Mechanical Engineering
Fulltext Electronic Journals
Citation and Fulltext Databases
Catalogues and Suppliers
Professional Organizations (United States)
Other Professional Organizations (International
and Foreign)
Technical Reports
Research Centers and Laboratories
Online Resources
Patents
Standards
University Programs
Fulltext Electronic Journals
Subscription Journals of the CSUS Library (Scholarly, peer-reviewed)
Non-Subscription
Journals and Online Mags (These journals are self-identified as journals,
while the online magazines focus on industry news and product related
information)
Citation and Fulltext Databases
Search here to find the abstracts for journal articles, conference
proceedings, and other publications. The full text of journal articles is
often available as well.
Applied
Science and Technology (abstracts only) 1983- present.
Industry publications (trade journals) and popular literature (magazines) are
included along with some scholarly journals.
Engineering Village 2 (abstracts and linked fulltext) 1970 - present. This database specializes in all disciplines of Engineering, including Electrical and Electronics Engineering, as well as Computer Engineering. Focus is on scholarly publications.
IEEE Xplore (citations, abstracts and fulltext). Citations go back to 1950, while full text journals articles go back to 1998. This database specializes in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and includes Computer Engineering and some aspects of Computer Science. Focus is on scholarly publications.
Science Direct (fulltext) Engineering is one of the subject areas this database covers. Scroll down to select it. Full text articles are generally available after 1995, while citations extend father back. Focus is on scholarly publications.
Wiley Interscience (fulltext)
1996-present. Includes Engineering as a category. Focus is on scholarly
publications.
The following are broader, interdisciplinary databases. The recommendation is
to search them after the Engineering and Scientific databases have been
exhausted.
Article1st
(abstracts only) 1990 - present. Scholarly journals, popular magazines,
and trade journals all included.
Ebscohost: AcademicSearch (fulltext) 1984- present. Scholarly journals,
popular magazines, and trade journals all included.
Emerald Plus (fulltext) 1967- present. Covers scientific, medical and
engineering literature.
Infotrac: Expanded Academic (fulltext) 1980- present. Scholarly journals
popular magazines, and trade journals all included.
Proceedings
First (citations and tables of contents) 1993 - present. Covers many
disciplines, including Engineering. Focus is on scholarly publications.
Uncover/Ingenta (tables of contents,
some abstracts) 1988 - present. Covers many disciplines, including
Engineering.
GlobalSpec.
(http://www.globalspec.com/)
ThomasRegional
- an industrial search engine that allows you to search for manufacturers
and distributers for industrial and mechanical parts.
(http://www.thomasnet.com/404.html?WTsource=TRD)
Thomas Register of American
Manufacturers
(http://www1.thomasregister.com/)
Online Metals
(http://www.onlinemetals.com/)
McMaster-Carr - Industrial Products (http://www.onlinemetals.com/)
Commercial Plastics
(http://www.gepolymershapes.com)
TechSavvy
(http://www.techsavvy.com/)
Professional
Organizations (United States)
Other Professional Organizations (International and Foreign)
GrayLit Network (http://www.osti.gov/graylit/) The GrayLIT Network provides a portal for over 100,000 full text technical reports from the Department of Energy (DOE), the Deparment of Defense (DOD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and NASA.
Center for Aerospace Information (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/RECONselect.html) This database contains two million NASA reports from all sites as well as much of the open aerospace literature from 1968. Contains ABSTRACTS ONLY. This database also contains most NACA reports from 1915-1957.
Research Centers and Laboratories
Online Resources (A Sampling of Potentially Useful Sites)
Computational Fuild Dynamics Resources
Online
(http://www.cfd-online.com/)
eFluids - on online resource for
fluid mechanics and flow engineering
(http://www.efluids.com/)
Efunda (http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm)
Engineering Tool Box (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com)
Fluids Movie Archive
(http://www.itsc.com/movies/)
Fluid Power Net
(http://fluid.power.net/)
Licensure Boards for
Engineers and Land Surveyors
(http://www.drblank.com/copebrds.htm)
Online Materials Information Resource
(http://www.matweb.com/index.asp?ckck=1)
Principle
Metals (Find Specs on Metals) (http://www.principalmetals.com/specifications/step2.asp?Originator=AISI)
Robotics Internet
Sources
(http://www.cs.indiana.edu/robotics/world.html)
The Thermal Connection
(http://www.tak2000.com/)
Patents
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (www.uspto.gov)
American
National Standards Institute Homepage
(http://www.ansi.org)
American Society for Testing and Materials
Homepage
(http://www.astm.org)
International Organization for Standards Homepage (http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage)
National Information Standards Organization
(http://www.niso.org/)
National Institute of Standards and Technology Homepage
(http://www.nist.gov/welcome.html)
National
Resource for Global Standards Homepage
(http://www.nssn.org)
University Programs
CSUS Department of Mechanical
Engineering
(http://www.ecs.csus.edu/me/)
Mechanical Engineering
Technology Program
(http://www.ecs.csus.edu/me/met.html)
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