Resources Recommended for RZ

Aerospace & High Technology Database (CSA)

THE aerospace database. If you search nothing else, you must search here! Contains abstracts from aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences, and their supporting fields, 1962 to date. Covers all major aerospace journals, conference proceedings, NASA unclassified reports, and AIAA papers.

AIAA Journals (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)

We have access to all AIAA journals from 1996+: AIAA Journal, Journal of Aircraft, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets and Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer. Older issues are in the Library.

AIAA Papers (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)

AIAA covers the design, development, testing, construction, and operation of air and space vehicles, with over 250,000 technical papers. We own all papers from 1963-2000 on microfiche, and from 1988 to date online.

ASME Journals (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Includes: Journal of Applied Mechanics; Journal of Biomechanical Engineering; Journal of Electronic Packaging; Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power; Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology; Journal of Fluids Engineering; Journal of Heat Transfer; Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering; Journal of Tribology; Journal of Turbomachinery; and Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. Older issues are in the Library. For ASME standards - See I.H.S. Standards

Chemical Propulsion Information Agency (CPIA)

CPIA is the national clearinghouse for worldwide information on chemical, electrical, and nuclear propulsion. Our library and reports vault owns many CPIA and JANNAF reports, and many are also available via DTIC. *IACs are DoD sponsored but charge for some services.

DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) database

https://www.dtic.mil/portal/site/dticol/ - Private DOAC version* THE source for technical reports written by DoD and their contractors. Includes many newer materials as full-text PDFs, including AFRL & AGARD reports, AFIT theses, and many older WADC reports. The library owns about a half million reports on microfiche as “AD” numbered documents. Note that most are NOT listed in our catalog. DTIC’s “Private” version indexes public and limited reports. *DoD and DoD contractors can register.

Engineering Index (i.e. Compendex)

THE most comprehensive engineering resource. Covers aerospace engineering; electronics and communications engineering; engineering management; mechanical engineering; nuclear technology; computers and data processing; and applied physics.

Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU)

Provides full-text and graphics for the following series: Aerodynamics; Fatigue-Endurance Data; Fatigue-Fracture Mechanics; Fluid Mechanics-Internal Flow; Metallic Materials Data Handbook; Performance; Structures; Tribology; and Vibration and Acoustic Fatigue. Abstracts for all ESDU series are freely searchable. If you are a WPAFB employee click above for access. Be sure to Logoff when you are finished. If you get "Not enough licenses," please try again later.

ePower-Propulsion

A web portal for anyone working in the areas of propulsion, power, and combustion research, education and directly related topics. It includes links to labs, continuing education, publications, directories, etc.

Fuels Management - HQ ACC/A4LF

(.mil only)

IEEE Xplore

Provides full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-US) and IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers-UK) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE Standards. Some of the most read titles covering electrical, electronics, and computer engineering and science.

INSPEC

THE leading index on physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing and information technology, as well as manufacturing and production engineering.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

The public source of U.S. scientific, technical, ASC, Engineering, and business-related public information gathered from hundreds of government agencies and other organizations. Some links to full-text are available. There is a more complete Dialog version - $$

SAE’s Global Mobility Database (Society of Automotive Engineers)

Librarians access (only) via STN - $$
Indexes worldwide literature on all vehicle types, including those for land, sea, air, and space. Has excellent coverage of aerodynamics, aircraft, electric power, engines, tires, UAVs, etc. - usually cited as SAE Paper numbers. For SAE standards - SEE - I.H.S. Standards

Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index Expanded (part of the "Web of Science"). Provides access to current and retrospective cited references from the world's leading science and technical journals. AFRL coverage 1990 to present. Prepaid version available on AFIT computers in library - 1988 to present.

Science Direct

It is one of "the world's largest collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information," and the library connects you to millions of scholarly articles available from 1995+. Includes all journals published by Elsevier, Academic Press, Pergamon, North-Holland and others.

SCIRUS

Searches across 167 million science-specific Web pages including full-text journal sources like: BioMed Central, MEDLINE, Science Direct (Elsevier, Academic Press, etc.), Scitation (AIP, APS, ASME, SPIE, etc.), and the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, as well as NASA reports, and various e-print and patent databases. Connects to millions of full-text subscription and free files.

Scitation

We have access to most of the journals published by the American Institute of Physics; American Physical Society; Acoustical Society of America; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Vacuum Society; International Centre for Diffraction Data; Laser Institute of America; and MAIK (the Russian Academy of Sciences). Many older issues are in the Library.