Electrical Engineering

Databases: find journal articles, technical reports, standards, etc.

• Academic Search Premier. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
• ACM Digital Library. Registration is free, but full-text is for ACM members only.
• Business Source Premier. Provides full text for over 2500 business journals.
• Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
• CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer Science. Full text of the cited references is available.
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. Some links to the online fulltext.
• Computing Research Respository (CoRR). Preprints in computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting preprints are provided.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.  Access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
• E-Print Network. Maintained by the Dept. of Energy. Allows simultaneous searching of a variety of preprint servers.
• Energy Portal Search. Provides access to government and research society databases and evaluated web sites.
• Electric Power Research Institute. (EPRI).
• Engineering E-journal Search Engine. Full-text from over 150 trade e-journals. Do not confuse this site with Compendex (Engineering Index).
• Google Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results based on their relevance criteria.
• IEEE Xplore. Index to IEEE and IET publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.  Full text of IEEE and IET journals, conference proceedings and standards is available at Fogler Library.
• Ingenta (Formerly UnCover). Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  From Springerlink.
• MasterFILE Premier. Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 1,000 journals.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.  
• Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL). Computer science technical reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are available in full text.
• NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects, archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other relevant worldwide research.
• National Standards Systems Network (NSSN).
• Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
• Science.gov. New improved gateway to U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700 web sites. 
• Searchable Physics Information Notices (SPIN). A bibliographic database published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
• TechStreet: Technical Information Superstore. Most comprehensive index for engineering standards. Also indexes books, materials physical property data, software and free professional trade magazines.
• U.S. Dept. of Energy. Scientific and Technical Information.
• U.S. Patent Database.  See also Maine's Patent and Trademark Depository Library.

Library Catalogs

• URSUS. University of Maine System catalog.  
• MaineCat. College, university, and major public libraries in Maine.  
• Library of Congress. Online catalog.
• British Library. Catalogue.
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Catalog.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
• Bartleby.com. Dictionaries, thesaurus, quotations, etc.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. Compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. An ever expanding dictionary of computing terminology and humor.
• Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus in one resource with good science and technology coverage. Nobel and science awards page. 
• Tech Encyclopedia.
• Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia.

Educational Resources

• IEEE Virtual Museum. 
• Discover engineering.
• Discovery Channel. Discovery School.  Try the brain boosters.
• EDN Magazine.
• Engineer Girl. For everyone with lot’s of links and information.
• Engineering your Future.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems. Great links to great resources for students, parents, teachers, etc. Sorted by categories and grade levels.
• Future Scientists & Engineers of America (FSEA).
• How Stuff Works.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Math/Science Network. Expanding Your Horizons.            
• National Engineers Week. 
• Try Science. Sponsored by the New York Hall of Science.

Maine Resources

• IEEE Computer/Electron Devices Society. Maine Chapter.
• IEEE. Maine State Section.
• Institute for a Strong Maine Economy.
• Maine Economic Growth Council.
• Maine Economic Research Institute.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Maine Technology Institute.
• Maine's Software and Information Technology Industry Association (MESDA).
• University of Maine. Dept. of Computer Science.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• University of Maine. Office of the Vice President for Research.

Professional Societies and Research Organizations

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
• American Electronics Association (AEA).
• American Physical Society (APS).
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).
• Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC).
• Computing Research Association.
• Electronic Industries Alliance. (EIA).
• IEEE Computer Society.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). British society.
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
• International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
• International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS).
• ISA: Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Materials Research Society.
• National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA).
• National Institute for Nanotechnology. National Research Council of Canada.
• National Nanotechnology Initiative.
• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). Works for the use of renewable energies, green buildings and efficient use of all energy.
• Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
• SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering.
• Union of Concerned Scientists.
• USENIX. The Advanced Computing Systems Association.

Government Agencies and Resources

• Scitechresources.gov. Catalog of U.S. government science and technology web sites.
• U.S. Dept. of Energy. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NERL).
• U.S. Dept. of Energy. Office of Fossil Energy.
• U.S. Dept. of Energy. Industrial Technologies Program.

Technical Resources

• BOWest Pty Ltd. Electrical and Project Engineering. Electrical theorems and formulas.
• EDN Magazine. portal to a wide array or resources.
• Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
• EE Compendium.
• Engineers Edge. contains design and technical data, equations, current news, job announcements, links to free trade journals.
• IEEE Virtual Museum. History of electrical and electronics technology.
• Lessons in Electric Circuits. Series of textbooks on electricity and electronics.
• MEMS and Nanotechnology Clearinghouse.
• Nanotechnology Now. Background articles, glossary, news digest, etc.
• NIST Physical Reference Data. Covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• Robotics Online.
• Robots Life.com.
• Semiconductor Subway.
• WebEE: The Electrical Engineering Homepage.
• Wireless Design Online.

Internet Directories

• INFOMINE. Scholarly internet resources. University of California, Riverside.
• Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.
• Motionnet.com: Electrical Engineering.
• PSIgate: Physical Sciences Information Gateway. 

Raymond H. Fogler Library University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-1661

Updated: 06/27/2008
by Martin Wallace