Guides: Automotive Engineering: Articles &amp; Databases

Major Databases

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE journals, conference proceedings, magazines, ebooks and standards.
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Brings together Engineering databases Inspec and Compendex in one search with broad coverage of Engineering disciplines and Physics.
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Journals published by Elsevier.
SAE Mobilus This link opens in a new window
Access to technical papers from the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) published in the last 10 years. Filter results to My Access to display content available to Ontario Tech users as part of our subscription.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of every article published by the Association of Computing Machinery.
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ASME This link opens in a new window
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) journals, conference proceedings and standards.
ASTM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) journals, technical papers and standards.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database indexing millions of journal articles, conference papers and other publications. Provides citation information for articles and authors. Significant content for Engineering and related fields.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database indexing millions of journal articles, conference papers and other publications. Provides citation information for articles and authors. Significant content for Engineering and related fields.
Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Search for top ranked journals in different subject categories. Find impact factors and other metrics for specific journals.

Use quotation marks to search a phrase like "wind energy conversion." The search tool will look for the words together, not separately.
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Look over the results and see what terms the authors are using. You may have searched for "mobile phone" and found that many authors use the term "smart phone." Revise your search.
Use OR for similar terms, when you don't care which one the tool retrieves: "mobile phone" OR "smart phone"