Mechanical Engineering 

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

• Video of IAP session "Tips and Tricks for Keeping Up With Information: Mechanical Engineering" (51:33)
• Handout

• Biological Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Energy
• Market Research Do-It-Yourself
• Materials Science & Engineering
• Patents
• Properties of Materials and Chemicals
• Standards

Use these tools to keep up to date!

Finding articles

• Compendex - info - video
• Inspec - info - video
• Web of Science - info - video
• SciFinder - info
• Materials Research Database with METADEX - info

Full text papers and proceedings

• IEEE Xplore [Explore] - info
• MRS Online Proceedings - info
• SAE Digital Library - info
• SPIE Digital Library [SPIE Proceedings and Journals] - info

Handbooks, e-books, encyclopedias

• Knovel - info
• Landolt-Bornstein Group VIII, Advanced Materials & Technologies - info
• Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers - info
• Books24x7 - info
• CRCnetBase - info
• ASM Failure Analysis Center
• ASM Handbooks Online - info
• ASM Materials Information - info
• Comprehensive Composite Materials - info
• Machinery’s Handbook - info
• Mark Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology - info
• Polymer Handbook - info

Materials Properties Data

• Reaxys [includes Beilstein and Gmelin] - info
• ASM Alloy Center - info
• ASM Micrograph Center - info
• CINDAS Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database [MPMD] - info
• CINDAS Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database [TPMD] - info
• Polymers: a properties database - info

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

• Overview of Citation Software
• EndNote
• RefWorks
• Zotero

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