Research Guides: Aerospace Engineering: Conference Papers &amp; Journal Articles

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Where to Find Conference Papers & Journal Articles

These collections contain abstracts and the full text of conference papers and journal articles. If you find a document in a database and you can't access the full text, email the engineering librarian or submit an interlibrary loan request.

Aerospace Research Central (AIAA) This link opens in a new window
AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the leading research body for aeronautics. We have full-text online access to most of the past few years of research journals. The AIAA's Aerospace Research Central search is also an index to Meeting Papers, Standards and other information. We have print versions of many of the conferences (discover it in AIAA, obtain it from our print collection).
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
A digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
Engineering Village (Compendex) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
The collection contains advanced technology related full-text articles, granular access to millions of figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from the Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace (ATDWA). ATDWA brings together the most comprehensive bibliographic coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics, astronautics, computer & information technology, electronics, communications, solid state devices and space sciences.

How to Find Conference Papers

Researchers report many new and novel procedures, process, products, and systems at conferences. Major society conferences, like AIAA and IEEE, are available through their respective digital libraries, but others can be difficult to find.

Didn't find the full text in the database?

First, try treating the name of the conference like a book title or author and searching it as keywords in our catalogue. This will tell you if we have any proceedings from that conference in our print collection.
Second, if you can't locate the conference proceeding, contact the engineering librarian
Third, submit an interlibrary loan request and the library will try to get a copy of the item you need from another library.

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How to Get the Whole Article

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Click the button to see if we have access to the article elsewhere.

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If you cannot access the full text of a document, use interlibrary loan to request it.

No longer need your copy of that proceedings?

If you attended a conference and no longer need the published proceedings, consider donating it to the library. It can be very difficult for the library to locate and purchase copies of conference publications from smaller organizations and events after the meeting.

Contact the engineering librarian for details.