Selected Online Resources for Engineering

Featured Sites

Indexes and Abstracts:

• ASCE Library -- Search across American Society of Civil Engineers journals and conference proceedings. The Library includes ASCE Conference Proceedings beginning in 1996, and all 33 ASCE Journal and Periodical volumes published since 1983.
• Applied Mechanics Reviews Online -- produced by ASME, indexes mechanical engineering journal articles from 1989 to present. UNH only
• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts -- indexes articles from over 550 trade and professional society journals, in applied science and technology, from 1983 to present. UNH only
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases. UNH only. Includes:
       
  • Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
  • Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (click to search subfiles)
  • GeoRef (geoscience)
  • Oceanic Abstracts
  • Water Resources Abstracts
• DOE Information Bridge-- a resource for full-text and bibliographic records of U. S.Department of Energy (DOE) research reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and more. Links to EnergyFiles, the Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology.
• Ei Compendex -- indexes articles from over 2,600 sources, including journals, conferences, and reports, offering comprehensive coverage of engineering literature from 1970 on. Includes abstracts for 50% of entries. UNH only
• INSPEC -- produced by the IEE, this major resource covers the international research literature of physics and astronomy, electrical and electronic engineering, computing and control, and information technology. It includes abstracts for journal and proceedings articles, as well as selected reports and books, back to 1969. UNH only.
• SciFinder Scholar -- online searching of Chemical Abstracts, 1907-present. Requires PC or Mac client software --click on the title to access the download page. This is for UNH faculty, staff, and students with noncommercial purposes only, please.
• TRIS Transportation Research Information Services -- includes nearly 500,000 references to books, technical reports, conference and journal articles, and current projects on transportation research.
• Web of Science The Web of Science, produced by ISI, includes citation searching and general reference searching of the world's most cited research journals, from 1977-present. The Science section is also known as Science Citation Index or SciSearch. UNH only.

Encyclopedias:

• AccessScience, the online encyclopedia of science and technology. UNH only
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, the major general academic encyclopedia. UNH only

More full-text and data sources:

• ACM Digital Library, the complete, searchable collection of journals, conference proceedings and newsletters published by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). The journals and proceedings are available in full-text, most back to the first volume of each title.
• DOE Data Explorer (DDE)-a unique tool that identifies collections of Department of Energy-sponsored numeric files, figures and data plots, multimedia and images,computer simulations, specialized databases, and interactive data maps. Links to customized interfaces developed by data owners and to software toolkits that allow you to manipulate, compare, visualize, download, and re-use the data. Data is hosted at national laboratories, data centers, scientific user facilities, colleges and universities involved in DOE projects.
• IEEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards, fully searchable on the IEEE Xplore platform. UNH only
• NEPIS - National Environmental Publications Internet site, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website for online fulltext or hardcopy documents. These range from brochures to technical reports. Choose from simple, advanced, or field search. If you are only interested in online fulltext, be sure to choose that or un-check the "Hardcopy Publications" box. Ask a librarian if you would like assistance with searching.
• Safari Tech Books Online -- A searchable online library of full-text books on computing and information technology. UNH only
• Science.gov, a broad gateway for finding public, scientific U.S. government websites and documents contributed by 14 federal agencies.
• SPIE Digital Library -- the full-text conference proceedings published by SPIE, the Society of Photo-optical and Instrumentation Engineers; includes a full search interface. UNH only
• TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a growing digital archive with a goal of providing persistent, unrestricted access to early U.S. federal technical reports (most prior to 1982). This is an academic collaboration that is not crosslinked to the federal government search engines. As of Spring 2009, this holds 1000+ reports in fulltext and is an excellent source for National Bureau of Standards Monographs.

Lists of Links

• Major Sites
• BUBL Link Catalogue of selected Internet resources: engineering and allied operations
• Construction Weblinks-- from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP. Loaded with links to current info.
• U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Professional Library Services -- includes the well-known Cold Regions Bibliography
• EEVL: Edinburg Engineering Virtual Library
• Engineering E-Library, Sweden (EELS)
• Patent websites; list prepared by the NIST Library (National Institute of Standards & Technology, U. S.). Has links to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (requires TIFF viewer for page images) as well as the World Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Office, and patent offices of Canada, Europe, U.K., and Japan. Most of these sites are freely accessible.
• WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology
• WWW Virtual Library: Engineering
• Yahoo: Engineering


• Selected Sites
Chemical Engineering

• AICHe Career Management Center See especially the Student Focus section.


Civil Engineering:

• Construction Leads from McGraw-Hill Dodge Construction - UNH does NOT have a subscription; this is for awareness only
• Building Materials by McGraw-Hill Sweets; all kinds of building products


Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering:

• IEEE Style Manual for authors publishing in Transactions, Journals, and Letters (see pp.5-18 for citation styles)
• IEEE Standards Style Manual--for authors of standards
• Digi-Key Corp.-- electronic components
• Partminer's Free Trade Zone -- electronic components listed across producers; requires registration, but is free to use
• Mouser Electronics
• Panduit -- electronic and network products (not available directly)
• ITU-T Recommendations --freely downloadable standards from the International Telecommunication Union


Mechanical Engineering

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers website
• McMaster-Carr product catalog -- all kinds of parts and equipment
• ThomasNet, online version of Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. The Engr/Math Library also a 2005 print edition in the Reference section (T12 .T6 2005)


All Engineering Areas:


• American Society for Engineering Education
• Engineering Ethics site from National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
• Ethics -Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research
• Evaluating Web Sites for Quality
• How Things Work Search Page -- related to the book "How Things Work" by Louis A. Bloomfield (UNH Library copies)

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Library Presentations for Engineering

• Outline: Biographical Information on Engineers



• CHE Farag Research Group (June 2010) Resource Access Practice sheet
• CHE 701/801 (Spring 2008) Using the UNH Library for Polymer Engineering



• CIE 796/896 (Spring 2004) 1/27/04, Lit Search Outline



• ECE 401 (Fall 2007) Lab 1 Session Outline
• ECE 690 Session A Outline
• ECE 690 Session B Outline
• ECE 694 Finding Electrical Engineering Information, April 2010
• ECE 796/896 Library Session, Sept. 23, 2005
  
  
• ECE 791/ME 755 Finding Published Information, October 16, 2006



• ENE 400 (Fall 2010) Outline and detailed steps
• ENE 756 Outline for February 2011 session
• ENE Literature Search handout
• Environmental Resources Group, November 2003 talk



• Library Research for Rich Messner's summer group
• Research Methods, Upper Level (Summer 2006)







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Please send comments to Emily Poworoznek (el @ cisunix. unh .edu),
UNH Engineering & Physical Sciences Librarian, UNH

Last updated February 2011



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