Electronics Industry

Databases: find journal articles, technical reports, standards, etc.

• Academic Search Complete. Provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly publications. Citations and abstracts available for an additional 3,500 journals.  
• IEEE Xplore. Index to IEEE and IET publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Full text of IEEE and IET journals, conference proceedings and standards is available at Fogler Library.
• Business Source Complete. Provides full text for over 2,800 business journals.
• Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.  Access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
• E-Print Network. Maintained by the Dept. of Energy. Allows simultaneous searching of a variety of preprint servers.
• Google Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar includes articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results using their relevance criteria. The ranking evaluates the full text of an article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature.
• IngentaConnect. (Formerly UnCover) Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• MasterFILE Premier. Provides full text for over 2,100 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 700 journals.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.  
• NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects, archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other relevant worldwide research. 
• National Standards Systems Network (NSSN).
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Database. Contains over 2.0 million bibliographic records to research reports, computer products, software, video cassettes, audio cassettes and more from the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. The complete electronic file dates back to 1964. Most records include abstracts. Full text to research reports may be purchased from NTIS using the links in the bibliographic records.
• Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL). Computer science technical reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are available in full text.
• Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
• Searchable Physics Information Notices (SPIN). A bibliographic database published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
• TechStreet: Technical Information Superstore. Most comprehensive index for engineering standards. Also indexes books, materials physical property data, software and free professional trade magazines.
• TI Technical Articles. Find links to technical articles written by TI engineering experts for engineering trade magazines. Topics include how to select or design with amplifiers, data converters, clocks, interface and power management. They also address applications, such as audio, industrial, medical, high reliability and many others. Several sorting options can help you with your search.
• U.S. Patent Database. See also Maine's Patent and Trademark Resource Center.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
• Bartleby.com. Dictionaries, thesaurus, quotations, etc.
• Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus in one resource with good science and technology coverage. Nobel and science awards page. 
• International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) online database. Over 20 000 terms in English, French, German and Spanish some with definitions in English and French.
• Tech Encyclopedia.
• Virtual Museum of Computing.
• Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia.

Patents

• Patent and Trademark Resource Center at Fogler Library. Reviews information about searching the U.S. patent database and obtaining copies of patents. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site and databases are at: www.uspto.gov.
• European Patent Office. esp@cenet. Search EP, PCT, Japanese, and other worldwide patents.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). PatentScope Full Text Database. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) full-text, bibliographic data and image coverage from 1978 to present, over 1.4 million international patent applications indexed. International Patent Classification system. List of Patent Databases in Different Countries.

Educational Resources

• IEEE Global History Network.  Dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of innovation in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and computing, and all their related fields.
• Discover engineering. 
• Discovery Channel. Discovery School. Try the brain boosters.
• EDN Magazine. 
• Engineer Girl. For everyone with lots of links and information.
• Engineering your Future.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems. Great links to great resources for students, parents, teachers, etc. Sorted by categories and grade levels.
• Future Scientists & Engineers of America (FSEA).
• How Stuff Works.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.  
• Math/Science Network. Expanding Your Horizons.          
• National Engineers Week. 
• Nobel Prize in Physics - Educational sites.
• Try Science. Sponsored by the New York Hall of Science.

News

• C|net. Online home of CBS Interactive's C|net program. Includes current reviews of software and hardware, industry news and a vast archive of freeware, shareware and demos.

Maine Resources and Organizations

• IEEE Computer/Electron Devices Society. Maine Chapter.
• IEEE. Maine State Section.
• Maine Business Indicators.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
• Maine Technology Institute.
• Maine's Software and Information Technology Industry Association (MESDA).
• Target Technology Incubator.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• University of Maine. Office of the Vice President for Research. 

Professional Societies

• American Electronics Association (AEA).
• Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
• Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA).
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). British society.
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
• International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
• International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS).
• Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE). A not-for-profit educational and service organization that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women.

Company Directories

• EENet: The Electronics and Engineering Network.
• Electronics Manufacturers Directory. A comprehensive industrial resource for electronics and electrical products. Find global manufacturers and suppliers of computers, hardwares and peripherals, audio and video electronics, lightings and lamps, RF and microwave components, optoelectronics, and power supplies.
• Electronics Manufacturers on the net.
• Semiconductor Electronics Resource Center. 
• Thomas Net. Directory of North American manufacturers.
• Thomas Global Register Europe. European industrial buying guide.

Technical Data

• BOWest Pty Ltd. Electrical and Project Engineering. Electrical theorems and formulas.
• The Chip Directory. A numerically ordered directory of chip manufacturers and their URL's.
• Datasheet Locator. Locate electronic product datasheets from hundreds of manufacturers. 
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive. A collection of circuit information including datasheets; some models and microprocessors are also covered.
• IEC 61360 Component Directory. This online handbook contains the classes and associated characteristic properties (data element types or DETs) for electric/electronic components and materials used in electrotechnical equipment and systems.
• Lessons in Electric Circuits. Series of textbooks on electricity and electronics.
• NIST Data Gateway. Covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• Semiconductor Electronics Resource Center. 
• Semiconductor Subway. MIT's clearinghouse of semiconductor and microsystems-related information. Links to many research labs and companies developing semiconductor technology.
• Superconductors.org. A site for students to learn about superconductors. Contains internet links page for additional sites.

Internet Directories

• INFOMINE. Scholarly internet resources. University of California, Riverside.
• PSIgate: Physical Sciences Information Gateway. 
• Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
• WWW Virtual Library: Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Raymond H. Fogler Library University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-1661

Updated: 02/05/2013
by Martin Wallace