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Best Systems Engineering Databases

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ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering    1981-present
US and UK research in emerging technologies including computing, electronics, biotechnology, medicine. construction, electrical and chemical engineering. Covers articles, tech reports, proceedings, etc.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)    1973-present
Over 40 science and technology databases in all subject areas. Menu allows searching multiple CSA databases at the same time.
Compendex    1964-present
Compendex, now part of Engineering Village, is a large interdisciplinary engineering database listing journal articles, technical reports and conferences, and adds over 220,000 new abstracts each year. Includes book reviews.
Digital Dissertations    1861-present
Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
ENGnetBASE     
An online database features 688 titles. Categories includes: Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, General, Industrial Engineering Management, Machine Design, Mechanical Engineering, Packaging, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering Communications, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing, Lasers & Optical Engineering, Manufacturing Processing, Nanoscience/Nanotechnology, Systems Engineering.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts (CSA)    1990-Present
Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
HCI Bibliography: Human-Computer Interaction Resources    
Human-Computer Interaction Resources. Contains Bibliography, HCI Columns and News, Developer Resources and etc.
INSPEC    1969-present
Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. Part of Engineering Village.
Good database for graduate research. Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, technical reports, and theses in computing, electrical engineering, physics.
NTIS - National Technical Information Service    1983-Present
NTIS contains bibliographic citations and summaries of U.S. Government-sponsored research, development, and engineering reports.
Risk Abstracts    1990-present
Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.
Safety Science and Risk    
Search for publications of all kinds on public health, safety, and industrial hygiene, including asbestos risk, aviation safety, disaster preparedness, risk management, insurance, and ergonomics.
TLCat    
Charged with improving the availability of transportation-related information needed by Federal, state, and local decision-makers, the National Transportation Library's (NTL) mission is to increase timely access to the information that supports transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer activities. The NTL was established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century and serves as a repository of materials from public, academic and private organizations.
TRIS Online    1960-Present
Contains records of published transportation research including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles.
TRIS Online provides access to almost 450,000 records of published transportation research. It also provides the value-added of links to the full text of public-domain documents or document suppliers.
Web of Science/Web of Knowledge    1981 - Present
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) a tool for journal evaluation (Used to find impact factors for journals), using citation data taken from over 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology is one of the components of this database. Good database for graduate research. Web of Science offers multidisciplinary searching and seamless access to cited reference searching. The WOS database includes bibliographic and citation information for articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals. Updated weekly.
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Online Book Catalogs
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology    
The Linda Hall Library, a private institution funded by endowment, serves the scientific research community as a resource for engineering and technical materials, including over 600,000 volumes, 1.1 million microforms, U.S. Patents since 1946, and subscriptions to 16,500 journals.
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Catalogue    
Search for books, technical reports, journals and conference proceedings in all areas of science, engineering, health sciences and agriculture.
Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog    
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. These resources include many hard-to-find and scarce items often not readily available elsewhere. UVA faculty and students may request books from CRL's collections via Interlibrary Services.
WorldCat    
Online catalog of books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide as catalogued by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Contains records from thousands of North American libraries.
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Systems Engineering Web Resources
EINet Galaxy - Human Factors and Human Ecology    
Web resource
WWW Virtual Library - Systems and Control Engineering    
A Control Engineering Library by the University of Cambridge - Department of Engineering
Yahoo Index - Quality Management    
Yahoo! search for quality control
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