Library Guides: Mechanical Engineering: Finding Articles and Databases

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A list of databases to help you with your research in Mechanical Engineering. For additional information on how to search each database and use their unique search features be sure to look at the databases help, tools, search tips, and tutorials pages located on the front page of each database. These pages and videos will walk you through the different methods and terms used for basic searches, advanced searches, etc. in each database.

Compendex (Ei Village 2) This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary engineering journal articles and conference papers from 1884-Present.
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
ASME Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineer’s online journals conference papers.
ASME Digital Collection (mechanical engineering) contains full-text access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineer’s online journals since 1960 and conference papers since 2002.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Full-text of all Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers conference papers, standards, journals.
IEEE Xplore contains the full text of all IEEE & IET conference papers, and standards published since 1988 and all IEEE journals since 1884 & IET journals since 1988. The material can be accessed through a searchable database or by browsing. 100 concurrent users. Inactive users timeout after 15 minutes. NOTE: We do not have access to the following IEEE content: IEEE Draft Standards, IEEE eLearning Library and IEEE English for Engineering. Additionally, we do not have access to various 3rd party content hosted by IEEE.
NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) This link opens in a new window
Technical reports covering US government research, and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information.
NTRL is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest US government sponsored research, and worldwide scientific, technical, and engineering information.
ProQuest (Multiple Databases) This link opens in a new window
Search for social, political, or economic issues related to your topic.
Searches multiple ProQuest products, indexing 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. Keywords: news, New York Times, current events, contemporary issues, hot topics, English 15, CAS 100.
SAE Mobilus This link opens in a new window
Society of Automotive Engineers technical papers.
Full-text of all Society of Automotive Engineers technical papers from 1906 - present, journal articles from 1998 - present, Aerospace Standards from 1942-present, Ground Vehicle Standards from 1952-present, and current Aerospace Materials Specifications.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Publications on all areas of optics and photonics
The SPIE Digital Library contains the full text of all papers appearing in SPIE Proceedings and SPIE journals from 1998 to the present, plus a substantial amount of full text coverage going back to 1990. SPIE publications cover all areas of optics and photonics.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Use to find citations to relevant articles in all areas of science and engineering.
Web of Science provides access to: the Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-present; the Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-present; and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present. Web of Science indexes articles from thousands of journals and also indexes the citations used in those articles, thus allowing the user to see which papers have cited a core paper, and how many times a paper was cited in a given time period. Covers published content is almost every discipline.

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