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Abstracts do the same and show a summary of each article. Covers a wide range of engineering topics in about 400 English language periodicals. Many of these titles are held by the University at Stony Brook Libraries. 1980-1997 searchable on the Internet as Engineering Information Compendex . The oldest and most comprehensive abstracting service covering all fields of engineering and technology.