Research Guides: MAE Seniors Library Research Guide: Discovering the literature

Beyond Books

Browse the listings of databases for Energy, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering to identifiy the best place to search for articles and conference papers. When searching databases, look for the FindIt@PUL button. This will lead you to a menu of options for acquiring the specific paper or article. You may be able to download the full-text immediately, or to submit an Interlibrary Loan request if the Main Catalog search gives no results.

You can start searching generally in one of these multidisciplinary science databases:

Compendex (EI Compendex Plus)
Extensive bibliographic database of engineering research. Indexes journal papers and conference proceedings. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented.
Scopus
International coverage of journal articles, selected web sites, and patents in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; provides citation tracking for 1996+ (select coverage for earlier periods) and cited reference searches back to 1970.

1996+

Princeton's Institutional ID (needed for Papers software): 51401.
Web of Science (ISI)
Multidisciplinary index to journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Offers the option to find cited references, which are the authors lists of articles used in their research. Journal coverage in the social sciences, arts, and humanities is not comprehensive. Includes conference proceedings in the sciences and social sciences.

AIAA Aerospace Research Central
Full text electronic library from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Includes journals and meeting papers.

1963+
OSTI.GOV
Energy related full text technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Scienctific and Technical Information (OSTI) and predecessor agencies the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Includes publicly available energy and energy related literature in the disciplines of biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, fission and nuclear technologies, fossil fuels, geosciences, materials, mathematics, computing, physics and more. 1948+
SAE Mobilus
Full text database from Society for Automotive Engineering. Includes Standards, Technical Papers, Journal Articles and more.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. Dissertations written from 1997 forward are available full text. The database includes citations to dissertations from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Citations for dissertations and master's theses published from 1980 forward have abstracts. Some simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. 1861+; full text 1997+.