- University Libraries Databases
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Engineering
This guide provides information on engineering and applied sciences resources available through the WMU Libraries.
Start Here!
The following two databases are essential starting places for searching for information on any engineering topic.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowUse Engineering Village to search for journal articles and conference papers in ALL engineering disciplines.
- Knovel Engineering eReference Books This link opens in a new windowKnovel is a large collection of engineering reference books, fully available online. Use this site to search, read and download book chapters and interactive data tables.
Other Good Engineering Databases
- Aerospace Research Central This link opens in a new windowThis searchable database provides access to AIAA Meeting Papers for the current year and five AIAA Journals.
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowThis biomedical search tool is great for searching the biomedical literature, including areas related to biomechanics.
- Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new windowSearch for information on various engineering failures, such as Three Mile Island, the Challenger disaster, the Titanic sinking, and others. Includes video documentation, research monographs and accident reports, personal testimonials, simulations, blueprints, and more.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to all journals, transactions, and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with coverage from 1988, with select content published since 1872; Includes IEEE conference proceedings and all current IEEE standards.
- PaperChem This link opens in a new windowPart of Engineering Village, PaperChem covers the literature of the pulp, paper and paperboard industries, as well as such allied industries as packaging, chemicals, and equipment.
- SAE Mobilus This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed summaries and citations to more than 85,000 conference papers and standards published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) since 1906, with full text of conference papers going back to 1998. Covers research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Note that the SAE standards are not available in full text in this database.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowDatabase for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles.
- SciFinder-nThis extensive chemistry index supplies abstracts of journal articles, conferences, dissertations, technical reports, patents, substance records, formula, structure and reaction searching. It is the electronic version of the Chemical Abstracts.
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