Selected Resources for: Engineering (general aspects)
| Subject Librarian: Jody Kempf E-Mail: j-kemp@tc.umn.edu Subject Description:Use these resources to search and locate general information, reports and literature across multiple disciplines of Engineering. For more specific resources, use the Engineering subcategory pages: Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, or Mechanical |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesApplied Science and Technology Abstracts ![]() Indexes over 300 major English-language periodicals in a wide variety of technology subjects ranging from aeronautics, chemistry, and computers to physics, plastics, and transportation. Many recent citations include abstracts. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ |
Compendex and Engineering Index ![]() Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management. Indexes nearly 3000 sources worldwide. [more information] [ |
DiscoveryGate ![]() DiscoveryGate includes Beilstein (physical property and reaction data for more than 10 million organic compounds) and Gmelin (similar types of information for over 2.2 million inorganic and organometallic compounds); PC users will need to download a piece of software to use DiscoveryGate and all users may need to make an exception for blocked pop-up windows. The only browsers supported are Internet Explorer and Safari. [more information] [ |
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine ![]() Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology. [more information] [ |
HW Wilson Index Retrospective ![]() Indexes seven decades of articles on important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century. Covers more than 2,000 periodicals that include more than 4.5 million articles. An excellent resource for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more. [more information] [ |
Web of Science (ISI) ![]() Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ |
Catalogs & Indexes to Government Publications
| NASA Technical Reports Server Provides citation with abstracts mostly to technical reports relating to aerospace research. Covers NASA documents published since 1962, and NACA documents from 1915-1960. Many of the reports indexed can be found on microfiche in the Science and Engineering Library. [more information] [ |
NTIS National Technical Information Service ![]() NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related publications with over 2.0 million bibliographic records since 1964. Contents include research reports, computer products, software, video and audio. See the NTIS Website for an overview of subject coverage and document delivery services. [more information] [ |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier ![]() This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ |
LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) ![]() LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ |
Indexes, Other
INSPEC ® ![]() Provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly literature in the fields of physics and astrophysics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control, and information technology. Indexed are primarily journal articles and conference papers, with some books,technical reports, and dissertations. The database provides bibliographic citations plus abstracts. [more information] [ |
General Reference Sources
Handbooks and ManualsENGnetBASE ![]() ENGnetBASE is an online reference source providing access to over 600 handbooks published by CRC Press. The handbooks include a wide variety of titles on engineering specialties, including Civil Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, HVAC, Nanotechnology, and more. Users can either browse the table of contents of each individual handbook or use keyword searching to retrieve and display related full-text information. Full- text results are displayed in .pdf format. [more information] [ |
ENVIROnetBASE ![]() A collection of electronic books on various environmental science and environmental engineering topics. [more information] [ |
Knovel ![]() Knovel provides online access to reference books, databases, and conference proceedings from a number of publishers that cover all areas of engineering and includes content relevant to related sciences (e.g., chemistry and earth sciences). It includes interactive graphs and tables and is a good starting point when you need a piece of data quickly. [more information] [ |
Standards
ASTM Standards ![]() Produced by the American Society for Testing and Materials, this resource provides instant access to the current digital edition of the Annual Book of ASTM Standards. Please note that if you are looking for older or inactive standards, the Science & Engineering Library has the Annual Book of ASTM Standards in print from 1975 to 2006. [more information] [ |
| Standards Databases for Engineering Links to standards associations and databases relevant to engineering. [more information] [ |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography SoftwareRefWorks: Personal Citation Manager ![]() RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ |
Library Information
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