Electronics Datasheets: Resources

• Browse or search GlobalSpec’s datasheets directory to locate information and specifications for more than 8 million products. The archive is organized by product area
• Browse GlobalSpec’s Products Catalogs – more than 122 million parts from suppliers across the industrial sector, searchable by specification
• IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization, acquired GlobalSpec from IHS in 2016. The new for-profit subsidiary of IEEE was renamed IEEE GlobalSpec, Inc.
• GlobalSpec's Datasheet Directory

Gale Directory Library

Online platform for various Gale Directories giving you the ability to search all of the directories simultaneously, individually, or selected titles. Directories available include:

• Encyclopedia of associations. National organizations of the U.S. (Online)
• Contains listings for nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope.
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations  
• International Research Centers Directory
• Research Centers Directory
• Brands and Their Companies (an alternative to trademarks)

• The Marketplace of the Industry. Photonics Buyer's Guide. Profiles and contact information for more than 4000 manufacturers and suppliers of photonics products and services worldwide. Search or browse company listings, products, media and white papers 
• Laser Focus World (trade journal) Buyer's Guide Categories, Companies, Products (top row, drop-down menu)
• Edmund Optics. Catalog 
• Electronic Components Catalog. Mouser
• Electronics Manufacturing Guide. Circuit World (trade journal)
• SourceToday's Top 50 Electronics Distributors (2017).  Found this list mentioned in a Library database record
• Electronic Design (trade journal)– Article listing Top …. Distributors  (May 2015/2016, EBSCOhost and ProQuest)
• Solid State Technology (trade journal) Buyer’s Guide

• Product and manufacturers catalogs
• Company and  industry directories
• Buyer's guides
• Resource guides, guidebooks
• Product handbooks, clearinghouses
• These resources may be supplements to trade journals, or published as separate, stand-alone publications

• Searchable websites or listings of product datasheets or component parts
• Representatives of distributors of multiple manufacturers will be knowledgeable about the product
• Identify companies that may sell the product

• Digi-Key - Distributor of electronic components. Founded in 1972, Digi-Key today offers a large selection of electronic components in stock and available for shipment. Products, manufacturers, resources, tools
• Datasheets.com  search datasheets and electronic parts
• EEM.com (Electronic Engineers Master Catalog) search electronic components and datasheets
• DatasheetCatalog.com
• Alldatasheet.com
• Semi Source

• University of Cincinnnati Libraries Databooks and Datasheets - Corporate sources and Product information publishers
• Case Western Reserve University. Databooks
• Boston University. Electronics Design Facility -- Parts searching and identification resources
• Temple University Libraries. Parts and components (left column)
• Colorado State University. Mechatronics resources
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Component manufacturers, Vendors/distributors
• Seattle University - Components
• Grand Valley State University Libraries Product literature and cost information

• ThomasNet – a comprehensive general resource for industrial information. Supplier discovery and Product catalogs
• EngNet Engineering Network. Browse by Industries, Products/services, Brandnames, Companies
• MacRAE's Blue Book  search for industrial and manufacturing products and services
• Sweets Product Catalogs for Building Products

• Our Library databases can include records with useful information, such as articles noting relevant publications or a list of the top distributors in an industry
• Journals, newsletters, product announcements, newswires, and company directories can identify companies
• Individuals in the field can be identified by searching narrow topics in article and patent databases. Contact information is often in the author affiliation field, at the beginning or end of the article, or in the patent assignee field. They can be contacted for suggestions and advice. Compendex/Inspec, ABI/Inform, Derwent Innovations Index, etc.

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