InfoGuides: GRCS 701 Research Methods and Graduate Writing Strategies: Recommended Databases

Last Updated: Jul 2, 2025 2:57 PM

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Searching Summon is a great starting point, but eventually you will need to focus your searching within your specific discipline.

The following groups of boxes will contain a few recommended subject specific databases to get you started. Choose the appropriate group of databases based upon your program discipline. You will also find a link to the subject InfoGuide for that program discipline below the list of databases.

Communication Networks

ACM Digital Library Articles from technical journals, trade magazines, and conference proceedings in computer science and related disciplines from the Association for Computing Machinery. Subscription now includes ACM EBOOKS which is a new series of high quality books for the computer science community, published by ACM in collaboration with Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Business Source Elite
Compendex An engineering database covering chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering.
Gartner Provides current reports on computing, information technology and telecommunications issues, trends, news and statistics. Access is provided by ITS.
IEEE Xplore Full text of IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, transactions and conference proceedings as well as active IEEE standards. Ebook packages include over 1200 IEEE/Wiley Press titles and over 950 MIT Press titles in computer science and engineering technologies.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Springer Nature Link Full-text database of journals and books published by Springer, covering the sciences, technology, computer science and medicine
Web of Science - All Databases Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
by Roman Koshykar Last Updated Jul 2, 2025 92 views this year

Manufacturing and Mechanical Systems Integration

ASME Digital Collection Fulltext of the journals (1960-) and the conference proceedings (2000-) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Includes ASME ebooks. Also includes full text of the journals (1972-) of ASTM International.
Compendex An engineering database covering chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering.
IEEE Xplore Full text of IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, transactions and conference proceedings as well as active IEEE standards. Ebook packages include over 1200 IEEE/Wiley Press titles and over 950 MIT Press titles in computer science and engineering technologies.
Knovel Interactive electronic reference books in engineering and technology.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Web of Science - All Databases Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.

Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology
by Roman Koshykar Last Updated Jul 2, 2025 189 views this year

Smart Cities Construction Management

AccessEngineering AccessEngineering is an award-winning engineering reference and teaching platform that delivers world-renowned, interdisciplinary engineering content integrated with analytical teaching and learning tools. Access leading upper-level engineering textbooks and better understand material properties with DataVis, the interactive data visualization tool.
ASCE Library ASCE Library provides online access to a high-quality collection of civil engineering content. It contains articles from ASCE journals, papers from conference proceedings, and e-books and standards. RIT Libraries has full text access to 10 of these journals.
Compendex An engineering database covering chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering.
Knovel Interactive electronic reference books in engineering and technology.

Construction Management
by Roman Koshykar Last Updated Jul 4, 2025 71 views this year

Environmental Health and Safety Management

Business Source Elite Articles on business and management subjects from academic journals, trade publications and daily newspapers. Also includes Company Profiles.
Environmental Science Database The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines. It provides the most complete collection of resources available to support research and learning in environmental science and related fields. Content is selected from several specialist topic resources in disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
Knovel Interactive electronic reference books in engineering and technology.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Springer Nature Link Full-text database of journals and books published by Springer, covering the sciences, technology, computer science and medicine
Web of Science - All Databases Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.

Environmental Management and Safety
by Roman Koshykar Last Updated Jul 2, 2025 94 views this year

Packaging Science

Environmental Science Database The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines. It provides the most complete collection of resources available to support research and learning in environmental science and related fields. Content is selected from several specialist topic resources in disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
TAPPI e-Library Provides articles in the pulp, paper, packaging and converting industries.
Web of Science - All Databases Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.

Packaging
by Roman Koshykar Last Updated Jul 2, 2025 379 views this year

Print and Graphic Media Science

Art & Architecture Source Art & Architecture Source is the largest full-text art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design. With strong international coverage, it offers hundreds of full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts and thousands of images.
Communication and Mass Media Complete Articles on all aspects of speech, rhetoric, debate, broadcasting, and media studies.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

Graphic Media Science and Technology
by Roman Koshykar Last Updated Jul 2, 2025 48 views this year

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