LibGuides: 2022 Fulbright Scholars: Find articles using databases

Recommended Library Databases

The list of library databases provided by the University of Texas at Austin is under Databases on the library homepage. The list of over 800 databases may be sorted and searched in various ways. Here are the ones that should be most helpful for finding papers within the literature of engineering and renewables:

The top indexes for engineering and science are:

Academic Search Complete
Interdisciplinary, with good coverage of engineering journals. However, this is primarily an index of journal and magazine articles -- not of conference papers.
Compendex
Indexes the research literature of engineering across disciplines. You may also choose to include Inspec and GeoRef in the same search. Formerly "Engineering Index."
GeoRef
Indexes the research literature of Geology and is the premier tool for this purpose. The default is to also search GeoRef alone but you may add in the content of Compendex and Inspec.
INSPEC
Important index to the world's literature in computer and control, physics, materials science, and electrical engineering. You may search only Inspec content or combine with Compendex and with GeoRef.
MathSciNet
Indexes the research literature of mathematics.
OnePetro
Important database for indexing the literature of petroleum engineering. With lots of full-text.
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)
PubMed
This is the freely available version of the premier index to the medical literature. Some prefer the subscription options -- see "Medline" in the databases list.
SciFinder
The primary tool for investigating the research literature of chemistry. Formerly "Chemical Abstracts."
Requires users to register with a utexas.edu email account.
TRID: The TRIS and ITRD Database
Indexes publications on transportation research.
Web of Science
Cross-discipline tool for investigating the literature of science and engineering. Includes a respected tool for investigating cited references.

Also notable:

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes the literature of architecture and planning.
Business Source Complete
Indexes both scholarly and popular material for research in the fields of business, management, marketing, and related subjects.
Building Green
Information for sustainable building.
GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly and other publications on "green" topics.

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