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HOW TO LOCATE ENGINEERING LITERATURE


TYPE OF MATERIAL

PRODUCER

ACCESS TOOLS

LOCATION

Books

Authors,
Publishers,
Societies,
Companies

UCLID/OhioLINK,
Books Online,
WorldCat (OCLC),
Books in Print,
Library catalogs on the Web,
Amazon, Barnes&Noble, etc.

UC Libraries,
OhioLINK delivery,
Books Online,
ILL,
Purchase,
Local Libraries

Reference Books,
Bibliographies,
Directories,
Catalogs,
Encyclopedias,
Databooks,
Handbooks,
Dictionaries,
Tables

Publishers,
Companies,
Societies

UCLID/OhioLINK,
WorldCat (OCLC),
Reference Guides,
Books Online,
Publisher catalogs,
Web search engines

UC Libraries,
Books Online,
Public Library,
Other Local Libraries,
Companies, CD ROMs,
Engineering Library Databooks page,
Reference Guides

Journals

Publishers,
Societies,
Companies

UCLID/OhioLINK,
WorldCat (OCLC),
Library catalogs on the Web,
Full-Text Journals,
Ulrich's

UC Libraries,
OhioLINK Libraries,
Public Library,
Other Local Libraries,
Electronically through UCLID/OhioLINK

Journal articles

Authors

Databases at UC,
OhioLINK Research Databases,
Full-Text Journals,
Web search engines,
Paper indexes and abstracts

UC Libraries,
OhioLINK Libraries,
Local Libraries,
OhioLINK EJC,
Full-Text Journals,
ILL,
document delivery services.

Conference proceedings

Societies,
Publishers for Societies,
Companies,
Government

UCLID/OhioLINK (KEYWORDS search),
COMPENDEX and other databases, ProceedingsFirst,
Library catalogs on the Web,
Web search engines

UC Libraries,
OhioLINK Libraries,
ILL,
Purchase at the conference

Conference papers

Presenters

COMPENDEX and other databases,
Older paper indexes and abstracts,
PapersFirst,
Web search engines

UC Libraries,
OhioLINK Libraries,
Buy copy at conference,
ILL or document delivery services

Government documents

US government departments and agencies,
State governments,
Foreign goverments

UCLID/OhioLINK catalogs,
SciTechResources.gov,
Marchive Web DOCS,
State Checklist of State Publications

UC Libraries - Government Documents (not all gov't docs are listed in UCLID),
OhioLINK libraries,
US Gov't Bookstores or libraries,
ILL,
GPO Access,
Web

Technical Reports (of govt-funded research)

US Government agencies,
Research institutes,
Universities,
Companies

UCLID/OhioLINK,
NTIS database,
Energy Citations Database ,
DOE Info Bridge,
Aerospace & High Technology Database,
NASA Technical Reports Server,
Web search engines

UC Libraries,
EPA Library,
Order from DOE, NASA, NTIS, ILL,
Document delivery,
Web

Technical Reports (corporate)

Companies

Databases,
Web search engine

Company,
Websites

Dissertations

US, Canadian and foreign universities

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses,
NDLTD,
Subject-specific databases on network and paper indexes,
Ohio theses

ILL,
Write to author,
Buy from UMI,
Author's advisor or author's department
OhioLINK

Standards and regulations

US Government,
US Military,
Industry,
Societies

UCLID/OhioLINK (search on society name),
Marchive Web DOCS,
Standards reference guide,
IEEE

UC Libraries,
OhioLINK Libraries,
Public Library,
Issuing agency,
ILL or document delivery services,
Regulations on Lexis/Nexis,
IEEE standards,
Web

Patents

US Patent office,
Patent office of other countries

Patent databases on web,
Patent reference guide,
Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar online),
SCOPUS,
Other databases

USPTO,
Espacenet,
Cincinnati Public Library,
Patent offices of other countries,
Order from NTIS




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Created by Dorothy Byers: September 20, 1994
Send comments to: Dorothy F. Byers, Head, Engineering and Mathematics Libraries
Last modified: dfb 3/13/06