Sourcepack: Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar

FIND IT

Locate Articles on Topics of Interest in core databases       

• Compendex (OVID platform)
• Google Scholar
• ACM Digital Library 
• Business Source Premier 
• Scopus

Computer Engineering

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore (electronic journals, standards & conference proceedings)
• INSPEC (OVID -- computer science, electrical engineering)
• CiteSeer: ResearchIndex  (computer science)

Trade and Business Databases

• ABI/INFORM   
• Business Source Premier 
• Business & Company Resource Center   
• Factiva (Dow-Jones)  
• Additional Business databases

Technical Reports

• NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
  

Standards, Patents and Handbooks

• ASTM Standards (full-text)
• Ebrary (over 3000 CS/ENGR books)
  • Required Ebrary reader (allow pop-ups)
• NIST Gateway (U.S. scientific & technical data)
• NSSN Standard Search
• Thomas Register
• U.S. Patent Office
• Additional handbooks, products and standards
  

Conference Proceedings

• How to search for Conference Proceedings

Dissertations

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

GET IT

• Online Journals
  • FindIt@MU (MU Libraries' online journal collection)
• Print Journals
  • MERLIN Library Catalog - Journal Search

MERLIN – Patron Initiated Services

• Request Function
• Renewal option
• My Libary Record

• UMLD - Off-site storage requests
• Request articles that are in journals we do not own
• Electronic ILL forms

 

ORGANIZE

• Need to get your assignment or dissertation done on time?
  Let the time management planners from the University of Minnesota help!
• Student Assignment Calculator (UMN)
• Dissertation Calculator (UMN)

• Information Overload Tutorial

• Seminar Handout
• Evaluating Web Sites
• Plagiarism
• Endnote | Citation Guides

 

Last updated: Mar 13, 2008