LibGuides: Engineering and Informatics: Research Databases

Multidisciplinary Research Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Access to a broad and deep multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Taylor & Francis Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Access to full text electronic journals in most subject areas, including arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, education, history, engineering, medicine, business, economics, psychology.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications, including journals, magazines, books, newsletters, and proceedings since 1954.
ICE Virtual Library Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) between 1836 and 2001. More than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by leading British or British-trained engineers. Subjects include civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, maritime engineering, architecture and transportation.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Access to journals, transactions, letters, magazines and conference proceedings on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics.
Synthesis This link opens in a new window
An information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The University has access to collections I to V.

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
A database of over 50 Annual Review Journals, providing authoritative critical reviews of key research findings and developments across a broad range of scientific disciplines, including the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Written by leading scientists, the articles provide useful overviews of topics, summarizing and analysing the most highly cited research for a particular subject each year.
arXiv This link opens in a new window
Open access to over 880,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Science This link opens in a new window
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text and abstracts from over 2,500 journals in all fields of science and social sciences such as economics, management and business.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works, primarily in Science, Technology and Medicine.