ENGR 199 Introduction to Engineering Design 

ACM Digital Library -

Coverage: 1952 to present Brief Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and access to the full text of materials published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), including journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings, newsletters, and publications of affiliated organizations. Tools Available: Contents of the ACM Digital Library Using the ACM Digital Library CrossRef Search My Binders Table-of-Contents TOC Service Guide to Computing Literature Computing Classification System

ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers Journals -

Coverage: Most journals articles are available full text from 1990 to the present, and abstracts of conference proceedings are available from 2003 to the present. Brief Description: ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online search interface for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. Tools Available: An online list of journals is available.

IEEE Xplore -

Coverage: Full-text content from 1988 to present, plus historical articles from 100 IEEE journals published 1913-1987. Brief Description: The IEEE Xplore search interface provides access to peer-reviewed records of research in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and a growing number of related disciplines, including theoretical and experimental papers and quality magazines focusing on practical applications in research, design and specification. Tools Available: IEEE Xplore FAQs IEEE Xplore 2.0 User Guide IEEE Digital Library Training

Compendex -

Coverage: 1969 to present Brief Description: Compendex is the world's most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, providing abstracting and indexing of more than 5,000 international journals, conference proceedings, and trade publications in the fields of engineering, technology, and computer science. Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns the printed Engineering Index 1892-1997 [Compendex]. Call Number: Science Reference Z5851 .E62 [Engineering Index] Tools Available: Compendex Thesaurus Compendex Source List Database Help and Training Materials My Profile (Manage Saved Searches and Search Alerts) Ask An Expert (Contact Linda Hall Library Staff or Compendex Engineers)

Web of Science -

Coverage: 1985 to present. Brief Description: The Web of Science provides an interface for searching the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, separately or together, from 1985 to present. These unique citation indexes provide indexing and selected abstracts for millions of source articles in more than 10,000 major journals published worldwide. Each record indexes every source article's entire list of cited references or bibliographic footnotes. Use the Web of Science to discover scholarly materials based on the citation network within a vast multidisciplinary literature. Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns a demonstration printed set (1991 only) of Science Citation Index (Science Reference Z7401 .S365), Social Sciences Citation Index (Science Reference Z7161 .S65), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Science Reference AI3 .A63). Tools Available: Training Resources Technical Support Web of Science Tutorial Journal Title List > Arts & Humanities Citation Index Journal Title List > Science Citation Index Journal Title List > Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science Search Steps Simplified (PDF) Also see Journal Citation Reports Helmke Library Cited Reference Search Policy and Procedures Best Practices for Using Citation Data

Wiley Interscience -

Coverage: 1996 to present Brief Description: Wiley InterScience is the online content service from John Wiley & Sons delivering the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals.

Academic Search Premier -

Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s. Brief Description: Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in more than 8,000 popular magazines, scholarly journals, and major newspapers in all fields of study, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text. Tools Available: A complete list of titles covered is available.

Google Scholar -

Brief Description: Google Scholar is a specialized Google search engine that limits your search to scholarly material combed from Web sites, databases, and publication lists of the world's major academic publishers, scholarly and professional societies, and university repositories. Tools Available: Google Scholar Help is available.

Note: Let's face it. Google is great and everyone uses it. But don't expect to be able to access everything you find in a Google search. You need to be an authorized user to be able to access most publishers' resources.

Because many scholarly materials are not freely available on the Web, IPFW now offers a handy tool called that works to deliver these valuable goods directly to your desktop.

Follow these steps to configure Scholar Preferences within Google Scholar, where appears as a hyperlink labeled FIND IT@IPFW.

See the library's Style, Publishing, and Writing Guides under your engineering specialty area:

Civil Engineering

Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Software Engineering

Systems Engineering