Research Guides: Mechanical Engineering: Article Databases

Article Databases

Listed below are databases that you may find useful for your research. For a complete listing of all of MSU Libraries' online databases, click here.
If the MSU Libraries does not provide access to a journal article or other item that you need, you may order it via Interlibrary Loan.

ACM Digital Library
The full text collection of all Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore digital library provides access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE and its publishing partners. There are more than four-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Computer Source (EBSCO)
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Tutorial: http://support.ebsco.com/help/?int=ehost&lang=en&feature_id=Databases&TOC_ID=Always&SI=0&BU=0&GU=1&PS=0&dbs=ckh
MathSciNet
Based on Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet is a database offering access to reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information of the mathematical sciences literature.

Tutorial: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/full_search_help_full.html
arXiv
Open access to more than 1.2 million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics

CiteSeerX
"CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science."

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is the portal to retrieve Elsevier eJournals and eBooks. (MSU does not have full-text access to all Elsevier journals and books.)
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Tutorial: http://info.scopus.com
Google Scholar
Provides a Google search of scholarly content and literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Set Google preferences to access full-text via the MSU Libraries many databases and journals.

Tutorial: http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=884

Dissertations & Theses (Proquest)
This is a database of theses and dissertations from throughout the US and some foreign institutions. For more relevant results, change search fields from Anywhere to “Anywhere Except Full Text”
To search MSU's electronic theses and dissertations, search the MSU ETD Database .

Tips for finding the full text

To find journal articles, use the library's online databases . In the databases, you can conduct keyword, author, title, or subject searching.

Always use the Find It button for possible full text online. Examine any holdings statements to see if we have the volume and issue that the article appears in.
If no full-text available online, then use the Find It button to connect to the library's online catalog to see if the library has the journal in print format, so you can locate the article in the library.
If the library doesn't have the article online or in print, use Interlibrary Loan to get it from another library.