Tips & Tricks
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)
- Video of 2009 IAP session "Tips and Tricks for Keeping Up With Information: Materials Science & Engineering" (55:17)
- Handout
Vera Multi-Search
Keep up with your research
Use these tools to keep up to date!
- Table of Contents/Research Alert Services
Set up email alerts for your favorite journals or article databases. - RSS: Keeping up with research Use RSS feeds instead of email to keep you up to date.
Materials Science & Engineering Databases
Finding articles
Try these first:
Other article databases:
- Aluminum Industry Abstracts - info
- Copper Data Center Database - info
- Corrosion Abstracts - info
- Engineered Materials Abstracts - info
- Materials Business File - info
- Materials Research Database with METADEX - info
- Metadex - info
- WELDASEARCH - info
- Ceramic Abstracts /World Ceramics Abstracts - info
Full text papers and proceedings
- ACS Division Proceedings Online - info
- ACS Symposium Series - info
- IEEE Xplore [Explore] - info
- MRS Online Proceedings - info
Handbooks, e-books, encyclopedias
- Knovel -- Engineering and Scientific Handbooks - info - video
- Alloy Phase Diagrams Center - info
- ASM Failure Analysis Center
- ASM Handbooks Online - info
- ASM Materials Information - info
- Books24x7.com [Books 24 7] - info
- Chemsources Online - info
- Comprehensive Composite Materials - info
- CRCnetBase - info
- Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry - info
- Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology - info
- Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC) - info
- Landolt-Bornstein Group VIII, Advanced Materials & Technologies - info
- Mark Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology - info
- Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th Edition) - info
- Polymer Handbook - info
Materials Properties Data
- Reaxys [includes Beilstein and Gmelin] - info
- ASM Alloy Center - info
- ASM Micrograph Center - info
- Cambridge Structural Database - info
- CINDAS Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database [MPMD] - info
- CINDAS Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database [TPMD] - info
- ICSD: Inorganic Crystal Structure Database.
- International Tables for Crystallography - info
- Polymers: a properties database - info
Additional Links
- American Ceramic Society - Ceramic Properties Databases
- Ceramics WebBook - NIST
- Ceramics WebBook: High Temperature Superconducting Materials Daqtabase
- Ceramics WebBook: Structural Ceramics Database
- Crystal Lattice Structures
- Electrochemistry Dictionary
- Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
- Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (NIST): Data on the Web
- MatWeb
- MEMS and Nanotechnology Clearinghouse
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- NIST Physical Reference Data
- NIST Property Data Summaries for Advanced Materials
- Photonics Dictionary
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Subjects:
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Contact Info:
Barker Engineering Library (10-500)
Science Library (14S-100)
Phone: 617-253-9320
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Subjects:
Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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