Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Resources  Tags: engineering mechanical_engineering aerospace_engineering  

If you see this icon next to the record for a journal article in one of our databases, click on it to see if the full-text is available online through the library. If there is no full-text available, SULinks will also allow you to check the catalog for print holdings, or request your article through interlibrary loan.

Google Scholar misses a lot of important publications, and retrieves a lot of irrelevant and redundant material, but it's great for a quick and dirty search for something very specific

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     The world's best indexes to the engineering literature:

• Compendex
  Indexes many types of publications in all areas of engineering. Coverage from 1884. Updated weekly
  
  
• Scopus
  The world's largest interdisciplinary literature database. Includes international patent searching. Coverage from 1960. Records from 1996 forward include links to both cited and citing publications
  
  
• See below for a quick tutorial on how to search Scopus
  
  

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  Other important databases for mechanical & aerospace engineering:
  
  
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
  Full text access to nearly one million dissertations published from 1997. Abstracts only for earlier dissertations and for masters theses
  
  
• Inspec
  Covers physics, electrical engineering, electronics and computer science. Records from 1896. Updated weekly
  
  
• MADCAD
  Cross-referenced, full-text collections of NY State building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes
  
  
• NASA Technical Reports Server
  Citations and full-text of unclassified reports. Includes mission-related operational documents and preliminary data
  
  
• NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
  Index to unclassified reports from many U.S. and international government agencies
  
  
• Web of Science
  Search for citations to articles in top-ranked, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage from 1985
  
  

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  A good starting point for undergraduate research:
  
  
• Applied Science Full Text
  Index to articles in engineering, technology and science journals since 1983