LibGuides: Ocean Engineering: Get Articles

What is a database?

Databases are collections of articles and other sources of scholarly information. They can be searched by using keywords, or words that describe a topic. Databases often provide peer-reviewed or scholarly articles for your research.

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Selected Databases

All of the databases in this discipline can be found in our Engineering and Technology databases section.

ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal, magazine and newsletter articles. In addition, this resource provides access to transactions, conference proceedings and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature.
American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journals
Provides access to mechanical engineering journals.
Applied Science & Technology Source
Includes Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective and additional content.
This database offers a diverse array of full-text and indexed content that covers the full spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplinesfrom acoustics to aeronautics, and neural networks to nuclear engineering.
Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources
Contents/Info: Citations cover all aspects of oceanography.

Compendex | 1884-present |
Contents/Info: Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Compendex contains over 8 million records and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications. Coverage is from 1969 to present and the database is updated weekly. Combined with the Engineering Index Backfile, the database includes over 9.7 million records and spans back to 1884.

Elsevier ScienceDirect
Content/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines.
Materials Science & Engineering Collection (Proquest)
Contents/Info: The ProQuest Engineering Collection contains engineering related full-text articles, granular access to millions of figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from the CSA Engineering Research Database,a comprehensive index to world literature on technological and engineering innovations.
GeoRef
Contains earth science references and the index terms that describe them. Indexes many journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports.
IEEE Xplore:IEEE/IEL Digital Library
Contents/Info: IEEE/Institution of Engineering and Technology Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Standards from 1988 to the present.
Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The journal has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans.
Web of Science
Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
MarinLit
MarinLit is a database dedicated to marine natural products research. It includes comprehensive information on relevant published articles and compounds, as well as dereplication tools based on experimental and predicted data.

Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines

Scholarly journals have articles written by researchers who are considered experts in a field. These journals are also known as "peer-reviewed," "refereed" or "academic" journals. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is a scholarly journal.

Popular magazines have articles written by writers or journalists. Time or Newsweek are examples of popular journals.

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