Library Guides: Engineering: Articles, eBooks, & Databases

Best Resources for Finding Articles

Below are the core resources for researching in Engineering. Research the description below each resource to determine which one has the information you need.

Engineering Village
Engineering Village, the essential engineering research database, provides a searchable index of the most comprehensive engineering literature and patent information available. Includes Compendex, INSPEC, GEOBASE, and GeoRef.
IEEE Xplore/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
Includes full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
Civil Engineering Database
Indexes publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Journal records from 1958- present, with abstracts back to 1970. Book records, early 1900s - present.
Materials Science & Engineering Database
Formerly known as the Materials Research Database, this resource is a combined index to Aluminium Industry Abstracts, Ceramic Abstracts, Copper Technical Reference Library, Corrosion Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, METADEX, and Polymer Library. Indexes journals, patents, conference proceedings, books and reports with some documents available in full-text. 1965 - present.
ScienceDirect
A full-text journal and ebook database for science, technology, medicine, and social sciences literature.

Other Good Resources

Web of Science
This collection contains over 18,000+ journals and includes: Science Citation Index, from 1965; Social Sciences Citation Index, from 1965; and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, from 1991. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Includes searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full-text coverage for older graduate works.
SciFinder-n
Note: New users are required to register. After you register, you will immediately receive an e-mail from SciFinder with login instructions.
SciFinder is a research and substance discovery tool of the Chemical Abstracts databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines and the CAS registry database.

Engineering Case Studies

Engineering Case Studies Online
Engineering Case Studies Online contains documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
Note: The content in this database can also be found by searching the larger Academic Video Online Collection.

eBook Packages

The University of Nevada, Reno Libraries have a growing collection of e-books from EBSCOhost, EBL, and other sources. An institutional NetID is required for off-campus access. Use one of the links below to search a specific collection or search the catalog for e-books.

AccessEngineering
Access Engineering is a collection of over 650+ full text engineering reference materials and handbooks, including Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook and Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. Also includes instructional videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts.
O'Reilly Safari Books
Formerly known as ProQuest's Safari Technical Books, this database contains curated technical books, tutorials, and case studies on programming languages, applications, systems, networking, web design and development, and more.
Note: A University of Nevada, Reno email is required to create a free account and to be able to access the O’Reilly app on mobile devices.
Knovel
A web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. It includes access to a large e-bookshelf of engineering titles that provide researched data for real-world applications and offering interactive tools to help with calculations and information validation.
Note: A University of Nevada, Reno email address is needed to set-up a My Knovel account.
eBooks from Taylor & Francis
Formerly CRCnetBase, this new platform from Taylor & Francis contains over 6,000 full-text e-books covering disciplines related to Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Technology and more.
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Provides full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Includes over 150,000 titles, hosted on the EBSCOhost platform. Also includes University of Nevada Press titles, former NetLibrary titles as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.

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