Industrial Engineering Resources
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KnovelFind data whether buried in a table, graph, or chart inside hundreds of ebooks. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel, ASCII, and HTML.
Search for journal articles in Science and Engineering databases
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ScienceDirectFull text of Elsevier journals, the largest publisher of science and technology journals
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PubMedPremier database for medical literature
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SIAM Journals OnlineFull text of Society for Industrial and Applied Math journals.
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ScopusSimilar to Web of Science for citation searching. Find who cited who from 1996-present. Covers more publications than Web of Science
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Web of ScienceHighly cited journals in the sciences and engineering. Find who cited who from 1955-present.
Search for journal articles in Business databases
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Business Source CompleteThousands of full-text business and economics journals and magazines as well as industry reports.
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Find high impact journals
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InCites Journal Citation ReportsCritically evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. Use JCR to find the most frequently cited journals, and measure research influence through impact factor, aggregate impact factor, the aggregate immediacy index, aggregated cited half-life, and the number of articles in each category. Full name of the database is Incites Journal Citation Reports.
Find patents
There are many sources for searching patents. While they include similar content, the search options,features, and sometimes search results often differ.
(To decipher the parts of a patent, refer to How to Read a US Patent from Queens University.)
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US Patent and Trademark OfficeUsually updated through most recent business day. (Clunky search interface.)
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Google Patents (advanced search)After getting a list of results, use the drop down "Tools" for more options.
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FreePatentsOnline search pageMore search options than google patents search page.
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European Patent Office (Espacenet)Includes patents from more than 80 countries
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