Research Guides: Mining Engineering: Article Databases

Article Databases

Engineering, Geosciences, Chemistry, and related article databases.

Compendex
Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
GeoRef
GeoRef is the most comprehensive bibliographic database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 100,000 references a year.
Knovel
Engineering database covering foundational knowledge with tools for charts, equations, plotters and graphs. Also includes material properties and formulations.
SciFinder-n
Online access to Chemical Abstracts. If you are a first-time user, you must register to use. To use this registration, you must be on the University of Kentucky campus network, be a UK student or faculty or staff, and you must have an active UK email address. Learn more about SciFinder.
Engineering Index
Includes METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, and conference proceedings.
Scopus
Scopus is an abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature that contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Scopus is a citation index which helps in determining the impact of articles and journals by highlighting which titles are most cited within a field.
Web of Science Core Collection
Web of Science Core Collection indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines.

Open Indexes

OneMine
Comprehensive index of conference and journal articles, technical reports, and pre-prints from various technical societies in the Mining and Minerals industry.

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Full-text available with OneMine.org membership or use UKY Interlibrary Loan to request documents. https://lib.uky.edu/ILLiad/
engrXiv
search article pre-prints (submitted papers before peer-review/publication)

How to get full-text

The View Now UK button appears next to citations on many of your database search results. Click the button to access full text article or to submit a request.

The LibKey browser extension provides one-click access to available library resources when you're searching the open web (including Google Scholar). View a quick installation tutorial.

UK Libraries Interlibrary Loan

Use interlibrary loan (ILL) to request materials directly.