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Gordon Library Databases

Welcome to the WPI Gordon Library Databases. Here you can discover a variety of electronic resources to support your research.

All Databases A-Z: A complete list of the library's databases.
Databases by Subject: Find databases for engineering, natural sciences, humanities, and more.
Databases by Type: Find databases for specific types of sources, such as newspapers, patents, standards, statistics, and other categories.
Database Trials: Check out the databases that we are testing out.

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Frequently Used Databases

Compendex This link opens in a new window
Electronic version of Engineering Index, covering literature in various engineering disciplines.

Coverage: 1970-
Full Text: No
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Abstracts from the Compendex database, and also includes the electronic version of Engineering Index, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.

Coverage: 1884-
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.

Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. It contains the.full text of all IEEE and IEE journal articles, conference papers, and standards.

Coverage: 1888-
Full Text: Yes
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online archive of eBooks and complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields.

Coverage: 1800s-
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included | Search Tips
Proquest One Academic This link opens in a new window
With ProQuest One Academic, four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global– are available and cross-searchable.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 29 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.

Coverage: 1966-
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included | Search Tips | Tutorial
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.

Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, Scopus helps ensure that crucial research from around the world is not missed.
WorldCat.org This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Coverage: 1200-
Full Text: No