Library Guides: Electrical Engineering: Get Started

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Electrical Engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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Find Articles - search for articles online and in print. Recommends the best resources for finding mining engineering articles.
Find Books -find print and eBooks
Reference Works -background information, key concepts, and definitions
Find Other Resources -find conferences, preprints, standards and technical reports
Organizations & Web Sources - find professional organizations, scholarly societies and other quality web resources
Evaluating Sources -find information on finding authoritative sources
Citing Sources - find information on citation formats, citation management tools and more.

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Core Electronic Resources

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AccessEngineering
Includes over 200 engineering reference sources, with the latest editions of Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Applied Science & Technology Full Text contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1997. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.

Coverage: 1983-current

This databases was previously published by H.W. Wilson.
ASTM Digital Library
ASTM Digital Library provides access to full text journals, special technical publications, manuals, data series, and terminology that covers a broad range of engineering disciplines.

Coverage: 2000-current
Engineering Village
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Engineering Village is the information discovery platform to search across both Compendex and INSPEC databases. The thesauri on Engineering Village comprise the controlled vocabulary used to index articles in the Compendex, Inspec, GeoRef, GEOBASE and EnCompass databases.

Coverage: 1884-current
IEEE Xplore: IEL
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The IEEE/IET Electronic Library is brought to you via the IEEE Xplore digital library. Featuring content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), IEL contains almost one-third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science. It provides access to over 4.5 million journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards.

Coverage: 1988-current (with selected content published back to 1872)

IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full-text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, and related disciplines. IEEE Xplore also includes content from select other publishers including the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Alcatel-Lucent, VDE Verlag, and Tsinghua University Press.
Knovel
Knovel provides general reference and best practice insights, process and design applications, material and substance properties data, and equations for specific engineering disciplines. Provides interactive content including equations, graphs and tables. It has technical reference resources from over 4,000 books and over 150 publishers including AIChE/CCPS, NACE and more. It links to over 65 million data points including material and chemical property data.
SciTech Premium Collection
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The SciTech Premium Collection provides full-text coverage for all the sciences, engineering, forestry, geography, homeland security and terrorism, International relations, mathematics, military and defense, public health and safety, and sustainability.

Coverage: 1946-current

Contains: Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database; Agricultural & Environmental Science Database; Biological Science Database; Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database; Materials Science & Engineering Database; Military Database
Web of Science: All Databases
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Easily search across all subscribed products simultaneously using a common set of search fields for the most comprehensive results. Includes: Core Collection, Science Citation Index Expanded, Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science, KCI-Korean Journal Database, Russian Science Citation Index, and SciELO Citation Index.

Coverage: 1900-current

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