You can find electronic encyclopedias or handbooks by searching in our Library’s online catalog. For example, to locate electronic handbooks in the area of Mechanical Engineering, use ‘mechanical*’ and ‘handbook*’ as keywords in ‘Advanced Searching’ feature and by limiting to ‘DU Electronic Books’ option.

For example, see: Mechanical and Handbook

Here are some electronic encyclopedias and reference works available to Drexel Community.

AccessScience-McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Comprehensive Composite Materials
Encyclopedia of Agrochemicals
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical engineering
Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology
Encyclopedia of Chemical physics and Physical Chemistry
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science andTechnology
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia
Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine

The Libraries have over 500,000 items you can get, from books, books on Reserve, e-books or journal articles to help you. And if we don’t have what you need, we will help you get it from somewhere else.

Find Books & Journals

• Start by searching The Catalog
• The Catalog helps you find books, electronic resources, journals, video, and course reserves – everything we have is in there
• Searching The Catalog is as easy as entering a word or phrase to start simple searches
• You can learn to do more targeted searches in this tutorial

Find Articles & Non-Text Resources

• Use the Databases* to find articles for your coursework and research
• The Library has hundreds of different databases available to you, many with full text
• Start with these general academic (Proquest & Expanded Academic) databases
• The databases can contain scholarly articles, financial information, artwork, even music.

See ‘How Can We Help You’? for more information.

AccessScience:

• Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition
• Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
• 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
• 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
• Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
• Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
• The latest news in science and technology from Science News and ScienCentral videos
• Continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos
• added illustrations, animations, and image galleries

Access: AccessScience

See animations related to areas such as Acoustics or Cell Biology at: AccessScience Multimedia

There are important resources including print and electronic books,  several engineering databases, research guides and blogs available from the Library’s web site. These are listed below:

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas

Nanomaterials
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Engineering Ethics
Nanowires
Biopolymers
Sensor Networks
Aircraft Design

Wind Turbine

To find additional books on, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching

Engineering Research Guides

Engineering 102 Library Resources
Fundamentals of Engineering Research

Key Resources to find background information, properties of materials and patents

ASM Handbooks
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology and other electronic reference works and see also Electronic Reference Books for other important encyclopedias
Engineering electronic books from ENGnetBASE and other netBASE collections
Knovel – Engineering and Scientific online reference books
Knovel Tutorials online

News and Recent Developments

Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in about emerging technologies in magazines and newspapers

Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
Expanded Academic
Factiva
Proquest

Electronic Databases

Engineering Databases
Biomedical Engineering/Health Sciences Databases

Patents

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present.

See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors

Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.

pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.

Statistical Resources

Compilation of a variety of data sites from various sources

Catalogs and Components

ENGNETGLOBAL
Google Product Search
Globalspec: Engineering Search engine
Sensors, Transducers and Detectors
Electrical and electronic Components
ThomasNet – a comperehensive resource for industrial information

Tips on obtaining articles not available in the Library

How do I obtain full papers from the Proceedings of the SPIE and other conferences that are not available in the library?

Engineering Blogs

Engineering Blog
Engineering Instruction Blog

Knovel’s free online Science & Engineering Units Converter enables you to convert 864 scientific and engineering units for 82 properties – from Acceleration to Volume – to other units as appropriate. It rounds results to the desired number of significant digits selected by you. Start using the Knovel Science & Engineering Unit Converter now.

Access: Knovel Unit Converter

See also: Knovel Science & Engineering Units Converter

To access knovel from the Library’s web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.

We have access to NFPA 85: Boiler and Combustion Systems Hazards Code through a database called MAD CAD.

MAD CAD is the electronic database where you can find online version of this code. It contains building codes, knowledge-based design solutions, and guidelines to meet the codes. MAD CAD will provide you access to cross-referenced collections of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA.

To access MAD CAD, go to Building Codes and click on MAD CAD.

You will need to logon with the username and password. You will see a list of codes. Scroll down until you reach NFPA 85.

LibX Drexel Edition is a Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that provides direct access to your Library’s resources.  Its features include:

1. Toolbar & right-click context menu: Search your library catalog directly from the LibX toolbar or using the right-click context menu.

2. Support for off-campus access via EZProxy/WAM: Using the Library’s off-campus proxy, you may reload a page through the proxy, or follow a link via the proxy, making it appear as though you are coming from an on-campus computer.

3. Quick full text access to journal articles: LibX uses Google Scholar to search for articles and directs the user to the electronic copy subscribed to by your Library.

To see LibX’s other features and to download it, go to LibX Drexel Edition.

To find books on a particular topic, search in our online catalog using ‘Advanced Keyword Searching ‘feature and use appropriate keyword representing your research topic.

Following are some examples of recently received books in our library.

Fluid Mechanics
Sensors and Chemical
Fiber optics
Biology and Physics
Computer Architecture and Hardware
Networks and security
Earthquake Engineering
Fuel and combustion

More help on using the Library’s online catalog, go to Catalog Search Guide

To see if a particular Journal or a Magazine title is either available in print or in electronic form, use online catalog, select ‘Journal Title’ option in the ‘Search by’ menu, and type the title of the Journal or Magazine that you are looking for.

Following are some examples of Journal titles.

Biotechnology & Bioengineering
Geotechnique
Materials Chemistry
Engineering Management Journal

Now try on your own to find TWO most recent books on ‘Nanostructured materials’ and a journal tile named ‘Bone&Joint’. Can I be able to find a 2003 article from this journal? How do I obtain this article if we do not have access to it?