Engineering Technology Research Guide: Article Databases

*provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from hundreds of sources

*covers engineering, industrial arts, chemistry, physics, and more

*retrospective coverage as far back as 1983, full-text since 1997

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. 

CASC provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. 

Full text is also available for more than 1,000 periodicals.

*Contains over 1800 full text, peer reviewed journals

*Provides articles from journals in Social & Behavioral Sciences, Health & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering

*Dates available include issues from the current year back to 1995 for most titles

*provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from hundreds of sources

*covers engineering, industrial arts, chemistry, physics, and more

*retrospective coverage as far back as 1983, full-text since 1997

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. 

CASC provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. 

Full text is also available for more than 1,000 periodicals.

This subscription collection contains more than 5,600 titles covering general engineering topics such as biotechnology, civil engineering, electrical engineering, energy sciences, industrial safety, material science, optics and photonics, project management, robotics, etc.

With this collection, professionals can broaden their knowledge of the engineering industry to support future decision making, facilitate product design, and implement industry best practices.

*High-quality, interdisciplinary content – almost two thirds of the content in the SAGE Premier package is ranked in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

*15 journals received their first Impact Factor with the 2011 report and 7 journals increased their Impact Factors.

*SAGE is market leader (by number of ranked titles) in 6 key disciplines including Criminology & Penology; Education, Special; Social Issues; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology and Urban Studies.

*9 journals ranked #1 in their categories.

*Contains over 1800 full text, peer reviewed journals

*Provides articles from journals in Social & Behavioral Sciences, Health & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering

*Dates available include issues from the current year back to 1995 for most titles

SciFinder-n is the new interface for the most comprehensive index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article, patent, and conference references, the CAS Registry of 161 million chemical substances (many include property data) & CASREACT database of 126 million chemical reactions and preparations. Search by topic, reaction, or chemical substance (Registry number, structure, substructure). 

New Users: Register for a SciFinder Account

You must use an apsu.edu e-mail address and create a username and password. Your account will not be activated until you click on a confirmation link that is sent to your e-mail.

What's in Scifinder?

• Chemical Substances (CAS REGISTRY) 
• References (CAplus)
• Reactions (CASREACT)
• Chemical Suppliers (CHEMCATS)
• Regulated Chemicals (CHEMLIST)
• Markush (MARPAT; Substances in patents)
   
• use the Structure Drawing Editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions
• Created by CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society)
• Serves as an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing references from more than 9500 journals
• Contains patents from over 50 patent-issuing organizations
• Contains the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information

The new SciFinder-n interface provides the following features:

• A brand new streamlined interface providing easier navigation and time savings
• Improved reference searching with new relevancy ranking and autosuggest
• Multi-tab browsing and automatic User Login recognition
• Simultaneously explore both text and structure in a single search
• Automatically saves and stores all search history for quick and easy recall
• Includes MethodsNow providing access to step by step synthetic procedures, extracted and summarized
• Includes PatentPak providing access straight to full-text patents and hard-to-find-substances with a single click
• Citation mapping that quickly identifies important research and graphically displaying references
• Updated retrosynthesis planning capabilities

Helpful links for using SciFinder-n:

• Access the SciFinder-n quick start guide for a step-by-step journey into the product
• Watch our video collection of SciFinder-n How-To videos
• Migrate your current saved answers and alerts from the previous interface (SciFinder Web)
   

Alumni do not qualify for SciFinder access. Any use of SciFinder for commercial purposes under your institution's license is prohibited. Please remember to logout from SciFinder Scholar as soon as you have finished with your research.

The Springer eJournal collection includes over 2500 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering, medicine, business, philosophy, and the social sciences.

APSU is one of the 120 institutions the are participating in the transformative agreement between Springer Nature and Lyrasis. This means means that authors affiliated with APSU are eligible to publish their articles open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio. See the list of APSU transformative agreements for more information.