Engineering Databases

Name Description
AccessScience
Dates vary.

Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.

ASME Journals
Ei Compendex
1884-current

Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database with over eight million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings, dating from 1884 forward.

Engineering Village
Dates vary

Search environment for Ei Compendex and Ei Inspec, also covering engineering websites, CRC Handbooks, patents, and industry standards.

ENGnetBASE
1990-current

Collection of over 320 engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Contains the subsets:CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE, ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE, MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE, and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE

Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
85th edition , 2004-2005

Online equivalent of the 84rd edition of this print classic.

IEEE Xplore
1988-current

Please logout of IEEE Xplore once your session is finished.

Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.

INSPEC
1896-current

Bibliographic database providing access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.

knovel
Dates vary

Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.

POLYMERSnetBASE
Current

CRC Encyclopedias and Handbooks covering polymer information .

Name Description
ACM Digital Library
1985-current

The ACM (Association for Computing machinery) Digital Library includes abstracts, reviews, and the full-text articles published in ACM periodicals, transactions, and proceedings since 1985.

ACS Journals Online
Dates vary

Contains full text articles for the more than 30 American Chemical Society journals and magazines.

AES On-line Electronic Library

Full text of the Audio Engineering Society journals, convention preprints, and conference papers, over 3,100 articles.

AIP Journals Online
Dates vary

Fulltext online versions of AIP journals published by the American Institute of Physics.

Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals
1990-current

Open Access

The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

Aluminum Industry Abstracts
1972-current

Provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments.

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conferences Searchable Database
1996-current

Open Access

Full text papers of ASEE conference proceedings from 1996 to present.

Applied Science and Technology Retrospective
1913 - 1983

1 user maximum

Provides access to seven decades of information from the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field - many of them peer-reviewed journals. Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983).

Ceramics Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
1975-current

Comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics.

Chemical Abstracts (Scifinder Scholar Web Version)
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum. Password Accessible

Web Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online in Scifinder Scholar. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).

CHEMnetBASE
Current

CRC Handbooks in chemistry.

ChemVillage
Dates vary

Search environment for Chimica, Beilstein Abstracts, chemical news, patents, and selected CRC Press handbooks.

CIS2 Visual Interoperability Testbed
Current

Open Access

The CIMSteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) is the logical product model and electronic data exchange format for structural steel project information.

Community of Science (old COS interface)
Dates vary

includes COS Expertise and COS Workbench

The Community of Science researcher database lets you identify and locate researchers with interests and expertise similar to your own. It contains over 40,000 first-person expertise records. Users may limit retrieval to a particular location or institution and may also add their own record to the database.

Composites Industry Abstracts
1986-current

Subset of the Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA) database that focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.

Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) Project Web Site
Current

Open Access

The CFTT is designed to provide a measure of assurance in the results of investigations based on automated tools used in computer forensics examinations. Provides several links to testing reports and projects underway in the field.

Copper Data Center Database
1965-current

The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965.

Corrosion Abstracts
1980-current

Source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering.

Database for Solder Properties with Emphasis on New Lead-free Solders
Current

Open Access

On-line database for solder properties emphasizing new lead-free solders.

Database of the Thermophysical Properties of Gases Used in the Semiconductor Industry
Current

Open Access

Contains transport and thermodynamic property data for the gases used in semiconductor processing.

Department of Energy Information Bridge
1995-current

Open Access

Provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports.

Design Institute for Physical Properties (DIPPR) Project 801
2008

This 2005 Edition of DIPPR Project 801 (Full Version) Database is a renowned source of Evaluated Process Design Data of physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties for industrially important chemicals used in chemical process and equipment design. The DIPPR Project 801 Database consists of experimental data and, when necessary, estimated values that have been reviewed to ensure the greatest accuracy possible. Also included are temperature-dependent correlation coefficients, references, data quality codes, background information, such as molecular structure, synonyms, hazard properties, miscellaneous properties, notes, and explanations. This 2008 update of DIPPR?801 features over 100 newly added compounds the latest version of DIPPR 801 contains data for 34 constant properties as well as molecular structure, synonyms, hazard properties, miscellaneous properties, notes, etc. in 4 interactive tables and 15 temperature-dependent property tables.

E-Print Network
Dates vary

Open Access

Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
1971-current

The database contains 102,000 abstracts, including selected technical reports, conference papers, monographs, and journal articles in earthquake engineering and related fields.

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Database
Dates vary

Open Access

Reviews and links to quality engineering Web sites, as well as engineering search engines, indexes to print literature, and specialist information services.

Engineered Materials Abstracts
1986-current

Citations it materials engineering, taken from over 1,300 journals, dissertatinos, government reports and conference proceedings.

Engineering E-journal Search Engine (EESE)
Dates vary

Open Access

Searches the full text of over 250 free engineering e-journals, which are listed in the EEVL catalogue of engineering resources.

ENVIROnetBASE
Current

Collection of environmental science handbooks published by CRC Press.

Environmental Engineering Abstracts
1990-current

Coverage of the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production, with over 700 journals indexed.

Fire Research Information Services (FRIS)
Dates vary

Open Access

Free resource featuring two extensive document collections in fire research, through FIREDOC and Building & Fire Research Laboratory Publications.

ILI Standards Infobase
Current

1 concurrent user maximum

The ILI standards database is a bibliographic standards database. It covers over 600,000 worldwide standards. Coverage extends across the industrialized world. ILI Standards Infobase is ONLY available through Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian. Please contact Jay for assistance accessing standards: phone: 215-895-1873 email: bhattjj@drexel.edu office: Hagerty Library, room 313

Institute of Physics (IoP) Journals Online
Dates vary

Provides full-text access to IoP's Journals of Physics series, as well as an alerting service feature.

Materials Research Database
1966-current

Contains the majority of the leading materials science databases, and includes over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports.

MATERIALSnetBASE

Dates vary

MATERIALSnetBASE includes over 75 fully-searchable ebooks on the topics of Materials Science, Packaging, and all aspects of Engineering.

NASA Technical Report Server
Dates vary

Open Access

The NASA Technical Report Server is an experimental service that allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs.

Phase Diagrams and Computational Thermodynamics - Solder Systems
Current

Open Access

Contains a collection of calculated binary and ternary systems that are relevant to solders.

Referex Engineering
Dates vary

Referex Engineering is a collection of over 300 engineering eBooks in 3 distinct collections.

ScienceDirect
1995-current

ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.

Scifinder Scholar Web Version
Current

4 concurrent user limit. Password accessible.

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Includes access to current, high-quality scientific information and capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions. The web version allows for access to Scifinder without any software downloading.

Scirus
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences.

A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites.

Scitopia

Scitopia.org searches the entire electronic libraries of the leading voices in major science and technology disciplines and provides relevant results. More than three and a half million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 350 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

SPIE Web
Dates vary

Open Access

Provides access to over 90,000 SPIE abstracts from major SPIE publications.

Synthesis: The Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Current

SYNTHESIS is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.

U.S. Department of Energy
Dates vary

Open Access

Access to full-text DOE research and development reports.

USPTO Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
1975-current

Open Access

Allows searching of more than 3 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.

USPTO Web Patent Databases
1976-current

Open Access

Includes: U.S. Patent Full Text Database, U.S. Patent Bibliographic Database, AIDS Patent Database

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