Subject Guides: MET 464: Senior Design Project 1: Home

What is Peer Reviewed Literature?

Peer Review is a process used by most journals to ensure high quality. Authors submit their work for publication, and, before the journal accepts the article, the editors of the journal send the article out to other experts in the same field (peers) to have it critiqued (reviewed).

Search Tools to Find Peer Reviewed Literature

EI Compendex
Ei Compendex Database, Engineering Village
Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world - with over 18.8 million records from 76 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Compendex is indexed specifically for engineers using the Engineering Index Thesaurus, making search results consistently accurate and relevant to engineering research.
ScienceDirect
Web of Science This link opens in a new window

Google Scholar
Coverage undefined, but good to check. Does include some patents.
To get the most full text, go to the Menu bar in the upper left, click on Settings, then click on Library Links. Choose University of Maine - Full Text.

Standards and Technical Specifications

ASTM Compass
1. On the ASTM Compass homepage, Click on the Subscriptions tab
2. Click on the ASTM logo
3. Click on Journals
4. Select journal title of interest to drill down to desired content

Once an individual issue is selected, the page will refresh and it will appear the issue did not open, scroll down to see the contents of the issue.

Finding Full Text

Once you have an article or citation, the tools below can help you get to the full text of an article.

Proxy Bookmarklet
When Fogler Library pays for content this can push you past a paywall.
Interlibrary Loan
Can deliver electronic articles we don't subscrtibe to within a day or two.
Article Linker
Can help you get to a full text version of an article.

Patents

Patent Public Search
This government database allows broad searching for patents.

Anatomy of a Patent (Queen's University)
Goes over the sections of a patent

For further assistance, contact patent librarian John Hutchinson
(207.581.3610, john.hutchinson@maine.edu).

Make an Appointment wiith me!

Every Group needs to meet with me. Make your appointment here!