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Finding Research Papers, Magazine Articles, & Newspaper Articles

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. These databases are some of our favorites.

You will get totally worn out if you use all of them, so it is better to focus your efforts. Academic Search Complete is a good place to start. Each of the others has a special job or feature.

Also, the Libraries offer many other databases which index articles. There's 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. (See below for some that may be of particular interest.)

Academic Search Complete
Interdisciplinary with good coverage of engineering and related subject areas. Much full-text.
Business Source Complete
Indexes the literature of business and management, with much full-text. Expect to find coverage of the business side of engineering topics.
Compendex
Indexes the research literature of engineering across disciplines. May be searched with Inspec and with GeoRef.
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INSPEC
Indexes the research literature of physics, control, and electrical & computer engineering.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Premier index to the research literature of medicine. Also available as MEDLINE (ISI) and (with some content differences) as PubMed.
Embase
Indexes the research literature of medicine. Overlaps with Medline/PubMed and also includes additional European and pharmaceutical literature.
Web of Science
Provides wide-ranging interdisciplinary subject indexing of the journal and conference literature. Especially important for its cited-reference search feature.
Factiva
A full-text service, including access to business journals, wire services, and newspapers. Has the full text of the Wall Street Journal. Expect news updates and longer pieces of analysis.
Nexis Uni
Full-text service. Includes a wide range of sources, including news outlets from around the world, U.S. newspapers from larger and smaller markets, and legal publications.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Aims to help researchers get the other point of view.
CQ Researcher
In-depth analysis of each examined topic.
Gale in Context: Science
Brings together information on current topics of interest in science and technology.

This is a special category of databases. The databases focus on the publications from one or a few societies. Be sure to also use a more comprehensive indexing product (such as Compendex) to include more complete coverage of the literature.

SAE Mobilus
Society of Automotive Engineers conference and journal papers.
OnePetro
From the Society of Petroleum Engineers, with indexing and full-text of their papers and journals. Also includes materials from a group of closely-related groups.
The following organizations are among those with their conference papers and technical documents indexed through OnePetro:
- American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
- American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
- NACE International (corrosion engineers)
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) **includes full-text
- Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
- The Society of Underwater Technology (SUT)
- World Petroleum Council (WPC)
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Library (Current)
Indexing --- along with lots of full text --- of the publications of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
IEEE Xplore
The full-text database of the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Content starts with electrical engineering and goes well beyond.

"Find it at UT"

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When you see Find it at UT, or a similar phrase, usually you will want to click on it. The hope is to find the text of a journal article or information about electronic holdings of a journal.

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