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Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering subject guide: Articles/Databases

Key databases

Scientific search engines

Evaluating Internet sources

Internet sources must be critically evaluated, taking in consideration information reliability, permanence of source, availability of the document and copyrights.

Instructions on how to evaluate Internet sources:

Citation Alerts

Making a citation alert means that you will be automatically kept up-to-date when a certain article or a particular researcher has been cited.

Finding search terms

Use the tools listed below to find terminology related to your subject area. More about finding search terms in  Finding scientific information

Full text databases

Accessing a journal article

 

Try searching for journal articles with the following useful tools:

 

Reference Management

 

Reference management software enables you to
- create your personal database
- share references 
- create a bibliography
- create in-text-citations  

 

Freely available reference management software: Mendeley, JabRef (with BibTeX), Zotero.