LibGuides: Data Science: Databases & Resources

General Databases

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1985.
Academic Search Complete
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Florida Electronic Library (FEL)
The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information, including magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books. FEL offers information for all age groups, including homework help for students (primary & secondary) and resources for teachers. Access is available to all Florida residents.
General OneFile (Gale)
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
JSTOR
More than 2000 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science, and social science disciplines. Most full-text access is archival; some current full text.
Also includes a collection of over 500 Spanish-language e-books, which are student tech fee funded.

Selected Databases

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

Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate
This database includes an extensive collection of journals, magazines, trade publications, and other resources. It covers a wide range of science and technology topics, as well as the business and social implications of new technologies. It is designed to support research in disciplines including engineering, computer science, environmental studies, industrial technology, and more.

Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
Compendex (Engineering Village)
The subscription to current material was not renewed for 2025 by Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC).

For other related e-resources, please use the All Subjects search box above and choose 'Engineering and Technology' for results such as AccessEngineering and others.
Elsevier ScienceDirect
Scholarly journals and ebooks in engineering, science, technology, health, and social science disciplines.
Materials Science & Engineering Collection (Proquest)
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.
IEEE Xplore:IEEE/IEL Digital Library
Includes access to the abstract records and full text articles published since 1988 with select content published since 1893 from: IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents; IEEE conference proceedings; IET journals; IET conference proceedings; IEEE published standards and redline versions; and IEEE Standards Dictionary Online.
INSPEC
The subscription for current material was not renewed for 2025 by Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC).

For other related e-resources, please use the All Subjects search box above and choose 'Engineering and Technology' for results such as AccessEngineering and others.
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering & Computer Science
The 7 collections are now located on the Springer Nature Link platform:

eBColl Synthesis Collection 1
eBColl Synthesis Collection 2
eBColl Synthesis Collection 3
eBColl Synthesis Collection 4
eBColl Synthesis Collection 5
eBColl Synthesis Collection 6
eBColl Synthesis Collection 7
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global includes international dissertations and theses as well as all previous content. It is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.

Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
Web of Science
Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

LibGuides in Engineering & Computer Science

FAU Engineering Sites

SmartBriefs.com

View or subscribe to SmartBriefs in your interest areas.

Search Limiters

Using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), to further limit ideas, concepts and topics. Use one or more of the following with your topic to narrow down an aspect of your topic.

argument
attitudes
benefits
confronting
crimes against
crisis
criticism
debate
definition
ethics
health aspects
interviews
issues
(laws or regulations)
outcomes
outlook
political aspects
policy
prevention
projects
properties
psychological aspects
public opinion
reform
religious aspects
rights
research
social policy
statistical data
structure
theories
trend
usage
viewpoint

Remember to use "quotation marks" around phrases to search for words as phrases.