Databases:
Are online collections of published works
Help you find information sources, such as journal articles, conference papers, and books/ebooks
Are searchable
Provide citation information (author, title, publisher, date, etc.)
Often provide full-text access to sources
The WPI Library Search allows you to search across most of the library's resources at once. It is a search tool that provides access to a broad range of information . It helps you find books, scholarly journal articles, news articles, project reports, and more.
To find peer reviewed articles, type your keywords into WPI Library Search, and then choose the filter for Peer-Reviewed Journals on the left.
Within most databases, click on the FullTextFinder link to get options for obtaining the full text of the article.
Our Interlibrary Loan service allows WPI students and faculty to request items from other libraries free of charge.
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.
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.
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.
Abstracts from the Compendex database, which 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. Comprising journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints, Compendex content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE and ACM.
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.
To find more databases related to your topic, browse the library's complete list of Databases.
Term |
Example |
Result |
AND |
caffeine AND sleep |
Narrows the search to entries that contain both terms |
OR |
coffee OR tea |
Broadens the search to entries that contain either or both terms |
NOT |
television doctorNOT Doctor Who |
Excludes entries that contain the second term |
“ ” |
“mental health” |
Retrieves results containing the exact phrase |
? |
wom?n |
Wildcard: Retrieves both woman and women |
* |
mitigat* |
Truncation: Retrieves mitigate, mitigation, etc. |