Databases

• COMPENDEX - computerized Engineering Index. COMPENDEX provides world-wide coverage within the broad field of engineering literature from some 3 500 journals, books, and technical reports. COMPENDEX is one of the largest databases with over 3 000 000 records from 1969 onwards. COMPENDEX can be a useful source in chemical engineering. COMPENDEX is available on many host systems. These include :

Data-Star, DIALOG, EINS, QUESTEL-ORBIT and STN International.

• EMA  (Engineered Materials Abstracts) is a bibliographic database covering the international materials literature, primarily polymers, ceramics and composites. Citations, mostly with abstracts are in English. EMA is the online version of Engineered Materials Abstracts.

  Companion file to EMA is METADEX, which covers the worldwide literature on metallurgy and materials.

  The EMA database is available on the following commercial host systems: STN, EINS, DIALOG, QUESTEL-ORBIT.

   

• EMBASE is a comprehensive bibliographic database corresponding to Excerpta Medica covering the worldwide literature on biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. It is produced by Excerpta Medica, a division of one of the world's largest medical publishers, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. of Amsterdam. Excerpta Medica was originally founded by a group of physicians as Excerpta Medica Foundation in 1946 to promote the flow of medical information. In 1972, this organization joined the Elsevier Group. About 300,000 records are added annually.

  More than 60% of the records contain abstracts from over 4,500 journals worldwide. CAS Registry Numbers (R) are present in the file from 1988 to the present. EMBASE contains two different types of records due to a major change in indexing policy in 1988. The records from 1988 to date may have slightly different displays and search data than those in the early portion of the file.

  Linked terms (similar to MEDLINE MeSH subheadings) are only present in records from 1988 to the present. However, the entire file may be searched with the EMTREE codes (similar to MEDLINE Tree Numbers), together with a comprehensive online thesaurus.

  Embase is available on a number of information retrieval services including DIALOG, and STN International.

   

• INSPEC - produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK, is a bibliographic database which corresponds to three publications:
  • Physics Abstracts.
  • Electrical and Electronic Abstracts
  • Computer and Control Abstracts

  INSPEC has world-wide coverage of the literature within physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computer and control engineering, and information technology. INSPEC contains material within the field of physical chemistry. INSPEC is a very large database with over 4 500 000 records dating from 1969 onwards. Language is English. It is available on many host systems. These include Data-Star, DIALOG, EINS, QUESTEL-ORBIT and STN International.

   

• MATH - is the online file of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete/Mathematics Abstracts and covers worldwide publications in pure and applied mathematics and applications in computer science, mechanics, physics, biology and chemistry as well as operations research and systems and control theory. Citations are in English and classified according to the Mathematics subject classification.

  The Math database is available on the STN Information Service.

   

• MEDLINE is a bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The database covers worldwide biomedical literature, the citations of which appear in Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index.

  Over 99% of MEDLINE's citations are references to journal articles from some 4 000 journals. Approximately 50% of the citations contain abstracts, though records added before 1975 do not.

  CAS Registry Numbers (R) are present in the file from 1980 to the present. About 75% of MEDLINE's citations represent publication in the English language. Online thesauri of NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), are available as research aids.

  You can search Medline free via PubMed.

   

• Metadex - produced by Materials Information (now a part of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), a joint service of the Institute of Materials and ASM International is a bibliographic database covering worldwide literature on metallurgy and materials. Metadex is the online version of Metals Abstracts and is available on a number of host services including : DIALOG, EINS, and STN International.

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