Electronics Industry

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

• Academic Search Premier. Provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly publications. Citations and abstracts available for an additional 3,500 journals.  
• 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.
• Business Source Premier. Provides full text for over 2,800 business journals.
• Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
• 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.
• 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 wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results using their relevance criteria. The ranking evaluates the full text of an article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature.
• IngentaConnect. (Formerly UnCover) Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science. From Springerlink.
• MasterFILE Premier. Provides full text for over 2,100 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 700 journals.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.  
• 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).
• 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.
• 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. Patent Database. See also Maine's Patent and Trademark Depository Library.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• 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.
• Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus in one resource with good science and technology coverage. Nobel and science awards page. 
• International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) online database. Over 20 000 terms in English, French, German and Spanish some with definitions in English and French.
• Tech Encyclopedia.
• Virtual Museum of Computing.
• 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. 
• Nobel Prize in Physics - Educational sites.
• Try Science. Sponsored by the New York Hall of Science.

Maine Resources and Organizations

• IEEE Computer/Electron Devices Society. Maine Chapter.
• IEEE. Maine State Section.
• Maine Business Indicators.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
• Maine Technology Institute.
• Maine's Software and Information Technology Industry Association (MESDA).
• Target Technology Incubator.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• University of Maine. Office of the Vice President for Research. 

Professional Societies

• American Electronics Association (AEA).
• Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
• Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA).
• 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).
• Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).

Company Directories

• EENet: The Electronics and Engineering Network.
• Electronics Manufacturers Directory. A comprehensive industrial resource for electronics and electrical products. Find global manufacturers and suppliers of computers, hardwares and peripherals, audio and video electronics, lightings and lamps, RF and microwave components, optoelectronics, and power supplies.
• Electronics Manufacturers on the net.
• Semiconductor Electronics Resource Center. 
• Thomas Net. Directory of North American manufacturers.
• Thomas Global Register Europe. European industrial buying guide.

Technical Data

• BOWest Pty Ltd. Electrical and Project Engineering. Electrical theorems and formulas.
• The Chip Directory. A numerically ordered directory of chip manufacturers and their URL's.
• Datasheet Locator. Locate electronic product datasheets from hundreds of manufacturers. 
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive. A collection of circuit information including datasheets; some models and microprocessors are also covered.
• IEC 61360 Component Directory. This online handbook contains the classes and associated characteristic properties (data element types or DETs) for electric/electronic components and materials used in electrotechnical equipment and systems.
• Lessons in Electric Circuits. Series of textbooks on electricity and electronics.
• NIST Data Gateway. Covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• Semiconductor Electronics Resource Center. 
• Semiconductor Subway. MIT's clearinghouse of semiconductor and microsystems-related information. Links to many research labs and companies developing semiconductor technology.
• Superconductors.org. A site for students to learn about superconductors. Contains internet links page for additional sites.

Internet Directories

• INFOMINE. Scholarly internet resources. University of California, Riverside.
• PSIgate: Physical Sciences Information Gateway. 
• Scitechresources.gov. Catalog of U.S. government science and technology web sites.
• WWW Virtual Library: Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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

Updated: 06/27/2008
by Martin Wallace