Research Guides: Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering: Articles/Databases

Full Text Sources

Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (Proquest)
A collection of full text and index collections covering engineering, advanced technologies and aerospace topics. It's a great place to get started looking for full text articles on your topic.

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. View more information here.
IEEE Xplore
A digital library providing full text access to IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.

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. View more information here.
Military & Government Collection
Provides access to many of the important military and government magazine and journals, including the specific service titles.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defense Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. View more information here.
Natural Science Collection (Proquest)
This database includes natural science content from searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature by employing ?deep indexing?. Search results can be viewed in full, in either thumbnail or enhanced format, along with the caption, author and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper. View more information here.
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Ship Structure Committee reports
This database includes the full text documents from the Ship Structure Committee, an interagency group conducting research to improve the hull structures of ships and other marine structures by furthering knowledge pertaining to design, materials, and methods of construction.

The database includes reports from 1946-present and select case study reports.

Indexes

Engineering Village (Compendex)
The most comprehensive source for citations and abstracts of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. We have online access back to 1969.

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. View more information here.

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