Finding Aerospace Articles
If you have a specific article you're searching for, Summon is a good place to start. Summon lets you simultaneously search the Library's book collection and many full text journal articles.
If you're searching for articles on a topic, you'll probably want to search a database which is more focused on engineering than Summon. Here are some starting points for finding engineering journal articles or conference proceedings. Look for the UBC eLink icons to check for full text articles.
Can't find an article? Contact your librarian. UBC Library Interlibrary Loan service allows you to request the article from another library (usually quickly and in PDF format).
- Compendex Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowPremier engineering database, covering the core literature of the engineering field, including related specialties and technologies.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowSearch citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowWorld's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
More Databases to Search for Articles Within
- Aerospace Research Central (AIAA)UBC Library is growing our digital collection of journals from AIAA. Not all content on Aerospace Research Central is available, but you can search the full database. If UBC does not have an article, you can usually request it through Interlibrary Loan at no charge.
You may also want to search the following databases, most of which only show results from a single publisher. Please note that not all of the articles you find in these databases will be available full text. If UBC does not have an article, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan at no charge.
- ASCE Research Library This link opens in a new windowProvides bibliographic access to all ASCE publications and access to citations and abstracts for ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers published since 1970.
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe IEL database provides fulltext access to more than 140 technical journals, over 1000 standards, and approximately 900 annual conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- SAE Mobilus This link opens in a new windowCovers research about air, land, sea and space mobility as well as injury biomechanics, accident reconstruction and occupant protection and safety.
- SciFinder This link opens in a new windowAccess to Chemical Abstracts 1907-present. Use For: chemistry and chemical engineering, biochemistry, biotechnology, electrochemistry, metallurgy and materials science and pharmacology.
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new windowProvides access to research on all topics of optics and photonics research published in SPIE journals and conference proceedings.
