Databases by Subject - Materials Science & Metallurgical Engineering

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Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
ASM Materials Information	Search ASM (American Society for Metals, now known as ASM International) Handbooks Online, the Alloy Center Online, Micrograph Center Online, and Failure Analysis Center Online. Also known as the Metals Handbook. Search Tips	Current	Y
Blackwell Synergy	Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included \| Search Help	1879-	Y
Cambridge Scientific Materials Research Databases	Searches CSA databases including (click link below to search databases individually): Aluminum Industry Abstracts Ceramic Abstracts Copper Data Center Database Corrosion Abstracts Engineered Materials Abstracts - Advanced Polymers, Composites, Ceramics Materials Business File METADEX, Metals Abstracts WELDASEARCH Included in QuickFind	Most 1966-	N
Engineering Village	Abstracts from Compendex and INSPEC databases, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.Search Tips	1969+	Y
ENGnetBASE	745+ Engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Search Help	Current	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Knovel	Collection of 1400+ science and engineering handbooks. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Current	Y
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
SciFinder Scholar	Electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, indexing the literature of chemistry. See How it Works	1907-	Y
Scitation	Search abstracts of several journals from American Physical Society (APS), and science and engineering societies. Search Tips	1957-	Y

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Additional Web Sites

ThermoDex - identify printed handbooks on thermodynamic and physical data
MatWeb - some free material property data
A to Z of Materials - some free data on materials
Metal Processing Institute at WPI

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