| Introduction | Finding Patents |
| Finding Books | Finding Engineering Standards |
| Finding Articles | Finding Technical Reports |
| Finding Electronic Books |
| This guide is intended to provide a general introduction to the key information resources which are useful for all engineers. Please see the research guide for your specialty to find subject-specific resources and useful keywords related to your field. | ||
| Finding Full-Text from Citations You found an interesting citation, but where’s the article? This guide will help you navigate to the full-text online. |
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| Building a Bibliography RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool. It can help you organize citations for the books, journal articles, web sites, etc. that you find while doing research. Best of all, it can generate a properly formatted bibliography for your papers. This site guides you through the process of setting up a RefWorks account and getting started with this great tool. Highly recommended. |
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| Searching the catalog for books on engineering: | ||
| Try a keyword search: | architectural engineering chemical properties |
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| Try a subject search: | Nanotechnology Distillation |
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| Include the type of book you are looking for: | electrical engineering AND encyclopedia construction AND standards |
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| Use truncation for more results: | chemi* retrieves… chemistry, chemist, chemical, chemically, etc. |
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| Or, browse ebook collections: | ENGnetBASE: CRC Engineering Handbooks Online Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References Ebrary: an extensive ebook collection covering all subjects |
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Engineering Village — ELECTRONIC The combined Compendex®, Ei Backfile & Inspec® databases allow for searching on a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. It also covers engineering websites, CRC Handbooks, patents, and industry standards. |
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| IEEE Xplore — ELECTRONIC Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. |
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Proquest Research Library — ELECTRONIC Provides searching platform for a number of periodical databases covering Business, Science, Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences. While Proquest is not an engineering-specific database, its extensive holdings and convenient interface make it a very useful tool for engineering research. |
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| Science Direct — ELECTRONIC ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas. Check out the Engineering subject area from their homepage. |
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| Web of Science — ELECTRONIC The Library’s premier journal article database, covering more than 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. It is unique in that it provides searching by locating articles that cite other articles or authors. The full list of engineering-related databases subscribed to by Drexel University Libraries… |
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ENGnetBASE — ELECTRONIC Full-text of over 75 engineering handbooks online. |
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Knovel — ELECTRONIC Online engineering reference with interactive graphs and equations, tables, and other useful information. |
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| Referex Engineering — ELECTRONIC A collection of over 300 engineering eBooks in 3 distinct collections, including Chemical, Petrochemical & Process. |
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| The full list of engineering-related databases subscribed to by Drexel University Libraries… | ||
| United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) — WWW The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present. |
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| Fresh Patents — WWW Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny. |
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Google Patent — WWW Google’s excellent patent search interface. |
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| pat2pdf.org – WWW Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent. This is generally easier than using the USPTO patent viewer plug-in. |
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For more extensive listings of resources, please see our Patents guide. | |
| ILI Standards Infobase — ELECTRONIC The ILI standards database covers over 600,000 worldwide standards. Coverage extends across the industrialized world. List of Standards covered in ILI Standards Infobase Please contact Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian, for access to the standards available in ILI Standards Infobase. Phone Numer: 215-895-1873. |
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| Techstreet Techstreet offers individual, text-searchable standards from around the world. Downloadable PDF formated versions of the standards are available for purchase. |
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For more extensive listings of resources, please see our Standards guide. | |
Finding Technical Reports
| NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. NTRS includes access to the full-text of recent reports. |
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Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) The US Department of Energy’s OSTI service allows searching across vast collections of technical reports, conference proceedings, and other “gray literature”. |
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| Virtual Technical Reports Center - University of Maryland Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds. |
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