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Find Articles, Citations, Reviews, and more in these Indexes and Databases:

• Compendex Plus
  • Premier database for all areas of engineering; excellent for mechanical engineering
  • Covers journal articles and conference papers.
  • 1884-present
• Academic Search Complete
  • General index to current magazines and journals; useful for news, current events and popular treatments of engineering topics
  • Popular magazines, major scholarly journals, some newspapers
  • 1984-present
• Business Search Complete
  • Index to business, industry and trade literature; good for the business side of engineering.
  • Journals, trade magazines; many with full-text articles in the database itself.
  • 1886-present
• Dissertations and Theses
  • Index to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from most North American and European universities
  • Search by title word, author, advisor or institution
  • 1861-present
  • Full text of most recent University of California dissertations available as PDF files free of charge to UC users.
• NTIS
  • Index to U.S. government technical reports
  • 1964-present
  • For access to the full text of the reports, see the UCSB Library Government Information Center
• Web of Science
  • Very broad in subject scope -- covers all of science and engineering (plus humanities and social sciences); good for interdisciplinary fields.
  • Journal articles from 1945-present for the sciences.
  • Most powerful database for cited reference searching.  Very useful for tracking additional references from cited, citing and related articles.

Collect and Organize Your References in a Personal Database

• EndNoteWeb
  • Create a personal database file of your favorite references by importing answer sets from catalogs and article indexes
  • Generate bibliographies automatically formatted in your desired style (e.g. ACS, CSE, APA)
  • Access your fles from any Web-connected computer.

UCSB E-Journal Titles:

• E-Journals Collection (main search)
  • Locate electronic full-text journals in the UCSB collection (over 10,000 titles available.)
  • Search by journal title, or by subject category, or by publisher.

Evaluate Status of Journals

• Journal Citation Reports
  • Evaluate journals in a given field using citation analysis.
  • Contains "impact factors" and other metrics for thousands of major journals in the sciences and social sciences for recent years.