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1. Introduction
One of the most important processes of joining metals is welding process, like the one that appears in [1]. It is used in simple structures fabrication, nuclear and petroleum industries, as well as chemical components.
In a typical fusion welding process of metals, such as resistance welding, arc welding, electron beam welding, laser welding, a heat source is applied locally to the interfaces of the two metals to be joined. The interface can be metals’ surfaces, where faces of each other are joined by a nugget (e.g., spot or resistance welding). In arc welding, the interface will be the weld seam. However, complex physical phenomena and processes occur due to the heating/melting and cooling/solidifying. This may produce adverse effects on weld properties and base metal properties [2]. In order to reduce adverse effects and obtain desired results, many studies have been developed to monitor, predict, or control welding processes. All these studies are based on the optimal welding parameters’ adjustment, but all of these are adjustable.
All adjustable welding parameters, such as current or current waveform, heat input, wire feed speed, travel speed, and arc voltage, may be used as system inputs and be designed to assure the required outputs. For that reason and the interrelations-parameters complexity, welding process can be analyzed like a stochastic system, which has input and output parameters and several disturbances [2]. Chen’s article [3] was related to the need to improve the information acquired from these welding parameters and identify characteristics in order to improve and control the welding process results. Chen defined new objectives of modern welding manufacturing technology to show the way for better welding processes. It exposes some problems of the intelligentized welding manufacturing technology (IWMT), which are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Some technical problems in IWMT [3].
Other science areas present the potential to solve these problems. Computer science areas have had great results with new technique applications of data analysis, learning models, and intelligent control. Data analysis objective indicates nontrivial features on a large amount of data. Due to the increase and complexity of data, more efficient data analysis techniques have been developed. Welding process can be analyzed with this point of view. So, the welding process analysis with new techniques is nothing more than a continuity in the development of welding analysis processes. This interdisciplinarity is one of the necessary contributions proclaimed by the so-called Industry 4.0, like the one shown in [4, 5, 6].
The fourth industrial revolution refers to the next manufacturing generation, where automation technology will be improved by self-optimization and intelligent feedback [7]. For this reason, the application of the most recent data analysis techniques and processes can contribute to a better control and monitoring of welding processes. These techniques can be joined in machine learning techniques [8, 9, 10, 11, 12], data mining process [13, 14, 15, 16, 17], and control process [18, 19, 20]. The interrelation of these areas and their origins are presented in Figure 2. Machine learning is a growing area in computer science, with far-reaching applications, for data analysis [21]. Machine learning uses computer theory and statistics for building mathematical models with the goal of making inference from a sample [22]. One branch in machine learning with fast growing is deep learning. These methods are an essential part of the research on speech recognition in the state of the art [23], image recognition [24, 25, 26], object detection [27, 28], videos [29, 30], and sound [31, 32] analysis. Interesting patterns come out from such a machine learning techniques. One important process is data mining. Data mining puts strong emphasis on different aspects, like efficiency, effectiveness, and validity of process [33]. Data mining processes define several stages and methodologies to achieve these objectives, as exposed by Marbán in [34]. An important objective of data analysis is to reveal and indicate diverse, nontrivial features in data. For this reason, welding process can be analyzed with this point of view.
Figure 2.
Origin diagram of the new data analysis techniques.
A search conducted in the Web of Science from 2011 to October 3, 2018, shows the growing trend of these new data analysis techniques and processes in welding process researches Figure 3, but when comparing with the investigations on models welding process, growth is almost imperceptible, as appearing in Figure 4.
Figure 3.
Cited per year on welding (Web of Science [35]).
Figure 4.
Cited per year on welding (Web of Science [35]).
These demonstrate the need for this review to show these techniques, the advantages in their applications, and the increasing trend of their utilization. This review can be resumed in following stages:
Welding process—understanding of welding processes being analyzed.
Sensors—analysis of some principal sensors in welding process.
Data processing—analysis of technique to transform sensors information to welding process dataset.
Modeling welding process—analysis of some modeling techniques in welding process.
Intelligent control of welding process—analysis of some intelligent control techniques in welding process.
These stages has a close relationship with data mining processes as a sample [34].
2. Welding process
American Welding Society (AWS) definition for a welding process is:
“a materials joining process which produces coalescence of materials by heating them to suitable temperatures with or without the application of pressure or by the application of pressure alone and with or without the use of filler material” [36].
AWS defines groups of welding techniques depending on the energy transfer mode. The processes analyzed in this chapter are grouped as shown in Table 1.
Group
Welding process
Arc welding
Gas metal arc welding (GMAW)
Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW)
Plasma arc welding (PAW)
Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
Submerged arc welding (SAW)
Variable polarity plasma arc welding (VPPAW)
Rotating arc narrow gap MAG welding (RANGMW)
Girth welds
Resistance welding
Resistance spot welding (RSW)
Large scale RSW (LSRSW)
Other welding processes
Laser beam welding (LBW)
Table 1.
Welding processes group.
These groups present different parameters and characteristics that were analyzed in the articles presented in this chapter.
2.1 Arc welding
The group arc welding is characterized with electric arc. The electric arc is the heat source most commonly used in fusion welding of metallic materials. The welding arc comprises a relatively small region of space characterized by high temperatures (similar to or even higher than the sun’s surface), strong generation of light and ultraviolet radiation, intense flow of matter, and large gradients of physical properties. It has an adequate concentration of energy for localized base metal fusion, ease of control, low relative cost of equipment, and an acceptable level of health risks to its operators. The study of the arc is of special interest in areas such as astrophysics and the electrical and nuclear industries [37]. The electric arc generates a complex interrelation of thermal, electrical, and magnetic parameters. These are hampering much of their studies based on definite theoretical formulations. Despite many studies, the electric arc is quite complex and the knowledge so far allows a partial understanding of the phenomenon [1].
2.2 Resistance welding
Resistance welding is the joining of metals by applying pressure and passing current for a length of time through the metal area that is to be joined. Its principal advantage is no other materials are needed to create the bond; this reason makes this process extremely cost effective. Resistance welding is applied in a wide range of automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications. Among the main parameters are welding time, welding force, contact resistance, materials properties [1]. Resistance spot welding, like all resistance welding processes, creates welds using heat generated by resistance to the flow of welding current between the faying surfaces, as well as force to push the workpieces together, applied over a defined period of time. Resistance spot welding uses the electrode face geometries to focus the welding current at the desired location, and apply force to the workpieces. Once sufficient resistance is generated, the materials set down and combine, and a weld nugget is formed [36]. The process is fast and effective, and it is also complicated due to complex interactions between electrical, mechanical, thermal, and metallurgical processes. The heat generation in RSW is due to the resistance of the parts being welded to the flow of a localized electric current, based on Joule’s law. The quality of the joint in RSW is influenced by the welding parameters. These parameters mainly include welding current, welding time, electrode force, and electrode geometry [38]. Large scale resistance spot welding (LSRSW), as mentioned in Table 1, is generally adopted in the automotive industry. It is an automotive structure that includes thousands of spot welds. It presents the same parameters and complexity as RSW; only the parameters related and influenced by its scalability are increased [39].
2.3 Other welding processes
In this group, AWS presents various welding processes. Laser welding is the only one belonging to this group, which is found in the analyzed articles.
Laser beam welding is one of the most technically advanced welding processes. Laser welding is in general a keyhole fusion welding technique which is achieved with the very high power density obtained by focusing a beam of laser light to a very fine spot [40]. This light ray heats metals up quickly so that the two pieces fuse together into one unit. The light beam is very small and focused, so the metal weld also cools very quickly. Laser welding operates in two fundamentally different modes: conduction limited welding and keyhole welding. The mode in which the laser beam will interact with the material is welding; it will depend on the power density of the focused laser spot on the work piece [41].
Other parameters that are present in these processes are those of final welding geometry, which behave differently in different processes and under different conditions. The parameters of the respective sources generate their influence on the final result of each welding process.
Welding is a complex process, so it requires more intelligent techniques in its analysis, monitoring, and production quality improvement. The use of sensors allows the acquisition of process parameters. The new artificial intelligence techniques will allow a better study, modeling, and control of these processes.
3. Sensors
Several sensors have been applied in the welding process for monitoring. The weld bead and the weld-pool indirect sensing technologies can be classified like exposed in [42] and in Figure 5.
Figure 5.
Some indirect monitoring technologies in welding process [42].
Infrared vision techniques have been widely applied in the welding process [43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50]. One of the problems of this technique is that the environment where it is applied can interfere in the precision of the data obtained from a process. This may be due to the own heat emission of the technologies utilized.
3.1 Sound sensor
Sound may indicate conditions that generate weld defects. Acoustic information plays a relevant role for expert welders, as described in [51]. Sound signature produced by GMAW contains information about arc column behavior, the molten metal, and the metal transfer mode. High-speed data acquisition and computer-aided analysis of sound signature may indicate conditions that generate weld defects [52, 53]. Di Wu, in 2016 [54], tried to monitor penetration and keyhole with acoustic signals and image analysis. Lv et al. [55], proposed a recognition model to analyze the relationship between penetration state and arc sound. In 2017, Lv et al. [56] again presented a welding quality control in pulse gas tungsten arc welding (P-GTAW). The welding acoustic signal was used to analyze the design of an automated welding penetration control system.
In welding, it is easy to capture sound, but it is very difficult to analyze the noises and differences of intensities that are sometimes generated. This is not a problem to sound deep learning technique like present [32, 57]. To understand the welding sound analysis with deep learning techniques, it is necessary make an image arc correlation to know what happens in welding arc.
3.2 Vision sensor
Vision sensor is largely utilized in welding process to analyze weld-pool process [58, 59], arc-welding process [60, 61], and weld bead geometry [62, 63]. The more light generated by arc can be difficult for the image obtention. Some techniques are utilized. One of them was utilized by Chen in 2010 [64].
He made monitoring and control of the hybrid laser-gas metal arc welding process with an economical sensor system, and a coaxial vision system, which was integrated from a relatively inexpensive industrial vision system and a personal computer (PC). Another visualization technique is Shadowgraphy, applied in Esdras Ramos investigation, in 2013 [65, 66]. This is based on process shadow arc with laser source.
In [60], a laser illumination was utilized. To reduce the arc light, a narrow band interference filter was applied. For precise measurements, an image-analysis technique was used. This technique can be used to obtain high quality images but only it can be used in processes without material transfer.
Chen et al. [67] utilized a visual double-sided sensing system. In one frame, the weld-pool geometry parameters in GTAW process were determined.
With high speed illumination laser in [68], great quality images are obtained. This technique is more recent one but it needs a laser with more potentiality than Shadowgraphy technique. This technique is more expensive too.
4. Data processing
Some papers define their own image processing technologies, like Hong Yue in 2009 [69], where the weld image processing adopts the classic techniques such as Laplacian, Gaussian, neighborhood mean filters, and threshold segmentation. Yanling Xu, in 2014 [70], proposed the Canny edge detection algorithm for detecting edges and extracting pool and seam characteristic parameters. Qian-Qian Wu in [71] researched to find out the optimal algorithm to filter. He made a comparison of Wiener filter, Gaussian filter, and Median filter on welding seam image. In the classic image processing, it is very difficult to generalize a filter or algorithm, because it depends on the conditions and characteristics of camera parameters and light.
Another problem with these algorithms mentioned above is that the real-time analysis has an insufficient response time to be utilized in a process control despite recent developments in computational resources.
Deep learning techniques have efficient result in real-time executions [28] and classifications [24, 25] despite classifications on new images. One example applied in welding process is [62, 63]. It utilizes autoencoder deep learning technique to extract features of images process in laser welding. Another example of recent application of deep learning technique is [72]. It presents a method based on deep learning aims to extract information from photographs on spot welding. This monitoring system on the spot welding productive line shown better performance than the previous images analysis.
Not focused on welding arc analysis, but with good results, the work [73] proposed an automatic detection for weld defects in X-ray images. A classification model on deep neural network was developed. The accuracy rate of the proposed model was 91.84%. This was one more example of the potential of these techniques in welding area on images processing.
5. Modeling welding process
Today’s manufacturing environments has a rapid advancement on demand for quality products. Many techniques and methods are applied to correlate between process parameters and bead geometry. One of them is response surface methodology (RSM). It was applied by Sen in 2015 [74]. He made to evaluate the correlations between process parameters and weld bead geometry in double-pulsed gas metal arc welding (DP-GMAW). Santhana Babu [75] with the same technique got good results for predicting and controlling the weld bead quality in GTAW process. The problem of this method is that the researcher can find the equation, called response surface, by test and error. This can be very difficult. Many theoretical models have been defined to determine the process that occurs in the welding arc, including [76]. The main problems of these models were that they lose precision because it was very difficult to obtain a formula that contains all the complexity of these processes, as well as affirmed by Hang Dong in [77]. Mathematical models, based on machine learning techniques, have better results in problems as complex as this one. In the same paper, Hang Dong expressed the potential of these models.
One of the well-known and utilized regression algorithms is the least squares method. It was utilized in [78] to predict the seam position under strong arc light influence. Other work is [79] a LR model that is utilized to analyze the pool image centroid deviation and weld based on visual weld deviation measurement in GTAW process. The other technique is Gaussian process (GP) regression (GP), which was utilized in [77] to predict better performance in arc welding process of GTAW process.
An interesting method, utilized in [80], was Mahalanobis Distance Measurement (MDM). It was employed to determine welding faults occurrences. The same method was utilized in 2017 by Khairul Muzaka [81] on GMAW process to optimize welding current on a vertical-position welding. One problem of this method is that only correlate in function one input.
Bai and Lubecki [82] proposed a Localized Minimum and Maximum (LMM) analysis method in real time for welding monitoring system. The problem of LMM is that it exposes a simple function to measure the quality than not defining the complexity of the system. That is why, this work is limited only to the short-circuit transfer mode.
In 2017 by Junheung Park [83], a SVM was proposed with bootstrap aggregating that reduced the noisy on RSW data with computational efficiency. In this framework, other techniques as Generalized Regressive Neural Networks (GRNN) and Genetic algorithms for optimization were joined. This article demonstrates an increase in more complex computer science techniques for better analysis of welding processes. But the only way to know if all this was necessary is comparing with other techniques.
5.1 Artificial neural network models
Some researchers already had this reference of advantages of these algorithms. Bo Chen in 2009 [84] utilized ANN to training the experimental obtaining data. The good result of ANN prediction was validated by D-S evidence theory information fusion. They have also been utilized for different purposes and in different welding processes such as in SAW process [85] and GMAW cold metal transfer (CMT) process [86], for predicting weld bead geometry; in GTAW process, for predicting the angular distortion considering the bead geometry [87]; in girth welded pipes process, for predicting residual stresses [88]; and in underwater wet welding process, for predicting the weld seams, geometric parameters [89].
For better results, ANNs have been mixed with other techniques. One example is [90], where ANN and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are utilized for welded defect detecting and monitoring on a laser welding process. The other technique is by Bo Chen and Shanben Chen [91] for predicting the penetration in GTAW process. But they used different ANNs to process information from different sensors, and finally, they used the predictive fuzzy integral method.
Another example is [92], for predicting bead height and width in GMAW process using ANN Fuzzy ARTMAP, like monitoring task.
The increase in computational resources has allowed an increase in the complexity of ANN architectures. These are called Deep Neural Networks (DNN). They, bit by bit, begin to be applied in the welding process. One of them utilized was in [93]. The model is based on a DNN architecture to make a study of the estimation of weld bead parameters. This article mixed data from different welding processes. This is a risk for results analysis since different processes can have different outcomes with the same input parameters.
Rao et al. [94] utilized Generalized Regressive Neural Networks (GRNN) technique for estimating and optimizing the vibratory assisted welding parameters to produce quality welded joints. But in this case, it does not have comparison with other algorithms.
Di Wu, in 2017 [95], wrote a paper that addresses to perform Variable Polarity Plasma Arc Welding (VPPAW) process. Deep Belief Network (DBN), DNN variant, and t-Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) were studied for monitoring and identifying the penetration values. Experimental comparisons and verifications expose better performance for DBN, 97.62% exactly. This reaffirms the good results offered by the learning models developed with these algorithms. This work does not take the advantage of DNN algorithms to analyze both images and sound in real time.
Figure 6 shows a summary of articles analyzed. It shows that ANNs are one of the most used techniques, but they do not always offer the best result. This demonstrates the need to make comparisons between various modeling techniques in order to define the best result, in terms of efficiency and computational cost.
Figure 6.
Comparison between ANNs and ANN variations.
5.2 Comparison of different models
As it has been expressed in the previous sections, there are new techniques to analyze very complex systems. But they require expensive computational resources for their construction and sometimes for their execution. A comparison between models will allow to know which model has better results and which model can be the most effective to be utilized. This effectivity is measured in function of problem necessity, like the one shown in data mining (DM) methodologies and processes [16, 17].
An interesting comparison is Support Vector Machine (SVM) and ANN model, to identify weld groove state and weld deviation extraction in rotating arc narrow gap MAG welding (RANGMW) [96]. It presented SVM models with better results than ANN model.
One comparison with focus on time optimized was [97]. It utilized an ANN and ANN with differential evolutionary algorithm (DEA) separately. The results obtained by ANN using DEA were closer to ANN, but the computational time of ANN using DEA was shorter.
In the article [98], Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was compared with linear isotonic regression, regression (LR), regression trees, ANN, GP, and SVM, to evaluate mechanical properties in GMAW process. The results present that the DM models have poorer generalization on this research, because DM techniques require, to obtain acceptable results, a large amount dataset.
Sumesh in 2015 [99] compared Decision Trees (DT), ANN, Fuzzy Logic, SVM, and Random forest technique Weld Quality Monitoring in SMAW. The most efficient technique was Random forest. This shows that not always the most complex techniques offer the best results.
One of the few comparative analysis algorithms is Kumar’s paper in 2016 [100]. This paper explores Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) using as a mechanism for performing unsupervised learning, for comparing performance characteristics of various welding parameters which include welding power supplies and welders. Results obtained using SOM has been compared with the Probability Density Distributions (PDDs) obtained during statistical analysis. Voltage and current data analyzed using the SOM technique can also be utilized to evaluate the arc welding process. These studies demonstrate that there are other potential algorithms for welding process analysis. For that reason, it is necessary to evaluate and compare several of them to be agreed upon in a real-time process.
Other comparison in 2016 by Di Wu is [54]. The article compared a prediction model for Plasma Arc Welding based on Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) with ANN and SVM techniques. The ELM model had better generalization performance and was faster than others. This potentiality was established too by Nandhitha in 2016 [106]. He utilized GRNN and Radial Basis Networks (RBN) for torch current prediction in GTAW process. The torch current deviation was 98.95 % accuracy for the best result of GRNN.
In 2016 too, Kyoung-Yun Kim [107] discusses that in Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) process. He examined the prediction performance with GRNN and k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) algorithms. The results indicate that with smaller k of kNN, the prediction performance measured by mean acceptable error has increased.
Other quality welding article was Xiaodong Wan in 2017 [102]. It proposed a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) model for quality prediction in large scale RSW process. In this case, the PNN model was more appropriate in quality level classification than the Back Propagation Neural Network.
The one of the last articles with direct DM techniques and welding relation is of Yiming Huang in 2017 [103]. This is an investigation of porosity on pulsed gas tungsten arc welding (P-GTAW) with an X-ray image analysis. To detect, an Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Spectral Analyses were made based on DM.
In 2017, Petković [104] predicted the laser welding quality by training data for the computational intelligence methodologies and support vector regression (SVR). SVR is a novel variant of SVM for regression task. This article made a comparison between SVR, ANN, and GP. It is another example that in certain problems, less complex algorithms can offer better results.
Table 2 presents a series of articles that were based on the monitoring and quality of the welding processes. The column Preparation defines the technique of processing the data obtained by the sensors; Classic for processes that do not use the latest techniques of image processing and DL for the use of deep learning; Online defines if the model was executed in real time; Compare, if in the research carried out in the article, a comparison is made between several algorithms; and Modeling defines the algorithms used in specific article. When a comparison exits, the first model before coma was the best quality result. As Tables 2–4, the best algorithm does not always match.
Defining which of the techniques is more effective for our problem also helps in the effectiveness of a future process of intelligent control.
6. Intelligent control of welding process
The intelligent control approach offers interesting perspectives since it is able to provide methodologies that allow to perform automatically some of the tasks typically performed by humans [117]. This combines with data mining models.
One intelligent control tendency utilized is a fuzzy method with ANN model. Example of this was [111] on GTAW process for predicting the dynamic of the weld pool; and in [105] for GMAW pipe-line welding, to improve the welding quality.
Another example was [113], on GMAW process, for modeling and control of weld bead width. Other example of fuzzy methods but different model techniques was [114]. It was applied for better control purpose of bead geometry parameters in submerged arc welding (SAW) process. This article proposed the response of a fuzzy logic approach with surface methodology (RSM). Demonstrating that any model obtained from a welding process can be integrated into a control system. As long as it meets time demands.
Conventional and intelligent control methods were investigated by [67] in P-GTAW process. This work made a comparison with PID control, fuzzy control, and neuron self-learning PSD control. It had better performance. This article highlights the advantage of learning-based control.
Other optimization based in learning was [115]. It proposed ANN model with a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize weld bead geometry characteristics on the GMAW process. The ANN-PSO model obtained an efficient optimization and multi-criteria modeling.
An emerging learning-based control system was used by Günther in [62, 63] for laser welding control. This technique is called reinforcement learning (RL). It is a machine learning branch. It is focused on decision-making by learning process [118]. Control learning can be an optimization-based method like Q-learning algorithm. It can be used to solve optimal control problems like expressed in [119].
Günther’s study [63] is one of the few RL studies for laser welding system. This makes this work an important contribution to welding process engineering. RL is a new technique open now in welding process with noble success in other areas like appearing in [120, 121, 122, 123].
7. Future perspective
These techniques of data analysis based on learning, as appearing in this article, is not yet widespread in welding process area. A bibliometric analysis among the authors studied in this research, presents a very little relationship between them. Figure 7 exposes this. The small dimensions of the authors’ clouds (articles with welding process and new data analysis techniques) and their relationships (joint publications) show little maturity in the interrelation of these areas.
Some of the works demonstrate a small approximation between the areas, fulfilling the interdisciplinarity that Industry 4.0 advocates. Achieving this interdisciplinarity implies new study processes, defining new methodologies that unify the potential of these two areas. The needs of the modern world are going to make this happen in a short time. The new data analysis conception in welding processes area will be an acceleration in obtaining new and better models, more efficient predictions, and controls.
8. Conclusions
Several articles about the welding process were analyzed. These allowed to determine for each data mining stage how it is possible to optimize the results to obtain a good result of process analysis. Several analysis algorithms of the welding process were shown, and it was demonstrated that the comparison between them can make the process analysis more efficient and less expensive. The potential of learning-based techniques was described, because computational resources are becoming cheaper, and more quality information of welding process can be obtained. All these premises aligned with the so-called Industry 4.0, where a set of technologies that allow a fusion of physical and digital world, create a more intelligent and dynamic system.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge IntechOpen, Brasilia University, CNPq, CAPES, and PPMEC-UnB, and also to professors Alysson Martin Silva, and Guillermo Albarez Bestard.
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This allows a study with a data analysis perspective. Data mining processes, machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning techniques have had good results in the analysis and control of systems as complex as the welding process. The increase of information acquisition and information quality by sensors developed at present, allows a large volume of data that benefits the analysis of these techniques. This research aims to make a bibliographic analysis of the techniques used in the welding area, the advantages that these new techniques can provide, and how some researchers are already using them. The chapter is organized according to some stages of the data mining process. 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SFX® link resolver gives patrons and librarians a wealth of features that optimize management of and access to resources. It provides patrons with a direct route to electronic full-text records through OpenURL linking, delivers alternative links for further resource discovery, access to journals, and more. Released in 2001 as the first OpenURL resolver, SFX is continuously enhanced to support the newest industry developments and meet the evolving needs of customers. The records include a mix of scholarly material – primarily articles and e-books – but also conference proceedings, newspaper articles, and more.
A non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 41,555 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalogue, lend and preserve library materials.
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers. CORE's mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks. It is a subscription-based service that offers users unlimited access to these texts for the duration of their subscription, however IntechOpen content integrated on the platform will always be available for free. They have been billed as “the Spotify for Textbooks” by the Evening Standard. Perlego is based in London but is available to users worldwide.
MyScienceWork provides a suite of data-driven solutions for research institutions, scientific publishers and private-sector R&D companies. MyScienceWork's comprehensive database includes more than 90 million scientific publications and 12 million patents.
CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) is a key national information construction project under the lead of Tsinghua University, and supported by PRC Ministry of Education, PRC Ministry of Science, Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and PRC General Administration of Press and Publication. CNKI has built a comprehensive China Integrated Knowledge Resources System, including journals, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, proceedings, newspapers, yearbooks, statistical yearbooks, ebooks, patents, standards and so on. CNKI keeps integrating new contents and developing new products in 2 aspects: full-text academic resources, software on digitization and knowledge management. Began with academic journals, CNKI has become the largest and mostly-used academic online library in China.
As one of the largest digital content platform in China,independently developed by CNPIEC, CNPeReading positions herself as “One Platform,Vast Content, Global Services”. Through their new cooperation model and service philosophy, CNPeReading provides integrated promotion and marketing solutionsfor upstream publishers, one-stop, triune, recommendation, online reading and management servicesfor downstream institutions & libraries.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. The ERIC website is available to the public for searching more than one million citations going back to 1966.
The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing: The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search sengines especially for academic web resources, e.g. journal articles, preprints, digital collections, images / videos or research data. BASE facilitates effective and targeted searches and retrieves high quality, academically relevant results. Other than search engines like Google or Bing BASE searches the deep web as well. The sources which are included in BASE are intellectually selected (by people from the BASE team) and reviewed. That's why data garbage and spam do not occur.
Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH) is the world’s most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. It is edited by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and FIZ Karlsruhe. zbMATH provides easy access to bibliographic data, reviews and abstracts from all areas of pure mathematics as well as applications, in particular to natural sciences, computer science, economics and engineering. It also covers history and philosophy of mathematics and university education. All entries are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme (MSC 2020) and are equipped with keywords in order to characterize their particular content.
IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 3,100,000 items of research, including over 2,900,000 that can be downloaded in full text. RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. IDEAS is just one of several services that use RePEc data.
As the authoritative source for chemical names, structures and CAS Registry Numbers®, the CAS substance collection, CAS REGISTRY®, serves as a universal standard for chemists worldwide. Covering advances in chemistry and related sciences over the last 150 years, the CAS content collection empowers researchers, business leaders, and information professionals around the world with immediate access to the reliable information they need to fuel innovation.
BKCI is a part of Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and the world’s leading citation index with multidisciplinary content from the top tier international and regional journals, conference proceedings, and books. The Book Citation Index includes over 104,500 editorially selected books, with 10,000 new books added each year. Containing more than 53.2 million cited references, coverage dates back from 2005 to present. The Book Citation Index is multidisciplinary, covering disciplines across the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
Produced by the Web Of Science group, BIOSIS Previews research database provides researchers with the most current sources of life sciences information, including journals, conferences, patents, books, review articles, and more. Researchers can also access multidisciplinary coverage via specialized indexing such as MeSH disease terms, CAS registry numbers, Sequence Databank Numbers and Major Concepts.
Produced by the Web Of Science group, Zoological Record is the world’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world’s leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1864, has long acted as the world’s unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.
Provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professsional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar sorts articles by weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the article has been cited in other scholarly literature, so that the most relevant results are returned on the first page.
Microsoft Academic is a project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies. The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes.
The national library of the United Kingdom includes 150 million manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. Online catalogues, information and exhibitions can be found on its website. The library operates the world's largest document delivery service, providing millions of items a year to national and international customers.
The digital NSK portal is the central gathering place for the digital collections of the National and University Library (NSK) in Croatia. It was established in 2016 to provide access to the Library’s digital and digitized material collections regardless of storage location. The digital NSK portal enables a unified search of digitized material from the NSK Special Collections - books, visual material, maps and music material. From the end of 2019, all thematic portals are available independently: Digital Books, Digitized Manuscripts, Digitized Visual Materials, Digital Music Materials and Digitized Cartographic Materials (established in 2017). Currently available only in Croatian.
The official DOI (digital object identifier) link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. Crossref operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher’s platform and link directly to the cited content on another publisher’s platform, subject to the target publisher’s access control practices. This citation-linking network covers millions of articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers.
Dimensions is a next-generation linked research information system that makes it easier to find and access the most relevant information, analyze the academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy. Dimensions delivers an array of search and discovery, analytical, and research management tools, all in a single platform. Developed in collaboration with over 100 leading research organizations around the world, it brings together over 128 million publications, grants, policy, data and metrics for the first time, enabling users to explore over 4 billion connections between them.
The primary aim of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books.
OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books. OAPEN operates two platforms, the OAPEN Library (www.oapen.org), a central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books, and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB, www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for OA books.
OpenAIRE aims at promoting and implementing the directives of the European Commission (EC) and the European Research Council on the promotion and funding of science and research. OpenAIRE supports the Open Access Mandate and the Open Research Data Pilot developed as part of the Horizon 2020 projects.
An integrated information service combining reference databases, subscription management, online journals, books and linking services. Widely used by libraries, schools, government institutions, medical institutions, corporations and others.
SFX® link resolver gives patrons and librarians a wealth of features that optimize management of and access to resources. It provides patrons with a direct route to electronic full-text records through OpenURL linking, delivers alternative links for further resource discovery, access to journals, and more. Released in 2001 as the first OpenURL resolver, SFX is continuously enhanced to support the newest industry developments and meet the evolving needs of customers. The records include a mix of scholarly material – primarily articles and e-books – but also conference proceedings, newspaper articles, and more.
A non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 41,555 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalogue, lend and preserve library materials.
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers. CORE's mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks. It is a subscription-based service that offers users unlimited access to these texts for the duration of their subscription, however IntechOpen content integrated on the platform will always be available for free. They have been billed as “the Spotify for Textbooks” by the Evening Standard. Perlego is based in London but is available to users worldwide.
MyScienceWork provides a suite of data-driven solutions for research institutions, scientific publishers and private-sector R&D companies. MyScienceWork's comprehensive database includes more than 90 million scientific publications and 12 million patents.
CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) is a key national information construction project under the lead of Tsinghua University, and supported by PRC Ministry of Education, PRC Ministry of Science, Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and PRC General Administration of Press and Publication. CNKI has built a comprehensive China Integrated Knowledge Resources System, including journals, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, proceedings, newspapers, yearbooks, statistical yearbooks, ebooks, patents, standards and so on. CNKI keeps integrating new contents and developing new products in 2 aspects: full-text academic resources, software on digitization and knowledge management. Began with academic journals, CNKI has become the largest and mostly-used academic online library in China.
As one of the largest digital content platform in China,independently developed by CNPIEC, CNPeReading positions herself as “One Platform,Vast Content, Global Services”. Through their new cooperation model and service philosophy, CNPeReading provides integrated promotion and marketing solutionsfor upstream publishers, one-stop, triune, recommendation, online reading and management servicesfor downstream institutions & libraries.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. The ERIC website is available to the public for searching more than one million citations going back to 1966.
The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing: The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search sengines especially for academic web resources, e.g. journal articles, preprints, digital collections, images / videos or research data. BASE facilitates effective and targeted searches and retrieves high quality, academically relevant results. Other than search engines like Google or Bing BASE searches the deep web as well. The sources which are included in BASE are intellectually selected (by people from the BASE team) and reviewed. That's why data garbage and spam do not occur.
Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH) is the world’s most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. It is edited by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and FIZ Karlsruhe. zbMATH provides easy access to bibliographic data, reviews and abstracts from all areas of pure mathematics as well as applications, in particular to natural sciences, computer science, economics and engineering. It also covers history and philosophy of mathematics and university education. All entries are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme (MSC 2020) and are equipped with keywords in order to characterize their particular content.
IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 3,100,000 items of research, including over 2,900,000 that can be downloaded in full text. RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. IDEAS is just one of several services that use RePEc data.
As the authoritative source for chemical names, structures and CAS Registry Numbers®, the CAS substance collection, CAS REGISTRY®, serves as a universal standard for chemists worldwide. Covering advances in chemistry and related sciences over the last 150 years, the CAS content collection empowers researchers, business leaders, and information professionals around the world with immediate access to the reliable information they need to fuel innovation.
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