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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 EAL (ENG 3003) Engineering Communication & Critical Thinking  ELEC ENG 7057 | 
Useful Shortcuts
 
Compendex
  
INSPEC

Energy Files


Business Source Complete

SciFinder Scholar

- for citation searching
Web of Science

  


 
other databases for aspects of Mechanical Engineering  -
ACM Digital Library
AGIS
AGRICOLA
APA-FT
BUILD
Digital Dissertations Online
ENGINE
GeoBase
MathSciNet
NTRS:NASA Technical Reports Server 
PubMed
RAM-PC
Scopus  (only articles from the publisher Elsevier)
Water Resources Abstracts


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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Standards
  Australian Standards
Statistics

Engineering ethics

Biographical sources

Theses and dissertations

Essay, thesis, report writing
How your references should look
EndNote
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Image and Copy Centre

Remote student library service

School of Mechanical Engineering

Other tertiary and research institutions

Need some background information to aspects of a topic?
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 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
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server


Energy
EnergyFiles 
EPRI

 
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
SciFinder 


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


Sustainable Engineering
AVEry Index  architecture, building and planning
ASFA1  Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA3  Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
BIOSIS Previews  life sciences
Elixir
EVA  environmental abstracts (Australia)
Geobase  geographical issues
Water resources abstracts  water supplies and usage



Engineering Ethics
Wikipedia has a useful article on engineering ethics with links to the relevant sites of professional associations.