Databases/Article Indexes for Engineering


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

Recommended resource
AccessScience
Dates vary.
A collection of Reference e-books in the sciences, including The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 9th edition online.
 
The ACM (Association for Computing machinery) Digital Library includes abstracts, reviews, and the full-text articles published in ACM periodicals, transactions, and proceedings since 1985.
 
Contains full text articles for the more than 30 American Chemical Society journals and magazines.
 
Full text of the Audio Engineering Society journals, convention preprints, and conference papers, over 3,100 articles.
 
Fulltext online versions of 50 AIP journals published by the American Institute of Physics.
 
The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
 
Provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments.
 
Full text papers of ASEE conference proceedings from 1996 to present.
Recommended resource
Applied Science & Technology Full Text: Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Applied Science & Technology subject area
Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Includes interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, technically valuable editorials and letters, tables, charts, diagrams, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
 
Provides access to seven decades of information from the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field - many of them peer-reviewed journals. Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983).
Recommended resource
 
Comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics.
 
Chemical Abstracts (Scifinder Scholar Web Version)
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum. Password Accessible
Web Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. CAS Scifinder Scholar is also available in a downloadable version here. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).
 
CRC Handbooks in chemistry.
 
ChemVillage
Dates vary
Search environment for Chimica, Beilstein Abstracts, chemical news, patents, and selected CRC Press handbooks.
 
The CIMSteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) is the logical product model and electronic data exchange format for structural steel project information.
 
Community of Science (old COS interface)
Dates vary

includes COS Expertise and COS Funding Opportunities
A database for researchers which includes an expertise directory, funding opportunities, MEDLINE and the Federal Register.
 
Subset of the Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA) database that focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.
 
The CFTT is designed to provide a measure of assurance in the results of investigations based on automated tools used in computer forensics examinations. Provides several links to testing reports and projects underway in the field.
 
The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965.
 
Source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering.
 
Contains the majority of the leading materials science databases, and includes over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports.
 
On-line database for solder properties emphasizing new lead-free solders.
 
Contains transport and thermodynamic property data for the gases used in semiconductor processing.
 
Provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports.
 
E-Print Network
Dates vary

Open Access
Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy.
 
The database contains 102,000 abstracts, including selected technical reports, conference papers, monographs, and journal articles in earthquake engineering and related fields.
 
Reviews and links to quality engineering Web sites, as well as engineering search engines, indexes to print literature, and specialist information services.
Recommended resource
Ei Compendex
1884-current
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database with over eight million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings, dating from 1884 forward.
 
Citations it materials engineering, taken from over 1,300 journals, dissertatinos, government reports and conference proceedings.
 
Searches the full text of over 250 free engineering e-journals, which are listed in the EEVL catalogue of engineering resources.
Recommended resource
Search environment for Ei Compendex and Ei Inspec, also covering engineering websites, CRC Handbooks, patents, and industry standards.
Recommended resource
ENGnetBASE
1990-current
Collection of over 320 engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Contains the subsets:CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE, ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE, MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE, and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE
 
Collection of environmental science handbooks published by CRC Press.
 
Coverage of the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production, with over 700 journals indexed.
 
Free resource featuring two extensive document collections in fire research, through FIREDOC and Building & Fire Research Laboratory Publications.
Recommended resource
Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
85th edition , 2004-2005
Online equivalent of the 84rd edition of this print classic.
Recommended resource
IEEE Xplore
1988-current

Please logout of IEEE Xplore once your session is finished.
Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
 
ILI Standards Infobase
Current

1 concurrent user maximum
The ILI standards database is a bibliographic standards database. It covers over 600,000 worldwide standards. Coverage extends across the industrialized world. ILI Standards Infobase is ONLY available through Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian. Please contact Jay for assistance accessing standards: phone: 215-895-1873 email: bhattjj@drexel.edu office: Hagerty Library, room 313
 
Provides full-text access to IoP's Journals of Physics series, as well as an alerting service feature.
Recommended resource
Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
 
MATERIALSnetBASE includes over 75 fully-searchable ebooks on the topics of Materials Science, Packaging, and all aspects of Engineering.
 
NASA Technical Report Server
Dates vary

Open Access
The NASA Technical Report Server is an experimental service that allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs.
 
NTIS is the federal government source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information by or for the U.S. government and complementary materials from international sources.
 
Contains a collection of calculated binary and ternary systems that are relevant to solders.
Recommended resource
CRC Encyclopedias and Handbooks covering polymer information .
 
Referex Engineering is a collection of over 300 engineering eBooks in 3 distinct collections.
 
Scifinder Scholar
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum;Users must be on campus to download and access SciFinder Scholar. If you are off campus, and would like to download this resource, you may do so through Drexel's Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. Scifinder Scholar is now also available in a web version here. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).
 
Scifinder Scholar Web Version (NEW!)

4 concurrent user limit. Password accessible.
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Includes access to current, high-quality scientific information and capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions. The web version allows for access to Scifinder without any software downloading. Also available in a downloadable version here
 
Scirus
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences.;Open Access
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites.
 
SPIE Web
Dates vary

Open Access
Provides access to over 90,000 SPIE abstracts from major SPIE publications.
 
SYNTHESIS is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.
 
U. S. Patents
1975-current
Contains all of the approximately 2.6 million U.S. patents issued since 1975.
 
U.S. Department of Energy
Dates vary

Open Access
Access to full-text DOE research and development reports.
 
Allows searching of more than 3 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.
 
USPTO Web Patent Databases
1976-current

Open Access
Includes: U.S. Patent Full Text Database, U.S. Patent Bibliographic Database, AIDS Patent Database

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