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CME 396

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AccessEngineering
AccessEngineering is an engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students
that provides access to the world's best-known, most-used collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information.

MatWeb
Free database of materials properties

Articles

ASCE Library
Journal publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Note: UIC subscribes to only some of the titles in this database
Engineering Village 2
Platform of Compendex and Inspec, the most comprehensive databases of engineering and technical research available. Backfile access only to Compendex (Engineering Index).

Tip: If you have problems with off campus access, use AnyConnect VPN. To install, go to AnyConnect VPN and make sure you select the Library-Resources group . Off campus users can also log in with username UICLib and password Eresources . Ignore the message to change password and select the search menu.

Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing references and abstracts to over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. Coverage includes chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering, as well as narrower subtopics within all these major fields. Online coverage is from 1970 to the present. Around 250,000 new records are added to the database annually. Compendex is updated weekly to ensure access to critical developments in your field.
Google Scholar
This is a search engine that focuses on academic output. This link is proxied for UIC users off campus so you can download full text.
Note: Off campus users, if you're unable to get pass the CAPTCHA page, use the VPN or sign in to your Google account by going to My Profile on the upper left hand corner of the page.

This is a search engine that focuses on academic output. This link is proxied for remote UIC users. Google Scholar will recognize your UIC affiliation and provide links to download articles & more from the UIC Library collections.
Web of Science
Access to the Web of Science Core Collection which is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented. This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.

Note: author search temporarily not working properly. For better results, use the VPN.

The Web of Science, provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) a division of Thomson Reuters, is an index of current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from 1975 on. The bibliographic records from approximately 8,700 high impact research journals are mostly linked to full-text articles.

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