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Writing in Engineering (UWP 102E)
Guide for UWP 102E, "Writing in Engineering."
Librarian Subject Specialist
- Phoebe Ayers
- psayers@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑9948 — PSEL Reference/Collections (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/pse/)
Topic Ideas & Background Information
Use a database to find articles. Compendex is the major database for all fields of engineering. Web of Science is general for all sciences but is a good place to start for background information.
For ideas, try browsing general engineering magazines such as "Civil Engineering" (PSE TA1 .C5) or ACM Queue (online in ACM digital library).
Articles
Use a database to find articles. The databases listed below are possible places to start, depending on your field. Compendex is the major database for all fields of engineering. Use a subject guide for your field to find other possibilities.
- Compendex [via Engineering Village 2] (http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=quickSearch&database=1)
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VPN - 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
- INSPEC [via Web of Knowledge] (http://uclibs.org/PID/22771) VPN
- 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
- Related:
- Use UC-eLinks to determine availability.
- Use UC-eLinks to determine availability.
- Web of Science [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) VPN
NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.
Provides access to the content from three Thomson Reuters ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
- Coverage: 1900-present [Science 1899-, Social Sciences 1900-, Arts & Humanities 1975-]
- Related:
- Web of Science tutorial (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
- Web of Science Tips (version 7) (http://thomsonscientific.com/media/scpdf/wos7_tips_cit.pdf)PDF
- Web of Science tutorial (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
- PubMed (http://uclibs.org/PID/17708) VPN
- Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Coverage: 1946-present
- Related:
- PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (Saving & Managing Searches) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53592/)
- NLM Searching PubMed with Mesh tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf)PDF
- NLM PubMed Basics tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf)PDF
- PubMed Training Manual [NLM] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/manuals/pm_workbook.pdf)PDF
Extensive 148-page training manual from day-long PubMed training class. Updated April 2011. - Tutorials, Guides & Instructional Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/guides/instguides.php#pubmed)
Lots of information from UCDavis' Health Science Libraries - For help from a Shields BioAg librarian send email to: bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu
- Human medicine, veterinary medicine, and health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu / Blaisdell Medical Library (916)734-3529, mclref@lib.ucdavis.edu
- PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
- METADEX [via CSA Illumina] - Note: This database has been canceled due to budget reductions, low use, and duplicative content. For similar information please use INSPEC or SciFinder Scholar.
- Search the most comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. Information from over 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books
- Coverage: 1966-present
- Transport
- Access to TRANSPORT has been discontinued as of January 2010. Please use the freely available database TRID for transportation related searching.
Library Catalogs
- Harvest UC Davis Catalog (http://harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu)
- Harvest is the UCD library online catalog of the collections of all five UC Davis General Libraries. It does not include the holdings of the Law Library. If you log in (My Account) using your library card number and PIN, you can renew books online, and request items that have been checked out to another borrower, or are in storage.
- Melvyl: The Catalog of the University of California Libraries (http://ucdavis.worldcat.org)
- The Melvyl catalog contains records for materials held by the libraries of the ten UC campuses, the California State Library, Hastings College of the Law, the California Academy of Sciences, the California Historical Society, the Center for Research Libraries, the Graduate Theological Union, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. All publication dates are included. The database contains over 23,000,000 records, and most campuses update their holdings on a weekly basis.
Connect From Off-Campus
- VPN (virtual private network) (https://vpn.lib.ucdavis.edu/dana-na/auth/url_default/welcome.cgi)
- Use the VPN to connect to library databases and online journal subscriptions from off campus.
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