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Celebrating 50 years of Inspec

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  • Duration: 2 mins
  • Publication date: 07 May 2019

Abstract

Inspec has been delivering access to essential engineering intelligence since 1969, when it quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most authoritative tools for accessing scientific literature across engineering, physics and computer science.

Renowned for the quality of its indexing, Inspec has become an essential discovery tool for numerous prestigious institutions and serves tens of thousands of users globally as their definitive bibliographic database for literature in engineering, physics, computer science and related disciplines.

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