Aeronautics and Astronautics Resource guide - Databases

Your subject librarian is Charlotte Erdmann. Contact her with any questions or requests.

• Compendex/INSPEC

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• AIAA Electronic Library - The AIAA Electronic Library contains more than four decades of technical information and documents, full-text.
• NASA Technical Report Server - Full-text NASA Technical Reports

• Aerospace and High Technology Database - Aeronautics, Astronautics, Space Sciences, and supporting fields.
• Compendex - Engineering and related disciplines.
• INSPEC - Communications, Computers & Computing, Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Technology, Physics.
• Materials Research Database with METADEX - A combined file which brings together the majority of the leading materials science databases, with specialist content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application.
• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts / Full Text - Industrial and mechanical arts topics. *Partial full-text coverage available in OmniFile Full Text.

• Web of Science - Bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references and related references covering the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
• LexisNexis Academic - General news; business, medical, and legal news and information; reference information.
• Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) - Index of theses and dissertations from U.S. and international universities.

Aerospace and High Technology Database: CSA provides an extensive introduction to the database. View the table of contents for relevant pages.

Searching NTRS Help Guide: NASA provides a comprehensive guide to searching NASA documents, NACA documents, and the NASA Image eXchange (NIX).

INSPEC and COMPENDEX Training on EI Village: Engineering Information provides several short training videos on its product. This should help explain the interfaces and features.

Google Scholar: Free service to many online journals and books. Since Purdue pays subscriptions to many online journals, you may be able to find full-text sources.

Here's a way to include a link to Purdue Library holdings from Google Scholar. The OpenURL referrer put the Find It @ Purdue icon in your Google Scholar search results, allowing for quick, easy determination if you can get an electronic copy of an article.
http://www.openly.com/openurlref/