Research Guides: Engineering 100 Section 120: Finding Articles

Finding Articles

Search for journal articles, conference papers, and research reports in these databases. For a complete list of databases for Materials Science and Engineering, please see Library Databases Search.

Engineering Index (Compendex) [Engineering Village platform]
Engineering Index (Compendex) provides international coverage of engineering and applied science literature in over 5000 journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
Inspec (on Engineering Village)
Covers the world-wide literature (mainly journal articles and conference proceedings papers) in astronomy, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.

SciFinder
The most comprehensive database for the chemical literature, searchable by topic, author, substances by name or CAS Registry Number, OR use the editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions. It is a core research tool for chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physics, environmental science and other science and engineering disciplines.

Proquest Technology collection
This database combines full text journals with indexing of global literature on technology and applied science, including materials science, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, condensed matter physics, computer science and electronic engineering. It fully incorporates ProQuest Engineering Collection, ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection, ProQuest Materials Science Collection along with deep indexing of technology scholarship and research.
NTRL (National Technical Reports Library)
Serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available

Scopus
International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Web of Science
Covering 12,000+ scholarly journals, plus selected books and published conference proceedings in all academic disciplines, the Web of Science Core Collection combines seven citation indexes which permit searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, journal, and author address.
Google Scholar @ U-M (with U-M Ann Arbor MGet It Links)
Searches for scholarly documents on the web, with the added feature of "Availability at U-Michigan" links.

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