Guides: Library Research for Engineering Students: Find Articles

Find Articles

At the results page, you can use the filters on the left to narrow your results, for example:

Scholarly sources include journal articles, conference papers and theses. See What is a peer reviewed article?

While Omni Search lets you search across all Ontario Tech databases, sometimes it's useful to search Engineering or STEM research only.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE journals, conference proceedings and standards.
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Broad coverage of Engineering disciplines and Physics.
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Journals covering the fields of physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. Content from Elsevier and other publishers.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Computer science. Database from ACM (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.
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.

Use quotation marks to search a phrase like "wind energy conversion." The search tool will look for the words together, not separately.
Use the date range filter to get more current results. Do you want to look back 5 years? 10?
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"