College of Technology - Weekend Master's Program
Selected Library Resources
Full-text general research databases
These databases have full-text of articles linked from most of the citations. The subject coverage is
broad and interdisciplinary and the databases often present a good place to begin learning about a new
topic.
- Academic Search Premier
- ERIC
- All aspects of education research and practice are covered.
- OmniFile Full-Text
- Indexes Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers´ Guide, Social Sciences, Business, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Legal Periodicals, Library Science
- Professional Development Collection
- Highly specialized information for professional educators.
- Proquest Research Library
- Lexis-Nexis
- General news; business, medical, and legal news and information.
Full-text Scientific and Technical Databases
These databases are specific to individual publishers in science, engineering and technology. All of the
information from a specific date to the present is available in full-text
- ACM Digital Library
- Journal articles and conference papers from the Association for Computing Machinery from 1991-present.
- IEEE Xplore
- Journal articles, conference papers and standards from the IEEE and IEE covering 1988-present.
- Science Direct
- Journal articles published by Elsevier Science. Our access covers dates from approximately 1995-present.
- SPIE Digital Library
- Journal articles and SPIE proceedings publications available full-text online from 1990 - present.
Business and Industry Databases
These databases provide news, industry reports and market research reports. Full-text is included in all of these
databases.
** Please remember your access to this information is for
academic purposes ONLY.
- Marketresearch.com
- An academic database which contains mareket research reports and related materials.
- Forrester Research
- Includes technology focused market research reports. A registration is necessary to obtain access. New users and returning users have different links.
- Frost & Sullivan
- An extremely useful market report database. Very deep reports on industry markets.
- Business Source Premier
- A good source for articles, industry profiles, and market research reports. Includes SWOT analysis for companies.
- ABI/Inform Global and
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
- These databases will be useful for business news coverage.
- Factiva
- An excellent source for international news. It's possible to target publications from specific regions and countries.
Scientific and Technical Databases with some Full-Text linked
These databases are specific to subjects in science, engineering and technology. Most of these index primarily
research publications. There are some full-text links included with the citations.
- Compendex
- Engineering Index. Covers all areas of Engineering and Technology and indexes materials from 1884-present.
- INSPEC
- Indexes journal articles and conference papers in the areas of physics, electrical and electronics engineering, computer and control and inforamtion technology. Covers from 1898-present.
Online reference resources
These links are to full-text scientific and technical encyclopedias and handbooks.
- Access Science
- This is the online edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Science and Technology.
- knovel
- An online collection of over 600 scientific and technical handbooks. Full-text searchable.
- EngNetBase
- CRC ENGnetBASE gives you online access to some of the world's leading engineering handbooks. Currently, more than 420 titles are available. Full-text searchable.
- Specifications and Standards Database
- Includes full-text of many US federal and industry standards.
- Safari Online Technical Books
- Safari is an electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals.
Using Google Scholar?
Here's a way to include a link to Purdue Library holdings from Google Scholar. The OpenURL referrer put the
Find It @ Purdue icon in your Google Scholar search results, allowing for quick, easy determination if you
can get an electronic copy of an article.
http://www.openly.com/openurlref/
Literature review - descriptions
These links provide a good overview of what information goes into a literature review. They also
discuss how to organize the review and what the ultimate purpose of a literature review is as part of
the research process.
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html
- University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill
- http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html
- University of Toronto
- http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/litrev.html
Suggestions for additional resources to be added to this page or questions on finding information can be sent to Amy .