Databases and Indexes

Use databases and indexes 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.

• CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX
  Available: CSA Illumina. Includes:
  • Aluminum Industry Abstracts 1972-Current
  • Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts 1975-Current
  • Copper Data Center Database 1965-Current
  • Corrosion Abstracts 1980-Current
  • Engineered Materials Abstracts 1986-Current (3 subfiles-Advanced Polymers Abstracts, Composites Industry Abstracts, and Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ceramics)
  • Materials Business File 1985-Current
  • METADEX 1966-Current
  • WELDASEARCH 1967-Current

• Chemical Abstracts
  1907 - (updated weekly).
  Available: SciFinder Scholar
  Print editions available:
  Mellon Institute Library Reference Abstracts
  Provides coverage of chemical and chemical engineering information. This includes over 8,000 journal titles, plus books, conference proceedings, technical reports, patents and dissertations.
  

• Compendex
  1884 - (updated weekly)
  Engineering Village.
  The world's premiere interdisciplinary engineering database, covering journals, technical reports and conferences.

• INSPEC
  1896 - (updated weekly)
  Science Abstracts. 1898-1940.
  Computer and Control Abstracts. 1966-1992.
  Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. 1966-1994.
  Electrical Engineering Abstracts. 1903-1965.
  Physics Abstracts. 1941-1992.
  ENGR&SCI REF-ABS, OFFSITE
  Provides access to "scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology." It is also useful for references to articles on electronic materials, materials physics and other materials-science related areas.
  

• Metadex
  1966 - (updated monthly)
  Available: CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA Illumina.
  Metals Abstracts. Metals Park, Ohio: American Society for Metals, 1968-1994.
  ENGR&SCI OFFSITE
  Find references to patents, as well as journal articles and conference proceedings on metals and alloys.

• MicroPatent Materials Patents
  1996-(updated monthly)
  Available: CSA Illumina
  US and European patents related to materials science and engineering.

• NTIS
  1964 - (updated monthly)
  Available: Materials Science Collection, CSA Illumina.
  The NTIS database is the preeminent, official resource for government sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information.

• Web of Science
  1945 - (updated weekly).
  Science Citation Index.
  1961-1999 print editions available from offsite storage.
  *Find where a person's work has been cited by using the "Cited Reference Search" in Web of Science.