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Engineering information resources


Information sources for Mechanical Engineering

For specific Courses see  -   Engineering Planning & Design  (C&ENVENG 1000)  Design Graphics and Communication (MECH ENG 1006)  Engineering Systems Design & Communication (MECH ENG 3027)     Engineering Communication ESL (MECH ENG 3002)    

Useful Shortcuts
 
Compendex
  
INSPEC

Energy Files


Web of Science

  
SciFinder Scholar



An alphabetical list of indexes and databases for aspects of Mechanical Engineering  

ACM Digital Library
AGIS
AGRICOLA
APA-FT
BUILD
Business Source Complete
CEDB
Compendex
Digital Dissertations Online
ENGINE
INSPEC
MathSciNet
NASA Technical Reports Server 
PubMed
RAM-PC
SciFinder Scholar
Weldasearch - see your Lecturer for access instructions

Databases having a broad coverage including general journals, magazines and newspapers
Academic OneFile
Academic Search Premier
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Elibrary
Factiva
IngentaConnect

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Libraries Australia


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Document Delivery

Intercampus Requests
    
Patents

Standards
  Australian Standards
Statistics

Biographical sources

Theses and dissertations

Essay, thesis, report writing
How your references should look
EndNote
  styles  |  training and help


Image and Copy Centre

Remote student library service

School of Mechanical Engineering

Other tertiary and research institutions

Need to understand a topic but don't need the in-depth presentation of a textbook?
Try a specialised handbook or encyclopaedia.  These sources are intended for the professional engineer who needs a quick, reliable answer, but does not have a library of textbooks at hand.
For lists of handbooks available in topic areas go to
 | Acoustics  |  Aerospace | Automotive | Bioengineering | Combustion | Computer applications | Control | Engineering Ethics I Ergonomics | Human Factors | Fluid MechanicsHeat Transfer Management | Manufacturing | Mathematics | Materials | Mechatronics | Professional practice | Robotics | Structures  | Thermodynamics  | Vibration | Welding
 

Who wrote what, when, where?
When you need to find articles or papers on a topic use an appropriate database or index to find out what articles and papers have been written.
Some databases will provide a link to the full text of an article; where this is not the case, check the Library Catalogue and see if we provide access to the source journal. 

For a list of articles and research papers on all topics in Mechanical Engineering start with Ei Compendex which covers a wide range of subjects. 
For Australian issues in engineering see  ENGINE: Australian Engineering Database from the IEAust.

In addition, specialised databases from related subject areas may be useful including -

Acoustics
INSPEC


Aerospace
INSPEC
NASA Technical Reports Server 


Energy
EnergyFiles 

 
Environmental issues 
ASFA1: Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
BIOSIS Previews  life sciences
Elixir 
EVA: environmental abstracts (Australia)
Geobase


Management
Business Source Complete
EMERALD


Manufacturing
INSPEC

 
Materials
Compendex 
SciFinder 


Sports Engineering
ASFA1: Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
BIOSIS Previews  life sciences


Sustainable Engineering
ASFA1: Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
BIOSIS Previews  life sciences
Elixir 
EVA: environmental abstracts (Australia)
Geobase