Inspec

The Inspec database contains over 11 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology.

North American training webinars 2010

There are various training sessions throughout the months of September and November. These include: 'Telecommunications research on Inspec', 'Semiconductor research on Inspec', 'Inspec Archive', 'Numerical searching on Inspec', Engineering Village, ISI Web of Knowledge, Ebsco, Ovid, and 'Chemical searching on Inspec'. Please take a look at our training seminar page for details and links to register for these events.

Inspec Archive

The Inspec Archive gives fully searchable access to over 70 years of historic scientific and technical literature. It includes the entire digitised collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968. That’s over 800,000 high quality records in physics, electrical engineering, electronics and control engineering.

Database 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.