These are primary databases that contain information specifically useful to all engineering as well as tools for organizing your research.
Engineering Databases
General engineering databases. Please see individual research guides by topic for specific databases in your subject area or major.
- IEEE Xplore Multidisciplinary engineering database covering electronics, electrical engineering, robotics, aerospace, animation, physics, biomedical engineering and more.
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- Compendex This link opens in a new window Primary engineering database, coverage from 1884 forward.
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- Scopus SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Extensive interdisciplinary database containing scholarly scientific research articles.
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- BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts/RRM BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts encompass the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world’s published biological and biomedical research. They include traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included.
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- ProQuest Engineering, Materials and Dissertations Article Databases 5 Sci-Tech groups of article databases as well as NTIS and PQ Dissertations & Theses Global which are not included in the ProQuest Engineering Collection
- NTIS Database (National Technical Information Service) Technical reports and other government documents from the United States agencies and departments.
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Research Tools
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Find out the journal impact factor here!
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- EndNote EndNote is a powerful software application used to manage personal databases of citations from sources such as journals, books, or websites. EndNote can input records from online bibliographic databases; organize references, images and PDFs; and be used to create bibliographies and figure lists. It is a valuable tool for anyone maintaining large research databases or publishing frequently. The University of Kentucky has a site license and makes the software available to download for free: https://download.uky.edu/.
Search Tips
- Setting Up Search Alerts in Engineering Databases If you have a research interest but not a lot of time to search the literature regularly, here is the easiest way to stay up to date. Every database lets you set up an account and when you do that you can set up automatic search alerts. Initially run a search in your database of choice. Once you fine-tune your search strategy and are seeing the results you want, save it as an alert. The database will send you results each time they update their database - each one is unique so read carefully so you know how often to expect results. They will email you any new article citations matching your search strategy. Easy peasy!