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Databases: Searching Journal and Conference Literature

Search these database to locate journal articles, conference papers, and other literature on a particular topic. Once you find an article in a database, click the "Find Text @ TAMU" to obtain the full-text.

Compendex This link opens in a new window
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature.
Alternate titles: Ei Compendex web
Published by: Elsevier

IEEE Xplore
A digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET publications.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text for journals, proceedings, and ebooks published by ACM.
Published by: Association for Computing Machinery
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access to this database is provided, in part, through the generosity of the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University.
The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.
Alternate titles: Web of Knowledge ; WOS; Institute for Scientific information citation databases

Homeland Security Digital Library
The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

Jane's Security: News Module This link opens in a new window
NOTE: Please use your @tamu.edu email address to log in to this resource through single sign-on.
This resource delivers comprehensive international security news, analysis, insight and context. Reporting and analysis address political, social and economic threats, terrorism and insurgency and organized crime at national, regional and global levels, helping you:

*Assess and monitor emerging security threats
*Track developments in CBRN proliferation
*Monitor the effect of political disruptions
*Conduct more robust all-source and open-source analysis
*Understand broader security contexts
Published by IHS, Inc.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Published by: Google

Google Patents
Contains most U.S. patents and some foreign patent offices. Compared to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Public Patent Search tool, Google Patents has much less functionality.
Patent Public Search
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Public Search tool is a new web-based patent search application.