Step 1: Starting with your particular topic, for example: Polymer Composite Fibers
Using Google Search and searching for
You may find web resources such as : Fibers in Polymer Composites
- The site provides mechanical properties of some common fibers used in polymer composites
Use Advanced search in Google for Polymer Composite Fibers to refine your search using various options.
- Limit by latest web resources using ‘Last Update’ field
- Limit by PDF in ‘File Type’ field
- Limit by .Gov domain (or. edu, or .org domains) to obtain quality web resources
You will find web resources like
- Browse through various resources that you think are useful for your project.
See
Step 2:
After this initial search, refer to our presentation and start using various electronic databases and books covered
Note: Library Presentation – Library Resources Freshman Engineering
Online books, Handbooks and Encyclopedias
Finding scholarly journal articles
Step 3. Patent Searching
- Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.
- The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.
Step 4: Statistical Resources
- Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 40 databases and over 2000 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.
Step 5: Catalogs and Components
Step 6: Citation Guidelines:
Additional Resources
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.
Drexel University Libraries and the Drexel Fellowships Office will co-sponsor
a workshop designed to help graduate students research various
electronic funding resources and databases.
The presentation will be followed by hands-on exploration by the
students themselves. Students will be able to create their own profile
and set up automated funding alerts on their research topics.
To RSVP, visit http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BKJHGA2GR/ by
December 10, 2010.
Time and Location: Tuesday December 14, 3 PM
Hagerty Library, Room L14
With ISI Web of Science alerts, you can receive your weekly or monthly email alerts based on your search preferences. To set up your search preferences, go to ISI Web of Knowledge and click on ‘Register’. Enter your e-mail address, password, and name in the form and click “Submit Registration.” Once you are registered, you can set up an alert for selected journal titles by going to ‘Create My Journal List’ and Table of Contents Alerts.
To set up a cited author or cited reference alert, sign in to ISI Web of
Knowledge with your email address and password, then go to ISI Web of Science database. Perform your search. Click the Advanced Search button. Then click the “save history” button. Under “Save Search History” enter a name for the alert in the ‘History Name box. Mark the box next to “send me e-mail alerts.” Enter your e-mail address and specify the type of alert you’d like to receive. Please remember that “notify only” will not contain any bibliographic information in your e-mail. Select “biblio” or “full record” to receive the results of your search via e-mail. Click “save.”Then click Done.
The name of your alert will display on the ISI Web of Knowledge page under “Open/Manage Saved Searches” along with an asterisk, indicating that alerting is active. In the “Open/Manage Saved Searches” area, you are able to update, renew or delete your alert. There is more information about this on the ISI Web of Knowledge page.
DieselNet is an internet information service on diesel engine emissions and all related topics including emission control, measurement, health, and environmental effects. DieselNet is addressed to engineers, researchers and students working with diesel emissions, as well as to several groups of diesel engine users who have to deal with emission related problems.
Access: DieselNet
How do I find Emission standards for Nort America and Europe?
Emission standards can be accesed from: Summary of worldwide diesel emission standards
For example, U.S. New Engine and Vehicle Emissions standards include:
See also: DieselNet Intenet Resources
McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience 2.0 is a a top-to-bottom redesign of the premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.
Access: AccessScience
Features:
- 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
- questions answered in our weekly Q&A
What’s new?
The AccessScience team interviewed both users and librarians and learned that they wanted the most useful and up-to-date technology to work for them. The new site features:
- Brand-new fast, sophisticated search capability, including semantic-based searching of our enhanced search engine, making discovery of this wide range of information easier than ever.
- Twitter
- RSS feeds
- Flash® animations
- Image galleries (including images that can be saved to your personal space on the website)
- Videos
- Federated searching
- OpenURL
What are bookmarklets?
Bookmarklets allow you to look up scientific words or terms in AccessScience that you find in almost any Web site by simply highlighting the term and clicking on the bookmarklet you have placed in the personal toolbar of your browser. To use it you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
See Bookmarklets for more information.
Chemical and Biological Engineering Student Association in collaboration with the Graduate Student Association organized an interactive workshop today in the Hill Conference Room to show how different features within ENDNOTE can be efficiently used by graduate students while they begin to write their research papers and proposals.
Presentations and Handouts covered during this workshop are available From Engineering Reference page.
These are:
and proposals.
The new updated Engineering Reference page can be accessed from:
Engineering Reference
This page now features links to various engineering research guides, presentations, tutorials,
course guides, frequently asked questions, blogs and selected publications authored by Engineering librarians.
Using Twitter
See: Jay’s Twitter Page
Examples:
Using Delicious
See:
Using Facebook
- You will need to register and send me an invite at bhattjj@drexel.edu if you wish to tryClick on ‘Profile’. Click on ‘Notes’. Examples
Our two blogs
Engineering Resources Blog
http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/englibrary/
Engineering Library Instruction
http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/engineeringlibraryinstruction/
