Finding Journal Articles

Quicksearch engineering journal databases using Supersearch

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• This quicksearch option searches across a number of engineering journal databases.
• It is useful for conducting an introductory search on a topic.
• To link to the full-text of articles (if available), click on the SFX button :

Quicksearch will often retrieve a large number of hits. If you need to conduct a more sophisticated search, try searching one or more of the individual databases listed below :

• Academic Search Premier on EBSCOhost
• Astrophysics Data System
• Australian Standards
• ENGnetBASE - full text electronic handbooks from CRC Press. Covers a wide range of engineering and technology disciplines.
• InfoTrac One File on Thomson Gale
• Institute of Physics Fulltext journals Full text articles for all Institute of Physics journals from volume 1 to present.
• Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI)
• ScienceDirect search over 1800 Elsevier journals, with full text generally available from 1997.
• Scopus One of the world’s largest abstract and indexing databases, offering you access to 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers
• Springer Link
• Synergy: Blackwell Publishing Full text for approximately 600 journals published by Blackwell Publishing.
• Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science (with Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index), Current Contents Connect and Journal Citation Reports. Coverage is available from 1992 onwards. Until the end of September 2006 you have trial access to the complete backfile of Web of Science.

Electronic Journals

• Online Optics journals available through Swinburne Library
• Journal of Electron Microscopy
• Journal of Modern Optics
• Journal of the Optical Society of America

e-Books (Online Titles)

• Selected eBook titles
  • Encyclopedic Handbook of Integrated Optics
  • Principles of Lasers and Optics
  • Practical Optics
  • Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering
  • Handbook of Nonlinear Optics
    
• Selected eBook collections
  • Digital Engineering Library
  • ENGnetBASE - 300 full text electronic handbooks from CRC Press.
  • Knovel Knovel is a collection of over 500 online books covering a range of subjects in science, technology and engineering.

See the eBook (online books) Subject Starter Guide for more eBook databases.

Subject Gateways

• Colour and Vision Database datasets relevant to colour and vision research
• Lasers-Optics-USA
• Optical Engineering Yahoo Links
• Optical Links Center for Electromagnetic Materials & Optical Systems
• Optics Net Optical Society of America
• Microscopy and Imaging Resources on the WWW
• Nanotechnology Victoria Links to Australian sites and resources
• Optical Resources - University of Sydney
• optics.org online photonics resources
• Photonics online
• PSIGate Physics Gateway
• SPIE Web WWW Virtual Library for Optical Science & Engineering
• Swinburne Astronomy Online excellent astronomy links

Organisations and Societies

• American Astronomical Society
• American Society for Nondestructive Testing
• Astronomical Society of Australia
• The Australian Institute of Physics
• Australian Optical Society
• CIE - Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage International Commission on Illumination
• Colour Society of Australia
• CSIRO
• The European Optical Society
• IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK)
• IEEE Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• International Colour Vision Society
• Inter-Society Color Council
• NanoVic Nanotechnology Victoria
• Optical Society of America
• Optical Society of Japan
• Royal Microscopical Society
• Society for Information Display
• SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
• Link to other UK and US laser groups

Author: Jo Gillespie (jgillespie@swin.edu.au)