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Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf) Related Links Subject guide: Informatics This article was published on 2024-08-21
HTML ACM Digital Library Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Full text of every journal article and conference proceedings ever published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
HTML Compendex Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: The database of Engineering Index, providing coverage of the world's significant engineering and technological literature including journals, books, technical reports and conference proceedings. With over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Coverage: 1884 - present
HTML IEEE Xplore Digital Library Access information: Access on or off campus. Description: The IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) contains one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computing. Get access to nearly 6 million full-text documents, including: Over 1.3 million articles from 206 top-cited IEEE journals, magazines, and transactions. Over 4.2 million conference papers from as far back as 1936. Approximately 5,000 IEEE standards documents, excluding drafts. Proceedings from IET conferences and events. IEEE Redline Versions of Standards (where available), select VDE conference papers, IET’s E&T Magazine, and seminal articles from Bell Labs Technical Journal archive.
HTML Inspec Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Inspec database has over 16 million indexed records with abstracts of articles published more than 6,500 physics, computer science, electronics, electrical engineering, control engineering journals and conference proceedings. Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Indexes arXiv content. Coverage: 1896-present
HTML MIT Cognet Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences, which includes the full text of major reference works and over 750 MIT Press cognitive science books, full text of MIT Press journals in the field of cognitive and brain sciences, as well as a growing collection of other relevant books, journals and reference works from other participating publishers.
HTML ScienceDirect Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: ScienceDirect provides access to 1200 journals published by Elsevier Science B.V., with full text of articles available from 1995 onwards for titles to which the University subscribes.
HTML Scopus Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Contains over 19 million author profiles, 99,000 institutional profiles, 7000 publishers, 94 million records, 2.4 billion cited references, covers over 29,000 journals and 330,000 books from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. Over 43 million patents from WIPO, EPO, USPTO, JPO & UK Intellectual Property Office: ipo.gov.uk. Coverage: For some subject areas, from 1788 onwards. User guide: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home Note: The University of Edinburgh's Affiliation ID is 60027272 (used for configuring Papers 3 for Mac to work with Scopus). Note: If you would like to register to receive personalised searches, alerts etc then select "Other Institution login", then add "Edinburgh" to the search box to find the University of Edinburgh log in link, select the Shibboleth option if requested.
HTML swMATH (softwareMATH) Access information: Freely available. Description: Database of information on mathematical software. Includes systematic linking of software packages with relevant mathematical publications (from ZentralblattMATH). Articles describe the background and technical details of a program or publications in which a piece of software is applied or used for research.
HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf)
