Databases

Compendex
The most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world.  Compendex indexes all fields of engineering.

Science Direct College Edition
Full text access to Elsevier publications in the Sciences back to 1996.  GFU subscribes to the Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering journal packages.

Referex Engineering
A searchable, full text collection of electronics and electrical engineering reference books online.

Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles.  Indexes many IEEE publications.

SpringerLink Journals
Access to 232 journals covering engineering, physics, chemistry and computer science.

Wiley Interscience Journal
There are 75 journals plus one Book Series available.  Indexes all Wiley-Blackwell content including books but only has full text access for most of Wiley's several hundred journals.  Use the Browse by Product Type (Journals), then choose Engineering or Polymers and Materials Science.

Sage Journals
Includes 15 full text journals in Materials Studies.

Web resources

Science.gov

National Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) site provides chemical and physical data of the highest quality.

Science Daily
Current research news across the sciences.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Materials and Testing

The Penguin Dictionary of Electronics

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wiley Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dictionary

Encyclopedias

CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook

Characterizations of Materials

ASM Handbook

International Encyclopedia of Heat & Mass Transfer

The Electrical Engineering Handbook

Professional organizations

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE)

ASM International the Materials Information Society

American Society for Testing and Measurement (ASTM)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Electric Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Robotics

Wireless Communication Systems

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks.

Customized search engine