Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Subject Guide
Article Databases
15 resources available
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An index of over 1,800 publications with abstracts, and full text from over 700 of these titles, selected from newspapers, trade publications, and journals on business including, for example, administration, economics, computers, finance, human resources, management, and marketing. Full-text of Wall Street Journal articles available from 1984. Otherwise coverage is from 1971 to the present with some older material available. Updated daily.
Basic undergraduate engineering database. It covers only English-language journals, no conferences. WMU libraries own about 60% of the titles indexed. Good first choice for engineering/technology. Coverage: 1983-present.
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Library
Waldo Library subscribes to all 21 of the ASME journals both in online and print formats. Online access is from 1990 to the present.
Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center provides information for domestic and international companies, industry associations, a SWOT analysis for some companies, company financials, and company histories, industry rankings, market share data and more.
Indexes and abstracts over 400 journals and over 700 essay collections and other publications in economics from 1969 to the present with links to full-text when available. Updated monthly.
The most comprehensive index for scholarly research in engineering and applied science. Includes conference papers and foreign language material. Coverage 1969-present, updated weekly.
Available through Engineering Village 2.
Full-text journal articles in international management, organizational development, library and information management, leadership, quality and operations management, engineering, applied science and technology. Abstracts from 1989, full-text from 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.
Index with abstracts of over 400 journals and other publications in all aspects of ergonomics and human factor engineering. Coverage: 1985-present. Updated 4 times a year.
Indexes scientific and technical journals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.
Materials Science Journal Collection - Sage Journals Online
The Sage Full Text Materials Science Journals collection online provides you with full text access to the following list of journals.
- High Performance Polymers (1991-current)
- International Journal of Damage Mechanics (1992-current)
- Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers (1986-current)
- Journal of Biomaterials Applications (1989-current)
- Journal of Cellular Plastics (1965-current)
- Journal of Composite Materials (1967-current)
- Journal of Elastomers and Plastics (1969-current)
- Journal of Industrial Textiles (1971-current)
- Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1990-current)
- Journal of Plastic Film and Sheeting (1985-current)
- Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites (1982-current)
- Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials (1999-current)
- Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials (1988-current)
- Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (1996-current)
- Structural Health Monitoring (2002-current)
Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial
- RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
Access to full-text journals of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in industrial and applied mathematics and scientific computing. Full text coverage is from 1997 to the present, although using the Locus Home link (http://locus.siam.org/), you can browse the tables of contents and read the abstracts from articles in SIAM journals all the way back to 1952 in many cases.
Small Business Resource Center
Covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more. Based on a combination of periodical and reference content from planning...to marketing a product and franchising a business. Included is the Business Plans Handbook Series which contains hundreds of sample business plans.
Trade and Industry is no longer a separate database. It is included in ABI/Inform Complete. Contains business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus providing users with industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and more. Coverage: 1971 to date.
Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.Tutorial
Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database.