Online Resources and Databases

Product Information

Web sources not licensed by the Stanford Libraries

Chip Directory  

This site contains numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of manufacturers, electronics books, CDROM's, magazines, WWW sites and much more.

 

Consumer Electronics Association

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the trade organization for  2,100 companies within the U.S. consumer technology industry.CEA produces the International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow. 

 

EngNet

EngNet is a  directory/search engine/buyers guide service aimed specifically at the engineering industry to enable engineers, technicians, tradesmen, etc. to find information and communicate effectively with suppliers in the engineering industry. 

 

Globalspec

Components database plus other products, manufacturers and services. Includes their Engineering Web. 

 

IC Master 

Database of Integrated Circuits covering over 345 manufacturers and more than 135,000 base part numbers. 

 

MatWeb

A free materials information database with property data on over 20,000 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites.

 

Building Materials by McGraw-Hill Sweets

Construction and building product marketplace including a database of building product information.

 

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

This well known directory is now available via the internet.

- A library of millions of downloadable 2D and 3D CAD models for mechanical parts, plant components, and building products for easy insertion into drawings
- Thousands of product catalogs searchable by specification making it easy to locate the right part
- 650,000 suppliers of 65,000 parts and services
- An Industrial Market Trends (IMT) blog and newsletter that offers insight to industry’s hot topics, latest developments, best practices, market trends and opinions.

Helen Josephine
Engineering Library
engreference@stanford.edu