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CEAS Library Resource in Industrial Engineering

Books

BOOKS dealing with Industrial Engineering can be located through the UC Library Catalog. You can search in the UC Library Cataog by author, title, keyword or subject. General subject headings that can be used include:

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; METHODS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; and WORK MEASUREMENT.

Databases

Applied Mechanics Reviews An international review journal¸ AMR features include: Review Articles¸ which organize¸ summarize and clarify knowledge as it currently exists in the technical literature; Retrospectives where authors look back on their work and areas of interest; Book Reviews (20-25/issue); and Book Notes (35-40/issue)¸ which describe newly published books. Coverage: 2001 - present
CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health) Canada's National Occupational Health and Safety Resource (online).
Compendex Compendex provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines¸ as well as related fields in science and management. The records in the database are drawn from over 2¸600 published journals¸ conference proceedings¸ and individual conference papers¸ technical reports¸ monographs¸ and other materials. The database provides access of over 11 million records covering over 120 years of engineering literature. Over 650¸000 records are added annually for 190 engineering disciplines. Coverage: 1884 - present
Health and Safety Science Abstracts Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management¸ this database provides a comprehensive¸ timely survey of recent work relating to public health¸ safety¸ and industrial hygiene. Coverage: 1981 - present
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) Now part of Agricultural & Environmental Science Database. Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural¸ food and beverage¸ chemical¸ and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this journal¸ making it an indispensable resource for research laboratories and academic libraries in any of these areas. Coverage: 1982 - present
Nexis Uni Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. Coverage: 1861 - present

SAE Publications and Standards Database
(Available on CD ROM Station # 1)

SciTech Connect Now consolidated into SciTech Connect: OSTI's DOE Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database was developed and designed by the United States Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It contains citations from 1948 to the present and includes bibliographic records from Nuclear Science Abstracts (NSA) and Energy Science and Technology Database (EDB). The database provides links to the full text for many recent publications. Information in the database is provided by DOE and its predecessor agencies, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA); other government agencies and professional societies. Some of the subjects covered in the database are Chemistry, Climatology, Computer Science, Energy Technologies, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Materials, Mathematics, Oceanography, Physics, and Renewable Energy. Coverage: 1948 - present
SPIE Digital Library The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually. All sources are searchable and there are also several browse options for proceedings (by year, symposium, volume number, volume title, technology). Publications included in the SPIE Digital Library include, the Proceedings of SPIE, Optical Engineering, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Journal of Biomedical Optics, and Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems.

Journals

Patents

Patents are an excellent source of technical information. See patent web guide for more information.

Patent Searching Reference Guide (CEAS Library)

Standards

Standards

ASTM Compass
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ASTM Compass provides full-text access to the full set of ASTM’s Standards (both current and historical versions), Special Technical Publications (STPs) and Conference Proceedings, Technical Manuals, and research journals such as the Journal of Testing and Evaluation.
Coverage 1931-present.

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International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
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Professional Societies

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