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Key Subject Resources

These are the key databases we recommend that you use, a more complete list is available from our Engineering Databases and Key Journals page. You may also find a list of specialist technical databases and engineering datasets useful. All electronic resources can be accessed off-campus through the Southampton Virtual Environment (SVE).

Compendex
Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Further information.
INSPEC
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A leading database in the fields of physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology. It contains abstracts of articles from over 3000 journals, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and dissertations. Coverage: 1966 to date. Further information
Web of Science Core Collection
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Provides references, and in many cases abstracts, for peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (1970-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Also provides citation data and references to books and conference papers. Click on the Full Text Finder links to check for full-text.
Scopus
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
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MEDLINE is the world's best-known medicine and clinical science database, covering literature from around the world since 1946. It has a comprehensive set of controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms). MEDLINE is also available free on the web as PubMed.

The database contains more than 21.6 million records from 5,582 selected publications covering biomedicine and health from 1950 to the present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE provides information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, as well as coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
ESDU Data
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ESDU is an engineering knowledge base which provides essential design and analysis methods and guides, data and software tools to help solve complex engineering problems. These design guides can be used in a wide range of engineering disciplines, including ISVR, aerospace, mechanical, civil, transportation and chemical engineering.

Sustainable Organization Library (SOL)
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An online library of around 10,000 items (book chapters, case studies and research papers) from nearly 800 books, reports and journal issues, focused on sustainability and social responsibility.

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New Resources
Gale - a collection of primary and secondary sources which cover medicine, engineering, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics and many other subjects. Provides access to books, archival materials and news sources.

Audio Engineering Society Library

Library Services now offers all our users access to AES E-Library (http://www.aes.org/e-lib/inst/ ).

All UofS members have unlimited access to this unique resource of 17,000 fully searchable papers spanning all aspects of audio technology dating back to 1953.