Indexes and Abstracts

• Databases, Reference Works & Indexes -- A-Z List, Science & Technology List--a comprehensive list of all electronic databases, indexes, and reference works available at Columbia University.
  
• COMPENDEX -- citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in engineering and technology, excluding patents and standards. Coverage is 1970 to the present. COMPENDEX is a part of Engineering Village2.
  
• ENGINEERING VILLAGE2 -- specialized databases, reference tools and other services for professionals and students in all areas of engineering.
  
• INSPEC -- citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Physics. Coverage is 1969 to the present.
  
• NTIS: National Technical Information Service Database -- citations and abstracts for technical reports of government sponsored research.
  
• Derwent Innovations Index -- the world's most comprehensive database of international patent information from more than 40 patent-issuing authorities.
  
• Materials Science Collection with METADEX-- citations and abstracts for publications related to the science and technology of materials from nine leading materials science databases.
  
• Science Citation Index Expanded--bibliographic information and cited references in articles in scientific and technical journals.
  
• IEEE/IEE Electronic Library-- full-text IEEE and IEEE conference proceedings, transactions, journals, and magazines; current IEEE standards.
  
• ACM Digital Library-- full-text ACM conference proceedings, journals, and magazines.
  
• Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar)-- citations and some full-text for articles in chemistry periodicals and other publications.
  
• MEDLINE-- citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals.
  
• MathSciNet-- citations, abstracts, and review texts of research literature in mathematics.
  
• GeoRef-- citations and abstracts for publications related to geology.
  
• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in applied science and technology periodicals and book reviews.
  
• Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)--Citations and abstracts to Civil Engineering literature published since 1973 in all of the ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters.