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Inspec(via Engineering Village)

Access:

For current QUT staff and students. Available on and off campus (QUT username and password required).

Simultaneous User Limit:

Unlimited

Subject Guide:

Subject coverage in multiple disciplines. [show]

Part of:

Engineering Village

Description:

Provides access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. There are now 12 million records in Inspec.

QUT also provides access to the Inspec Archive which provides access to historical scientific records in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics computing and control engineering. With the digitizing of the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals, which were the precursors to the Inspec database, librarians, academics and students are provided access to over 873,000 abstract records beginning back in 1898.

Coverage:

1898-

Help guides:

  • Inspec on EV2 (PDF) - a presentation from the database producer, IET.
  • Inspec on Engineering Village (PPT) - an overview of the interface, including how to build and refine searches.
  • Please refer to the online help available for this database.