Selected Resources for: Engineering, Electrical


Subject Librarian: Janet Fransen
E-Mail: frans005@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: communications, computer systems, control systems, electric energy systems and power electronics, microelectronic devices and circuit design, optics, magnetics, VLSI circuits, and signal processing. Closely related are computer engineering and biomedical engineering.


Abstracts and Indexes

* Premier Resources *
INSPEC ® Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.

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Compendex and Engineering Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
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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.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources

Biographical Sources
Who's Who in Engineering
Provides brief factual biographical profiles of about 15,000 living engineers noted for their work in education, industry, and government. Approximately 10% of the entries are on non-U.S. individuals.
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Dictionaries
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
Contains definitions, synonyms, acronyms and abbreviations for over 105,000 scientific terms. Also provides some illustrations, and photographs.
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New IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics

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Directories
CorpTech
Corptech Directory of Technology Companies on CDROM lists 50,000 public and private high technology companies in the United States. Includes basic directory information, ownership, executives, revenue growth, year established, employees, product descriptions. Detailed indexes for products, industries, locations, business size, and other criteria allow for customized searches and lists.
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Scholarly Societies -- Electrical & Computer Engineering
A well-selected set of internet links to scholarly societies, associations, institutes, interest groups, and consortia in the field.
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Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Online
The world's largest online industrial product and service directory. Over 155,000 companies are represented using 57,000 product and service headings. Registration required (free).
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Authentication Required
Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848
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Wiley encyclopedia of electrical and electronics engineering
A comprehensive 24-volume compilation of more than 1400 articles on every aspect of electrical and electronics engineering.
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Internet Resources

Gateways & Megasites


Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

Electronic Journal Collections
IEEE Xplore Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Full-text access to the transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Includes all current IEEE Standards.
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
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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.).
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Style Manuals
Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions
Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries.
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Writing Guides
<i>How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper</i>
Concisely covers all aspects of science writing, from choosing a title to acknowledgments and references: submission strategies; other forms of science writing (book reviews, theses, presentations, posters); English language usage.
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Library Information

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