Web of Science
Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international pro...
Materials Science and Engineering
Research and design of energy materials, computational materials, characterization methods, soft materials and biomaterials, structural materials, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. Below are resources for finding scholarly articles, trade publications, datasets, patents, standards, and technical reports.
Key Databases
The best first place to go if you're looking for research materials in this discipline.
Compendex
Coverage: 1884-present. Subject areas include nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical ...
Knovel scientific and engineering databases
A collection of full-text databases in the following subject areas: Adhesives, Sealants, Coatings & Inks; Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology; Ceram...
INSPEC
Coverage: 1896-present. Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering ...
NC State University Safety Data Sheets (SDS) Management System
Collection of over 500,000 material safety data sheets for chemical products. MSDS commonly contain information on chemical and physical properties; h...
Patents
- Derwent innovations index - The Derwent Innovations Index, available through the ISI Web of Knowledge interface, is a Web-access...
Standards
- ASTM compass - The ASTM Digital Library contains 1,500+ books, 16,800+ Journal Articles, and more than 47,000+ pape...
- Engineering workbench (formerly IHS specs & standards) - Includes full-text up to date standards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and...
Chemistry-Related
- SciFinder-n - SciFinder-n is the most comprehensive database for coverage of chemistry and chemical engineering. I...
- Reaxys - Use Reaxys to obtain checked physico-chemical data, preparation/reaction methods for pure compounds,...
- Cambridge structural database system - CSD is a repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic 3D crystal structures, containing o...
Materials Properties and Phase Diagrams
- Phase equilibria diagrams online - Retrieve over 23,000 diagrams previously published in over 21 ACerS/NIST Phase equilibria diagram vo...
- SpringerMaterials - SpringerMaterials includes the Landolt-Bèornstein New Series, the unique, fully evaluated data colle...
Other Peer-Reviewed Articles
- SciTech premium collection - "The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection da...
- IEEE Xplore - Provides full-image access to the publications of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics E...
- SPIE digital library - Contains full-text papers on optics and photonics from SPIE journals and proceedings published since...
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