This list includes those databases used most by engineering students and faculty. Alternately you can view a list of databases for your particular discipline on our "How do I find" page. Alternately you can view the full list of databases available at Stanford in SearchWorks.
ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library includes the full text of every article published by ACM, including archives.
AIAA Digital Library
Full-text access to AIAA Journal, Journal of Aircraft, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, and meeting papers.
ASCE Research Library
The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. The Research Library provides access to full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings. Mobile version is available.
ASTM digital library
The ASTM Digital Library provides access to the digital edition of nearly every ASTM International book and paper spanning 140+ industries and 100+ years. Includes journals, books, standards and special technical publications.
Aerospace & high technology database
The Aerospace & High Technology Database indexes and abstracts articles, technical reports, and theses related to aeronautics, astronautics, and associated interests of NASA. Coverage is from 1962 to present. It corresponds to two printed indexes: International Aerospace Abstracts, produced by the AIAA, and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR), produced by NASA. An alternative version of the Aerospace Database is also available on the internet as NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server.
BIOSIS
Also known as BIOSIS Citation Index, indexes the worldwide literature of research in the biological and biomedical sciences. The database covers the entire field of life sciences including original research reports and reviews in field, laboratory, clinical, experimental, and theoretical work. BIOSIS indexes journals, technical reports, meeting proceedings, United States patents, and books in biology, biomedicine, and related areas. Cited reference search is available. The database indexes literature published from 1926 to the present.
Earthquake engineering abstracts
A comprehensive collection of abstracts and citations of world literature relevant to earthquake engineering and earthquake hazards mitigation. Publications covered include technical journals, reports, books, codes and conference proceedings.
Compendex (Engineering Village)
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research containing over nine million references and abstracts from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Online coverage is from 1884 to the present. Approximately 500,000 new records are added to the database annually from over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases consists of thirteen files covering the worldwide literature for the environmental sciences including air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and U.S. federal environmental impact statements.
GeoRef
GeoRef is the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 1.5 million records of North America since 1785 and other areas of the world since 1933.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore is 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.
INSPEC
Inspec is a comprehensive database of citations and abstracts to the literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. Covers journal articles, conference papers, significant books, technical reports, dissertations, and patents.
Material ConneXion
Material Connexionis a unique and comprehensive resource currently comprised of more than 4,500 materials and processes, and growing at a rate of more than 30 materials per month. Materials information, includes high-quality photographs, and company/vendor contact information.
MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
MRS Online Proceedings Library
Provides online access to the MRS Proceedings series. Full text of over 330 Proceedings volumes beginning with Volume 609 (2000) and including almost 20,000 individual papers. The MRS Bulletin), and Journal of Materials Research (from 1986 through the present), can also be found at the site.
MEDLINE
Medline is a database indexing 3,600 journals in the fields of medicine, basic medical sciences including molecular and cellular biology and genetics, as well as allied health. Medline is also available via Ovid, OCLC, and the NLM Gateway.
NTRL
Containing over 2.0 million bibliographic records, the NTIS/NTRL Database is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. Contents include research reports, computer products, software, video cassettes, audio cassettes and more. The complete electronic file dates back to 1964. Accessing via NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) also includes full-text access to more than 500,000 documents. For additional information and help with searching the database download the User Guide (PDF)
SAE Digital Library
Content includes SAE Technical Papers since 1906 and access to the SAE Global Mobility Database (GMD) which includes summaries of more than 177,000 documents—technical papers, standards, regulations, journals, and reports.
SPIE digital library
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.
SpringerImages
SpringerImages spans science, technology and medicine in 18 subject collections with over 2.5 million photos, charts, graphs, histograms, and tables.
SpringerMaterials
Also known as the Landolt-Börnstein Database, this resource for physical and chemical data in materials science covers over 250,000 substance and materials systems and over 3,000 properties. It includes more than 1.2 million literature citations.
Water intelligence online
Provides access to reference books, research reports, research papers and conference proceedings covering water, wastewater and related environmental topics. The years of coverage varies by book or journal title, but is generally 2002 to present. IWA Publishing, the wholly owned subsidiary of the International Water Association (IWA), is a leading supplier of water, wastewater and environmental publications.
Water resources abstracts
Water Resources Abstracts (WRA) is available as one of the thirteen databases packaged as the Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases.
Web of Science
(Science Citation Index, 1945-present) Provides for forward or backward cited searching. With a recent article, you typically use the bibliography to go back in time. In a way, the citation index lets you do the reverse. You can take an older article and see who has cited that article since it was published.
ISI Web of Knowledge - ISI Web of Knowledge provides a single search option to search across multiple resources including Web of Science, Derwent innovations index, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC, MEDLINE, Zoological Record, and ISI Journal citation reports.
xSearch
xSearch, developed through the Stanford University Libraries' partnership with Deep Web Technologies, provides Stanford researchers and students with a single search option for multiple online resources. Searches may be limited to specific databases, or all available sources may be searched simultaneously. Search results are merged into one relevance ranked list, and are clustered by topic, author, source publication, publisher, and date. Custom searches using any selection of available databases can be created and re-used. Users may also create alerts in order to be informed automatically of new items that match search criteria.