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Materials Science Subject Guide

Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.

= highly recommended

ASM Handbook
The online edition of the ASM Handbook, 10th edition (aka Metals Handbook).  This 21 volume reference collection covers the spectrum of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, from general properties to testing, evaluation, and manufacturing techniques. Full-text.

ASM Alloy Center
The ASM Alloy Center enables you to search in one easy step across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. Full-text.

Compendex
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world.  Compendex contains over 9 million records and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including, journal, conference and trade publications.  Coverage is from 1969 to present and the database is updated weekly. Full-text not available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.

Contrails
The Contrails website is a result of the efforts of the Galvin Library's Government Documents Depository staff.  Over 1,000 technical reports issued by the United States Air Force have been digitized and indexed in an online database.  Contrails provides the only online access available for many of these reports,  which are scanned at archival quality  Coverage is the second half of the 20th century, with most reports dating from the 1950's through the 1970's. Full-text.

Materials Research Database with METADEX
The CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX brings together in one place the majority of the leading materials science databases, with specialist content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application. Everything from raw materials and refining through processing, welding and fabrication to end uses, corrosion, performance and recycling is covered in depth for all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites.  Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. Full-text not available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.

 NASA Technical Reports Server
The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) provides access to 500,000 citations and 90,000 full image files in PDF format.  The collection covers the complete history of NASA and its forefather, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), from 1915 to forward, with full image coverage increasing with time.  Many of the technical reports for which there are no full image files are held by Galvin Library in our Government Documents collection in microfiche machine-readable format.  The Government Documents  staff will cheerfully scan the technical reports IIT patrons' desire from the 20th century microfiche format and provide you with a digital PDF copy.  Government Documents staff encourage IIT patrons to learn how to make a scanning request.  The Government Documents collection also includes thousands of paper technical reports issued by NASA.  Please feel free to contact Aric Ahrens should you have any trouble locating materials published by NASA.  Some full-text available.

National Technical Information Service
The National Technical Information Service is an agency of the Department of commerce whose role is to distribute government produced technical information to the public.  NTIS operates in a revenue neutral manner, similar to that of the Post Office, and therefore charges for access to their documents.  Some NTIS documents are also distributed in paper or microfiche format to the Galvin Library due to its status as a depository library.  NTIS materials held by Galvin may be searched via the IIT Catalog.

Galvin Library has access to two databases from NTIS.  The first is the publicly accessible database, which provides only citation and abstracts but no full-image files.  The second database, called Depository Access to Reports, Technical and Scientific (DARTS), provides access to full-image files that have been posted by NTIS as a result of a purchase request by a customer.  Both databases cover the period 1964 forward.  Because the DARTS database only provides access to digitized materials, the collection is a tiny fraction of the full NTIS collection.  DARTS is provided by the Department of Commerce only to participating Depository libraries and requires a Reference Librarian for a moderated login. Some full-text available.

Public STINET
Public STINET provides access to technical reports from all three branches of the military.  Public STINET is particularly strong in regards to aerospace technical reports issued by the United States Air Force.  Public STINET provides citation and some PDF full-image access to unclassified reports only.  Access to Public STINET is provided by the Defense Technical Information Center, which distributes technical information to the military and their contractors in a similar fashion to that employed by the National Technical Information Service to distribute technical information to the public.  Full image access is scattered prior to the rise of the Internet in the mid 1990's.  Some reports which are unavailable for download via Public STINET may be available via IIT'S own Contrails website. Also, requests may be placed for scanning reports held by Contrails that have yet to be digitized. Some full-text available.

Web of Science
Web of Science provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting of scientific journal literature from 1991-present. A main feature is the citation index, which allows you to see (a) all the references cited by the article, and (b) what other articles have cited the article. Links to related articles are provided. This is a good database to use if you have an article of interest and want to expand your search to related documents. Full-text not available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.