Databases

• Summon
  • The library search engine, filters available for peer-reviewed journal articles.
• IEEE
  • Technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
• Engineering Village
  • Applied sciences and engineering.
• Inspec
  • Physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology.
• SPIE Digital Library Database
  • Optics and photonics.
• Emerald Engineering
  • Full-text of 16 journals in the area of engineering.
• Dissertations and Theses Global
  • Collection of dissertations and theses from around the world.
• CURVE (Carleton's institutional repository)

  • Academic research output and creative work voluntarily deposited by Carleton faculty, staff and students, as well as all dissertations and theses produced at Carleton.

Publishers

This is not a complete list

• SpringerLink
• ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Other Platforms/Search Tools

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• JSTOR
• PubMed Central
• Ebscohost
• Proquest
• Scholars Portal
• CURVE (Carleton theses)

If the Carleton library doesn't have it...

• RACER (interlibrary loan)
• uOttawa

Patents

• Canadian Patents Database 
  • Canadian Intellectual Patent Office (CIPO) contains all Canadian patents and images from 1933 to the present.
• Google Patents 
  • Fastest place to go for all U.S. patents and some U.S. patent applications.

Standards

• ASTM International Standards Worldwide
• CSA Standards
• IEEE Standards via IEEEXplore

For more detailed informaion on patents and standards, see the following pages: Patents and Standards

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