LibGuides: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Journals & Databases

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Remote Access to Databases & Library Catalog

In order to access the library's licensed databases and e-books from off-campus*, students at UAH will need to login. Use the same UAH user name and password that you use for Canvas and other online UAH resources. (The user name is the beginning of your UAH email up to the @ sign. Example: jc0040)

* This also applies to Online Learning / Distance Education students at UAH.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Databases

ABI Inform This link opens in a new window Contains over 550,000 citations with abstracts to articles appearing in 1,000 international periodicals covering business and management as well as related functional areas including trends, corporate strategies and tactics, and competitive and product information.
Abstracts in New Technologies This link opens in a new window Provides abstracting and indexing of 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. Coverage includes information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, and Engineering.
AIAA Journals This link opens in a new window The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world's largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Click here to access 7 of the currently-published journals of the AIAA, hosted on the Aerospace Research Central (ARC) platform.
AIAA Meeting Papers (2022-) This link opens in a new window Click here to access AIAA conference papers from 2022 and later. In addition, the AIAA database can also be used as an index to their earlier conference papers (to find those in the UAH Library's physical collections, or to request via ILL).
AIP Conference Proceedings Database This link opens in a new window Abstracts and indices of AIP Conferences. AIP (American Institute of Physics) Conference Proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world. Published proceedings are valuable as topical status reports providing quick access to information before it appears in the traditional journal literature. Individual articles will need to be purchased, requested through ILL, or found in our physical collection through a Primo Pathfinder search.
Aluminium Industry Abstracts This link opens in a new window Aluminium Industry Abstracts (AIA), formerly World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA), provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments. The Aluminium Industry Abstracts database includes information abstracted from approximately 2,300 scientific and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings,dissertations, books, and patents.
American Society for Mechanical Engineers Journals (ASME) This link opens in a new window The ASME Digital Library contains selective access to ASME's Transaction Journals, Proceedings and E-Books. Selective access. Some material advertised on this site may be in print form in the library.
ASTM Compass This link opens in a new window ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world-a trusted source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services.
Astrophysics Data System (NASA/ADS) This link opens in a new window (Some full-text available. Case by case basis.)A NASA-funded abstract service which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics, 2) instrumentation, 3) physics and geophysics, and 4) Los Alamos preprint server. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words. Free and available to the public.
Civil Engineering Abstracts This link opens in a new window Civil Engineering Abstracts provides indexing and abstracting coverage of the world's technical literature in civil engineering. Also covered are the complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. Over 3,000 serial titles published worldwide are covered as well as conference proceedings, books and monographs, and dissertations.
Copper Technical Reference Library This link opens in a new window Provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. The Copper Data Center Database covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments. It references data on the properties of copper and copper alloys and on applications of the copper metals. Over 52,000 documents have been indexed into this database, 5582 documents published between 1863 and 1964.
Corrosion Abstracts This link opens in a new window Provides a source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries. Corrosion Abstracts provides engineers and scientists with a resource for solving corrosion problems by reviewing the documented experience of others and providing summarized findings in the article abstracts.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window IEEE Xplore (IEL) provides full-text online access to publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). More than 500,000 articles from over 12,000 publications are included in the collection known as the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL), with full text from IEEE and IEE journals and conference proceedings dating from 1988 onward. Full text of IEEE Standards is also included. PDF files of full page images include all illustrative material from the original articles. IEEE Xplore provides access through bibliographic searching or through browsing journal or proceedings volumes. See IEEE Overview Guide for more info.
Materials Science & Engineering Collection This link opens in a new window The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.Coverage: 1965 - current
NASA Technical Reports Server This link opens in a new window Allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. Some reports are available on microfiche in the library.
Oxford Reference Library, Science & Technology This link opens in a new window
Primo Pathfinder This link opens in a new window Primo Pathfinder is M. Louis Salmon Library's discovery service, provided by Proquest/Primo. It searches across many of our other databases and provides a number of tools to simplify your search process.
Proquest SciTech Collection This link opens in a new window This database is the ultimate science and technology research solution, combining full text journals with detailed indexing of global literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology. Areas covered include materials science, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, biology, aquatic sciences, environmental science, computer science and earth sciences in addition to many more. It fully incorporates ProQuest Natural Science Collection and ProQuest Technology Collection.Includes the Illustrata upgrade, which allows for deep indexing of charts and figures, helping to pinpoint vital research.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Provides access to the full text of more than 1,800 Elsevier electronic journals in chemistry and chemical engineering; clinical medicine; computer science; earth and planetary sciences; economics, business, and management science; engineering, energy, and technology; environmental science and technology; life sciences; materials science; mathematics; physics and astronomy; and social science; as well as indexing and abstracting for electronic journals from other publishers.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window NOTE: If you do not have a SciFinder account, set up an account through this link. See Scifinder Library Guide for more info.SciFinder-n is an updated version of SciFinder that combines even more chemical abstract datasets (millions of abstracts are included) with an improved interface and improved search options and filtering of results. It also features improved support for mobile and touchscreen devices. 
Scopus This link opens in a new window SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.* Contains 41 million records, 70% with abstracts* Nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide* 70% of content is pulled from international sources* Includes over 3 million conference papers* Provides 100% Medline coverage* Offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research
Technology Collection This link opens in a new window The Technology Collection includes the Advanced Technology & Aerospace and Materials Science & Engineering Databases. It combines broad indexing coverage of the scholarly literature in advanced technology, computer science, engineering, materials science and related areas with full-text titles full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.Coverage: 1962 - current

Important Note regarding SciFinder database (CAS)

NOTE: If you plan to use the new and updated SciFinderⁿ database (AKA "Scifinder-n" on web pages that don't support the superscript " ⁿ"), please note that this is available ONLY for current UAH students/faculty/staff.

If you are a UAH student, you can set up an account through this link.

Visit our SciFinder Library Guide for more information about using this resource.

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NOTE: Because SciFinderⁿ is the new interface from CAS (released in 2022), they recently provided a series of free webinars to introduce how to use the SciFinderⁿ interface.

If you are interested in viewing any of the recorded webinars - or to access their other training materials - you can find that menu here.

Additional Journal Articles and Documents

In addition to the above box containing discipline-specific databases, the UAH library has an overall list of 300+ databases (link). Within that overall list, it is possible to view a shorter subset of databases (link) that may be useful across many areas of engineering.

Also, some of the following may be of use in your coursework:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database designed for academic institutions. The database offers information in nearly every area of academic study, including arts, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, ethnic studies, engineering, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, social sciences, and more.

UAH Digital Dissertations & Theses (Library Subject Guide)
Library page explaining how to search for UAH dissertations & theses (including a link to the ProQuest UAH Dissertations & Theses database).

NTIS (National Technical Information Service) This link opens in a new window
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) contains descriptions of U.S. government-sponsored, science and technology research from agencies such as DOD, DOE, DOT, EPA, and NASA. It covers work in the fields of astronomy, atmospheric science, biotechnology, computers, energy, engineering, environment, etc. You'll find reports on contracts and grants, technical memoranda, technical reports, dissertations, etc. Includes abstracts.
O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
O'Reilly is a world leading publisher in books about software, hardware, programming, design, certification, system administration, and many other topics. This online library includes the complete text of thousands of their highly rated books. It also includes access to O'Reilly answers to help you find answers to your questions by finding relevant sections of their most applicable materials.
PapersFirst This link opens in a new window
PapersFirst is an index of papers presented at conferences. It cites the papers from every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Centre. PapersFirst covers a wide range of subjects.
ProceedingsFirst This link opens in a new window
ProceedingsFirst is an index of conference proceedings. It cites the printed proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at The British Library Document Centre. ProceedingsFirst covers a wide range of subjects.
ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new window
ProQuest One Academic combines all four of ProQuest’s multidisciplinary products on the ProQuest platform (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Complete, and Academic Video Online).
Wiley Online Journals (Select Titles Only) This link opens in a new window
UAH provides access to only select Wiley journals via this platform. If you know a specific Wiley published journal you'd like to search within, please use our "Browse Journals" feature on the library homepage, under the "Books and Articles" tab on the left side of the page.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is the OCLC union catalog, containing more than 43 million records describing books and other items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. WorldCat covers thousands of subjects and includes records for items as far back as 1000 B.C. Materials covered in the catalog include: books, internet resources, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual article titles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.