Engineering

A guide to selected engineering resources.

Starting points

Innovative thinking The resources and information in this guide provide a starting point for research in engineering. Other engineering and science guides offer additional specialized resources. For help, please contact your librarian or schedule an appointment.

Compendex
Compendex covers over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
8,500 highest-cited journals in science & engineering in 150 disciplines. 1900-present. In addition to searching by topic, can find who cited a paper. Offers good search analysis tools.
Inspec This link opens in a new window
Inspec provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts of the scientific and technical literature. Material covered includes journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, patents and books published around the world.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of journal citations; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.