You are here: ASTech > Engineering Library > Find > Databases by Discipline The databases below are intended to get you quickly started with your research in the various engineering disciplines. They index journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. For a more complete listing of engineering resources, see our Engineering Research Guides. Search articles from the library catalog is another quick way of searching, but does not cover all the databases. Help is available at engranswers@cornell.edu and (607) 255-5935.
| Engineering Field | Recommended Database | | All Inclusive Science and Engineering Indices | Web of Science, Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS, Google Scholar | | Applied and Engineering Physics | INSPEC, Scitation (AIP journals) | | Automotive and Transportation Engineering | TRB Publications Index, and SAE Publications and Standards Database (CD), Compendex (Engineering Village 2) | | Biological and Environmental Engineering | Agricola, Compendex | | Biomedical Engineering | Compendex, PubMed, Medline, Biosis, VIVO | | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Compendex, SciFinder Scholar | | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Compendex, ASCE's Civil Engineering Database, NTIS, National Water Information System
| | Computer Science | INSPEC, IEEE Xplore, ACM Portal, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, Safari Books Online, Books24x7.com, Synthesis CIS Collection
| | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | GeoRef | | Electrical and Computer Engineering | IEEE xplore, INSPEC | | Energy | NTIS, DOE Information Bridge, Compendex, Energy Citations Database | | Materials Science and Engineering | INSPEC | | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Compendex, AIAA Online Meeting Papers
| | Operations Research and Information Engineering | Compendex, JSTOR, International Abstracts in Operations Research | | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics | Compendex, MathSciNet, INSPEC | | | | Other Resources
| | | Business, trade and scholarly journals, newspapers |
Business Source Premier, ProQuest Direct, ProQuest Historical (NY Times), Lexis/Nexis, Readers Guide Retrospective
| Census Data
| American Factfinder
| | E-Books | Knovel, Books24x7.com, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, Synthesis CIS Collection,
and Safari Books Online
| | E-Journals | see e-Journals title list
| | Encyclopedias and Handbooks
| AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Knovel | | Patents
| Google Patents, Patent Lens, MicroPatent, PatentFetcher, more | | Standards
| ANSI database of many standards
| | Technical Reports
| NTIS (National Technical Information Service), DOE Information Bridge, NASA, Technical Reports Guide
| | Theses
| Proquest Digital Dissertations, Cornell Dissertations (selected full-text from 1996), www.theses.org | | World Library Catalog
| WorldCat (OCLC) | |
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