Journal & Conference Articles - Engineering Physics - Advanced Materials - Guides (English) at Polytechnique Montréal

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Compendex
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Subject(s) : All Fields of Engineering
Full-Text : No
Coverage Period : 1884-
Tutorial (in French only)

Contains bibliographic references for journal articles from thousands journal titles and conferences proceedings in science & engineering.
Database size: 20,000,000 references.
Database updated weekly.
Inspec
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Subject(s) : Aerospace Engineering - Biomedical Engineering - Computer Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Engineering Physics - Industrial Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Full-Text : No
Coverage Period : 1896-

Contains bibliographic references for articles & papers from journal titles (including some of them in open access), conferences, as well as books, technical reports & dissertations in the fields of computers, robotics, physics, electrical engineering & electronic engineering.
Datebase size: 16,500,000+ references.
Database updated weekly.
SciFinder
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Subject(s) : Biomedical Engineering - Chemical Engineering - Environmental Engineering - Engineering Physics - Materials Engineering - Medicine & Biology
Full-Text: No

Contains bibliographic references from various types of documents. Web interface web permits simultaneous searching of: Chemical Abstracts, Registry (nomenclature, structures) et CASREACT (organic chemical reactions) produced by the American Chemical Society & the database Medline produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Chemical Abstracts is the most important bibliographic database specialized in chemistry. It contains article résumés, conferences, dissertations, book chapters & patents.

Access to SciFinder is restricted to members of the Polytechnique Montréal community, for academic use or for research projects supported by governmental or non-profit agencies. For any research projects supported by private industry or whose results can be patented, please contact the Reference Desk : biblio@polymtl.ca

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Several tutorials are offered by the producer of this database, Chemical Abstracts Service : http://www.cas.org/training/scifinder

A tutorial in French is also offered by the Université Laval, Bibliothèque.

Coverage Period : Chemical abstracts : 1907- ; Medline : 1958- ; Registry : 1957- ; CASEACT : 1974-
AIP Publications Scitation (American Institute of Physics)
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Subject(s) : Electronics - Telecommunications - Energy Engineering - Engineering Physics
Full-Text : Partial
Period : Variable according to the titles.
Contains bibliographic references from journals published by American Institute of Physics and other scientific associations, including AIP Conference Proceedings. Covers physics and astronomy domains.
Continuous updates.
Consult the list of indexed journals.

Online indexed journals :
• AIP Advances
• APL Bioengineering
• APL Materials
• APL Photonics
• Applied Physics Letters
• Applied Physics Review
• Chaos
• American Journal of Physics
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Chemical Physics
• Journal of Mathematical Physics
• Journal of Rheology
• Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A&B
• Physics of Fluids
• Physics of Plasmas
• Physics Today
• Review of Scientific Instruments
• Structural Dynamics
• Surface Science Spectra
Web of Science
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Subject(s) : All Fields of Engineering
Full-Text : No
Coverage Period : 1989-

Contains bibliographic references for journal articles & author citations from Science Citation Index Expanded, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Book Citation index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
Database permits searches, which allow you to find who has cited a certain publication & find the number of publications citing a specific bibliographic reference. 12,5 millions open access references.
View the list of indexed journals.
Database size : 74 millions references.
Database updated weekly.

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OSTI - Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Subject(s) : Science & Engineering - Chemical Engineering - Computer Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Environmental Engineering - Materials Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Mining Engineering - Mathematics - Medicine & Biology - Earth Sciences
Full-Text : Partial Contents
Coverage Period : 1940-

Contains over 3 million bibliographic references, including 1.5 million journal articles, of which one million are available in full-text. It also contains bibliographic references for conferences, books & certain data, and technical reports published by the US Dept. of Energy (DOE).
Database updated weekly.
IEEE Xplore
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Off-Campus access to this database
Subject(s) : Aerospace Engineering - Biomedical Engineering - Computer Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Engineering Physics - Industrial Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Full-Text : Yes
Coverage Period : 1988-

Database offering access to the full-text of journal articles & conference papers published by the IEEE & IEE since 1988. Some journal titles date back to 1893. It also contains the full-text of all current IEEE technical standards. View the list of indexed journals.
Database size: 4,000,000+ references.
MathSciNet
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Suubect(s) : Industrial Engineering - Computer Engineering - Engineering Physics - Mathematics
Full-Text : No
Coverage Period : 1896-

Contains bibliographic references for journal titles, conference proceedings & books in the fields of theoretical & applied mathematics (statistics, operational research, etc.). This database is produced by the American Mathematical Society.
View the list of indexed journals.
Datebase size: 3,000,000+ references.
Database updated daily.
ScienceDirect
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Off-Campus access to this database
Subject(s) : All Fields of Engineering
Full-Text : Yes
Coverage Period : 1920-

Contains the full-text of over 3,800 electronic journal titles published by Elsevier Science. View the list of indexed journals.
Database updated continuously.
Wiley Online Library
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3. Select " Canadian Access Federation " from the “Federation” drop-down menu.
4. Select " Polytechnique Montreal " .
5. Enter your Polytechnique identifier and password.
Subject(s) : All Fields of Engineering
Full-Text : Partial Contents
Coverage Period : 1997-
Contains the full text of electronic references published by Wiley.
WorldCat
Subject(s) : All Fields of Engineering
Full Text : No
Coverage Period : 1000 B.C. to Present Time

Contains billions bibliographic references for various document types such as dissertations & technical reports not inventoried elsewhere. This database is a regroupment of numerous library catalogues located in North America, Europe & Asia.
Database updated daily.

E-prints, Open Access Articles

arXiv.org e-Print archive
Articles in physics, astronomy, mathematics, statistics and computer science
CERN Document Server
Articles, reports and multimedia content in high energy physics

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Engineering Physics - Advanced Materials > Journal & Conference Articles

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