2.75 - Precision Machine Design  

• 2.75 Course page
• Mechanical Engineering research guide
• Medicine research guide
• Application for access to Harvard's Countway Library

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Find journal articles

Search a bibliographic database:

• Compendex: general engineering and Inspec: electronics, computing, control, robotics, physics
  • Video tutorial - 3:32
• PubMed: medicine and biology
• Web of Science: general science, medicine, some engineering.  Good for tracking a citation
  • Web of Science (video tutorial - 3:10)
  • Tracking a citation using Web Of Science (video tutorial - 3:47)
• Scopus: science, engineering, some medicine, particularly published after 1995. Includes citation features, a competitor to Web of Science.

Find books

Search the MIT Libraries catalog: Barton or search library catalogs world-wide using MIT's WorldCat.

• Machinery's Handbook (29th ed) (Barton record)
• Roark's Formulas for Stress & Strain (8th ed) (Barton record)
• Hurst's The Heart (13th ed) (Barton record)

Theses: Use Barton's Thesis Search to find MIT theses. 

For theses from other universities, use: Dissertations and Theses (citations of theses back to 1861. Full text of most theses from 1997 - present.)

Handbooks, Encyclopedias and related Databases

Selected resources that you may find useful. This is NOT a comprehensive list.

• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Handbooks
  • A full text collection of hundreds of handbooks and reference sources
  • Machinery's Handbook (29th Edition)
  • Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation: A Practice Perspective of the Design, Construction and Test of Medical Devices
    
• Medical Device Register: available in print in the Science Library reference collection
• Medical Materials Database: mechanical, physical and biological response properties of implantable cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices
• StatRef Electronic Medical Library: including many classic medical texts
• AnatomyTV - Functional Anatomy: 3D anatomy with an extensive series of 3D muscle function animations
• ASM Materials Information: including the ASM Handbook, Alloy Center, and Failure Analysis Center.

Other resources

• FDA's Medical Device website

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