EGN  1002

FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING LIBRARY RESOURCES

Dr. Briggs

LIBRARIAN: Gary L. Parsons

The selected sources listed below are useful for finding articles and information about companies, industries and organizational behavior issues.

 

Goals: At the conclusion of this session you will be able to:  1.  Navigate selected databases and retrieve chosen records.  2.  Understand our new catalog - Aleph.  3.  Acquire a basic understanding of  of library sources in engineering.

EZ PROXY:   how to access material from off campus

Need help? :   1.   Visit the reference desk at the library.
                       2.   Contact the Reference Department through chat and email via
                             ASK-A-LIBRARIAN
                       3.   Phone. 561-297-3785.

 

Search Tip! - You've heard it before, but it's worth repeating - BEGIN YOUR RESEARCH EARLY! * Remember this about Electronic Resources * NOT EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE ONLINE OR FULL-TEXT!

 

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journals | Full Text
Contents/Info: Provides access to civil engineering journals.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text  | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
Contents/Info: Indexes the latest findings in every area of science, engineering, and technology covering trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993.  Full Text coverage begins in 1997.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
Contents/Info: Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.

Elsevier Science Direct  | Full Text | Vendor: Elsevier 
Contents/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines (Group-wide login is no longer necessary to access this database).

IEEE Xplore:IEEE/IEL Electronic Library   | 1988-present | Full Text | Vendor: IEEE
Contents/Info: IEEE/IEE Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Standards from 1988 to the present.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
Contents/Info:  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

ALL ENGINEERING

CAREER HINTS

GOOGLE GOVERNMENT SEARCH

HANDBOOKS

 PATENTS

SUBMARINE RACES

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the “Electronic Databases” listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of the information?
2. How accurate is the information?
3. How reliable is the information?
4. How current is the information?
5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

 

Contact:      Gary Parsons
                    Reference and Engineering Librarian
                    parsons@fau.edu
                    297-0081

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