Stanford access to the INSPEC database is now available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. INSPEC (1898-present) covers the literature of astronomy, physics, computer and information science, electrical engineering, and materials science to great depth and with superior indexing.
INSPEC is a recent addition to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform which allows simultaneous searching of all licensed databases on the platform: Biosis, Derwent Innovations Index, CAB Abstracts, Medline, Zoological Record, and Web of Science (SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts & Humanities). Alternatively, only the INSPEC records may be searched.
From the Stanford Libraries' databases page, selecting "INSPEC" will limit your searches to INSPEC records only. To simultaneously search the other Web of Knowledge databases, either select "ISI Web of Knowledge" from the databases page or from within the "INSPEC" search, select the "All Databases" tab at the top of the search page.
INSPEC was formerly available through LANL, which ended its database service to Stanford on August 31, 2009. See also OPPIE and FlashPoint No Longer Available After August 31, 2009 in this issue.
To search INSPEC along with 27 other databases, including all the former LANL resources, try SULAIR Cross Search, just released into public beta by the Stanford Libraries this fall. See also SULAIR Cross Search in Live Beta in this issue.
