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Subject Guide for Mechanical Engineering

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The branch of engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, and utilization of heat and mechanical power and with the production of tools, machines, and their products. (Access Science)

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Abstracts and Indexes to Academic or Scholarly Articles, Statistics, and Government Information

Although many databases contain links to full-text articles, when you find book or article citations in the index databases, you need to search Chinook to see if the Libraries owns that book or periodical title.

CU Engineering Village 2--Compendex and INSPEC
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature. Contains references and abstracts to engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Subject areas include: chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications as well as civil and mechanical engineering. Includes links to full text when available.Coverage: 1884 - present.

INSPEC is a bibliographic database that indexes physics, astronomy and astrophysics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. The database contains full-text links when available. Coverage: 1898 - present.

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CU IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings and all current IEEE Standards. The site uses the IEEE Xplore search and navigation system. Subjects include electrical engineering and computer science. Coverage: 1988 - present.

 

CU American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Online Journals

Link to online editions of ASME Journals hosted on the AIP Scitation platform. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. Coverage varies.

CU SPIE Digital Library

Provides full text of articles published in the Proceedings of the SPIE and the society's journals from 1990 to the present.

 

 

SciFinder Scholar
Software is available for download here.

The front-end software is also available in the Engineering, Earth Sciences, Math/Physics and Science Libraries. SciFinder Scholar provides access to journal articles and patents, substance data, chemical reactions, chemical regulatory data , and chemical suppliers. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information. Coverage: 1907-present.

 

Scitopia

This federated vertical search portal was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies. It searches the entire electronic libraries of these societies, including more than three million documents, peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site. Though the search is freely available, access to many documents requries authentication. SAE records may be available in microfiche in the Library; contact us if you need an SAE paper. Coverage varies.

 

CU Web of Science
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 5,700 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 164 disciplines. The database allows you to search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography) the database is often used to search for articlesthat cite a known author or work. Coverage: 1900 - present.

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Although many databases contain links to full-text articles, when you find book article citations in the index databases, you need to search Chinook to see if University Libraries own that book or periodical title.

CU Applied Science and Technology Index
Indexes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1983 - present.

 

CU General Science Abstracts/Full Text
Abstracts popular and scholarly journals in the fields of Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, and Zoology. Coverage: May 1984 - present.

Dictionaries
These publications provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.

Dictionary Of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Library Reference TJ 9 N28 1996

 

CU Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations

Directories

Scholarly Societies--Mechanical Engineering

Encyclopedias
These publications provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.

CU Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science & Technology

Handbooks and Manuals

CU ChemNetBase--CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and other tools available online.

 

CU EngNetBase--over 400 CRC handbooks online.

 

Handbook of Mechanical Engineering Calculations
Engineering Library Reference TJ 151 H327 1998

CU Knovel Library --Combines essential and authoritative reference books and databases from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Covers 17 industrially important subject areas in the fields of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.

 

Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
Engineering Library Reference TJ151 .M37 10th 1996

Internet Links

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

 

InfoMine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Math

 

Science.gov

 

TechXtra: Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing

CU Refworks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

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