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Articles about this subject can be found in publications from a wide variety of disciplines. Use the databases on this page to get access to thousands of articles examining the subject from different perspectives or browse the key publications shown.
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Article Databases
CORE DATABASES
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Engineering research literature from the COMPENDEX and INSPEC databases. Includes journal articles, conference papers and more.
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IEEE Xplore IEEE Xplore Digital Library includes access to the full text of IEEE content published since 1988 with select content published since 1872 from IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, IEEE conference proceedings, IET journals and conference proceedings and the IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library including titles from 1974-2015
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Web of Science Web of Science is one of the core general science databases covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and allows the user to search conference proceedings.
MORE DATABASES
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Biological Abstracts Biological Abstracts searches journal articles in all areas of the biological sciences. Like all databases on the Web of Science platform, it also provides citation information — both articles cited and 'cited by' links, allowing the user to follow the literature on a topic both forward and backward in time. Allows searching using BIOSIS indexing, MeSH terms, and CAS registry numbers as well as the more traditional search terms. Date coverage: 1989 - present.
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Google Scholar Google Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
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MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society) MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences. Reviews are classified and searchable according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Continues the publication Mathematical Reviews, first published in 1940. Reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of current literature. Date coverage: Full text 1940 - present with bibliographic data and some full text for articles back to the early 1800s.
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SPIE Digital Library (International Society for Optics and Photonics) The SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) Digital Library includes SPIE journals and conference papers on optics and photonics. Date coverage: 1962 - present.
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PubMed Comprehensive coverage of abstracts to the biomedical literature. Includes medicine, the allied health disciplines, and biomedical literature. Date Coverage: 1809 (selectively) - present.
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SciFinder SciFinder is the premier chemical information source, consisting of chemical data, manufacturing information, patents, and citations to scholarly literature. Chemical structure searching is available via a drawing tool. To use SciFinder, you must create an account using your BU email address.
Engineering & Mathematics Librarian
Paula Carey
Contact:
pac@bu.edu
Mugar/Science Library
Mugar/Science Library