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Engineering & Physics Librarian

Andrew Wohrley

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Subjects:Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Physics

Subject Databases

Engineering Village
Indexes engineering and technology journals, reports, monographs and conference proceedings from 1970 to the present. (3 simultaneous users)
IEEE Xplore
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards; brings additional search and access features to IEEE/IEE electronic library users. 15 Simultaneous Users

Polymers: A Property Database

SciFinder
The most important database for chemistry, SciFinder Web covers articles, patents, book chapters, conference proceedings, and dissertations that have been indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service from 1907 to the present. Search by keyword, structure, reaction, chemical name or CAS Registry Number. SciFinder indexes articles in the publications of many fields in addition to chemistry if they describe new chemistry. These fields include agriculture, biology, engineering, medicine, physics, textiles, and veterinary medicine. First time users must create a user name and password. (7 simultaneous users)

AFLOW
Materials Science physical property database
Matmatch
A materials science physical properties database
Materials
Papers published by the National Academy of Sciences on the topic.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a large multi-disciplinary database containing full text for thousands of publications, many of which are peer-reviewed. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Web of Science
Web of Science is the online version of the print and CD-ROM versions of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & humanities citation index; Science citation index (called Science citation index expanded, in online version); and, Social sciences citation index. (5 simultaneous users)
Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses includes the full text of most U. S. dissertations and master's thesis from 1995 forward. The database also includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.

National Academy Press
Publisher for the National Academy of Sciences policy papers.
Registry of Open Access Repositories
Global list of Open Access Repositories
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Global list of Open Access Repositories searchable by name of repository and browseable by geography.
EThOS: e-theses online service
Searchable database of recent UK dissertations.
DART-Europe E-these Portal
Provides a single point for searching recent European theses and dissertations.
Cite Seer X
A database for organizing current computer science research.
WorldWideScience.org: The Global Science Gateway
"A global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals." Provides documents and citations from scientific repositories around the world.
OSTI.gov
OSTI.gov is a portal to free, publicly available DOE research and development (R&D) results.
SHARE
Indexes online Open Access and copyright free information with DOI links to full-text.
TechRxiv preprint server
A new engineering preprint server.

Reference Tools

Journals

To search for articles, use the Indexes and Databases section of this guide. Selected Materials Engineering Journals at AU Libraries.

[These are selected titles that we are currently subscribing to in paper format in the library; call numbers are included.] Please note: If you don't see the journal that you need on the above lists, always be sure to check AubieCat. By doing a "journal title" search in that database, you will get the call number for any paper subscription and/or a link to any electronic subscription.

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