Some databases, like IEEE/IEE Library, contain full-text articles. However, many of the databases you can use to find journal articles are called Abstracting and Indexing databases because they contain citation information, such as author, journal, publication date, the abstract of the article, etc.

This citation information can be used to help locate the full-text in the following ways:

• Link to the full-text of the article in another database by clicking on a button that says find it @ SU.
• If you don't see the find it @ SU button, search Socrates, the Stanford Libraries Catalog, by Periodical Title to determine if the journal is available to you through the Stanford Libraries.
• If the journal is not in the Socrates, you can request it from another library via Interlibrary Borrowing.

Databases and Online Resources:

• Aerospace & high technology database (1962-present)
  Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.


• Conference papers index
  Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.


• Compendex (Engineering Village) (1884+)
  Available through Engineering Village. Compendex contains over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Online coverage is from 1969 to the present and includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.


• 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
  Contains 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. INSPEC is the premier database for physics & related disciplines but also covers areas like systems management and operations research.


• MatWeb
  Database of material properties includes thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, metals, ceramics, semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.


• Medline via Ebsco
  database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Contains over 16 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. For cross searching, you may want to use Medline via


• MRS Online Proceedings Library
  E-conferences and journals - Contains peer-reviewed papers presented at Materials Research Society Meetings since the 2000 Spring meeting.


• NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
  Containing over 2.0 million bibliographic records, the NTIS 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. Access via NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) also includes full-text access to more than 500,000 documents.


• PubMed
  Free publicly accessible database that provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE. Some links to full text. A useful back-up to the regular database.


• SciFinder scholar
  Indexes journals, patents, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and books in Biochemistry; Physical, Inorganic, and Analytical Chemistry; Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Macromolecular Chemistry; and Organic Chemistry.


• Scitopia.org
  A free federated vertical search portal for more than 20 professional scholarly societies in the sciences and engineering. Content includes over 3.5 million articles and conference proceedings, 50 million patents from the world's major patent offices, and documents from the US Dept of Energy Information Bridge. Full-text of most documents is available through Stanford's subscriptions.


• Toxicology abstracts
  Provides abstracts for toxicology studies across a wide range of substances including industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals.


• TOXLINE
  Citations to journal articles on atmospheric and environmental pollution, chemical and medical poisons and antidotes, carcinogenesis, genotoxicity, mutagenicity, and radioactive materials.


• 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.

• ASM Materials Information
  Includes the 20 volume ASM Handbook (formerly known as the Metals Handbook) and two ASM Desk Editions – the Engineered Materials Handbook and the Metals Handbook. This subscription also includes the ASM Alloy Center, searchable database of alloy data.


• ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
  Allows users to explore, search and view binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data.


• ASTM Digital Library
  Includes standards used in R&D, product testing, quality systems, and commercial transactions as well as over 950 special technical publications, 50 manuals and monographs, and more than 13,000 journal articles.


• Composite Materials Handbook 2002 revision [in Knovel Online Library]
  • Volume 1 - Guidelines for Characterization of Structural Materials
  • Volume 2 - Material Properties
  • Volume 3 - Materials Usage, Design, and Analysis
  • Volume 4 - Metal Matrix Composites
  
  
• CINDAS Properties Databases
  Aerospace Structural Metals Database (ASMD), Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MPMD), and Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD). Databases contain data and information on thermal, mechanical, electrical and physical properties of alloys and materials.


• CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook [in ENGnetBASE]
  A comprehensive source available for data on engineering materials including new tabular material for nonferrous alloys and composite materials and more than 300 tables covering all important categories.


• DIPPR (Design Institute for Physical Property Data) Chemical Database
  Database of physical and thermodynamic properties of pure chemicals consists of experimental data and correlations of temperature-dependent properties for over 1,800 pure chemicals. Collected data have been evaluated, correlated and checked for thermodynamic consistency. From this site you can view data sets, DIPPR-approved property constants and regressed correlation coefficients for temperature-dependent properties, as well as calculate temperature-dependent properties in any set of units. 2-D and 3-D representations of chemical structures now available; click on the words Structural Formula on the constant properties summary sheet to view them.


• Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
  Coverage of all technically pertinent areas of modern-day physics, coupled with technological applications from real life.


• Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Kirk-Othmer)
  Chemistry encyclopedia with a major emphasis on the applied aspects of chemistry and chemical engineering. Coverage includes chemical substances including properties, manufacture of the substances.


• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering 2002
  Over 500 articles polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers, and polymerization processes. Updated quarterly with new and substantially revised articles.


• Encyclopedia of Smart Materials
  Provides a description of a complex and growing interdisciplinary field, covering materials (ceramic, metallic, polymeric, biologic, and composite), phenomena, characterization.


• Engineered Materials Handbook 1987
  Contains an introductory section on general information and data, followed by sections on polymeric materials, engineering plastics, polymer-matrix composites, adhesives and sealants, ceramics.


• Handbook of Composites 1998 [in Knovel Online Library]
  Focuses on polymeric matrix, metal matrix, and ceramic matrix composites.


• Knovel Library
  E-books - Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics materials.


• MRS Online Proceedings Library
  E-conferences and journals - Contains peer-reviewed papers presented at Materials Research Society Meetings since the 2000 Spring meeting.


• SciTechNetBASE
  E-books collection in nanoscience and nanotechnology from CRC Press.


• Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook [in Knovel Online Library]
  Coverage of all aspects of chemical engineering, from the fundamentals to details on computer applications and control. Definitive reference for chemical and process engineers.


• ScienceDirect
  E-books and journals - web information source for scientific, technical, and medical research (STM) that offers access to more than 1,800 journals across 24 fields of science including the social sciences. Offers full-text articles, browsable tables of contents, and article abstracts. Many titles have full-text coverage from the first volume to the present.


• SpringerLink
  E-books and journals in Engineering, Earth and Environmental science and other Science & Technology topics.


• Uhlig's Corrosion Handbook [in Knovel Online Library]
  Covers fundamentals of corrosion science and engineering, non-metals, metals, corrosion protection, and testing for corrosion resistance.


• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
  Worlds's largest technical encyclopedia, this is also a very trusted source of information on a wide variety of fields that involve chemistry.

• BUBL: Materials Science
  The materials science site from the BUBL Information Service.


• Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
  A Resource of Theory and Modeling Techniques, Expertise, and Collaboration in Materials Science. Maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.


• Crystallography Online
  Provides links to current information concerning crystallography and other topics of interest to crystallographers.


• Directory of Open Access Journals Technology and Engineering (DOAJ)
  Includes free full text online journals in Chemical Technology, Materials Science and other disciplines.


• Department of Energy (DOE)
  Provides energy related information from the Department of Energy. Covers full text DOE documents and regulations.


• EINet: Materials Science
  The TradeWave Galaxy site for materials science.


• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
  Information on occupation related health and safety. Covers OSHA documents and regulations.


• Tribology Internet Resources
  Maintained at Sheffield University. A source for news and reference information relating to tribology, publicize relevant seminars, conference, and events, and a tribology discussion forum.


• Virtual Technical Reports Center
  Full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web.