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Inspec and Inspec Archive

Brief Description:

Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Inspec (1969-current) is the leading bibliographic database providing access to the scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. The database contains over eight million bibliographic records taken from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings.

The Inspec Archive provides access to historical scientific records spanning the years 1898 through 1968. With the digitizing of the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals, which were the precursors to the Inspec database, users are provided access to over 873,000 abstract records.

Dates of Coverage: 1898 - current
Frequency of Updates: Weekly
Record Type:

Bibliographic citations with Abstracts

Number of Records: 8,000,000 plus
Subjects Covered: Electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering

Access:

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Access is available on and off campus to Ryerson University students, staff and faculty.

Maximum number of simultaneous users:

Unlimited

Terms of use