eResource of the month: IEEE Xplore

A post by Science Faculty Librarian Colin Theakston

Here’s one for all you budding Engineers, Physicists and Computer Scientists out there – IEEE Xplore.

If you don’t know already, then let me tell you that the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is a trusted gateway to science-based peer-reviewed—journals, conferences, standards and eBooks.

IEEE Xplore can therefore help you expand your current knowledge base by helping you discover highly focussed scientific resources. It does this by providing you with access to more than 6 million full-text peer reviewed documents. The database is crammed full of easily searchable peer-reviewed materials; and offers users the opportunity to search by title, author, abstract, keyword, affiliation, and even more!

There are also additional tools that help users further refine their searches.

Users can browse over 10,000 publication titles either alphabetically or search them by keyword, knowing that daily updates will add almost 20,000 additional new articles each month.

The search screen displayed above is incredibly user-friendly allowing users to search for books, journals and many other datatypes. I searched for solar panels and global warming.

I quickly unearthed 271 peer-reviewed high-quality documents from authoritative scientific bodies. 

IEEE Xplore is a database used by industry specialists and doctoral level researchers, so don’t miss out, whilst you’re studying at Durham see and use the database the experts in your scientific field rely upon.