Selected Resources for: Engineering, Industrial/Operations Research


Subject Librarian: Jon Jeffryes
E-Mail: jeffryes@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers the application of engineering principles and techniques of scientific management to the maintenance of a high level of productivity at optimum cost in industrial enterprises. (Definition from Britannica Online.)


Abstracts and Indexes

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.

Search over 300 major English-language periodicals in subjects ranging from aeronautics, chemistry, and computers to physics, plastics, and transportation.

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Business Source Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.

Includes both scholarly journals and periodicals for practitioners. Locate full-text coverage to more than 2,800 journals in business, economics, political science and public administration.

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Health and Safety Science Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.

Provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Indexes articles on workplace safety and human factors.

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PsycINFO Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.

Covers all areas of psychology--including some Industrial and Systems Engineering topics.

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General Reference Sources

Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the concepts and methodologies that combine to form the fields of operations research and management science.

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General Reference Works
ENGnetBASE Authentication Required

An online reference source providing access to over 600 handbooks. Select "Operations Research" to be taken some relevant ISyE titles.

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Knovel Authentication Required

Provides online access to reference books, databases, and conference proceedings from a number of publishers. A good starting point when you need a piece of data quickly. It includes Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook.

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Handbooks and Manuals





Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

Electronic Journal Collections


Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.

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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