Sourcepack: MAE 4980 Capstone Project

FIND IT

• Tutorial on finding information
  
• Locate Articles on Topics of Interest in general databases         

• Academic Search Premier (select trade pubs or magazines)
• Business Source Premier (select trade pubs or magazines)

• Locate articles in scholarly databases

• Compendex   (comprehensive engineering index)
• Google Scholar (search from home)
• Scirus (Search the scientific web)
• SPIN Web (ASME, ASCE, AIP, SPIE)
• TRD: Technology Research Database
• Additional Science & Technology Databases

• Reference Books
  • MAE Style Guide (writing)
  • Oxford Reference Collection (weights, measures, dictionaries in the sciences)
  • ASM Handbook
    • In print: MU ENGR REFERENCE TA459 .A52 1990
    • LIB. HAS v.1-9,11,13A-C,14A-B,18-21-; & index 1-20 Latest Received: v.2
    • Also available online
  • Ebrary

• Standards, Patents and Handbooks

• Patents
• ASTM Standards (full-text)
• NIST Gateway (U.S. scientific & technical data)
• NSSN Standard Search
• SAE Handbook (standards)
• Thomas Register
• Additional handbooks

• Computer Engineering (full-text)

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore

• Technical Reports

• DOE Department of Energy Citations Database
• NASA Technical Report Server
• NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

• Conference Proceedings

• MERLIN Library Catalog - Keyword Search
• ASME papers (interlibrary loan!)
• SAE Transactions (microfiche only through 1989)
• How to search for Conference Proceedings

• Searching Guides
  • OVID Searching Tips (engineering example)
  • OVID Quick Reference Card
  • OVID Tutorial

• Online Journals
  • FindIt@MU (MU Libraries' online journal collection)
• Print Journals 
  • MERLIN Library Catalog - Journal Search
    
    
• UMLD and Annex requests
• Electronic ILL forms (use Interlibrary loan for articles in journals we do not own)
  
  
• MERLIN – Patron Initiated Services
  • Request Function
  • Renewal option
  • Circulation record

Last updated: July 29 , 2008