LibGuides: Engineering Technologies: Journals

Recommended journals and magazines

IEEE Power Electronics Magazine journal front cover

IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics journal front cover

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems front cover

International Journal of Electronics front cover

IET Power Electronics journal front cover

Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy front cover

Control Engineering Practice Journal front cover

International Journal of Engineering Business Management front cover

Engineering Management Journal front cover

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Journals and magazines

What are journals?

Journals are academic magazines. Most of our journals are available online. A small number of titles, mainly more professionally focused magazines, are available in print.

Journals are

published daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly - therefore the material is up to date
generally the first place that scholarly research is published
often 'peer reviewed', this means that articles have been critically reviewed by experts prior to being published.

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Conference papers

What about conference proceedings?

This is a collection of research papers delivered at a conference or symposium. Proceedings are available both from UoG search tools such as Library Discovery, SCOPUS, as well from services like GoogleScholar and SemanticScholar.

IEEE/IET Electronic Library
IEEE Xplore contains more than 2 million articles from over 12,000 publications in computing and technology that encompass journals, conference proceedings, and technical standards, with select content dating back to 1893.
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Nature.com
Access to multiple publications from SpringerNature, including Nature.com and Nature Complete packages.
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Sage Journals
Full-text access to journals in the Theology and Biblical Studies Collection, as well as individually subscribed journal titles
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Science Direct
15,000+ journals in the Science / Social Science related fields (computing, business management, psychology, health, sociology, environment, biology). Full-text coverage of the last 5 years.
- Go to Science Direct (general login)
- Go to Science Direct (use this link and go to Sign In at the top of the page to use personalised features)
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SCOPUS
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature published as journal articles, books and conference proceedings. See more.. for login instructions to use personalisation features.
Scopus provides smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research content and affiliation criteria. Searching Scopus should be part of your literature research process.
To use personalisation features please use the link below
1. Go to SCOPUS
2. Select Sign In at the top of the screen
3. Select 'Sign in via your institution'
4. Select University of Gloucestershire and enter your normal university login details
Springer Journals
Access to over 3,500 academic journals published by Springer.
Content covers multi-disciplinary areas of research including sciences and social sciences. Includes English and foreign language journals. The links below offer two alternative ways of accessing journal content on the Springer platform. Advanced search option also available to improve the accuracy of your search.
Go to SpringerLink (use this link to search for available journal articles and other limited content about your topic).
Alternatively, Go to Springer Journals (use this link to search for particular journals).
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Taylor and Francis Journals
Access to the Social Sciences and Humanities, and Science and Technology journal collections from Taylor and Francis
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Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library is the content platform of Wiley publishers, covering multidisciplinary subject areas across the life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
It provides full text access to approximately 370 journals to which the library subscribes, as well as abstracts for other content.
Includes IET (Institution of Engineering Technology) journals full text from 2013 onwards.
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ConnectedPapers
Creates a visual map of published research, shows links between papers containing references. 5 free maps per month.
Elicit
A free AI literature search tool using similar natural language searching Displays and summarises relevant papers. See FAQ.
GoogleScholar
Searches scholarly materials. Use Settings to select the Library Links to access content to which the UoG Library subscribes.
SemanticScholar
Searches and retrieves scholarly publications based on the importance and relevance of cited papers using machine learning techniques.

Using the Inter-Library Loan service

Article not in library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain journal articles not held by the university. Primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers or academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans.

LibKey Nomad web browser extension

LibKey Nomad
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension you can use to link to full text content provided by the library, from different research sites.

Find out more by watching the short video which explains how the extension works.