Lafayette College Library

Indexes core periodicals in engineering and other technical fields.

Database of all IEEE journals, transactions, conference proceedings, and standards, as well as journals of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Complete backfile to 1988 with select content back to 1913.

Index covering the journal literature of science and technology. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Help using Web of Science for cited reference searching)

Selected journals, magazines, and transactions from the Association for Computing Machinery. Index and tables of contents go back to 1954; full-text coverage varies.

Full text of articles reviewing the scholarly literature for a variety of topics in the physical sciences and engineering.

Database of information on international patents in chemical, electrical and electronic, and mechanical engineering. Allows for patent citation searching.

Database of European patent information provided by the European Patent Office and the national offices of its members states. Abstracts in English are available for most patents; original language page images of the complete patent are available for many.

Consumer-oriented descriptions of how things work, from aspirin to routing algorithms to billiard tables.

Full text of all US patents issued since 1976, and full-page images for all US patents issued since 1790. (Note: Full-page images can be viewed using pat2pdf.org, which generates PDFs based on patent numbers, or by downloading one of the TIFF image viewer plugins recommended on the USPTO website.)

Authoritative reference work covering electrical and electronics engineering. Note that Skillman's subscription has expired so access is not available for material added after 04/30/2004.

Intended for overseas travelers, this site includes a handy table of electrical systems worldwide which provides both voltage and frequency information.