Books

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

• Motorsports
• Magnetic  materials
• Automobiles–Brakes
• SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers
• Nanomaterials
• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• Engineering Ethics
• Nanowires
• Biopolymers
• Sensor Networks
• Aircraft Design

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

Electronic Books

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

• AccessScience
• ASM Handbooks Online
• ebrary
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• ENVIROnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MECHANICALENGINEERINGnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE

See also: Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Electronic Databases

Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.

• Annual Reviews
• ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Database
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journals
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Engineered Materials Abstracts
• Environmental Engineering Abstracts
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• Materials Research Database
• METADEX
• SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
• ScienceDirect
• Web of Science

Wiley Interscience (Note: Synergy Blackwell is no longer functioning as of June 27, 2008. All content has been transferred to Wiley InterScience)

Brief description for electronic databases: Various Electronic Databases

News and Recent Developments

Use the following databases to find developing news stories on various technologies in magazines and newspapers

• Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
• Expanded Academic
• Factiva
• Proquest

Patent Searching

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
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’

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.

The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism (step-by-step tutorial)
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

Blogging and RSS

• What is RSS?
• Using Bloglines to receive RSS feeds
• Blogging as a tool: (compilation of feeds from journals and databases; Instruction on creating feeds)

Instructional Tutorials

• “Is this a Scholarly Publication?”
• Deciphering Citations
• Finding Full Text from Citations
• SFX: Frequently Asked Questions
• RefWorks Overview —
• Using RefWorks (Powerpoint)
• RefWorks Tutorial (online video tutorial, from a health sciences perspective)

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