Library and Internet Guide
The
following is a select list of resources available on the Internet
JCU Library Resources
 InfoHelp
- questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
Catalogue
Library
Guides
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting Databases
- Current Contents Connect
is a multidisciplinary current awareness service for over 8,000
journals and more than 2,000 books
- Informit
provides access to several engineering databases including Australian
Engineering Database (ENGINE), Australian Transport Index, and Chemical
Engineering Reference User Bibliography (CHERUB).
- IngentaConnect provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- INIS The
International Nuclear Information System of the International Atomic
Energy Agency, is the world’s leading information system on the
peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
- SciFinder
Scholar Primarily a chemistry database, but with significant
coverage of engineering.
- Web of Science Access
to Science Citation Index Expanded and other citation indexes.
As well as topic searching for journal articles, the citation indexes
allow "cited reference" searching and enable you to examine
a document's historical origin and follow through to its current position
in the research literature.
Full text databases and electronic journals
- ACM Digital Library
provides citations, abstracts, contents pages and full text articles
from computing journals and conference proceedings published by ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery).
- Emeraldinsight.com Access to a range of management, engineering, applied science and technology journals
- Expanded
Academic ASAP - (via InfoTrac) - full-text articles from around 2,000 journals, and abstracts or citations for many more.
- ScienceDirect
- Full text for around 300 of 1700 titles, with contents pages and
abstracts for the remainder
- Wiley
InterScience - provides full-text of all 311 Wiley journals
back to 1997.
- ProQuest includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a range of disciplines.
- Electronic
journals - linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals
available to members of James Cook University. You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat:
the JCU Library Catalogue
Engineering
Databases on the WWW
- Acoustical Society of America Digital Library
Indexes publications of the Acoustical Society of America since its founding in 1929, and provides some full-text
- ASCE
Civil Engineering Database ASCE's electronic information
retrieval service to its publications since 1970
- ASEE Conference Proceedings Search Access to papers presented at
American Society for Engineering Education
(ASEE) conferences from 1996-2005
- dlnet:
Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology Learning object repository with facilities for searching, downloading, submitting and reviewing learning objects in engineering
- EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text ejournals in Engineering, Mathematics & Computing
- Energy Citations
Database Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Provides access
to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 to the present. Includes
citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles,
books, dissertations, and patents.
- EprintWeb e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Searchable & browseable with reference linking across the entire content
- GrayLIT Network
A science portal for technical report information
- IEE Digital Library Table of contents and article abstracts of journals, magazines and conferences
- Scitopia Search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies
- TechXtra in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing Provides access Web sites and to "grey literature" such as dissertations, industry news, technical reports, e-prints, newsletters
- Tris Online From
the Transportation Research Board. Over 400,000 bibliographic records
on transportation research from the 1960's to the present. The database
can be searched at no cost
Associations
and Societies
Engineering
Resources - General
- AI
in Design Webliography Useful sources of information about AI in
Design, Knowledge Based Design, Intelligent CAD, Computational Approaches
to Design, and Design Theory & Methodology
- CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology
- DLNET:
Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology A repository of learning objects that support teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- eFluids One-stop resource for
fluid dynamics and flow engineering
- engAPPLETS Java applets for engineering education
- The Engineering Centre Online
resource centre managed by the Institution of Engineers Australia (IE
Aust)
- Engineering
Information Delivering the world's technical information
- Engineers Edge: Solutions
by design Solutions for design, engineering & manufacturing.
- Geoengineer Resources and
educational infomation in Geotechnical Engineering and related fields
- How Stuff Works Basic
guide to how "stuff" works. Includes computers, engines and
much more.
- MaterSci A searchable database
of Internet resources related to Materials Science and Metallurgy
- MERLOT
Engineering Free and open resource with links to online learning
materials along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
- National Academy of Sciences, National
Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research
Council
- National Technical Information Service Central resource for U.S. government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information
- Scientific and
Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations Searchable and browsable,
includes a reference tables section.
- Sicyon Free-to-download software
- calculation tool for anyone using physical or chemical formulae and
tables of constants.
- Steel Mills One-stop access
to steel-related information
- Ultimate CAD Directory
Chemical
Engineering Resources
Civil
and Environmental Engineering Resources
Electrical
and Computer Engineering Resources
Mechanical
Engineering Resources
Patents
and Standards Information
Further information is available from our JCU Patents Guide
Directories
and Gateways - General
Search
Engines
- Athenus Resources in science and engineering on the web. Indexes subject-specific web sites, publications, news and other resources, providing users with a current, focused collection of topic-specific material.
- The Engineering E-journal Search
Engine Searches the full text of over 150 freely available engineering
e-journals
- GlobalSpec The engineering search engine - search for technical and engineering-related websites, application notes, material properties, patents, standards, products and suppliers
- Google - simple, fast with excellent
results
- Internet
Searching Tools - check out some other search engines here
- Metacrawler
- if searching the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously
appeals, try this
- Scientific-search-engines.com
- SCiNet Science, engineering, and
medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific, technical
and medical information sources
Research
and Study Aids
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