Research Guides: Engineering: Article Databases

General Engineering Article Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Massive collection of scholarly materials covers virtually all topic areas. Content, including articles, proceedings, and more, is pulled from various collections and is cross-searchable.
Knovel Library This link opens in a new window
An extensive collection of reference eBook titles in science and engineering. Content includes data handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, monographs, conference proceedings and datasets. Many of the reference works are embedded with Knovel's productivity tools for data analysis.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Science Reference Center contains monographs, journals and magazines, and reference works on scientific topics including physical sciences, life sciences, and earth and space science.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of full-text journal articles and e-books related to science, technology, engineering, medicine, social social sciences, fine arts and humanities.

Specific Areas of Engineering

Audio Engineering Society (AES) This link opens in a new window
Full text of the Audio Engineering Society journals, convention preprints, and conference papers on audio forensics, networking, production and recording, semantic analysis and deep learning, sound quality and music recording for audio engineers, creative artists, scientists and students worldwide.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text access to the SPIE Ebooks, journals and proceedings, covering the subject areas of optics, photonics and imaging.
ASME Digital Library This link opens in a new window
ASME Digital Library (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) access to all the journals and conference proceedings published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
OVID This link opens in a new window
A large, searchable collection of biomedical books, journals, technical reports, and information sheets.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full text articles published in ACM journals, transactions and conference proceedings since the founding of ACM in 1947, together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
Computer Info Systems and Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Hardware, Computer systems organization, Networks, Mathematics of computing, Information systems, Human-centered computing, Computing methodologies, Applied computing, math, Accessibility and Computing, Ada Programming Language, Algorithms & Computation Theory, Applied Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Architecture, Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education, Computer-Human Interaction, Computers and Society
TRID U.S. Department of Transportation This link opens in a new window
TRID is an integrated article index that combines the records from Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.

Computer Science Related

Computer Science This link opens in a new window
Index to articles and reviews, many articles available on line, on computer-related topics.

Doing Effective Searches

You can save time and get better information by learning how to apply Boolean logic and other search strategies to your online searches. All keyword searches use some form of Boolean logic.

Boolean Logic allows you to combine keywords to make a search more precise. The three combinations are: AND, OR, NOT

AND - Narrows a search

example: bridges AND stress -- will retrieve all articles with both bridges and stress in the article.

OR - Expands a search

example: stress OR fatigue - will retrieve all articles with just stress, all articles with just fatigue, and all articles with both stress and fatigue.

NOT - Removes a term from a search

example: stress NOT fatigue -- will retrieve all articles about stress but remove all articles with any mention of fatigue. Use NOT sparingly because you often lose many useful pieces of information.

You can combine and, or, or not in your searches by using parentheses.
Example: bridges AND (stress OR fatigue) -- will retrieve articles on bridges and stress and bridges and fatigue.