 Hello, I am Megan Somio, Engineering Librarian for Ohio University Libraries. Compendex provides citation information for the engineering literature, including journal articles and conference papers, though Compendex covers many engineering disciplines, its strengths are electrical, civil, chemical, mechanical, and mining. Access Compendex from a green tab search box on the My Library tab in Blackboard or on the OU Libraries homepage by clicking Databases. Enter the name of the database or click Browse by Subject. If you Browse by Subject, click Engineering. Within the alphabetical list, find Compendex and click Compendex. Once you are in the database, enter your search terms. These can be keywords, author, title, et cetera. Let's search for hearing aids and digital signal processing. Do not worry about making the perfect search as there are many ways to modify a search so you can obtain a reasonable set of relevant results. Once you are satisfied with your results, use Find It to look for the full text of journal articles. There may be more than one source for full text. If you cannot find the article online, use Interlibrary Loan, Iliad, to make a request. Conference papers can be trickier. More often than not, Find It does not work. It indicates we do not have full text access to papers from the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. However, if you search IEEE Explorer for the article title, we do indeed have full text access. This will work for some, but not all, IEEE proceedings. For conferences from other organizations, you may need to search for keywords from the conference title in Alice's catalog to determine if we have electronic or print access. Again, if you cannot find the full text of a conference paper online, make an Interlibrary Loan, Iliad request. Please do not hesitate to ask if you need assistance finding information or obtaining articles. I am happy to help.