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How to Find Journal Articles about Engineering

To find journal articles and other kinds of information, use databases and indexes. (Databases are the electronic versions of indexes.) 

Access Science is a good basic encyclopedia of science and technology.  It is a good place to look for overviews and basic information about a topic.  

It is also a good place for non-sci/tech students to get started on a science or technical research paper.

Annual Reviews provide analytic reviews in 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences disciplines.  Full text of back to the 1930s is available. 

Great places to find big overviews of a topic.  You can browse each volume or search across all the volumes and all issues. 

Applied Science and Technology is a great place for basic research for undergraduates.  Covers the main sci/tech journals and some society publications.  

Compendex covers 5,000+ engineering journals, trade magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and more.  It goes back to 1884 and has links to full text where available. 

Each chapter is a PDF file and is full-text searchable.

GeoBase covers earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography and oceanography.  Covers approximately 3,000 journals.

This database covers the main sci/tech journals, some society publications such as Science and Nature, and the Science Tuesday section of the New York Times. 

This database is great for non-science students to find sci/tech information. 

The database, produced by the American Geological institute, contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

IEEE Xplore contains the full text of all IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals, proceedings, and standards, from 1988+, and some earlier.  

In addition to electrical and computer   engineering, this database covers topics in biomedical and control engineering, remote sensing, imaging, acoustics, nanotechnolgoy, and more.

ICSD contains records of all inorganic crystal structures, with atomic coordinates, published since 1913.  You can also display the crystal structures.

INSPEC covers electrical, computer, control, biomedical engineering and information technology and physics. Coverage begins in 1969.  

Lexis/Nexis Environmental is divided into five parts:

1. Environmental Abstracts which contains scientific papers and reports
2. News, Journals, and Commentary, which is mostly legal environmental news
3. Codes and Regulations, which contains federal and state codes and regulations
4. Case Law and Agency Actions, which contains federal and state laws and agency actions
5. Waste and Materials, which contains federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information

MathSciNet covers the world's literature in mathematics and its applications, including engineering, statistics, operations research, and computer science.

Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals including defense Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Defense, Combat Edge,  Naval Forces, and more.

Search across all the electronic journals published by the Optical Society of America (OSA). 

NTIS contains abstracts of scientific and technical reports of the research performed by Federal Agencies and their contractors. Most of the agencies, including DOD, DOE, NIH, and DOT deposit their reports with NTIS. 

Also see our page about technical reports.

Web of Science provides a way to track who cited whom from 1945 to present.  Contains only journal citations, not conference proceedings. 

SciFinder is the world's largest and most current source of chemical information. It contains all types of inorganic and organic substances alloys, biosequences, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers, and salts.

It contains journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences from 1947 to the present.

SPIE Journals cover the broad field of optical science and engineering as well as the key disciplines of electronic imaging, biomedical optics, and microelectronics. The SPIE Digital Library also contains proceedings from 1998 to the present, starting with SPIE Volume 3245.

Indexes are the print equivalent of databases.  Use the print index when the electronic database doesn't go back far enough to cover the years you're looking for.    

The indexes below are only a partial list of the indexes available to researchers at JHU.  Please see your departmental librarian if you have questions or need suggestions for other indexes.    

Oceanographic Literature Review
Sci Ref GC1.D33

Covers aspects of ocean research.

Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
Sci Ref Q199.J68

Covers critically evaluated physcial and chemical property data; reviews of measurements and techniques. 

Science Abstracts: Physics and Electrical Engineering
Sci Ref QC1.S3

This is the print equivelent of INSPEC. Dates covered begin with Volume 1, 1898.

Landolt Bornstein
Sci Ref QC61.L25
Stacks QD65.L25

One of the most extensive sources of physical properties and related data. The series originated in 1883 and was in German. The new series, which is in English, is approximately 210 volumes. Data are presented along with the experimental conditions and methods of measurement and evaluation. It covers atomic and molecular physics; properties of matter in its aggregated states; astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics; general scientific methods, tools and data; elementary particles, nuclei, and atoms; molecules and radicals; condensed matter; physical chemistry; biophysics; and technology.

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