UCF Research Guides: Engineering Databases: Engineering

Engineering Databases

Civil, Environmental & Construction

ASCE Digital Library
Civil Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest) (1966+)
"This database provides indexing and abstracts from more than 4,000 current serial and non-serial titles, including content from ASCE and ICE. The database currently includes over 1M records from periodicals, conference papers, trade journals, magazines, books, patents and technical reports, with indexing back to the early 1960s. It covers all civil aspects from architecture, structural design and construction engineering to environmental, seismic engineering and forensics."
Compendex (Ei Engineering Village) (1884+)
Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
DataOne
Environmental Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest) (1990+)
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Environmental Impact Statements: Digests (ProQuest) (1985+)
IET Digital Library
"The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by the world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader – the IET."
Topic areas include:
- Computing
- Control, Robotics & Sensors
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Energy Engineering
- Healthcare Technologies
- History of Technology
- Management of Technology
- Materials, Circuits & Devices
- Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
- Sector Publications
- Telecommunications
- Transport
Pollution Abstracts (ProQuest) (1981+)
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Water Resources Abstracts (ProQuest) (1967+)
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Electrical and Computer

ACM Digital Library
Compendex (Ei Engineering Village) (1884+)
Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
Electronics & Communications Abstracts (ProQuest) (1981+)
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
Subject coverage:
- Circuits
- Components & materials
- Photonics
- Control & systems
- Telecommunications
- Telecommunications equipment & instrumentation
- Power systems
- Theoretical
- Electronics & communications milieux
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) includes access to the full text of IEEE content published since 1988 with select content published since 1872 from:
- IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents
- IEEE conference proceedings
- IET conference proceedings
- IEEE published standards
- IEEE Standards Dictionary Online
VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings includes complimentary access to the AbstractPlus records and select full text published since 2005
Bell Labs Technical Journal includes access to the AbstractPlus records and full text articles published from 1922
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library includes full text access to all IEEE-Wiley eBooks titles copyrighted in the year(s) 1974-2013
Individual Online Journals includes access to all AbstractPlus records and full text published since 2005 from:
- Systems Engineering and Electronics, Journal of
-IET journals are now largely Open Access at the IET Research Hub on Wiley Online Library
IET Digital Library
"The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by the world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader – the IET."
Topic areas include:
- Computing
- Control, Robotics & Sensors
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Energy Engineering
- Healthcare Technologies
- History of Technology
- Management of Technology
- Materials, Circuits & Devices
- Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
- Sector Publications
- Telecommunications
- Transport
Inspec and Inspec Archive (Ei Village) (1896+)
Synthesis Digital Library (Springer)
Series included are:
- Advances in Automotive Technology
- Algorithms & Software in Engineering
- Antennas
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Assistive, Rehabilitative & Health-Preserving Technologies
- Biomedical Engineering
- Case Studies in Engineering
- Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
- Communication Networks
- Communications
- Computational Electromagnetics
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Science
- Computer Vision
- Control & Mechatronics
- Data Management
- Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
- Digital Circuits & Systems
- Distributed Computing Theory
- Electrical Engineering
- Emerging Trends in Librarianship
- Emerging Engineering Technologies
- Energy & the Environment: Technology, Science & Society
- Engineering
- Engineers, Technology, & Society
- Games & Computational Intelligence
- Global Engineering
- Human Language Technologies
- Human-Centered Informatics
- Image, Video, & Multimedia Processing
- Information Concepts, Retrieval, & Services
- Information Security, Privacy & Trust
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mobile & Pervasive Computing
- Nuclear Technology & Society
- Power Electronics
- Professionalism & Career Advancement for Scientists & Engineers
- Quantum Computing
- RF/Microwaves
- Semantic Web: Theory & Technology
- SEM Lectures on Experimental Mechanics
- Signal Processing
- Software Engineering
- Solid State Materials & Devices
- Speech & Audio Processing
- Sustainable Development
- Synthetic Biology
- Technology, Management, & Entrepreneurship
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Tissue Engineering
- Visual Computing: Computer Graphics, Animation, Computational Photography & Imaging
- Visualization

Industrial & Management Systems

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) (1971+)
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Applied Science & Technology Source (EBSCOhost)
formerly called Applied Science & Technology (EBSCOhost/Wilson) (1983+)
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
Compendex (Ei Engineering Village) (1884+)
Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
Emerald Insight Journals and eBooks
Subjects include:
- Accounting & Finance
- Economics
- Education
- Engineering
- Health & Social Care
- HR & Organizational Behaviour
- Information & Knowledge Management
- Library & Information Science
- Management Science & Operations
- Marketing
- Property Management & Built Environment
- Public Policy & Environmental Management
- Research methods
- Sociology
- Strategy
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Transport
IET Digital Library
"The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by the world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader – the IET."
Topic areas include:
- Computing
- Control, Robotics & Sensors
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Energy Engineering
- Healthcare Technologies
- History of Technology
- Management of Technology
- Materials, Circuits & Devices
- Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
- Sector Publications
- Telecommunications
- Transport
International Abstracts in Operations Research Archive (IAOR) (IFORS)
-IAOR ceased at the end of 2017
-The archives moved from Palgrave to International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).
-Print version (1961-2008) is available from the Main Library
UCF ARC MAIN General Collection -- Q500.I 5
-Contains bibliographic and abstract information in operations research and management science - sourced from over 180 of the world's leading journals.
Placement of the abstracts is arranged according to four major divisions:
- Process oriented where the emphasis is on the modelling of operations, functions, or activities common to various enterprises (Accidents, Allocation-Resources, Behaviour, Bidding, Communication, Computers-Information, Control, Cybernetics, Decision-Applications/Rules/Studies, Demand, Design, Distribution, Experiment, Facilities, Financial, Forecasting, Gaming, Information, Innovation, Inventory-Order Policies/Storage, Investment, Knowledge Management, Learning, Location, Maintenance/Repair & Replacement, Management, Marketing, Measurement, Organization, Performance, Personnel & Manpower Planning, Planning, Production-FMS/JIT/MRP, Project Management, Quality & Reliability, Queues, Retailing, Risk, Scheduling, Search, Service, Soft Systems, Storage, Supply & Supply Chains, Systems, Timetabling, Values, Vehicle Routing & Scheduling, Yield Management)
- Application oriented where the emphasis is on certain arenas, and models which are specialized to an arena (Advertising, Agriculture & Food, Biology, Commerce, Cummunications, Community, Construction & Architecture, Cutting Stock, Ecology, E-commerce, Economics, Education, Energy, Engineering, Finance & Banking, Forestry, Geography & Environment, Government, Health Services, Internet, Law & Law Enforcement, Manufacturing Industries, Marketing, Medicine, Meteorology, Military & Defence, Mineral Industries, Petroleum, Politics, Recreation & Tourism, Social, Space, Sports, Transportation-Air/General/Rail/Road/Water, Union Affairs, Water)
- Technique oriented where the emphasis is on abstract or mathematical models, methods, topics, techniques and solutions (Analytic Hierarchy Process, Artificial Intelligence-Decision Support/Expert Systems, Combinatorial Analysis, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Analysis, Control Processes, Cost Benefit Analysis, Datamining, Decision Theory, Differential Equations, Fuzzy Sets, Game Theory, Graphs, Heuristics-Ant Systems/Genetic Algorithms/Local Search/Tabu Search, Lagrange Multipliers, Markov Processes, Matrices, Networks-Flow/Path/Scheduling, Neural Networks, Numerical Analysis, Optimization-Simulated Annealing, Probability, Programming-Assignment/Branch & Bound/Constraints/Convex/Dynamic/Geometric/Goal/Integer/Linear/Mathematical/Multiple Criteria/Nonlinear/Parametric/Probabilistic/Quadratic/Traveling Salesman, Queues, Sets, Simulation-Analysis/Applications/Data Envelopment Analysis/Decision/Distributions/Empirical/Experiment/Inference/Multivariate/Regression/Sampling, Stochastic Processes, Time Series & Forecasting Methods)
- Professionally oriented where the emphasis is on the practice and development of operations research itself (Developing Countries, Education in OR, History, OR in a Region/Country, Philosophy, Practice)

Materials Science

Compendex (Ei Engineering Village) (1884+)
Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
IET Digital Library
"The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by the world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader – the IET."
Topic areas include:
- Computing
- Control, Robotics & Sensors
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Energy Engineering
- Healthcare Technologies
- History of Technology
- Management of Technology
- Materials, Circuits & Devices
- Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
- Sector Publications
- Telecommunications
- Transport
Materials Science Collection (ProQuest) (1965+)
Included databases:
- Aluminium Industry Abstracts
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Copper Technical Reference Library
- Corrosion Abstracts
- Engineered Materials Abstracts
- Materials Business File
- METADEX
- ProQuest Materials Science Journals
Subject coverage:
- Adhesive bonding
- Alloys
- Aluminum
- Biomaterials
- Brazing and Soldering
- Business and company information
- Casting and molding
- Ceramics
- Chemical and electrochemical properties
- Composites
- Copper
- Corrosion
- Energy and fuel
- Glass, including metallic glasses
- Health and safety
- Heat treatment
- Intermetallics
- Materials selection
- Materials Substitution
- Metallurgy
- Nonferrous metals
- Polymers
- Powder technology
- Products and processes
- Recycling
- Refractories
- Steels
- Structures
- Surface finishing
- Testing, Quality Control
- Thermal spray
- Welding
- Working and forming
SciFinder Scholar (CAS) (1907+)
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Get substances - Access substance information including chemical structures, chemical names, CAS Registry Numbers®, properties, commercial availability and regulatory information.
Get reactions - Find dependable and current chemical reaction information from our extensive databases including reaction schemes, experimental procedures, conditions, yields, solvents, catalysts, as well as commercial availability of substances with direct links to leading producer and supplier sites.
Get references – get the information you need when you need it with our unrivaled collection of the world’s most up-to-date chemistry and related science information found in journals, patents, dissertations and more."
SpringerMaterials - The Landolt-Börnstein Database
The Landolt-Börnstein Database - 400 volumes, 250,000 substances and 1,200,000 citations
The complete Linus Pauling Files - A comprehensive database about the properties of inorganic solid phases, consisting of 255,000 documents
A subset of the Dortmund Database of Software and Separation Technology - Covering the Thermophysical Properties of pure liquids and binary mixtures, with 425,000 data points
An Adsorption database - covers over 1,000 reversible, equilibrium isotherms
A Polymer Thermodyamics database - that contains 140,000 datapoints about 150 polymers
44,000 Chemical Safety Documents
- REACH Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals
- GHS Globally Harmonized System
- RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances
- WEEE Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Provides options to search by elements, search by structure, or search the corrosion database by material name and/or environment.

Mechanical & Aerospace

Aerospace Research Central

ASME eJournals and eBooks (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Topic Collections:
Aerospace Industry
Applied Mechanics
Automotive Systems
Biomechanical Engineering
Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Building & Construction
Careers
Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Computers & Information in Engineering
Conventional Power & Fuels
Defense Industry
Design Engineering
Dynamic Systems & Control
Electronic & Photonic Packaging
Energy
Engineering Technology Management
Environmental Engineering
Fluids Engineering
Heat Transfer
Internal Combustion Engines
Manufacturing & Processing
Nanotechnology
Noise Control & Acoustics
Nondestructive Evaluation
Nuclear Engineering
Numerical Analysis
Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering
Pipeline & Piping Systems
Renewable Energy
Robotics & Mechatronics
Transportation
Tribology
ASTM Compass (1931+)
formerly "ASTM Standards & Engineering Digital Library"
Compendex (Ei Engineering Village) (1884+)
Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
IET Digital Library
"The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by the world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader – the IET."
Topic areas include:
- Computing
- Control, Robotics & Sensors
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Energy Engineering
- Healthcare Technologies
- History of Technology
- Management of Technology
- Materials, Circuits & Devices
- Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
- Sector Publications
- Telecommunications
- Transport
Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest) (1966+)
Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection (ProQuest) (1962+)
Included databases:
- Aerospace Database
- Electronics & Communications Abstracts
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Journals
- ProQuest Computer Science Collection
- ProQuest Deep Indexing: Advanced Technologies
- Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
Subject coverage:
- Aeronautics
- Applied physics
- Artificial intelligence
- Astronautics
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Circuits and logic
- Communications and networks
- Computer applications
- Computer programming
- Computer systems organization
- Computing milieux
- Condensed matter physics
- Database information systems and applications
- Decision support systems
- Electronics and electrical engineering
- Electronics and communications milieux
- Geophysics and earth resources
- Hardware and evaluation
- Information systems
- Lasers and masers
- Local area networks
- Logic and switching theories
- Mathematics of computing
- Meteorology, climatology and oceanography
- Navigation
- Nuclear and high energy physics
- Optical and acoustic technology
- Optics
- Photonics
- Plasma physics
- Robotics
- Semiconductors
- Software engineering
- Solid state milieux
- Superconductors
- Telecommunications
- Telecommunications, equipment & instrumentation