Key Journals
Below are some of the journals relevant to EE at UCLA.
E-journals in Engineering
Browse Journals in Electrical Engineering from your Tablet, Phone, or Desktop using BrowZine! BrowZine is a browsable newsstand of the library's top journals. Easily discover, read, and monitor the key journals in your field.
More journals in Computational Engineering
More journals in Computer and Information Science
Databases in Electrical Engineering
Note that many of these sources only index journal articles—they don't actually have the full text.
To access full text:
- Use the gold UC-eLinks button to do an automated search to find the full text
- Search for the journal title in the UCLA Library Catalog, or
- Request the article through interlibrary loan if UCLA does not own the full text
For more tips, see our guide on database searching.
See entire list of Article Databases - Science and Engineering here.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10,000 publications, with the complete text of over 5,500 periodicals, including a mix of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers. - ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Collection of full-text articles published in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) periodicals and proceedings since 1947. Includes special interest group publications.
- arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
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Automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.
- Compendex (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
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Contains citations and abstracts to over 5000 engineering journals from 1884 to the present, conferences and technical reports in the fields of chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics, communications, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Coverage is from 1884 to the present; print equivalent is Engineering Index.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowSearches articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
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IEEE Xplore provides web access to more than five-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Does not include Draft Standards. - Inspec (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
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Contains citations to articles in over 4000 scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, and information technology. Most citations include abstracts. Full-text is available for many articles. Corresponds to the print publications: Physics Abstracts, Electrical & Electronics Abstracts, and Computer & Control Abstracts. 1969 to present; Inspec Archive 1898-1968. - Materials Science & Engineering Database This link opens in a new window
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Featuring content from 1962 to present, supports numerous areas of both materials science research and engineering. Includes scholarly articles, as well as patents, conference proceedings, and government reports.
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)Provides access to NASA's current and historical aerospace research and engineering results.
- NTRL: National Technical Reports Library from the National Technical Information Service This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and open access to a collection of more than two million historical and current government technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Over 500,000 documents are available in full-text format.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
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SciFinder-n is the new interface for the most comprehensive index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article, patent, and conference references, the CAS Registry of 161 million chemical substances (many include property data) & CASREACT database of 126 million chemical reactions and preparations. Search by topic, reaction, or chemical substance (Registry number, structure, substructure). Already registered? Go directly to SciFinder-n.
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Contains more than 275,000 technical papers on optics and photonics from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings published from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
- Trans Tech Publications (scientific.net)The research reported in these 15 publications reflects high impact global contributions from scientists, engineers and materials scientists in the new areas and applications of these fields, including their intersections and emerging innovations and is among some of the most highly cited literature.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of most disciplines. Indexes major journals with all cited references captured. Combines the following citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index.