Library Guides: ENGL 314: Technical Communication: Research Resources

Research Resources

These databases can help you find background and supporting information for technical writing projects.

General Purpose Article Database

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.

More Article Databases

Library Guides by Subject
Find recommendations for databases for your own major or general topic area.
Article Indexes & Databases
Databases for finding individual journal articles and conference papers by topic, author, and more. Most require ISU Library login.

Scopus (Elsevier)
A large database of peer-reviewed literature in all subject areas. In addition to citation searching, it features tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus complements Web of Science and Google Scholar, but each of them contains enough unique information that none of them should be used exclusively.
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
Web of Science allows you to search across multiple databases. Searched databases include: Web of Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, and Zoological Record.
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Compendex (Engineering Village)
Compendex is a highly comprehensive engineering database with over 14 million records from journals, conference proceedings and technical papers in all engineering disciplines. Coverage dates from 1884 to the present.
Sports Medicine and Education Index (ProQuest)
Sports Medicine and Education Index covers journals, conference proceedings and report literature in kinesiology, sport law, sports medicine, dance, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, coaching and sport sociology/psychology, as well as physical education itself.
ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)
Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.

Finding Books at the ISU Library

In addition to the electronic resources listed in this guide, there are many print materials available at ISU's Parks Library. Search for "Technical Writing" and select the ISU Collections (Books & more) link. This will provide a list of all books the library owns (print and ebooks). You can view ebooks only by selecting the "Full Text Online" link under the search results.