Electrical & Computer Engineering Subject Guide

Library resources for the field of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Physical Sciences & Engineering Library Databases
A complete list.
INSPEC (http://uclibs.org/PID/22771)
Citations from scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, and information technology. Coverage: 1898 - present.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
A searchable index to Association for Computing Machinery articles and conference proceedings, and selected affiliated organizations, with links to the full-text articles and conference papers. Coverage: 1954 - present for Journals and Magazines, 1985 - present for Proceedings.
Compendex
Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences. About half the citations (from 2600 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing in the records. Coverage: 1884 - present.
Electrochemical Society Digital Library
Searchable online access to the various journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society. Includes full-text from the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, and the ECS Transactions. Coverage: varies, some full-text back to 1955.
IEEE Xplore
Access to full-text IEEE transactions, journals, conference proceedings, and standards and IEE/IET journals and conferences. Offers basic, advanced, author and table of contents searching. Coverage: 1988 - present.
NACA Digital Library
Contains abstracts and full-text documents (1917-1958) to NASA's predecessor the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
NASA Technical Report Server
Keyword searchable database of NASA-wide technical reports.
Optics InfoBase
A searchable index to Optical Society of America (OSA) articles and conference proceedings with links to full text.
SPIE Digital Library
Full-text access to SPIE conference and journal papers. Coverage: 1990 - present.
Web of Science (http://isiknowledge.com/wos)
Use Web of Science to find scholarly articles in all disciplines, including electrical and computer engineering. This database can also be used to identify articles that cite an author or article that you specify. Coverage: 1900 - present.
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Books

ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE
A collection of 240+ full-text, searchable online books and handbooks from CRC Press on electrical engineering topics. (Available to UCD only.)
TelecommunicationsnetBASE
A collection of 50+ full-text, searchable online books from CRC Press. Contains books and handbooks on topics from antennas to wireless networks. (Available to UCD only.)
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
A collection of online "lectures" on cutting-edge topics in engineering and computer science. Lectures are from 50-100 pages in PDF format, and are designed to provide an introduction to the topic and in-depth analysis. The lectures are arranged in series; sample series topics include computational electromagnetics, digital circuits and systems, and image, video and multimedia processing. New series and lectures will be added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed. (Available to UCD only).
Safari Tech Books Online
A collection that includes the full text of over 800 O'Reilly Press computing books published from 2001 to the present. Safari will grow to include all new O'Reilly titles, including the popular In a Nutshell books on important computing topics. The full-text is searchable across titles and searches can be limited to code fragments. Books can also be browsed by topic. Books can be read online, or individual chapter sections can be printed out or emailed. Access is limited to 28 simultaneous UC connections. Coverage: 2001-present. (Available to UCD only.)
Online books in electronic and computer engineering from Springer.
A collection of books in electronic and computer engineering that are published by Springer. Book chapters may be printed, and individual authors/titles may be searched for. Books are sorted by the date of their inclusion in the Springer online library.
SPIE eBooks (http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ebooks/)
Online books from SPIE, including reference materials, in the areas of imaging, optics and electro-optics, micro- & nano-technologies, and communication and information technologies. Books are in downloadable pdf format.
IEEE/Wiley eBooks (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkBrowse.jsp)
The IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library includes all IEEE-Wiley titles for the current year plus the complete backlist of more than 400 titles. The collection spans bioengineering, power & energy and communication technologies among other growing areas of research. Access these books via IEEE xPlore. Books are in downloadable pdf format.
Harvest: UC Davis Library Catalog
Use to find books, journals, and other items in the UC Davis libraries. Includes titles that are in the e-book collections listed above.
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering (http://uclibs.org/PID/110406)
PSE Reference TK9.C575 2005
Comprehensive Glossary of Telecom Abbreviations and Acronyms (http://uclibs.org/PID/116781)
Encyclopedia of Instrumentation and Control
Q185 E52
The Internet: a historical encyclopedia
PSE Reference TK5105.875.I57 I5372 2005
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Handbooks & Tables

McGraw Hill's Access Engineering (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com)
250 engineering handbooks and a dictionary, searchable and online
Antenna Engineering Handbook (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=200129ad&catid=D)
TK7871.6 A67 1993
Audio Engineering Handbook
PSE Reference TK7881.4 A923 1988
Standard Handbook of Audio and Radio Engineering (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=2000a979&catid=D)
PSE Reference TK67881.4 A923 1988
Battery Reference Book
TK2901 C75 1995
Handbook of Batteries (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=2000a200)
TK2901 H36 1995
Bioelectronics Handbook: MOSFETS, Biosensors, and Neurons
TK7874.8 B56 1998
Complete Digital Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Electronics and Computer System Architecture (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=2000a20c&catid=F)
TK7868 D5 B37 2003
The Computer Engineering Handbook
TK7885 C645 2008
2002 edition available online (http://uclibs.org/PID/16999)
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (http://uclibs.org/PID/20833)
PSE Reference QD65 C4
Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (http://uclibs.org/PID/116338)
TJ163.3 H356
Electric Cables Handbook
TK3351 E44 1990
Electrical Engineering: A Pocket Reference
PSE Reference TK151 K583 2007
Electrical Engineering Handbook (http://www.engnetbase.com/ejournals/books/book_summary/summary.asp?id=411)
PSE Reference TK145 E354 1997
Electrical Materials and Processes Handbook (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=2000a9c7&catid=J)
TK7836 E4653 20037
Electronic Materials Handbook
PSE Reference TK7871 E44 1989
Standard Handbook of Electronic Engineering (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=2000c995)
PSE Reference TK7825 E34 2005
Electronics Engineer's Reference Book
PSE Reference TK7825 E36 1989
Handbook of Information Security
PSE Reference TK5105.59 .H35 2006
Portable Electronics Product Design and Development (http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid=2000af44&catid=F)
Handbook of Nuclear Engineering (http://springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-98130-7/) (2010)
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Style Guides

Guide to submitting articles to ACM journals (http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm)
IEEE author resources (http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/)
Includes a link to the IEEE Style Manual for citing references.
IEEE Citation Style Reference (http://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf)PDF
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Managing Citations

EndNote resources at UC Davis (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/endnote/)
EndNote and Engineering Databases (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/pse/resources/subjects/files/endnote-and-engineering-databases.pdf)PDF
About BibTeX (http://www.bibtex.org/)
BibTeX resources from the Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX/BibTeX/)
Using EndNote with LaTeX/BibTeX FAQ (from the MIT Libraries) (http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=42306&sid=311407)
JabRef: a GUI tool for managing BibTeX bibliographies (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/)
Zotero: a Firefox extension for saving citations as you browse (http://www.zotero.org/)
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