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Mechanical & Environmental Engineering Library Research Guide

Books: Pegasus Catalog: Records of books and journal titles in the UCSB Libraries; MELVYL Catalog: Books available at all UC libraries; New Science & Engineering Books: Now available in Pegasus

E-Books: Advances in Polymer Science; Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology; Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; ENGnetBASE-CRC Handbooks Online (engineering); ITnetBASE-CRC Handbooks Online (information technology); InfoSECURITYnetBASE-CRC Handbooks Online (information security); Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; Lecture Notes in Physics; NetLibrary; MRS Proceedings (Materials Research Society); Safari Tech Books Online

Article Indexes and Databases

Business Source Premier: Text for more than 7,400 business journals and other sources, some dating back to 1922.

Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis): Full-text resources including finance and industry news.

Compendex: Engineering journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings. Web: 1884 - present. Print: 1884-1984 (SEL Abstracts Z5851 .E61)

Expanded Academic: Magazine & journal articles in all subject areas from 1984 forward.

IEEE Xplore: Full-text access to IEEE and IEE transactions, journals, magazines, standards, and proceedings.

INSPEC: Physics, electrical engineering, and computer science. Web: 1969 - present. Print: SEL Abstracts Area: 1898-1902 (Q1 .S32) 1903-1968 (T1.E425)

MathSciNet: Mathematics and related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, etc. 1940 - present

NTIS: Unclassified research reports from federal agencies; some coverage of state and foreign technical reports.1990-present. CD-ROM: 1983-1997

SPIE Digital Library: Optics and photonics. Full-text papers from SPIE journals & proceedings since 1998 Citations & abstracts for SPIE papers since 1990.

Web of Science: Selected, major research journals in science and engineering. Has an index to cited articles and those articles that cite them. 1945 - present

E-Journals licensed by the UCSB Libraries

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Subject list: Engineering

Subject list: Telecommunications Technology

Dissertations

Pegasus - Try a subject browse search with this subject heading: Dissertations, Academic--UCSB—Mechanical and environmental engineering
Digital Dissertations Access to dissertations from all UC campuses 1997 to the present. Also indexes dissertations 1861 to the present.

Handbooks and Manuals

Drafting symbol sourcebook SEL Ref T 353 .W837 1999

Engineering formulas interactive SEL Ref TA 332 .S55 1999

Handbook of chemical and environmental engineering calculations SEL Ref TP 168 .R49 2002

Handbook of energy engineering SEL Ref TJ 163.235 .T48 2001

Handbook of nanostructured materials and nanotechnology SEL Ref TA 418.9.N35 H36 2000

Mechanical engineer's handbook SEL Ref TJ 151 . M3954 2001

Machinery’s handbook SEL Ref TJ 151 .M3 2000

Marks' standard handbook for mechanical engineers SEL Ref TJ 151 .M37 1996

Standard handbook of biomedical engineering and design SEL Ref R 856.15 .S73 2003

Wiley engineer's desk reference SEL Ref TA 151 .H424 1998

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionary of engineering acronyms and abbreviations SEL Ref TA 11 .E73 1989

Dekker encyclopedia of nanoscience and nanotechnology SEL Ref QC 176.8 .N35 D43 2004

Encyclopedia of vibration SEL Ref TA 355 .E497 2002

Illustrated engineering dictionary SEL Ref TA 9 .F53 1999

International encyclopedia of heat & mass transfer SEL Ref TJ 260 .I579 1997

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology SEL Ref Q 121 .M3 2002

Intute: the Internet guide for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing: Science, engineering, and technology sources.

Writing and Presentation Sources

AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive http://www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases/

Chicago guide to communicating science SEL T 10.5 .M65 2003

Communication skills for engineers and scientists SEL TA 158.5 .C65 2002

Essential communication strategies for scientists, engineers… SEL T 10.5. H57 2003

MIT guide to science and engineering communication SEL Ref Q 223 .P33 2002 & via www.netlibrary.com

100 more research topic guides for students via www.netlibrary.com

Sources: Citation examples http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/contents.html

Writing and speaking in the technology professions SEL T11 .W75 2003

Writing power: communication in an engineering center SEL TA 158.5 .W56 2003

Internet Mega Sites

INFOMINE: Well-organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.

SciCentral: Offers links to sources of breaking science news, research highlights, and special reports.