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Engineering Librarian
Highlighted Databases for Electrical and Computer Engineering
- IEEEXplore This link opens in a new window
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IEEE Xplore Digital Library offers access to the abstracts and full-text material published since 1988, plus select content back to 1950, of journals, transactions, and magazines, conference proceedings, IEEE journals, IEEE conference proceedings and current IEEE standards.
New Content available - IEEE Xplore SAE eBooks 2022 - Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
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Use Engineering Village platform to search Compendex and INSPEC databases. - ACM Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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- Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus by default will search across all disciplines. Specify only Physical Sciences to search engineering related topics. (Over 7300+ titles) - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science is an interdisciplinary database. Specify only to search Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) [Coverage from 1900-present] to exclude Humanities indices.
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Use Knovel to leading titles of engineering handbooks and reference books. It's also a great way to look up data or properties. Make sure to check out the interactive graphs and equations as well.
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IEEE also hosts society published standards. - ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials (COMPASS) Standards This link opens in a new window
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The ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Digital Library provides you instant access to the digital edition of nearly every ASTM International book and paper spanning 140+ industries and 100+ years. - CSA Standards This link opens in a new window
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The Canadian Standards Association is a not-for-profit membership-based association serving business, industry, government and consumers in Canada and the global marketplace. A subset of CSA Standards are available electronically. (Please note you will need to download plugins from the website). If you are interested in any CSA Standards, please contact your subject librarian to request a purchase.
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Useful Web Links
- Wolfram|Alpha - Electrical Engineering ExamplesQuery Wolfram Alpha Search Engine for Calculations, Properties, Resources etc.
- Wolfram|Alpha - Electric CircuitsCalculators, Formulas, Properties etc for working with electric circuits
- Wolfram|Alpha - Electric Machines and Power SystemsCompute characteristics using formulas
- Wolfram|Alpha - Electricity & MagnetismWolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—
not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods. - Wolfram|Alpha - Energy ResourcesSocioeconomic data on energy resources and nuclear power