Inspec

The Inspec database contains over 10 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology.

Inspec's 40th anniversary

2009 marks another landmark for Inspec. Back in 1969 Inspec was launched for the IEE. The Institution's name has changed since then, but Inspec is still in existence, and growing faster than ever.

View 40 years of Inspec

Subject coverage

Inspec provides comprehensive coverage of traditional and cutting-edge publications in the specific fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering.

In addition there is significant coverage of areas such as operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.

Who should use Inspec?

Scientists
Engineers
Librarians
Information scientists
Patent specialists
Academics and students
Researchers

Inspec products

The information contained in Inspec is available in a variety of formats ranging from personal email alerts of the latest records to be added on a particular subject, to a full site licence giving unlimited search access. A set of documentation has also been produced to help searchers gain the best results.

Inspec Direct

Inspec Direct is a powerful new online research tool. For full information and a free trial, please visit the Inspec Direct website.

Inspec customer survey

In order to achieve our aim of being the best scientific and technical database, we welcome feedback from our users. In you use Inspec, please take a moment to fill in our online questionnaire. As a token of our thanks, we would like to give a free Inspec 40th anniversary USB memory stick to all who take part . If you would like to receive one, please make sure that you include contact details so that we know where to send it. All names will be entered into a draw, and one lucky person will also receive $200 or Sterling or Euro equivalent of Amazon vouchers (terms and conditions apply).