Engineering

This search tool lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search, simultaneously searching the UD catalog, OhioLINK catalog, and many of the online resources available through the University Libraries, in addition to institutional repositories and open-access resources. With UDiscover, you can access millions of journal articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, videos, and primary sources. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.

This database indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, reports, and other formats. Its major subject areas include sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Users may search Web of Science Core Collection or any of the following databases: BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, Grants Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Preprint Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation index, SciELO Citation Index, and Zoological Record.

This resource is the premier database for professionals and researchers across all engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental, structural, and software. It includes hundreds of full-text engineering journals, magazines, and trade publications, plus books, conference papers, and more.

The American Energy Society (AES) is a community of professionals, experts, and crusaders working together to solve the world's greatest energy challenges. Access all member benefits, including publications (Energy Matters, Energy Today, all reports and white papers, and a comprehensive archive), services (energy ecosystem maps, trend-spotting analytics, and Expert Link micro-consulting opportunities), professional services (energy proficiency quizzes, events and conferences, job boards, and talent scouting), and business development (custom research assignments, concierge introductory services, and marketing outreach). NOTE: You must create an account on the AES site using an @udayton.edu email address to activate your membership.

Produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers, this database provides access to 145,000+ research and practical publications, journals, magazines, e-books, conference proceedings, and ASCE standards across many disciplines of civil engineering. Highlighted topics include Coasts, Oceans Ports, & Rivers Engineering; Construction Engineering; Environment & Water Resources Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Structural Engineering; Transportation & Urban Development Engineering; and Utilities, Pipelines, & Surveying Engineering.

This is the publishing platform of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and its publishing partners, including ASTM International. This platform provides access to ASME journals, ASTM journals, and ASTM e-books, including ASTM symposia papers, manuals, monographs, and technical reports. These cover a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Conference proceedings date back to 2008; journal papers date back to 1970; other publications date back to 1880.

Formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM International develops and delivers voluntary consensus standards to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence. ASTM Compass is the repository for industry standards and technical information produced by ASTM International. Content includes the Book of Standards, research reports, journals, manuals, monographs, technical papers and reports, data series, and market intelligence reports. It covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Topics covered include Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Guide for Sampling and Analysis, Metallography and Resinography, Testing of Metallic and Inorganic Coatings, Performance and Durability of Building Sealants, and more.

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is a source of chemical information. CAS SciFinder is the world's most current and relied on source for chemical substance information with authoritative details on chemical substances and their related chemical structures, chemical names, regulatory information, and properties, including CAS Registry Numbers. NOTE: New Users must register for an account with their UD email address. This database is for UD students, staff & faculty only. UDRI employees are not eligible to use this database. 

Formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers is a professional society for optics and photonics technology. The Digital Library provides access to technical publications from SPIE journals, conference proceedings and presentations, and e-books from SPIE Press from 1962 to the present. All full-text papers and e-book chapters are provided in PDF format. Contents include Proceedings of SPIE, Optical Engineering, Neurophotonics, Advanced Photonics, Advance Photonics Nexus, SPIE e-books, and the Journals of Electronic Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology, Applied Remote Sensing, Nanophotonics, Photonics for Energy, Medical Imaging, Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, and Optical Microsystems.

Access full-text articles from thousands of scholarly business journals, magazines, and trade journals from the fields of marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Plus company and industry profiles, SWOT analyses, country economic reports, financial data, and investment reports. This database includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals. Full-text non-journal content includes company profiles, informational records, case studies, industry reports, business executive interviews, working papers, and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.

This digital platform provides access to scientific and technical content published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and its publishing partners including the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Included are more than 6 million documents and other materials from some of the world's most cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and related sciences. Content comprises research articles, conference papers, technical standards, transactions, journals and magazines, books and book chapters, and online educational courses. Via IEEE Xplore, the IEEE Journal Archive provides full-text perpetual access to more than 100 years of IEEE legacy content from leading IEEE journals and magazines published between 1884 and 1999. In addition to current IEEE conference proceedings, users have access to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Archive Complete Set, covering 1936 to 1999.