Finding Articles

For instructions on finding articles, check out the How to... guide.

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.

Annual Reviews - IUPUI has access to current content for select Annual Review titles on topics such as the Annual Review of Materials Research as well as the entire Annual Review Archive.

Applied Science Full Text - includes trade and industrial publications, journals of professional and learned societies, and specialized subject periodicals.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text - CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.

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.

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

IEEE Xplore Portal  - IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

IET Journals page - The IET Research Journals (formerly IEE Proceedings) contain both original and review papers relating to all disciplines in electrical, electronics, computing, control, biomedical and communications technologies.

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 - 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.

Reference Materials

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

MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE - part of ENGnetBASE: The Engineering Database Online.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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

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

ASHRAE - The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers aims to advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration for the public's benefit.

ASME - The American Society of Mechnical Engineers site provides information on programs and activities in mechanical engineering, along with information on conferences and expositions. 

ASME Gas Turbine Papers Archive and Index - The International Gas Turbine Institute of ASME maintains an archive of gas turbine papers published by ASME from 1947 to present. 

IMechE - The Installation of Mechanical Engineers members work in research, design, development, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, contracting, consulting, and teaching. 

NAE: National Academy of Engineering - The mission of the NAE is to promote the technological welfare of the nation by marshaling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession.

SAE - The Society of Automotive Engineers is a useful resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.

SEM - The Society for Experimental Mechanics seeks to further the knowledge of stress and strain analysis and related technologies.

SME - The Society of Manufacturing Engineers aims for advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of manufacturing.

SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Material & Process Engineering) - SAMPE provides information on new materials and processing technology either via technical forums, journal publications, or books in which professionals in this field can exchange ideas and air their views.

Web Resources

CFD Online - Computational Fluid Dyanmics (CFD) Online provides useful links, discussion forums, reference tools, and job announcements related to CFD topics.

Design Engineering Online - helps design engineers working in mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineering industries by providing the information they might need in one place. 

DOE Information Bridge - The Department of Energy provides reports issued from January 1996 to present.

DTIC Technical Reports - Defense Technical Information Center provides access to scientific and technical information.

Energy Citations Database - provides free access to over 2.6 million science research citations with continued growth through regular updates. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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

JPL Robotics - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robotics researchers perform development, integration, and demonstration of innovative robotics and automation technologies, supporting NASA missions and addressing other problems of national importance. 

Key to Metals - features a knowledge base of carefully selected engineering, industry and scientific articles that save your time whenever you need a quick reference from the theory and practice of nonferrous metals technology and application. 

Key to Steel - a global database of steel materials and has a powerful search engine and presentation facilities.

Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory - The Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology serves as a central research laboratory for manufacturing infrastructure technology, measurements, and standards.

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.

DOE Green Energy - free respository of thousands of Department of Energ sponosored research and development projects including various forms of green energy including solar, wind, bioenergy, and others.

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.

International Nuclear Information System Database - includes over 850,000 full-text documents including worldwide scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, and preprints. 

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.