Engineering & Technology Research Guide

General Information

This is a guide to selected sources of information about Engineering & Technology at FRL.

• Subject-specific materials and resources, such as books, articles, and research tools.
• Citation style guides for your subject.

Research Papers

• ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (ASTM Compass)

  ASTM Standards as well as the ASTM Digital Library which includes Manuals, Monographs, Data Series, Special Technical Publications and journals.

• Compendex (Engineering Village)

  Citations to articles in professional magazines, scholarly journals, and conference proceedings in engineering. 1884 - Present.

• Inspec (Engineering Village)

  Abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical literature. Provides coverage from over 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports in the subject areas of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, and production, mechanical engineering, and more.

• SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)

  Citations to, abstracts, and full text of scholarly research and technical literature in disciplines related to natural sciences and technology. Content covered includes scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

• Scopus (Elsevier)

  Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Databases

  Full text and image database of all patents granted by the Office back to 1790. Patents issued since 1976 may be searched by key word in the full text. Patents issued prior to 1976 may be searched by patent numbers or classification codes only.

• Guide to Computing Literature (ACM)

  A collection of more than 750,000 citations and abstracts from 3,000+ publishers, including works published by ACM and other publishers.

• IEEE Xplore (IEEE)

  Full-text access to IEEE journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings from approximately 125 of the most important IEEE conferences, and selected e-books.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (Clarivate)

  Cited references for dissertations included in the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Useful for locating unpublished and new research.

• ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

  A collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates.

• OpenDissertations (EBSCOhost)

  OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Provides citations and links to graduate research.

• Web of Science (Science Citation Index)

  Leading scholarly literature in the science disciplines.

• arXiv

  Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.

Reference Works

• Credo Reference

  Reference sources for all subjects, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, etc.

• ASM Handbooks

  Peer-reviewed information on metals and materials technology.

Review Articles

• Annual Reviews

  Literature reviews for many different disciplines including physical sciences, and social sciences.

Media Collections

• Films on Demand

  Streaming video collection of educational programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Content is provided by the BBC, the Canadian Broadcast Corp, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, and others.

Online Learning

• O'Reilly Online Learning

  Technology and business ebooks, case studies, videos, and learning paths.