tips on finding articles
key article databases
- compendex this link opens in a new windowaccess to over five million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings in all areas of engineering. coverage: 1969-
- web of science this link opens in a new window
multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. includes index to dissertations and theses and conference proceedings and cited reference searching. coverage: 1975-
other databases
- acm digital library (association for computing machinery) this link opens in a new windowfull text of every article ever published by acm and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. coverage: varies
- astm (compass) standardscontains full-text active standards.
- bioone this link opens in a new windowindexes over 127 high impact bioscience journals. most of bioone's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. coverage: 2000- includes full text to open access content.
- synthesis digital library of engineering and computer scienceinformation service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.
*lakehead has access to collections 1 and 2 - trail (technical report archive & image library)trail identifies, acquires, catalogs, and digitizes technical reports issued primarily prior to 1976.