Databases on Engineering Village

The interdisciplinary scholarly and technical literature in Compendex features content from the latest Engineering findings to historical research and innovations. Comprised of journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints, Compendex content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE and ACM.

It is a tool of choice for 85% of the Top 20* ranked Engineering schools in the US and 75% of the Top 20* ranked Engineering schools worldwide.

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Inspec is an intuitive, searchable database that covers a wide variety of fields.

• The Inspec database, created by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), contains over 22M records covering physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, information technology and more

• The Inspec Archive to extends coverage with 837,000 records dating back to 1898

• Inspec Analytics is a dynamic research intelligence tool based on the Inspec database and is fully integrated with Engineering Village to allows users to uncover trends and patterns

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The Ei Backfile provides a comprehensive, historical view of engineering innovations predating 1970. First published in 1884, the Engineering Index documented virtually every major engineering innovation from around the world, and covers the disciplines of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineering (electricity, coal mining , manufacturing, steel, bridge building, automotive, aerospace and transportation industries etc.).

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GEOBASE is a database of indexed research covering relevant international geoscience and geography literature, with an emphasis on human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and international development studies/impacts.

GEOBASE enables comprehensive geological evaluation of any desired region, including geological structure and relation to natural resources as well as linking resource management, transport, and regional and urban planning.

The content crosses subject, language and cultural boundaries, providing a unique research tool to users.

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The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database is the US Federal Government’s Clearinghouse for scientific, technical information (STEI) produced by or for Federal agencies, as such is the premier source of unclassified reports from the United States and international government agencies.

NTIS covers a range of subject areas including Electrotechnology, Energy and Health Care (subject list opens in new tab/window).

The database contains 2.6 million reports/items, of which 82% originate in the US and 18% come from other countries. 3,836 come from international organizations (see more opens in new tab/window).

Chemical Business NewsBase (CBNB) provides timely information for tracking market trends, commercial, and regulatory developments in the chemical and chemical engineering industry.

It includes financial and business data from influential chemical companies, the latest industry R&D news, intelligence on government legislation changes, and analysis of economic trend, score trade journals, newspapers, and company newsletters, news, in-depth commentary and insightful analysis regarding the chemical industry.

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