Publisher: Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Type: abstracts bibliography.

Subject Coverage: physics, electrical engineering, electronics, automation and robotics, telecommunications, control technology, computing, information technology and interdisciplinary sciences (material science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics).

Contents: it contains over 6 mln bibliographical descriptions with abstracts. Every year the data base gets 330 thousands of new records. INSPEC provides with bibliographical information from over 4200 scientific and technical periodicals and about 2000 post-conference publications, books and reports.

Time Span: 1989 -

Updating: quarterly.

Searching: in English. You can search the data base by following headings: names of authors, editors or translators;
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INSPEC classification;
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The results of you searches in the INSPEC data base are bibliographical data and abstracts of publications responding your criterions. Additionally you will get terms associated with the publication you found: classification, subject words, keywords.
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Since 1989 year, the INSPEC data base is available in the following parts:
INSPEC Ondisc - Physics
INSPEC Ondisc - Electronic & Computing

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