WMU Research Guides: Engineering:

How to Find Engineering Information

The following short videos and tutorials will give you a brief explanation of basic library research skills. Most will take less than five minutes of your time. The videos have audio.

Finding books using Library Search
How to use our Library Search tool to search for books on engineering and science topics.
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Brainstorming keywords
Figuring out what search terms to use in online database searching is an essential skill for finding relevant articles.
Using Knovel Engineering eBooks
How to find background information in Knovel's collection of engineering handbooks and manuals.
Using Engineering Village
How to use the Engineering Village database, which covers all areas of engineering. The skills shown in this tutorial you can apply to any database.
Accessing Full Text Engineering Articles
This tutorial covers how to access full text articles that you find references to in our online databases.
How to Do an Interlibrary Loan
This tutorial shows you how to obtain books, journal articles and other resources that the University Libraries do not have in our collections through our Interlibrary Loan service.

Bibliographic Citation Management

Using Mendeley (Tutorial)
The tutorial will show you how to use the Mendeley software to organize references and create bibliographies.
Using Paperpile (Video)
This introduction to Paperpile is by Kate Lechtenberg, a doctoral student at the University of Iowa and a librarian. It is over 10 minutes long but really does a nice job of showing you the main features of Paperpile. Paperpile is a great bibliographic reference manager for Google Docs.
Using Zotero (Tutorial)
This tutorial shows you how to use the Zotero software to store references and create bibliographies.