Staying abreast of cutting-edge technologies that drive and impact industry is crucial in today's information age. The following resources provide a good starting place to keep up with new and emerging technologies in business.

Scientific and Technology Databases
IEL (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library)
Contains the complete IEEE conferences, IEEE journals and magazines and adds to the rich collection the IEE journals and conferences and the complete set of EIII Technical Standards. Full-text journals include:

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Control Systems Technology
Electronics Packaging Manufacturing
IT Professional
Nanotechnology
Technology and Society Magazine

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Abstracts to articles in engineering and technology including trade and industrial publications and scholarly journals (1984-present). Many of the journals indexed in this database are held by the Kennedy Library.

General Science Abstracts
An excellent online index to start searching for topics in astronomy, biological sciences, chemistry, geology, medicine, physics, etc. Good for interdisciplinary searches. Many of the journals indexed in this database are held by the Kennedy Library.
Updated monthly, with coverage from 1984 to the present.

Engineering Village2
Engineering Village2 offers access to Compendex, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering literature, containing references to over 13 million citations from 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and reports.

Essential Technology Journals
Journal of Technology Transfer
Available online through PolyCAT (online catalog)

Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Available online through Project Muse

Popular Science
Available online through Expanded Academic ASAP

Journal of Industrial Technology
Available online at National Association of Industrial Technology

Industrial Marketing Management
Available online through Science Direct

Journal of High Technology Management Research
Available online through Science Direct

Platts Energy & Business Technology
Current Periodicals Room (Print Only)

Legal-Tech Journals
Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal
Available online through ABI/Inform

Santa Clara Computer and High - Technology Law Journal
Available online through ABI/Inform

 

Mainstream Databases
ABI/Inform
ABI offers hundreds of articles and case studies on the technology industries. Includes a variety of hi-tech journals including:

Appropriate Technology
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Computer Technology Review
Journal of Quality Technology
Journal of Technology Transfer
Manufacturing Business Technology
Research Technology Management
Tech Directions
Technology Review
Wall Street & Technology

Factiva
A massive database that delivers detailed company financials, company-to-industry ratios, and full-text articles from over 6,000 business-related sources. Factiva provides full text articles from a wide range of technology-driven journals, newspapers, and periodicals. Covers market data and corporate news items.

 

Interviews With Industry Leaders
News Transcripts from a wide range of media sources including CBS News, CNN, CNN Financial, CNN International, MSNBC, NBC News, Nightly Business Report, and more. Available online through Lexis Nexis.

TIP: Select the TV and Radio Broadcast News Transcripts radio button. Next, enter search terms in the search box. For example: technology transfer and emerging markets

Print Directories
CorpTech Directory of Technology Firms
REF HG 4057
A company directory of 45,000+ US high-tech companies, containing references to all manufacturing & development companies with products in this field. Coverage includes factory automation, biotechnology, chemicals, computer hardware, defense, energy, environmental, manufacturing equipment, advanced materials, medicine, pharmaceuticals, photonics, computer software, subassemblies & components, test & measurement, telecommunications and transportation. Holding companies in these areas are also included. 90% of the companies are emerging private firms, or operating units of larger companies. Applications for this information include sales, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shared distribution and cross licensing.

Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
REF HD 69 .C6
A reference guide to more than 24,000 firms and individuals engaged in consultation for business, industry, and government. Includes a wide range of technology-driven industries and niche markets.

Legal Research (Cases, Regulations, Patents, Rulings, SEC Filings)
Lexis-Nexis
Legal Research. Locate patents, court rulings, law reviews, and legal news within the technology sectors.
Business & Industry Research. Secure thousands of articles covering a wide range of technology issues as well as SEC filings. See also United States Patent and Trademark Office

White Papers
What is a white paper?*
White papers are documents released by companies, organizations, and government agencies to authoritatively describe products, technologies, and policy. Though a white paper is not necessarily an unbiased report, it will typically provide a more detailed overview than press releases and many other forms of documentation.

In addition to providing information, however, white papers are also often used for marketing purposes. As a result, it is not uncommon for different vendors to produce competing white papers on the same topic. There are literally thousands of white papers covering a broad range of topics. Many are available online, especially from corporate and organizational web sites.

For examples of white papers from the technology industry, see Sun Microsystems' software white paper archive at: http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/

How to locate white papers
Search google:
"white paper" and [variable]

Examples:
"white paper" and "technology transfer"
"white paper" and "commercialization of technology"

*From Indiana University Knowledge Base