• You can access some journals through the university library site at

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/index-ej.htm
You may find the following site is very useful (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/----->database----->Subject List --> Engineering, Science, Library ).
• Web of Science (includes SCI & SSCI) [citation and cross reference]
• ScienceDirect Online [full paper in PDF format]
• For both journal and conference papers

(Engineering Index)     http://ovid.ntu.edu.sg/ovidweb/ovidweb.cgi
• MEMS reference list

http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/optical/MEMSRef.html

This search engine is just great

http://www.alltheweb.com/

• http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
• http://www.surfip.gov.sg/
• http://www.uspto.gov/
• http://www.patents.ibm.com/

• Introduction of Shape Memory Alloy
http://www.sma-inc.com/
• To Join Shape Memory Alloy E-mail List
http://www.sma-inc.com/smalist.html
• SMAlist

(researcher, companies, suppliers, references, list of applications etc)
http://www.gorbet.com/rbgorbet/smalist
• Shape Memory Alloy Database (list of suppliers)
http://www.cimss.vt.edu/shape_memory_database.html
• The International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies
http://www.smst.org

• Shape Memory Alloys, edited by Hiroyasu Funakubo; translated from the Japanese by J.B. Kennedy. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1987. (TN690.S529)

• Shape memory materials / edited by K. Otsuka and C.M. Wayman. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (TA487.S529)

• Engineering aspects of shape memory alloys / [edited by] T.W. Duerig ... [et al.]. London; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990. (TN690.E57)

• The Application of Shape Memory Alloys in Medicine, Lipscomb, I. P. and Nokes, L. D. M., Antony Rowe Ltd., 1996. (TN690 L767)

• Shape-Memory Matrerials and Phenomena-Fundamental Aspects and Applications/ [edited by] Liu, C.T., Kunsmann, H. K., Otsuka, K. and Wuttig, M., MRS Symposium Proceedings Vol. 246, Materials Resercah Society, 1992. (TN689.2 S529 1991)

Conference

• ACRS (Applied Computational Research Society)
http://www.cr.org/events.html
• AIAA
http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/index2.cfm?cal=1&CFID=738830&CFTOKEN=29169138
• ASCE
http://www.asce.org/conferences/index.cfm
• Asian Conferences on Science and Technology
http://www.atip.org/SSI/conflist.html
• ASME
http://www.asme.org/events/
• Biomat.net
http://www.biomat.net/main.asp?group=1_4
• Biomedical
http://132.66.50.62/Conferences/CONF.html#02_6
• ESA
http://www.estec.esa.nl/conferences/
• IEEE conference
http://www.ieee.org/conferences/finding.html
• International Association of Science and Technology for Development
http://www.iasted.com/
• IUTAM
http://www.iutam.net/iutam/Events/
• MRS(Materials Research Society)
http://www.mrs.org/meetings/
http://www.mrs.org/cgi-bin/meetingsearch.pl?ShowAfterToday=1
• Metalfoam
http://www.metalfoam.net/events.html
• Sensor
http://www.sensorsmag.com/events/events2002_2004.shtml
• SEM(Society for Experimental Mechanics)
http://www.sem.org/conferen.htm
• The International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies
http://www.smst.org/conferences.html
• SPIE
http://spie.org/app/conferences/index.cfm
• Laser, optics and photonics events, conferences and exhibitions
http://optics.org/events
• Allconferences.net
http://www.allconferences.net/
• Calendar of upcoming technical conference
http://www.techexpo.com/events
• Meeting/conference announcement list
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/meetings.html
• CSTAM (The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
http://www.cstam.org.cn/

•  Crystallography
http://www.tu.iucr.org/cww-top/mtg/place.html
• Liquid Crystal Database
http://www.lci-publisher.com/
• MEMS Research in Japan (1998)
http://www.arofe.army.mil/Reports/webelec/mems3z.htm
• International Union of Crystallography
http://iucr.sdsc.edu/iucr-top/
• The Crystallographic Texture
http://www.labosoft.com.pl/
• Robotics Stuff
http://www.imagesco.com/
• Plastic and rubber
http://www.rapra.net/