Research Guides: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering: Find Articles

Top Picks

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
Search journals from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Developed for engineers, this database covers journal articles and conference proceedings from a variety of publishers. Includes Inspec, Compendex, and more.
AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Includes ebooks, handbooks, and Excel sheets with calculations.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides indexing, full text linking, and citation tracking for books and articles from vetted, high quality sources in all disciplines (arts and humanities, social sciences, business and sciences), as well as author, journal, and book metrics. Cited Reference Search includes books, artwork, and other cited works. Analyze results identifies frequent authors, funders, universities, and journals for a search or topic. Now includes Book Citation Index.
AIAA Aerospace Research Central This link opens in a new window
Contains journal articles, meeting papers, and ebooks published by AIAA, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Additional Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
IEEE journals and conference proceedings in aerospace, electrical engineering, computer science, and other technologies.
IET Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Includes the IET Journals Archive, which offers perpetual access to all journals from the Institution of Engineering and Technology from 1872-2012; newer content is freely available through open access.
Inspec This link opens in a new window
Physics, Engineering, and Technology
IOPscience This link opens in a new window
IOPscience is a new platform for IOP-hosted journal content. All IOP Publishing journals to which the Library subscribes will be accessible via IOPscience.(See Also IOP Electronic Journals). IOPscience express is an iPhone application that allows you to access the latest IOP-owned journal content from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Meteorology, Climatology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Astrophysics, Hydrology, Glaciology, Physical Oceanography and Environmental Sciences.
Elsevier ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to journals published by Elsevier Science.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Journals in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

Databases (Web/free access)

eMolecules
search by chemical structure or named chemical. "[eMolecules] is a new, open-access chemistry search engine that aims to provide all publicly available chemical information for free...particularly effective in tracking down chemical suppliers for particular compounds." review from Choice, April '06 - 43(8)
Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering
From their mission statement: The site provides readily accessible literature and information, case studies and references, and discussion groups on ethics in engineering and science. It focuses on problems that arise in and for the work life of engineers and scientists. It serves practitioners, educators and students, and individuals interested in professional and research ethics.

DTIC Publications This link opens in a new window
the public portal of the Defense Technical Information Center - unclassified defense-related information published by the U.S. government.

SAE MobilityRxiv
Provides manuscripts and preprints of articles related to mobility and transportation.

TRID (Transportation Research International Documentation) This link opens in a new window
Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database. A collaborative effort by the Transportation Research Board, part of the National Academies, and the National Transportation Library, part of Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) , Research and Innovative Technology Administration, (U.S. Department of Transportation).