Databases and Indexes

Use indexes and databases to locate articles, technical reports, and patents. When you find a citation for an article, you need to check the Cameo library catalog to see if Carnegie Mellon owns that journal or conference proceedings. If Carnegie Mellon does not own the item, you can use Interlibrary Loan to have the materials sent to you.

For a comprehensive list of electronic indexes and databases available at Carnegie Mellon, see Databases by Subject.

• Chemical Abstracts
  1967- (updated weekly).
  Available: SciFinder Scholar
  Chemical Abstracts. 1907- (updated semimonthly).
  Print editions at Mellon Institute Library, older editions at offsite storage.
  Provides coverage of chemical and chemical engineering information. This includes over 8,000 journal titles, plus books, conference proceedings, technical reports, patents and dissertations.
  
  
• EI Compendex
  1884- (updated weekly).
  Engineering Index. Print editions at offsite storage.
  The world's premiere interdisciplinary engineering database, covering journals, technical reports and conferences.
  
  
• INSPEC
  1896 - (updated weekly).
  Can search EI Compendex and INSPEC together.
  Provides access to "scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology."
  
  
• Materials Science Collection
  1966- (updated monthly).
  Available: CSA Illumina. Includes Engineered Materials Abstracts, Materials Business File, METADEX, WELDASEARCH, World Ceramics Abstracts and more.

• MEDLINE
  1965 - (updated monthly).
  Available: FirstSearch: Medicine & Health Sciences: MEDLINE
  
  MEDLINE via PubMed - (National Library Of Medicine)
  1966 - (daily updates 10 months of the year). Provides access to MEDLINE, plus PREMEDLINE. Includes a citation matcher, journal browser (to find abbreviations of journal titles), and links to some full text journals. Coverage includes biomedical research, clinical and life sciences. Subsets include AIDS, Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, History of Medicine, Space Life Sciences, Systematic Reviews, and Toxicology.

  MeSH - Medical Subject Headings
  MeSH is NLM's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. Use the MeSH database to find MeSH Terms and build a consise search strategy.

• NTIS
  1964 - (updated monthly).
  Available via CSA Illumina.
  The NTIS database is the preeminent, official resource for government sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information.
  
  
• PubMed (National Library Of Medicine) In addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed includes access to Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and other databases.
  
  
• Web of Science
  1945 - (updated weekly).
  Science Citation Index.
  Cited Reference searching: Identify which authors have used a particular article as a footnote or reference.