This guide was designed to help identify resources on Ocean Engineering and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail lyref@fau.edu.


 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Academic Search Premier designed specifically for academic institutions is the world's largest scholarly multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4700 publications including more than 3600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences engineering physics chemistry language and linguistics arts & literature medical sciences ethnic studies and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

 
ACM Digital Library
Access to the full text from the 19 ACM journals only

ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13000 journals in science technology medicine social science business the humanities and popular culture. Each record describes one article news story letter or other item.

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (CSA)
Comprehensive database that covers all aspects of the aquatic sciences including oceanography. Covers 1971-current.

ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy and Non-Living Resources (CSA)
Citations cover many aspects of oceanography including limnology and coastal structures.
Covers 1978-current.

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)

ASME (American Society for Mechanical Engineers)

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Provides gateway to a broad range of scientific disciplines including aquatic science medical and biological science environmental science computer and engineering specialties and material science. Coverage varies by database.

Community of Science Funding Opportunities
Sampling of new and updated engineering award information from COS Funding Opportunities. COS Funding Opportunities is the largest source of funding information on the Web and contains more than 15500 awards from around the world including more than 2916 awards in the field of engineering.

Compendex
Covers significant engineering and technical literature from journals technical reports engineering society publications books and conference proceedings and papers.

Elsevier Science Direct
Source for scientific technical engineering and medical research offering more than 1100 journals across 16 science disciplines.  

ENGNetBASE
Provides full text of almost 700 CRC handbooks on various aspects of engineering. 

Environmental Engineering Abstracts (CSA)
Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality environmental safety and energy production
1990-current.

Expanded Academic ASAP Plus
Includes scholarly journals news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities social sciences and science and technology disciplines. 

FAU Libraries Engineering & Technology Electronic Journals
Provides links to full-text articles of FAU’s electronic subscription list. Coverage is varied. 

History of Science Technology and Medicine (Eureka)
Contains records describing journal articles conference proceedings books book reviews and dissertations in the history of science technology medicine and allied historical fields. Citations reflect the contents of more than 1000 journals and partial contents of several hundred more.

IEEE Xplore/IEL Online
 Full text (1988- present) IEEE/IEE Journals Conference Proceedings and Standards.

INSPEC (FCLA)
The largest English language file of bibliographic information and abstracts on the world's output of published works in physics engineering electronics computing and information technology. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings. Includes some books reports and dissertations. Contains link to back file 1970-1999.

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Proceedings

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18300 sources including access to company profiles and financial reports government transcripts trade journals and academic and legal databases.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical
Provides detailed abstracts indexing and locator information for all statistical reports of general research value issued by the federal government since the early 1960's. Includes direct links to all key statistical data available on federal agency World Wide Web sites as well as direct-links to hundreds of reports stored within the Universe service itself.

MathSci Net
Comprehensive database of the world's literature on mathematics and its applications in a wide range of disciplines including statistics computer science operations research econometrics engineering physics biology and many other related areas. Coverage is from 1940.

Oceanic Abstracts (CSA)
Focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. Covers journals which have long been recognized as a leading sources of information on topics relating to oceans
1981-current.

PapersFirst (FirstSearch)
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide covering every congress symposium exposition workshop and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast Proceedings collection since October 1993.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

Science Citation Index Expanded/Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences. SCI indexes 5300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

Water Resources Abstracts (CSA)
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics conservation control pollution treatment use and management of water resources.
Covers 1967-current

WilsonSelectPlus
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: Education Full Text General Science Full Text Humanities Full Text Readers' Guide Full Text Social Sciences Full Text and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text Art Full Text Biological & Agricultural Index Index to Legal Periodicals & Books and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing abstracting and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

 

HANDBOOKS AND MANUALS

REF TC1645 .H35
1969
Myers John J. Handbook of Ocean and Underwater Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill 1969.
REF TC1650 .H36
1983
Barrett R. W. Handbook of Underwater Tools. Houston: Gulf Publishing 1983.
REF GC24 .C17
1976
CRC Handbook of Marine Science. Cleveland: CRC Press 1976.
REF TA151 .E8
1990
Eshbach Ovid W. Eshbach's Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals. New York: Wiley 1990.
REF QA40 H357
1997
Research and Education Association. Handbook of Mathematical Scientific and Engineering Formulas Tables Functions Graphs Transforms. Piscataway: The Association 1997.
REF TA151 .M34
1990
Ganic Ejup N. and Tyler G. Hicks. The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Essential Engineering Information and Data. New York: McGraw-Hill 1990.
REF TA151 .E424
1996
The Engineering Handbook. Boca Raton: CRC Press 1996.


INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

Z6004. P6
O25
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Oceanic Abstracts. BethesdaMD: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 1984-1998.
Z6004. P6
O25
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Oceanic Abstracts with Indexes. Bethesda MD: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 1972-1983.
REF Z5851 .E62 American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Engineering Index. New York: Engineering Index Inc. 1950-1992.
REF Z7913. I7 H.W. Wilson Company. Applied Science and Technology Index. New York: H.W. Wilson 1958-1994.
Z6004.P6
O25
Engineers Joint Council. Engineers Of Distinction. New York: Engineers Joint Council 1970.
Z6004.P6
O25
Engineers Joint Council. Who's Who in Engineering. New York: Engineers Joint Council 1980.


 

INFORMATION RESOURCES

Z6004 .P6 C24
1970
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Catalogs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library: Subject Catalog. Boston MA: GK Hall 1970.
Z6004 .P6 C23
1970
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Catalogs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library: Author-Title Catalog. Boston MA: GK Hall 1970.
REF Z695.1 .E5 E49
1983
Engineering Information Inc. SHE Subject Headings for Engineering. New York: Engineering Information 1983.
REF Z695.1 .S3 T52
1988
Science Information Resource Center. Thesaurus of Scientific Technical and Engineering Terms. Philadelphia: Science Information Resource Center 1988.


 

SELECTED PERIODICALS

GC1 .U33 Underwater Information Bulletin.
GC57 .A65 Applied Ocean Research.
TC203 .C57
Print/Microfiche
Coastal Engineering
TC1501 .I13 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
GC1 .J63 Journal of Ocean Technology.
TC1 .A4 American Society of Civil Engineers. Journal of the Waterways Harbors and Coastal Engineering Division.
GC1 .M39 Marine Geotechnology.
V210 .A1 U5 Sea Technology.

 

DICTIONARIES

REF T10 .E747
1985
Ernst Richard. Comprehensive Dictionary of Engineering and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1985.
REF Q123 .E46
1987
Emiliani Cesare. Dictionary of the Physical Sciences: Terms Formulas Data. New York: Oxford University Press 1987.
REF Q123 .E497
1987
Meyers Robert A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology. Orlando: Academic Press 1987.
REF TA9 .M35
1984
Parker Sybil P. (ed.). McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill 1984.
REF Q121 .V3
1995
Considine D. M. (ed.). Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1995.
REF QA76.15 .D5258
2001
Dictionary of Computer Science Engineering and Technology. Boca Raton: CRC Press 2001


 

GUIDES TO THE LITERATURE

REF T10.7 .M68
1976
Mount Ellis. Guide to Basic Information Sources in Engineering. New York: Halsted Press 1976.
REF T10.5 .I49
1996
Mildren K.W. & P.J. Hicks (eds.). Information Sources in Engineering. London: Bowker-Saur 1996.
REF Z7401 .M278
1994
Malinowsky H. Robert. Reference Sources in Science Engineering Medicine and Agriculture. Phoenix: Oryx 1994.
REF Z7401 .M28
1980
Malinowsky H. Robert. Science and Engineering Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources. Littleton: Libraries Unlimited 1980.
REF Z7401 .C48
1987
Chen Ching-Chih. Scientific and Technical Information Sources. Cambridge: MIT Press 1987.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF G855 .E53
2002
Stonehouse B. Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley 2002.
REF GC9.E38
2000
Ellis Richard. Encyclopedia of the Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2000.
REF Q121 .V65
1999
Volti Rudi. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science Technology and Society. New York: Facts on File 1999.
REF Q121 .I48
1999
Luck Steve. The International Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. New York: Oxford University Press 1999.
REF Q121 .M29
1998
Parker Sybil P. McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw Hill 1998.
REF Q121 .M3
1992
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science & Technology: An International Reference Work in Twenty Volumes Including Index. New York: McGraw-Hill 1992.
REF Q121 .M3
1997
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill 1992.
REF Q121 .S34
2000
Science & Technology Encyclopedia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000.


 
 
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