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Key Article Databases

Engineering Village (Compendex, GeoRef, INSPEC & Knovel) This link opens in a new window
Engineering and related fields, 1884-present. Includes the databases Compendex and Inspec, and also searches Knovel.
Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-present), Data Citation Index (1900-present), Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present), Index Chemicus (1993-present), BIOSIS Citation Index (1926-present), Derwent Innovations Index (1963-present), MEDLINE® (1950-present), and more.
arXiv.org e-Print archive This link opens in a new window
Started in August 1991, arXiv.org is an electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

ADS Astrophysical Data System
Indexes major astronomy and astrophysics journals. The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.

Scitation This link opens in a new window
Covers research in the Physical Sciences from the American Institute of Physics (AIP)