LibGuides: Electrical Engineering Library Guide: Databases

Useful General Databases

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Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library
Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. Covers all areas of computing including software engineering.

Sabinet African Journals
An interdisciplinary database. It Indexes most South African journals. Recent articles of journals that are not available in international databases are available in fulltext.

ScienceDirect

This e-journal package covers physical science and engineering as well as life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Web of Science
The Web of Science is a large, broad-based database with direct links to journal articles. Indexes some of the most important journals in electrical and electronics engineering.

The Web of Knowledge database includes the Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, Zoological Records and the Journal Citation Index. Searching can be across all databases or selected databases.

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Engineering Village
A comprehensive database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes citations and abstracts from engineering journals and conference proceedings.

Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection
The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Online subscription includes access to abstracts and full text articles published since 1988 with select content published since 1893.

IEEE Xplore delivers IEL to your desktop. With more than 2 million full-text articles and papers it delivers access to the most vital information in technology today.

IET Digital Library
Access to the journals, magazines and conference content published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology since 1994.

Go to the UCT Libraries homepage:
https://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Click on “A–Z Databases”:
- Look for the link usually in the main menu or under “Resources.”
- This will open the alphabetical list of all databases subscribed to by UCT Libraries.
Search or browse the database list:
- You can search by database name, subject area, or type of resource.
- For example, enter “PubMed,” “IEEE Xplore,” or “Scopus.”
Access the database:
- Click the database name.
- If off-campus, you may need to log in with your UCT credentials to gain access.
Start searching:
- Once inside the database, you can enter keywords, use filters, and refine your search as needed.