Engineering Databases

These databases contain in-depth articles and information on this subject.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.
Access Engineering This link opens in a new window
Access hundreds of the most current leading textbooks, handbooks and reference books, including Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, as well as the entire Schaum's Outline Series.

ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database This link opens in a new window
Published by ASM (the American Society for Metals), this fully searchable online database now contains 40,300 binary and ternary alloy phase diagrams, from over 9,000 systems. With associated crystal and reaction data, the ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database places this reliable information at your fingertips.
ASM Micrograph Database This link opens in a new window
Published by the American Society for Metals, the ASM Micrograph Database is the most comprehensive micrograph repository available.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Contains the 13,000 ASTM standards, as well as manuals, monographs, data series, STPs (Special Technical Publications) and 8 journals -- all of which pertain to the development and application of standards. Not only current issues of journals and publications, but also back issues going back 50yrs.
BCC Research This link opens in a new window
Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide.

Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business: marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.

Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new window
This database focuses on engineering successes and failures and is often used in other schools with engineering programs to align with projects, papers, and discussions that focus on ethics. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Space Shuttle Challenger, and even historical footage and documentation from the Titanic, as well as countless other events, can be found in this resource.
IEEEXplore This link opens in a new window
Access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

Journal Citation Reports
The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database is a unique and comprehenisive tool providing bibliometric analysis of more than 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology and of 1,500 journals in the social sciences.
Knovel Engineering and Scientific Online References
A database featuring the full text of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
OnePetro
OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. It contains more than 145,000 documents produced by 18 publishing partners, including the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Pittsburgh Business Times This link opens in a new window
To access the Pittsburgh Business Times, please register using the following link: Register with the University of Pittsburgh. Once you create an account you will get to a page where you can select the University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Business Times. If you already have an account you can sign in from this page. You may need to go to their account tab and under the Subscriptions, Licenses & Access page there should be a box to select our subscription.
If you encounter any issues with this, please contact the business librarian at chd84@pitt.edu.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Reaxys This link opens in a new window
The Reaxys database provides detailed information on the reactions and properties, including bioactivities, of millions of chemical substances, along with chemical catalog information and literature references. Specialty features such as structure and reaction searching are included.
O'Reilly This link opens in a new window
Ebooks in computer science, information technology, and related fields. Unlimited simultaneous users.

Science Direct
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
SciFinder
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Please Sign Out when you are finished searching SciFinder.information, as well as the Medline database.

SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
SYNTHESIS is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.
TRID Online
A public-domain, web-based version of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database, containing over half a million records of published transportation research and almost 24,000 TRIS records with links to electronic copies of the full-text.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
The WorldCat database is the OCLC Online Union Catalog. It contains more than 450 million records in 484 languages describing items owned by our libraries or 10,000 other libraries around the world.

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