For help in finding articles, we recommend using indexing tools. Some indexes only index; some index and include text for some of the articles. Always, though, you should see the citation for the article. This helps find the text for the article in the UT subscriptions. Here are databases we especially recommend to you:
Multidisciplinary and including more popular sources:
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.
Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals. Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.
Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
This database was formerly called Dow Jones Interactive.
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Subject specific and usually research oriented:
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.
Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Citations are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations.
MEDLINE has worldwide coverage, but 88% of the citations in current MEDLINE are to English-language sources and 76% have English abstracts.
NLM provides free access to MEDLINE through PubMed.
The Web of Science platform currently provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record
Also, the Libraries offer many other databases that index articles. There is a big list. Included in these databases are full-text products from society publishers such as the American Chemical Society (ACS), IEEE, ASME, ASCE, and others.
Special for statistical information:
Statista includes data on more than 85,000 topics from 18,000 sources. About 20 percent of the total data in Statista comes from sources available free online, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Census, but the data also includes numerous exclusive sources which include industry, marketing, and trade groups. Much of the data is related to marketing, demographic, government and industry information, and is international in scope. Data can be downloaded in JPG, PowerPoint and Excel.
While historical and time series data are not a focus of Statista, the metadata about each table provides all the necessary information to go to the table’s source, where historical information may be available.
Encyclopedias can be helpful as you start your research. They provide background information on a topic; list key terms, facts, statistics, and definitions; and suggest additional resources.
Library Encyclopedias
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Wikipedia
TIPS:
Can’t find what you are looking for?
Also:
Each book includes an "About this book" page with basic bibliographic data like title, author, publication date, length and subject. For some books, additional information like key terms and phrases, references to the book from scholarly publications or other books, chapter titles and a list of related books.
Government websites are generally considered reliable and important sources of information. The government might be international, federal, state, or local. Types of information include statistics, technical reports, data, court cases, and patents.
Any Google search may be filtered with a site limit. This would usually be "site:gov" (for government) and could be "site.mil" (for military).
Plus, here are some
For searching across multiple websites
Valuable for agency information, reports, and statistics --- just a few agencies and sites
We expect a company's website to be a good source of information about the company. Bias on behalf of the company is to be expected. Remember to be a careful consumer but look for statements company representatives make about the history, values, and outlook of the organization. Sometimes you will be able to compare what the company website says about these topics to what others say from outside sources.
If you use Wikipedia, remember --- as always --- to be a cautious consumer. Be careful of bias by omission or by over-emphasis on certain details. Look at the list of sources to follow-up on leads.
You may find lists like the Forbes Global 2000: The World’s Best Regarded Companies 2019. This is information collected by a well-known business magazine and made freely available. You may gain insights.
Perhaps you are thinking about what goes into training engineers. You might want to look into what ABET requires for accrediting programs of undergraduate engineering education or refresh your memory on the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics.
Read through your articles/websites and pull out important and related terms and synonyms to use as keywords when searching the library's databases.
Think of the scientific or technical term for common or controversial words, for example:
A good place to look for related terms is in the article record within the library databases, for example:
Try to avoid generic words like pros and cons or advantages and disadvantages. While these terms may work in Google, they are typically not helpful when using our library databases.
Spell out acronyms, especially if they have common alternative meanings
Add additional terms to refine your results
Combine terms using AND and OR
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Example Search
Search Term | Hits |
gmo | 3,083 |
"genetically modified organisms" | 2,502 |
(gmo OR "genetically modified organisms") | 4,380 |
(gmo OR "genetically modified organisms") AND hunger |
34 |
(gmo OR "genetically modified organisms") AND (hunger OR famine) | 40 |
(gmo OR "genetically modified organisms") AND (hunger OR famine OR drought) | 96 |
Where is the article?
Already have a citation?
TIP: Paste the title of the citation into Google, for example, "Cybersecurity skills: Foundational theory and the cornerstone of advanced persistent threats (APTs) mitigation".
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If we don't have an article or book:
Terminology for Ethics and Values
Databases for Finding Journal Articles Concerning Engineering Ethics
Some Websites
Some Journals Focusing on Ethics in Science
For Books Discussing Ethics in Engineering
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