Sourcepack: MAE Graduate Seminar

• Seminar Handout

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• Student Assignment Calculator (UMN)
• Dissertation Calculator (UMN)
  

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Tutorial on finding information

Locate Articles on Topics of Interest in core databases         

• Compendex  core engineering database
• Materials Science   (alternate site)
• TRD: Technology Research Database
• Google Scholar
• SPIN Web (ASME, ASCE, AIP, SPIE)
• Additional Science & Technology Databases   

Computer Engineering (full-text)

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore

Technical Reports

• DOE Department of Energy Citations Database
• NASA Technical Report Server
• NTIS Database

Standards, Patents and Handbooks

• ASM Handbook Online
• ASTM Standards (full-text)
• Ebrary (over 4000 CS/ENGR books)
  • Required Ebrary reader (allow pop-ups)
• NIST Gateway (U.S. scientific & technical data)
• NSSN Standard Search
• SAE Handbook (standards in print)
• Thomas Register (industrial information, products, services)
• Patent Database
• Additional handbooks

Conference Proceedings

• MERLIN Library Catalog - Keyword Search
• ASME papers (interlibrary loan!)
• SAE Transactions (microfiche only through 1989)
• How to search for Conference Proceedings

Searching Guides

• OVID Searching Tips (engineering example)
• OVID Quick Reference Card
• OVID Tutorial
  

GET IT

• Online Journals
  • FindIt@MU (MU Libraries' online journal collection)
• Print Journals 
  • MERLIN Library Catalog - Journal Search
• UMLD and Annex requests
• ILL@MU request form

MERLIN – Patron Initiated Services

• Request Function
• Renewal option
• Circulation record
• PIN

Last updated: Apr 8, 2008