Materials Science & Engineering  

Learn about what resources to use for your research, how to keep up to date with research, and how to organize your references. 

• Graduate student seminar - Library resources overview (57:36)
• Handout

• Biological Engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Chemistry
• Electrical Engineering
• Energy
• Mechanical engineering
• Medicine
• Physics
• Finding Chemical & Materials Properties

Use these tools to help you organize and cite your references:

• Overview of Citation Software
• EndNote
• RefWorks
• Zotero

RSS, Email & Table of Contents Alerts

Find new journal articles about your research topic!

There are a number of services via email and RSS for accessing tables of contents of new journal issues and research alerts (results of literature searches you construct, run periodically).

This site will provide links to these services, as well as an explanation of what RSS is and how it works. 

Finding articles

• Compendex and INSPEC - info - video
• SciFinder - info
• Web of Science - info - video
• Scopus

Full text papers and proceedings

• ACS Division Proceedings Online [American Chemical Society] - info
• ACS Symposium Series - info
• AIP Online Conference Proceedings [American Institute of Physics] - info
• ASME Digital Library [American Society of Mechanical Engineers: conference papers 2008 - present]
• IEEE Xplore - info
• MRS Online Proceedings [Materials Research Society] - info

Electronic Books and Dissertations/Theses

• Dissertations and Theses [1997 - present]
• Springer E-Books
• Books24x7.com - info
• CRCnetBase - info

Handbooks and Encyclopedias

• Knovel -- Engineering and Scientific Handbooks - info - video
• Alloy Phase Diagrams Center - info
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC) - info
• ASM Handbooks Online - info
• ASM Materials Information - info
• Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
• Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology - info
• Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry - info
• Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources
• Corrosion Handbook
  
• Comprehensive Composite Materials - info
• ASM Failure Analysis Center
• Mark Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology - info
• Polymer Handbook - info

Materials Properties Data

Try the Finding Chemical & Materials Properties guide, or these databases:

• Springer Materials: 250,000 Substances & Material Systems; 3,000 Properties
• Reaxys [includes Beilstein and Gmelin] - info
• ASM Alloy Center - info
• ASM Micrograph Center - info

Crystallography

• Web CSD: Cambridge Structural Database
• ICSD: Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
• International Tables for Crystallography - info

The following are freely available sources for materials information:

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