Last updated: 2/15/08
Reference Databases Engineering & Technology

  American Chemical Society Web Editions

Full-text access to the latest four years of the journals published by the American Chemical Society. Browse tables of contents or search for current or archival articles by author or keyword.

  Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCOhost)

Covers foreign and domestic car models from 1946 to present. Provides repair procedures, service bulletins & recalls, wiring diagrams, labor, specifications, and maintenance intervals. Enter your 14 digit Providence Public Library barcode when prompted.

 

  CiteSeer.IST Scientific Literature Digital Library

Offered by the NEC Laboratories America and Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology, this database is a free, full-text index of computer science research articles. Allows for citation searching and linking. Updated daily.

  Compendex (Engineering Village 2)

Indexing and abstracts of professional magazines and scholarly journals in engineering. 1970-. Updated weekly. [user guide]

  DOE Information Bridge

Indexes Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored scientific and technical reports. Replaces the print publication Energy Research Abstracts. 1995-. Updated weekly.

  Energy Citations Database

Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), this database indexes and provides abstracts for technical reports in energy-related disciplines. Includes links to full text when available. 1948-.

  IEEE Xplore (IEEE)

Full-text access to the latest five years of IEEE journals, magazines, and transactions, including IEEE Spectrum Magazine. (Note that conference proceedings are not included in URI’s subscription.) Browse tables of contents or search for articles by author or keyword.

 

  Inspec (EBSCOhost)

Inspec is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world’s scientific and technical literature. Inspec provides coverage from over 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports in the subject areas of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, and production, mechanical engineering, and more. This database is produced by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers). 1969-. [user guide]

  NACA Technical Report Service

Index and digitized database of reports produced by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), NASA’s predecessor. 1917-1958.

  National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

A title keyword index to over 750,000 NTIS reports, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual materials. 1990-. (For full text access, see NTIS/GPO Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS), below.)

 

  NTIS/GPO Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS)

Full text access to online NTIS reports.  May be searched by keyword, author or title. 1990-.  One simultaneous user only. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access. (See also National Technical Information Service (NTIS), above.)

  NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server

Database of NASA-produced literature. Also indexes selected aerospace-related reports from other government agencies. Selected historical reports back to 1958 are included.

  SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)

Indexes 1,600 key chemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering journals and selectively indexes 8,000 more, plus conference proceedings, patents, technical reports, and other materials. Also contains information on chemical substances and reactions, regulations, and chemical suppliers. 1907-. Updated daily. One simultaneous user only. [user guide]

  ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Science Direct is a collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users from 1995 to the present. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.

 

  SIAM Journals Online

“The accelerated electronic journals of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.” Online full text of thirteen SIAM journals. Keyword searching available.

  Textile Technology Index (EBSCOhost)

Contains indexing and abstracting for over 400 periodical titles and for thousands of titles drawn from sources such as books, conferences, theses, technical reports, and trade literature on topics relating to the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Coverage is international in scope and includes related subjects such as the management of textile production and the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries. [user guide]

  TRANweb Transportation Article File

TRAN, produced by the Northwestern University Transportation Library, is an index of transportation and law enforcement articles and conference proceedings.

  TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service)

Offered by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, this site indexes and abstracts transportation research covered in books, journal articles, technical reports. Other media, federal, state, local, and association publications and conference proceedings are also covered. The database extends from the 1960s to the present, with some coverage before 1960.

 

  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Databases

Full text database of all U.S. patents issued since 1790.

 

  Web of Science (ISI)

Web access to ISI citation databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Contains citations to articles from nearly 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. The ability to search by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research. 1998-. Updated weekly. [user guide] [online tutorial]