to information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. Includes over 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, books and web sites. This database contains over1 million records and is the online equivalent of Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index, and Alloys Index. Coverage from 1966 to present. Updated monthly.

SAE Publications and Standards restricted Search this online index for detailed summaries and citations to more than 85,000 documents, including Technical Papers and Standards, published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) since 1906. Covers research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Includes SAE Ground Vehicle Standards (J-Reports); Aerospace Standards; and Aerospace Material Specifications (AMS).

Librarian's Comment: Technical papers from 1965-2004 are available in microfiche at Science Reference, Waldo Library. SAE standards are available in the SAE Handbook, Science Reference, TL151 .S62. Request full text of other materials through interlibrary loan.

Scopus restricted Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

Web of Science restricted Web of Science from the ISI Web of Knowledge contains three major databases covering all areas of knowledge: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). The literature can be searched by subject, author, journal title, and author's address. Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".

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Last updated: June 2008

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