Overview
The Inspec database is one of the world’s definitive bibliographic scientific databases and contains over 16 million abstracts and specialized indexing for premier literature in engineering, physics and technology.
Scientists and engineers from all over the world search Inspec to identify quality research information, saving time and money as they accelerate their research activities. Inspec can be used to alert you to new developments in your field, track new technology and products, facilitate collaboration, monitor competitors, search for patents and analyze data by a wide variety of parameters.
The Inspec database is managed and updated by a team of information experts who are constantly responding to customer needs. Quality is assured by subject specialists who handpick and manually index every record added to our database. Search Inspec for the best information, fast.
Key features
Comprehensive coverage – Over 16 million records in the fields of electronics, computer science, physics and electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering.
Varied content – Indexing and abstracts of articles selected from over 5,000 scientific and technical journals from over 1,000 publishers, nearly 5 million conference proceedings papers and a wide array of books, reports, dissertations and videos (IET.tv and the Journal of Visual Experimentation).
Unparalleled quality – Specialized subject indexing done manually by experts that leads to accurate and extensive results. Abstracts include a range of specialized indexing including Thesaurus Terms, Classification Codes, Treatment Codes, numerical data indexing, chemical substance indexing, astronomical object indexing and expanded IPC codes.
Full Text Links – Web links to the original article for over 80% of our records.
Benefits
Unlike free web sources, our content is always peer-reviewed and our expert indexing makes retrieval precise and relevant
Manual indexing by subject specialists results in the highest quality abstracts available.
Inspec’s Thesaurus and Classification Codes are recognized as the standard of excellence in search aids and make searching quick and easy as well as accurate and rich.
Centralized access to information and simple tools for inter-colleague sharing help to break down silos and encourage collaboration.
Weekly additions to the database mean you have the most accurate picture of who is publishing on what topics.
Author Affiliation Codes and Ringgold Institutional ID’s mean you can quickly and accurately locate potential collaborators.
International Patent Classification codes allows for the clustering of relevant non-patent literature and is a valuable tool for the prior-art searcher
Contact us
Contact us at ietusa@inspecinc.com or visit our website.
If you are located in Latin America, please contact Neriza Murrell for more information at nmurrell@inspecinc.com