Why Books?
Books provide overviews and in-depth information. Scholarly books are peer reviewed and cite their sources--just like scholarly articles. Use scholarly books when you want authoritative content, depth and detail as well as background on a topic. Scholarly books often take longer to publish than journal articles, so the information in books may not be "cutting edge."
Interdisciplinary books can be useful in getting a good grasp on the subject. They provide perspective on how agricultural engineering interacts with other
disciplines such as climate change, pollution and "forever chemicals," water resources, genetically-modified organisms (GMO), land management, and how humans modify our environment.
(Field of corn, U-Illinois Urbana-Champaign, rawpixel.com. CC0 1.0 No Copyright https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; Man with hydroponic strawberries, CC0 1.0 No Copyright https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.)
Find Books
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Library Catalog - Colorado School of Mines This link opens in a new window
Search the library's catalog for physical and electronic resources to find books, articles, maps, videos, and more.
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Knovel This link opens in a new window
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 ebooks and standards as well as publishers including AIChE/CCPS, NACE, and more. -
Google Books This link opens in a new window
Searches complete text of books from selected library collections and publishers. Each book includes an "About this book" page with basic bibliographic data. For some books, additional information is provided, and links to bookstores where you can buy the book and libraries where you can borrow it.
