These resources are a good place to start your research, since they contain a broad range of sources from various kinds of disciplines.
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database offering full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including social science, humanities, computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, and more. A good place to begin researching a topic.
Google Scholar is a popular way to search for scholarly articles, reports, books and more. Google Scholar is best if you want to search for articles beyond just what is in the library catalog, or if you feel most confident using Google search.
Make sure to connect your Google Scholar to IIT's libraries from the Library links section of Scholar Settings. This way, when you find an article you'd like to read you will be able to see if we have the article or be directed to MyILL to request it if we don't. More detailed instructions on how to do this are in the tab Optimize Search.
Subject-specific databases can be useful when you're looking for discipline-specific information or a specific type of source - for example, standards or market research. Databases are also a good place to find scholarly and peer-reviewed articles.
Below is a list of databases that IPRO teams often find useful. Check out the full A-Z Databases list to see a full list of databases and filter by subject or type in order to narrow based on your research needs, or look for a research guide for your subject to see what databases the library recommends.
IEEE Xplore is a database providing access to cutting-edge technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and related fields. It offers full-text access to millions of documents from IEEE journals, conferences, standards, and other publications, making it an invaluable resource for engineers, researchers, and students seeking the latest advancements in technology and applied sciences.
The ProQuest SciTech Collection is a database providing access to scientific and technical literature across various disciplines. It offers full-text articles, abstracts, and citations from journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports in fields such as engineering, computer science, physics, and environmental science.
The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary citation indexing database that provides coverage of high-impact scholarly literature across the sciences, technology, engineering, and math. It offers powerful tools for tracking research trends, analyzing citation networks, and evaluating research impact.
Many IPRO teams need to do patent research at various points of the design process. Get started with Google Patent search, and then check out our guide on Patents to learn about additional places to look for prior art.
Google's Patent search can be a useful starting place to find patents. Pulling from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data, Google Patent Search provides full-text searching of US patents back to 1780 and allows for forward and backward reference searching.
Subject specific research guides can help you find additional resources that deal with a specific topic or type of research. These guides are typically created by librarians who specialize in that subject area.