EGN 1002

FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING LIBRARY RESOURCE PAGE

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  (and other fields).

EZ PROXY:   how we access material from off campus

Need help? : 1.   Visit the reference desk at the library.
                       2.   Contact us through  chat and 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 |
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.

Central Search 
  Contents/Info:  This is  our powerful new search engine that lets you search the catalog and research databases together.      

CSA Engineering Research Database | 1966-present |
Contents/Info: The CSA Engineering Research Database covers the international serial and non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics/computation. Content includes basic and applied research, design, construction, technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production and developments in new technologies.

Elsevier Science Direct  | Full Text |
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 |
Contents/Info: IEEE/IEE Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Standards from 1988 to the present.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition  | Some Full Text |
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

ELECTRONIC BOOKS

ELECTRONIC  JOURNALS

GOOGLE GOVERNMENT SEARCH

HANDBOOKS

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

 PATENTS

STYLE GUIDES

STYLE GUIDE: IEEE VERSION FOR ENGINEERING WRITING

SUBMARINE RACES

WRITING

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

                                                                                                              GLP 9/06