Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), Inspec is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in the following fields:

• Physics
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics
• Communications
• Control Engineering
• Computers
• Computing
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing
• Production Engineering

With Inspec you can uncover research information in specialized areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering, and biophysics.

All Inspec data is supplemented by special subject indexing that aids retrieval and provides valuable subject information about indexed documents.

Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts 1898-1968

Inspec now includes the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968. The Science Abstracts Journals were the precursor to the Inspec database. The subject coverage is:

• All aspects of physics (originally published as Physics Abstracts).

• Electrical and electronic engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1903, and originally published as Electrical and Electronic Abstracts).

• Computing and control engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1966, and published initially as Control Abstracts, later renamed to Computer and Control Abstracts).

The Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts contains more than 873,700 records. These records:

• Contain tables, graphs and figures from original source documents. They also include longer abstracts than the 100-200 word abstracts typical today. These vary in length from half a page to several pages, including diagrams and complex mathematical proofs, because printed copies of source documents were more difficult to obtain.

• Retain the original value-added indexing and classifications, and include enhancements in the form of the nearest equivalent current Inspec Thesaurus Terms and Inspec Classification Codes.

• Cover conference proceedings, journals, reports, and dissertations.

Product Coverage

• Coverage from 1898 to the present

• Over 3,850 scientific and technical journals, some 2,000 conference proceedings, and numerous books, reports, and dissertations

• Over 10,890,000 bibliographic records

• Nearly 400,000 records added each year

Database Records

Full records include complete bibliographic details and author abstracts.

In addition, subject specialists at IEE assign controlled terms from the Inspec Thesaurus that add value to the database and aid in retrieval.

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