Research Guides: Electrical Engineering: Finding Articles

Databases

Search for journal articles, conference papers, and research reports in these databases. For a complete list of databases for Computer Science & Engineering, please see U-M Library Databases Search. (If you already have a citation and wish to find the article in the library, please use the MGet It MGet It.)

Electronics & Communications Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Major areas of coverage include: circuits, components and materials, photonics, control and systems, telecommunications, telecommunications equipment and instrumentation, power systems, theoretical, and electronics and communications milieux.
Engineering Village (Compendex) This link opens in a new window
Provides international coverage of engineering and applied science literature in over 5000 journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
Google Scholar @ U-M (with U-M Ann Arbor MGet It Links) This link opens in a new window
Searches for scholarly documents on the web, with the added feature of "Availability at UMichigan" links.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, standards and online courses, plus related e-books.
INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Covers the world-wide literature (mainly journal articles and conference proceeding papers) in astronomy, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.
NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) This link opens in a new window
Serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Includes over 70,000 full-text papers from SPIE journals and proceedings published since 1962.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Web of Science (All Databases) This link opens in a new window
Cross-search access to: Web of Science, BIOSIS, Zoological Record, MEDLINE, etc.

Citation Management Tools

The library can help you with different tools for managing your footnotes and creating bibliographies. Those tools are EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley. Expert help is available from Scholarspace.

EndNote
You buy the software and install it on your computer. See the EndNote guide for more information.
Zotero
A free Firefox extension that you use on your own computer, not library or Sites machines. It's good for citing web resources but still in beta. Visit the Zotero guide for more information.
Mendeley
Mendeley is a citation management tool that lets you collect and organize citations, and then easily insert them into documents and format bibliographies. Visit the Mendeley guide for more information.

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