Engineering Village is the premier web-based discovery platform meeting information needs of the engineering community. Ei Compendex, available within Engineering Village, is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over nine million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.

See Engineering Village User Guide and Compendex Quick Reference Guide for useful tips on how to search effectively within this resource.

Access: Go to Engineering Databases and click on Ei Compendex or Engineering Village.

New Students’ Guide to the Libraries has a section on ‘Doing Research – Where Do I Start?‘. This section provides information on available elctronic databases, important general academic interdisciplinary databases, how to find peer reviewed scholarly journal articles, research guides for various subject areas, and databases for a particular subject area including Health Sciences. (NOTE: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems students will find databases included under Health Sciences Section very useful in their research and assignments.

This resource web site provides very useful information for students from BCC on Drexel Library Resources , Borrowing from Other Libraries, Research Tools with information on various electronic databases, Research Guides on important subject areas and Library Tutorials, and on how to get more detailed reference help.

There are several electronic book collections available from the Drexel University Libraries web site that students in these programs may find them very useful. Start with the following eresources:
ebrary
Ebrary is a collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas
ENGnetBASE
Collection of over 320 engineering handbooks published by CRC Press.
knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
MATERIALSnetBASE
MATERIALSnetBASE includes over 75 fully-searchable ebooks on the topics of Materials Science, Packaging, and all aspects of Engineering.
Referex Engineering
Referex Engineering is a collection of over 300 engineering eBooks in 3 distinct collections including Materials, Mechanical and Electrical engineering.

Try also Wiley encyclopedia of electrical and electronics engineering [electronic resource]

Knovel K-News features instructional tips on how to find specific data or information using online scientific and technical books availble through knovel.

Tutorials on variety of topics such as Non-destructive Testing Techniques, Petrochemicals from Methane , and Thermal Conductivity of Aluminum Alloy 5052, etc. can be accessed from Knovel Tutorials.

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