Web Resources for Engineering
Indexes : to Engineering
Periodical Articles : to Technical Reports
: to Patents : to News
or Business Articles | Associations
| Specialized Resources |
Engineering Web Guides
Indexes to Periodical Articles,
Technical Reports, and Patents
Indexes
to periodical articles for engineering
These indexes via the Web are available to Boise State
University students, staff and faculty. If you
are on the Main Boise State campus or the West campus, clicking on the
title links to the database. If you are off-campus, you will be
prompted for your Broncoweb login and password to validate that you are a
Boise State student, staff or faculty.
Compendex
& Inspec
Compendex covers periodical articles and conference papers for all
engineering disciplines. Over 5000 serials are included. See
INSPEC description below. Compendex and INSPEC are
searched jointly on the Engineering Village Platform.
IEEE
Xplore
IEEE Xplore is a repository of materials published by IEEE,
the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, and IEE, the
Institution of Electrical Engineers. The Albertsons Library subscription to
the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) includes full-text access to IEEE
Society-sponsored transactions, conference proceedings, IEE proceedings
journals, IEE conference proceedings and IEEE Standards. Most coverage
begins with 1988.
INSPEC
Primarily covers periodical articles and conference papers
but also includes some books, dissertations and reports. Over 4000
serials covering topics in electrical engineering, physics, computers and
control are included. Compendex and INSPEC are
searched jointly on the Engineering Village Platform.
Web of Science
Article information from approximately 8,500 journals in
sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities are included in
Web of Science. The main purpose of this index is the cited reference
search, which searches for the articles that have cited a particular
author's work, or a specific article.
Applied Science and Technology
Index
Covers periodical articles for all engineering and
engineering technology disciplines. 620 periodicals are included.
Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and
Technical Information
Energy
Citations
"..contains bibliographic records for energy and
energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of
Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research &
Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
The database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948
through the present, with continued growth through regular updates."
E-print
Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers
Find information BEFORE an article has been published.
This site searches several pre-print archives for computer sciences,
mathematics, nonlinear science, and physics, as well as repositories of
technical documents in several disciplines.
U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation
Research Board and the National Transportation Library
TRIS
Online
Identifies published research on transportation
topics. Material covered includes magazine and journal articles,
conference papers, technical reports and books.
Northwestern University Transportation Library
TRANweb
(Transportation Article File)
Produced and compiled by the Northwestern University
Tranportation Library, this database covers all aspects of traffic and
transportation in the periodical and conference literature.
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Technical Reports
NTIS (National
Technical Information Service)
Locate titles of technical reports produced from
government-sponsored research. Keyword, title and author searches of
reports from 1964 through current are available.
NTRS: NASA Technical
Reports Server
NASA's technical information including research reports,
journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos,
mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data, is
searchable and often retrievable from this server. A search using the
Advanced Search also searches scientific and technical information from
sites external to NASA.
OAIster
This database contains information about digital
resources that may be of interest to the scholarly community and whose
records are available through the Open Archives Initiative. These
resources may be freely available, or access restricted. Examples of the digital resources available
include electronic theses and dissertations, technical reports, and eprints. The source repositories are multidisciplinary. OAIster
began as a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library
Production Service.
Science
Accelerator
The Department of Energy's (DOE) search engine for
scientific and technical information produced by DOE-generated research.
Databases to be queried can be selected on the Advanced Search.
Science.gov
This search engine to United States government agencies
web sites includes several that cover technical reports such as the NASA
Technical Reports Server, STINET Report Collection (Defense Technical
Information Center unclassified documents and citations), USGS Water
Resource Reports, DOE Information Bridge and EPA Environmental
Information Management System.
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Patents
United States Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO)
Search the full-text of United States patents from 1976 to current at the
USPTO's official site. Images of patents from 1790 to current are also available
at this site, searchable by Patent Number or by the current Class/
Subclass.
Try the
Google Patent Search also, covering United States patents through
mid-2006.
esp@cenet: Europe's
Network of Patent Databases
Find information on patents from Europe, Japan, WIPO (World Intellectual
Property Organization), and the United States. Options include
searching in the original language of the patent, or searching using
English abstracts.
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News and Business
articles
Indexes
covering news articles
Recommended titles are:
Academic OneFile
Academic Search Premier
General Onefile
National Newspapers
Available to
Boise State University students, staff and faculty. If you
are on the Main BSU campus or the West campus, clicking on the title links
to the database. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted for
your Broncoweb login and password to validate that you are a Boise State
student, staff or faculty.
Indexes
covering business topics
Recommended titles are:
Business
Source Premier
Available to Boise State University students, staff and
faculty. If you
are on the Main BSU campus or the West campus, clicking on the title links
to the database. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted for
your Broncoweb login and password to validate that you are a Boise State
student, staff or faculty.
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ASCE (American Society of
Civil Engineers)
Also on this site: a search of Civil
Engineering Database (CEDB),
the ASCE database of publications and table of contents for ASCE
Journals. From campus, full-text for those journals to which the Library
subscribes is also available. (Students, staff and faculty of Boise
State University can use the Journal
Titles list to access the articles in these journals from off-campus).
ASME (American Society of
Mechanical Engineers)
Also on this site: Table of contents for ASME
Transaction journals' (from 2000 to current). From campus, full-text for
those journals to which the Library subscribes is also available.
(Students, staff and faculty of Boise State University can use the
Journals List to access the articles in these journals from off-campus).
IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
Also on this site: A link to IEEE
Xplore, the IEEE's database of publications containing IEEE
Journals, Magazines, Conference proceedings and standards. (To access
this content from off-campus, students, staff and faculty of Boise State
University can use the
Article Indexes
and Online Databases list, and select IEEE Xplore).
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International Tables for Crystallography
Produced by the International Union of Crystallography,
the description from the opening page states:
"The series comprises articles and tables of data relevant to
crystallographic research and to applications of
crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the
structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to
symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal
structure determination, and the physical and chemical
properties of crystals. Each volume also contains discussions of
theory, practical explanations and examples, all of which are
useful for teaching."
Alternate access is available through
SpringerLink. IUCr access includes pdf and html files
while SpringerLink provides pdf files only.
NIST
Online Databases
The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Data
Gateway provides free access to several online databases containing scientific
and technical data.
Science.gov
Provides access to a large range of science-related web
pages and databases from United States government agencies;
click here for the
full list.
Thomas Register of
American Manufacturing
One of the largest sources of product information for United
States manufacturing companies. The service is free but individual
registration is required.
Wiley
Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Use this website's index to the BSU Albertsons Library print
version of this encyclopedia (located in the Library at ref TK 9 .E53
1999). Articles on all aspects of electrical engineering and
related disciplines are available in this encyclopedia. Please note
that BSU Albertsons Library does not have access to the full-text electronic
articles on this website.
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Intute:
Science, Engineering and Technology
An excellent site to begin searching or browsing for engineering
information on the Web. Companies, University departments, Associations,
electronic magazines, information services and product catalogs are among
the many types of resources found here. A United Kingdom focus.
Scirus
This search engine concentrates on indexing and retrieving web pages with
scientific or technical information, including articles from journals,
preprints, and technical reports. Some of the full-text links are to
material that is licensed and only available to those with subscriptions.
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Page Creator: Beth Brin,
208-426-3136 Albertsons Library, Boise State University.
This page last modified:
01/30/08 10:47 AM
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