Library Guides: Air Transport for Distance Learning: Journal articles

Recommended Databases for Aeronautics and Air Transport

In addition to the database recommendations on the Getting Started page the following databases contain journal articles and other literature on your research topic.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Publications
AIAA contains information on aerospace technology, engineering, and science, including standards relevant to the industry.

AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession.
Compendex
Compendex is a database of over nine million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. It includes all general engineering subject areas, as well as petroleum and aerospace engineering. Online coverage from 1969 to the present.

Hosted by Engineering Village 2, the online coverage from 1969 to the present and updated weekly.

Links to other sources of information, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office records, from 1976 to date. View Compendex record
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore provides access to content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). It contains full text of conference papers and standards in aerospace and some archive material from the 1880s.
Knovel
Knovel contains e-books on subjects such as aircraft design as well as articles, interactive tables and conference papers in the aviation subject area.

Knovel Interactive Library is a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical tools and search tools.