Finding Articles

For instructions on finding articles, check out the How to... guide.

ABI Inform - Local and regional coverage of private and small public companies, industry and business news.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

ACM Portal - (ACM Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature) - provides current access to the ACM journals, magazines, proceedings and newsletters. This page allows searches of all ACM materials, including technology applications (see the "Magazines" browse and search) as well as scholarly/advanced materials.

Applied Science Full Text -  includes trade and industrial publications, journals of professional and learned societies, and specialized subject periodicals.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - covers management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Open access journals in engineering and technology, including electrical and nuclear engineering; environmental engineering; civil engineering; mechanical engineering; general technology.

GREENR - focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues.

General Science Abstracts (Wilson) - Subjects covered include:  Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Physics.

IEEE Xplore Portal  - IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library - The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides online access to 22 society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings.

IET Journals page - The IET Research Journals (formerly IEE Proceedings) contain both original and review papers relating to all disciplines in electrical, electronics, computing, control, biomedical and communications technologies.

LexisNexis Academic - provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. 

Pollution Abstracts (CSA) - combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource.  Topics of growing concern are extensively from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects of people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. 

RDS Business Reference Suite - highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information.

Finding Books & Media

Engineering & Technology books are generally found on the fourth floor from call numbers T-TS.

Online Catalogs

IUCAT - Indiana University's online catalog.

Purdue Catalog -Purdue University's online catalog. 

E-Books

ENGnetBASE - provides all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

NetLibrary - provides access to your library's eBook collection. When you enter the site from an affiliated library, you will see the name of your library in the box on the right side of the screen. Once you have accessed your library's affiliated site, you are able to search and view the full text of all the eBooks in your library's eBook collection.

Books24x7 - contains hundreds of "best-of-breed" books from the world's top publishers such as MIT Press, Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. New books are constantly added.

ebrary - contains over 20,000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas, sheet music titles and reports.

Springer E-Books - provides acess to over 12,000 titles in the subject areas of science, technolody, mathematics, medicine, and nursing.  NOTE: If book is available to IUPUI users, the box to the right of the title will be in green.

E-Book "Meta" Search -- to simultaneously search University Library's ebook collections. Enter IUCAT. From the home search page, under More IUCAT Searches, select "E-book Search (Beta)".

Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses - Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline.

Reference Materials

Columbia Encyclopedia (Online)

Encyclopaedia Brittanica (Online)

Encyclopedia of Energy - Call number to find in library is TJ163.E53 2004 v. 1-6 (Reference, 2nd Floor)

Encyclopedia of the Global Economy:  A Guide for Students and Researchers - Call number to find in library is HF1359.O28 2006 v.1-2 (Reference, 2nd Floor)

ENGnetBASE - provides all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy (Online)

Gale Virtual Reference Library - a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Oxford Reference Online - consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) - Searches over 275 reference works from some 57 publishers.

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students - offers models, exercises, and advice for many documents encountered in the engineering and science professions. 

Organizations & Associations

ACEC - The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is the voice of America's engineering industry.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) - AIAA's mission is to advance the state of aerospace science, engineering, and technological leadership.

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - the ASCE represents more than 146,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide and is America's oldest national engineering society.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - provides information on programs and activities in mechanical engineering, along with information on conferences and expositions. 

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology.

IEEE - the homepage for Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro- and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of the profession and humanity.

Institute of Industrial Engineers - an international, nonprofit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial engineering.

NAE: National Academy of Engineering - promotes the technological welfare of the nation by marshaling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession.

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) - a nonprofit association dedicated to the academic and professional success of African-American engineering and technical students and professionals.

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) - a useful resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) - aims for advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of manufacturing.

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - a nonprofit educational and service organize that empowers women to succeed and advance in the field of engineering, and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions as engineers and leaders.

Tau Beta Pi - the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession.

Web Resources

Energy Information Administration - the organization collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

Energy Citations Database - provides free access to over 2.6 million science research citations with continued growth through regular updates. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy.

How Things Work. Bloomfield, L. (1998). How Things Work [electronic source]. University of Virginia. 
Available via http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/

Intute Engineering - a collection of engineering websites compiled by experts from British universities.

SciCentral -  aggregates breaking engineering research news from reputable and reliable online sources.

Science.gov -  searches over 40 databases and over 2000 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Tech Xtra -   a collection of articles, books, websites, industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, theses & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. 

Women in Engineering Proactive Network - useful for research, best practices, and professional communities dedicated to the advancement of women in engineering but there is also much information regarding women in science, technology and math.

Open Access Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Open access journals in engineering and technology, including electrical and nuclear engineering; environmental engineering; civil engineering; mechanical engineering; general technology.

DSpace - MIT's digital research materials including conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers, and more.

IEEE Global History Network - fosters the creation of narratives that not only document the history of engineering practice but also explain when, how and why these myriad of technologies developed as they did.

Patent Lens - a worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.  It serves as the cyberinfrastructure platform for the Initiative for Open Innovation (IOI).

Scientific Commons - communication medium for scientific knowledge products that are freely accessible to the public.