EFC Working Party 7: Corrosion Education and Computer Applications

Databases

Few databases exclusively for corrosion literature are available at present, but several databases in the sciences and engineering cover corrosion, wholly or in part, within their main subject areas. The annual increase in corrosion items in the four major data bases that cover corrosion in general varies from about 6000 (CA, METADEX) to 2000 (PASCAL). Corrosion references are between 1-10% of the total data.

A great number of specialised databases outside those listed here also contain corrosion information. Some computer search systems have on-line guidance facilities for selecting potentially useful databases for a specific inquiry. Consulting information specialists in an information centre or a library is advisable when undertaking a major search.
(For data collections on diskettes for personal computers see the Note in Visual aids)
A = corrosion in general covered
N = numeric database ('data bank'), as distinguished from bibiographic or reference database

Databases exclusively on corrosion

• CORROSION, Orbit-Questel, McLean, VA, Numeric. Corresponds in part to Corrosion Resistance Tables: Metals, Plastics, Nonmetallics and Rubbers (1976) with more current information available online.
• COPROM (Corrosion and Protection of Materials), INETI, Lisboa
• CORAB (CD-ROM) NACE, Houston, TX, USA
• CORSUR I Metals NACE, Houston, TX, USA (N)
• CORSUR II Non-Metals NACE, Houston, TX, USA (N).
• RICORR (Rede de Informaçăo Tecnologica em Corrosăo e Protecçăo, CYTED/INETI, Lisboa

Databases with a significant number of corrosion references

• Aluminium Industry Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, USA (bibliographic)
• CAS (CA Search, Chemical Abstracts), CAS, Columbus, Ohio, USA (A) (bibliographic)
• CEA (Chemical Engineering Abstracts), RSC, London
• COMPENDEX, Engineering Information, Hoboken, NJ USA (A) (bibliographic)
• EMA Engineered Materials Abstracts (polymers, composites, ceramics) Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, USA (available online/website only)
• HYDROGENE DATA, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, Paris, France (A)
• KKF - Kautschuk, Kunststoffe, Fasern, Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut, Darmstadt, Germany (bibliographic)
• METADEX, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, USA Materials Information (A) (bibliographic)
• NTIS, National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, USA (bibliographic US Research Reports)
• PASCAL, France Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST), Vandoeuvre-les- Nancy (A) (bibliographic)
• THERMODATA, Thermodata Association, Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble, St. Martin d'Heres (N)
• VULCAIN-BDM Micro, Centre Technique de l'Industrie du Decolletage (C.T.DEC), Cluses, France (full-text; directory)
• WPI (World Patent Index), Derwent Information Ltd, London, UK (bibliographic, image)
• WSCA (World Surface Coatings Abstracts), PRA, Teddington, Middlesex (bibliographic).

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