Finding Articles

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ABI Inform - Local and regional coverage of private and small public companies, industry and business news.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.  (Undergraduate)

Applied Science Full Text - covers the applied sciences and engineering, including various aspects of mechanical engineering; electrical engineering and other related engineering fields.

ASCE Library - access to full-text papersfrom ASCE Journals and Proceedings, includes all disciplines of civil engineering. 

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Open access journals in engineering and technology, including electrical and nuclear engineering; environmental engineering; civil engineering; mechanical engineering; general technology.

Ei Compendex - Mechanical, civil, environmental, electrical, structural, and process engineering, materials science, solid state physics, superconductivity, bioengineering, energy, chemical, optics, air and water pollution, solid waste management, hazardous waste road transportation, and transportation safety.  (Graduate)

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) - Doctoral dissertations and master´s theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. 

GreenFILE (EBSCO) - draws on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

IEEE Xplore Portal  - provides access to quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

Journal Citation Reports - includes citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals including the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field.

RDS Business Reference Suite - highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information.

Thomas Register - database of 156,000 American and Canadian companies, as well as 135,415 brand names. 

Web of Science - covers the journal literature of the sciences. 

Finding Books & Media

Engineering & Technology books are generally found on the fourth floor from call numbers T-TS.

Online Catalogs

IUCAT - Indiana University's online catalog.

Purdue Catalog -Purdue University's online catalog. 

E-Books

ENGnetBASE - provides all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

NetLibrary - provides access to your library's eBook collection. When you enter the site from an affiliated library, you will see the name of your library in the box on the right side of the screen. Once you have accessed your library's affiliated site, you are able to search and view the full text of all the eBooks in your library's eBook collection.

Books24x7 - contains hundreds of "best-of-breed" books from the world's top publishers such as MIT Press, Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. New books are constantly added.

ebrary - contains over 20,000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas, sheet music titles and reports.

Springer E-Books - provides access to over 12,000 titles in the subject areas of science, technolody, mathematics, medicine, and nursing.  NOTE: If book is available to IUPUI users, the box to the right of the title will be in green.

E-Book "Meta" Search -- to simultaneously search University Library's ebook collections. Enter IUCAT. From the home search page, under More IUCAT Searches, select "E-book Search (Beta)".

Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses - Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.

Reference Materials

ENGnetBASE - provides all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE - part of ENGnetBASE: The Engineering Database Online.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. University Library´s collection currently contains: African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience, 2003 Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2v, 2001 Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed., 5v, 2000 Environmental Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., 2v, 2003 Gale E-Commerce Sourcebook, 2v, 2003 International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, 2nd ed., 4v, 2003 New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 15v, 2003.

Oxford Reference Online - consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) - Searches over 275 reference works from some 57 publishers.

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students - offers models, exercises, and advice for many documents encountered in the engineering and science professions. 

Organizations & Associations

ABC - Associated Builders and Contractors is a national trade organization devoted to the merit shop philosophy.

ACEC - The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is the voice of America's engineering industry.

AGC - Associated General Contractors of America's general contractor membership is represented by four occupational divisions:  Building; Highway; Heavy-Industrial; and Municipal Utilities.

ASC - The Associated Schools of Construction promotes the development and advancement of construction education. 

ASCE - The American Society of Civil Engineers' site gives information about the Society, its membership, departments, and services. 

NAE: National Academy of Engineering - promotes the technological welfare of the nation by marshaling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession

NECA - National Electrical Contractors Association works for the betterment of its members, electrical contractors in general and the construction industry as a whole. 

Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory - This massive directory includes CE institutions, organizations, suppliers, events, and other related sitse from around the world.

Web Resources

ASCE Library - comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. 

Building and Fire Research Laboratory - BFRL is a national laboratory dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of industry and public safety performance prediction methods, measurement technologies and technical advances needed to assure the life cycle quality and economy of constructed facilities.  

CERL  - Construction Engineering Research Laboratory conducts research and development in infrastructure and environment sustainment. 

Construction WebLinks - This site is an easy-to-use and comprehensive guide to the Internet for architects, engineers, and contractors. 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network - provides links to energy efficiency information from the government, educational, commercial and organizational sources.

iCivilEngineer - collects and catalogs Internet resources relevant to civil engineering; includes news, a web directory, and career resources.

Intute Engineering - a collection of engineering websites compiled by experts from British universities.

SciCentral - aggregates breaking engineering research news from reputable and reliable online sources.

Science.gov - searches over 40 databases and over 2000 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Tech Xtra -   a collection of articles, books, websites, industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, theses & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. 

Women in Engineering Proactive Network - useful for research, best practices, and professional communities dedicated to the advancement of women in engineering but there is also much information regarding women in science, technology and math.

Open Access Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Open access journals in engineering and technology, including electrical and nuclear engineering; environmental engineering; civil engineering; mechanical engineering; general technology.

DSpace - MIT's digital research materials including conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers, and more.

IEEE Global History Network - fosters the creation of narratives that not only document the history of engineering practice but also explain when, how and why these myriad of technologies developed as they did.

Patent Lens - a worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.  It serves as the cyberinfrastructure platform for the Initiative for Open Innovation (IOI).

Scientific Commons - A communication medium for scientific knowledge products that are freely accessible to the public.