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Engineering Village
Engineering Village is a comprehensive engineering platform that contains journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, trade magazines, technical reports, and engineering information ideal for supporting the varying engineering research initiatives that academic institutions, corporations and government agencies face every day. Engineering Village offers access to 12 engineering literature and patent databases that provide coverage from a wide range of trusted engineering sources.

IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Full-text access to journals, conference proceedings and active standards published by IEEE and IET

SCOPUS
Covering the life, physical, health, and social sciences, Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Scopus covers: Over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including coverage of: 500 Open Access journals, 700 Conference Proceedings, 600 Trade Publications, 125 Book Series. More than 60% of titles are from countries other than the US Abstracts go back to 1966. References go back to 1996. 80% of content is indexed with controlled vocabularies. 100% coverage of Medline, including unique Medline journals. 28 million abstract records. 245 million references added to all abstracts. Scopus also covers 250 million quality web sources, including 13 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.

Web of Science
Web of Science, published by Thomson Reuters, is a multi-disciplinary database that provides integrated access to over 8,000 key research journals indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. There are two main ways to search the database: --- select General Search to search for articles by subject term, author name, journal title, or author affiliation --- select Cited Reference Search to search for articles that cite an author or article that you specify. Web of Knowledge features citation searching, email alerts, links to the full text of many items.

Google Patents
Good for browsing or if you know the exact patent number.

Lens
Covers many international patent databases and jurisdictions.

World Intellectual Property Organization PatentScope
Using PATENTSCOPE you can search 106 million patent documents including 4.4 million published international patent applications (PCT).

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Search for patents in the United States Patent and Trademark Office database.

Free Patents Online
Global patent search engine.

esp@cenet
Euproean patent search engine.

Japanese Patent Office
Japanese patent repository.