Best Tools for First Search
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 256 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. - Inspec and Inspec Archive (Ei Village) (1896+)"Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics."
Includes the Inspec backfile. - Optics InfoBase (Optica Publishing Group)"a cutting-edge repository that contains OSA Publishing's content, including 17 flagship, partnered and co-published peer-reviewed journals and 1 magazine. With more than 272,000 articles including papers from over 470 conferences, Optics InfoBase is the largest peer-reviewed collection of optics and photonics."
- SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering)the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings.
- Google ScholarFree index for broadly searching scholarly literature. This link includes the UCF institution code so links to UCF's full text subscriptions will display. See below for other ways to set institution.
View the UCF Libraries Google Scholar videos to help you make the most of Google Scholar.
To use UCF Libraries subscription access:- Open Google Scholar Settings
- select Library Links
- Search for "University of Central Florida"
- Save
If you are on campus or connecting through Open Athens you will see UCF's subscription links automatically.
Additional Databases
- arXivOpen access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- Compendex (Ei Engineering Village) (1884+)a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.
- Google ScholarFree index for broadly searching scholarly literature. This link includes the UCF institution code so links to UCF's full text subscriptions will display. See below for other ways to set institution.
View the UCF Libraries Google Scholar videos to help you make the most of Google Scholar.
To use UCF Libraries subscription access:- Open Google Scholar Settings
- select Library Links
- Search for "University of Central Florida"
- Save
If you are on campus or connecting through Open Athens you will see UCF's subscription links automatically. - IEEE Xplore
Full text access to quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Includes most IEEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards.
- Inspec and Inspec Archive (Ei Village) (1896+)"Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics."
Includes the Inspec backfile. - PubMed Central (1906+)U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
