Research Guides: Electrical and Computer Engineering: Home

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This guide is for engineering graduate students beginning to write their master's theses or doctoral dissertations. You will find information about searching the engineering literature for papers on your research topic, locating journals that publish work in your research area, and locating books and other technical resources.

Visit the different pages of this guide using the tabs on the left to delve into these areas in depth.

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The most commonly used library database for electrical engineering is the IEEE XPlore Digital Library.

IEEE Xplore
Journal and conference papers in electrical engineering.

Full text access to journals and major conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Tip: Accessing article full-text

The library does not subscribe to every journal published. When looking at a results list within a database, look for a Get it! button with Rowan University branding to find sources of full text.

Other Article Databases for Electrical Engineering

Use these subscription databases to locate published research in electrical and computer engineering, For more options, visit the library page Databases for Engineering.

ACM Digital Library
Academic journal articles in computer science.

Full text of every article ever published by ACM (the professional organization for computer scientists) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. (WALDO consortial access.)
Compendex (Engineering Index)
Search tool for peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in Engineering. Includes many sources which are not available through Library Search.

Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 17 million records from 73 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Every record is carefully selected and indexed using the Engineering Index Thesaurus to ensure discovery and retrieval of engineering-specific literature that engineering students and professionals can rely on. By using Compendex, engineers can be confident information is relevant, complete, accurate and of high quality.
Telecommunications Database
Coverage of over 140 telecommunications journals, with more than 115 available in full text.
SPIE Digital Library
Research papers in optics, photonics, and related physics topics.

With more than 400,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.
Scopus
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

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Other Article Databases for Electrical Engineering