Sourcepack:
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar

Books

• Ebrary (over 3000 computer science/engineering books)
• MERLIN – University of Missouri campuses
• MOBIUS – Over 50 academic libraries in the state of Missouri
• Request Function / Renewal option / View your own record / Reading History
  
  
• Interlibrary Loan (ILL@MU) – Borrow books from other libraries across the country.
  
  

Subject Guides

• Graduate Students
  • http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/resourcesfor/grad-students/default.htm
• Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering:
  • http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/guides/subjects/industrialmanufacturingsystemsengineering.htm
• Business:
  • http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/guides/subjects/business.htm
• Industry Information:
  • http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/guides/subjects/industry/default.htm
  
  

Articles

• Select and Search an index or database

Engineering Databases

• Compendex (OVID platform)
• Google Scholar
• ACM Digital Library 
• Scopus
• SPIN Web (ASME, ASCE, AIP, SPIE)
• IEEE Xplore
• ThomasNet - Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
  

Business Databases

• ABI/INFORM   
  • Use guided search
  • Show total # of articles
  • 2 word phrase search; more than 2 words -- use quotation marks; Also use quotes for stop words
  • Search article text as a last resort
• Business Source Premier 
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Factiva (Dow-Jones)
  • Use their navigational tools
  • EXIT button
• Mergent 
• Additional Business databases
  
  

Does MU own the journal (in print or electronic)?

• Copy the citation (journal title, author, article title, volume, issue, year, pages)
• FindIt@MU -- search electronic journals by journal title and retrieve full-text online
• Search MERLIN
• Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Titles
• http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/search~/s
• Request the journal from the Depository (UMLD)

MU doesn’t own the journal

• Request a journal article through Interlibrary loan (ILL@MU)
• Electronic ILL forms : https://ill.mul.missouri.edu/
  
  
  

Access library resources from any web page

• LibX: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/guides/libx.htm

Search and Locate Additional Resources

Conference Proceedings

• http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/engineering/confguide.htm

Dissertations

• MU IMSE Dissertations
• Dissertation Abstracts Database
• Dissertations, University of Missouri-Columbia (full-text, 1995- )
  

Standards, Patents and Handbooks

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

Technical Reports

• NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

Professional Societies

• American Productivity and Quality Center, 123 North Post Oak Ln. 3rd Floor, Houston, TX 77024 (800) 776-9676
• American Society for Quality, 611 East Wisconsin Ave., P.O. Box 3005, Milwaukee, WI 53201-3005 (800) 248-1946
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 345 East 47th St. New York, NY 10017 (212) 705-7722
• CIRP (International Institute for Production Engineering Research), 10 Rue Mansart F-75009 Paris, France
• Institute of Industrial Engineers, 25 Technology Park Norcross, GA 30092 (800) 494-0460 or (770) 449-0460
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive Box 930 Dearborn, MI 48121 (313) 271-1500
  
  

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• Dissertation Calculator (UMN)

• Information Overload Tutorial
• Seminar Handout
• Evaluating Web Sites
• Plagiarism
  

Keep Track of Your References and Create Bibliographies

• EndNote: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/showmehow/endnote.htm
• Download Endnote Software which is free for MU students
• Endnote instructions and guides
• Citation Guides