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 Compendex
The premier database for all aspects of the engineering discipline. The EI COMPENDEX database covers over 2,600 international engineering journals, conference proceedings and technical reports.
 ENGINE: Australian Engineering
  Indexes Australian conference proceedings, journals, technical publications; books, and unpublished work. Produced by the Institution of Engineers, Australia.
Geobase via ScienceDirect
  Interdisciplinary database particularly strong on environmental and 'green' issues. Indexes 2000 journals, books, reports, theses. Corresponds to printed Geographical Abstracts, Ecological Abstracts, International Development Abstracts, Geological Abstracts and Oceanographic Literature Reviews, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts.
GeoRef
 
Contains bibliographic references and selected abstracts to the world's literature in geology for US material from 1785 and other areas of the world from 1933. Corresponds to the American Geological Institute's GEOSCIENCE database, and covers four printed publications: Bibliography of North American Geology; Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America; Geophysical Abstracts; Bibliography and Index of Geology.
 
Also includes AusGeoRef, over 65,000 references on Australia drawn from the journal literature, meeting proceedings and abstracts, books, reports and maps.
 INSPEC
  Access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.
 IEEE Xplore
  IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE journals, transactions and conferences, IEEE standards, IEE conferences and the journal "IEE Letters." The database includes articles and full-text PDF images, including all charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and illustrative material.

Related Databases

 Current Contents
  Indexes over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. Updated weekly, it is available in seven discipline-specific editions.
 Expanded Academic
  Multidisciplinary database which provides access to articles in over 1000 periodical titles. Many of the articles are available in a full text.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
 
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, and seamless links to full text articles and other library resources. It is updated daily
 Web of Science
  Web of Science delivers web based access to the citation indexes including Science Citation Index. The database covers over 8,000 journals across all disciplines worldwide, with about 22,000 articles being added weekly. The journals are selected as the most influential and relevant peer-reviewed titles across all disciplines.
 Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega
  Multidisciplinary, providing abstracts/indexing of over 2,500 journals from 1982, and makes the full text of  over 1,300 of these journals available from 1994 onwards.