About Inspec
The Inspec bibliographic database contains nearly ten million records of scientific and technical articles taken from the world's literature.
Content
Over 4000 scientific and technical journals and some 2200 conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, reports and dissertations are scanned each year by Inspec staff for relevant articles to abstract and index for inclusion in the Database. Of the 4000 journals, around 1600 are indexed cover-to-cover.
Key features
- Global coverage - nearly 10 million records containing abstracts and subject indexing covering scientific and engineering literature from quality global literature from 1969.
- Comprehensive coverage - in the fields of electronics, computer science, physics, electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering.
- Specialised subject indexing by experts that retrieves accurate and extensive results.
- Archive file from 1898-1968
- Updated weekly to provide timely information
- Web links to the original article (where available) - currently 70 per cent of journal articles
- Flexible pricing options and range of products that satisfies all budgets
Benefits of using Inspec
- Comprehensive scientific and engineering information for all research projects
- Current Awareness - alerts service to keep you abreast of current developments in your specialisation
- New product information - find and monitor new developments
- Technological forecasting - extract and analyse technological growth patterns
- Competitive intelligence - monitor your competitors
- Patent-related searching - ensure that your ideas are really new
- Data-mining - analyse data by a wide variety of parameters
