LibGuides: Aerospace Engineering: Articles and Journals

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Here is a list of recommended aerospace engineering databases, if you need assistance please contact the engineering librarians.

Aerospace Database
coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, and space sciences. Also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics.

Updated monthly. Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, and space sciences. Also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodical literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.
Aerospace Research Central
Full-text access for AIAA journals and meeting paper, since the start of the society in 1963.

Updated regularly. Provides a searchable interface to the Institute's publications, covering all aspects of aerospace. Full-text access for AIAA journals and meeting paper, since the start of the society in 1963.
The AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) publishes approximately 4000 papers, presented at 20 conferences, each year. The online version of the meeting papers allows access to full-text scanned images; browsing by author, title, and conference.
Compendex
a comprehensive database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. Also searches Inspec and Georef, unless excluded from the search.

Updated weekly. Ei Compendex indexes the research literature of the field of engineering. The product contains more than 17 million total records. Over a million new records, with abstracts, are added per year. More than 3,600 journals and 4,100 conference publications and trade magazines are currently indexed. Customizable e-mail or RSS alerts are available.
INSPEC
Primary index to the research literature of physics; electrical engineering; and computer and control engineering.

Updated weekly. Indexes the research literature of physics; electrical engineering and electronics; & computers and control. Offers over 15 million records and strong international coverage. The archive portion, which was formerly separate, is now integrated with the current file.
IEEE Xplore
provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and current IEEE standards covering electrical and computer engineering, electronics, computer science, and physics.

Updated daily. Provides full-text access to IEEE and IET (formerly IEE) journal articles and conference proceedings. Also includes IEEE technical standards and conference proceedings from VDE Verlag. Coverage is the research literature of electrical and computer engineering, electronics, computer science, aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, and transportation. Contains over three million records, with some content back to 1872. Also contains indexing from partner groups.
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SAE Mobilus
Cites mobility information used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space; also includes accident reconstruction and occupant protection and safety.

Updated regularly. Includes full text SAE technical papers (only those published by the SAE) and citations for SAE publications from 1906 to the present, as well as bibliographic references from ANSI, ASTM, International Organization for Standardization, National Protection Agency, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Cites mobility information used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space; also includes accident reconstruction and occupant protection and safety.
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SPIE Digital Library
SPIE journals and proceedings are core information resources for the subject areas of optics, photonics and imaging.

Updated regularly. Includes more than 350,000 technical papers. These papers were published either in the SPIE Proceedings series or in one of the nine SPIE journals. SPIE journals and proceedings are core information resources for the subject areas of optics, photonics and imaging.

Multidisciplinary databases

Academic Search Complete
Updated daily. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Web of Science
Covers more than 12,000 journals in all subject areas.

Updated weekly. Covers more than 12,000 journals in all subject areas. Also includes citations to conference proceedings. Choose Search in order to search the database by topic, author journal or address. This search includes articles, reports, books and book reviews and may be searched by keyword (topic searching), author (person searching), institution, or geographical area. Choose Cited Reference Search to search for articles that cite an author or work. This search includes the list of references at the end of articles and will allow you to search by the cited author, cited work, cited year or a combination of the three. Choose Advanced Search to combine aspects of the other two searches. The default selection for searching is for all the citation databases and for all years of coverage; both selections can be changed from the main search screen at the time that you select your search.
Annual Reviews Online
Includes the annual reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid Mechanics, Nuclear Science, Materials Research, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and much more.

Updated annually. Provides full text access to all volumes published by Annual Reviews. Covers topics in biomedical, physical and social sciences.

Technical reports can be extremely important sources of information, for more help with locating technical reports, including NASA reports, please use the tabs on the left hand side of this guide.

If you don't see a PDF or HTML link, connecting you to the full article, click the "Find it at UT" button to see if the article is available in another database or in print in one of the UT Libraries.

If it's only available in print, you can get it from the shelves or click the "Get a Scan" button and a library staff member will scan and email you the article (this could take a day or two).

Still can't find what you need?

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To see if we have a particular journal (i.e. Nature, ENR), either in print or electronic format, use the J ournals link.
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Journal Collections

Engineering Societies: see the print and full text holding for more than a dozen key engineering societies such as AIAA, ASCE, ASME, IEEE, SAE, SPE, SPIE and more!