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Finding Articles And Books

Do We Own It?

Library Catalog (LIBROS)
Journal One Search
eJournal Finder ( Gold Rush)

If We Do Not Own The Item

Interlibrary Loan

• Aerodynamics for Students -- an on-line textbook
• A Heat Transfer Textbook (3rd ed.) -- a Heat Transfer Textbook, 3rd edition. John H. Lienhard IV, Professor, University of Houston , John H. Lienhard V, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Copyright (c) 2000, John H. Lienhard IV and John H. Lienhard V. All rights reserved. Try it out!

• INSPEC
• SciSearch
• Compendex -- a part of EI Village.

These databases are useful, but are not targeted specifically at technological fields.


• FirstSearch
• Ingenta

• Engineering E-journal Search Engine (EESE) -- EESE searches the web pages of 100 e-journal sites which are available freely, do not require registration, and offer all or most of the journal content as full text.
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Publications and Databases -- publication information about AIAA journals.
• AIP Online Journal Publishing Services -- provides table of contents and abstracts of recent issues published by the American Institute of Physics.
• ASME Publications
• CAMES: Computer-Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Journals -- provides tables of contents and publishing information.
• Elsevier's Mechanical Engineering Publications
• Journal of Fluids Engineering -- has table of contents and some full text articles, some pictures and animation sequences.
• Journal of Mechanical Design -- information about the journal and a searchable index to contents.
• Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (JACM)
• Mechanical Engineering Magazine -- provides access to one recent article in full text, also to features, departments, and Weekly News, and the contents of the most recent month and some back issues.
• Mechanics of Composite Materials -- provides table of contents and publishing information.
• SCIENCE Magazine On-Line

• All About MEMS
• NIST MEMS Project
• MEMSweb (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• CSEL Standards Page
• ILI

• Wright Air Development Center (WADC) Digital Collection -- includes scanned government technical reports created by WADC throughout the 1950\'s and 1960\'s as part of the space race. An excellent resource for historians, as well as researchers in Aerospace and Materials Science.
• Department of Energy (DOE) Reports Bibliographic Database -- citations to all DOE reports from 1994+.
• DOE Standards -- access to DOE Standards; new standards added weekly.
• Galaxy(TM) Technical Report Collections
• Institute of Computer Applications in science and engineering (ICASE) -- offers searching and retrieval of technical reports, Interim Reports, and abstract lists from 1993+.
• NASA Technical Reports Server -- access to technical reports from 10 different NASA centers via a search engine.
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• Sandia National Laboratory - Formal SAND Reports
• University of Waterloo's Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies -- offers a search engine for easy location of reports.

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
• International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS)
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
• Society of Women Engineers

• The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight -- free, on-line encyclopedia.
• Solar Evolution, The History of Solar Energy
• John F. Brady Group
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• Calculator.org -- calculators and unit converters.
• On-line engineering calculators
• The Engineer's Edge -- design and engineering resources.
• Ants: A Community of Microrobots
• ASCE's CIVIL ENGINEERING DATABASE (CEDB) -- the database is linked to the ASCE bookstore so you can purchase the items found online.
• Bucknell Robotics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Resources Online
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) -- EEVL provides a searchable index to every word from the web pages of UK Engineering web sites.
• AVEL - Australasian Virtual Engineering Library
• Engineering Fundamentals -- eFunda: The Ultimate Online Reference for Engineers.
• Finding Thermodynamic Property Information -- a useful tool for finding sources of thermodynamic properties.
• MIT Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory