Contains full text of almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science. Includes highly-cited peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and standards. Accessibility statement for IEEE Xplore
Also provides access to content from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), as well as some archive material from the 1880s.
Provides open access to millions of e-prints in the subjects of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative finance, statistics, and more. Accessibility statement for ArXiv
PROLA provides access to archives of the online version of Physical Review published by the American Physical Society and dating back to the founding of the review in 1893. Its articles covers a variety of subjects in physics including atomic physics, nuclear and particle physics, accelerators and beams, electricity and magnetism etc.
Provides access to over nine million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Accessibility statement for Compendex
Hosted by Engineering Village 2, the online coverage from 1969 to the present and updated weekly.
Full-text database containing journal articles and book chapters from thousands of journals and ebooks. The majority of content is published by Elsevier. Accessibility statement for ScienceDirect
Subjects covered include science, technology, business, management, accounting, health sciences, engineering and social sciences.. Full-text access is to subscribed content only.
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Free online databases
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Provides open access to millions of e-prints in the subjects of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative finance, statistics, and more. Accessibility statement for ArXiv
The British Library's electronic theses collection. Access to electronic theses and dissertations from UK universities. You must register to download material but it is mostly free.