Recommended Databases for this Assignment
- Materials Research Database with METADEX This link opens in a new window
The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
Coverage: 1965 - current
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowScholarly articles from journals published by Elsevier. WSU has full text access to around 600 journals, including Composites Part A, Composites Part B, and Composites Science and Technology.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowRegister here. You must register to use. Provides students and faculty with unlimited access to the world’s largest and most reliable collection of chemistry and related science information. When you are looking at a record, use “Link to Other Sources” to get to the “Find it! at WSU” system, which won't work if your pop-up blocker blocks it.
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowIncluded in this set is the Annual Review of Materials Research.
- MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
MDPI is a publisher of open access scientific journals. Founded by Shu-Kun Lin as a chemical sample archive, it now publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access journals.
Types of Articles
ADDITIONAL DATABASES
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowBroad database of articles from both scholarly and popular journals and magazines.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowA robust full text searching tool to find scholarly articles, but sometimes the results are not actually full text without paying a fee. Click on "FindIt@WinonaState" listed on the right hand side to get access to full text articles that are available through Krueger Library.
If you click on >> in your search results and click "GetIt@WinonaState," you'll be taken to OneSearch where you can sign in to request the item through ILL/Resource Sharing. - NTRL: National Technical Reports Library This link opens in a new window
The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence.
