Online Resources for Engineering

Selected Online Resources for Engineering

Featured Sites

ASCE Hurricane info web site:
Hurricane Events Analysis, Response, and Mitigation
An ASCE Special Collection of Published Journal and Magazine Articles and Proceedings Papers, made freely available.
Topics covered:
Evacuation and Shelters; Levees; Models and Simulation; Prediction and Planning; Storm Gusts; Structural Performance and Damage assessment

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB):
CSB web site
From the web site: "The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents....The CSB conducts root cause investigations of chemical accidents at fixed industrial facilities." Topics covered: Current and completed investigation reports, investigation digests, safety publications, recommendations, and more.

Indexes and Abstracts:

(for earlier years, please inquire about printed indexes)

ASCE Civil Engineering Database -- Covers journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Journal papers with abstracts go back to 1970. Non-abstract journal records go back to 1958. Book records are complete back to the early 1900s. Does not include full text (see UNH Library Catalog for access to materials).
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

Other full-text sources:

IEEE journals from 1998 to the present, fully searchable on the IEEE Xplore platform. UNH only
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.
Safari Tech Books Online -- A searchable online library of full-text books on computing and information technology. UNH only
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

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

AICHe Career Management Center See especially the Student Focus section.
IEEE Standards Style Manual
IEEE Transactions, Journals, and Letters: Information for Authors
Digi-Key Corp.-- electronic components
Partminer's Free Trade Zone -- electronic components listed across producers; requires registration, but is free to use
ITU-T Recommendations --freely downloadable standards from the International Telecommunication Union
McMaster-Carr product catalog -- all kinds of parts and equipment
Mouser Electronics
Panduit -- electronic and network products
Building Materials by McGraw-Hill Sweets; all kinds of building products
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers -- free to use; the online equivalent of the big green books at the Library
Evaluating Web Sites for Quality (Courtesy of UNH Library Reference Dept.)
How Things Work Search Page -- related to the book "How Things Work" by Louis A. Bloomfield (UNH Library copies)

Library Presentations for Engineering

Outline: Biographical Information on Engineers

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 796/896 Library Session, Sept. 23, 2005
ECE 791/ME 755 Finding Published Information, October 16, 2006

ENE 645 Outline
Environmental Resources Group, November 2003 talk

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

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

Last updated February 11, 2008