Electrical & Computer Engineering Research Guide

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Recommended Reference Works
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics CRCnetBASE CRC Press Handbook and Reference Collection in addition to ENGnetBASE ENGnetBASE CRC Press Engineering Handbook and Reference Collection Knovel Library Engineering and Science Handbook and Reference Collection	High-Tech Dictionary Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations Referex Large collection of engineering e-books and references Safari Tech Books Online

Databases / Indexes

Book Indexes

Search these databases for books.

VIRGO
Information on over 4 million books, journals, and other items held in the University of Virginia's libraries, including business, health sciences, and law.
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Catalogue
Search for books, technical reports, journals and conference proceedings in all areas of science, engineering, health sciences and agriculture.
Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. These resources include many hard-to-find and scarce items often not readily available elsewhere. UVA faculty and students may request books from CRL's collections via Interlibrary Services.
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology
The Linda Hall Library, a private institution funded by endowment, serves the scientific research community as a resource for engineering and technical materials, including over 600,000 volumes, 1.1 million microforms, U.S. Patents since 1946, and subscriptions to 16,500 journals.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Contains records from thousands of North American libraries.

Conference Proceedings Indexes

Search this database for citations to conference proceedings papers.

Conference Papers Index 1982+ (CSA)
Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world.
PapersFirst 1993+ (FS)
Citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia. Updated monthly.

Current Awareness Services

Many journal publishers and database vendors offer alerting services which you can use to have journal tables of contents or other information about articles of interest E-mailed to you on a periodic basis. Some of these services appear below. You can learn more about keeping current in your field at Alison McNab's Keeping Your Research Up to Date web page or at the Engineering Current Awareness Services web page from the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL).

Journal Indexes

- Search these indexes for citations to journal articles.
- To get more information about a database, click the information icon ( ).
- Additional electrical engineering databases are available on the Brown Library Databases page.
- Use the Find@UVA journal finder page to locate e-journals, e-magazines and e-newspapers.

ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies & Engineering 1981+ (CSA)
Includes new technologies in all areas of engineering, science and allied subject areas.
Electronics & Communications Abstracts (CSA) 1981+
Covers electric and electronic circuits and components, semiconductor materials, telephone and other line communications, lasers, light, optics and optic devices.
IEEE Xplore
Good database for graduate research. Indexes Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers journals and conference proceedings. Provides full-text access from 1998 to the present for 106 journals and magazines and over 345 conferences with content updated weekly.
Compendex 1969+ (Engineering Village)
Good database for graduate research. The world's premiere interdisciplinary engineering database.
INSPEC 1969+ (Engineering Village)
Good database for graduate research. Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in computing, electrical engineering, physics.
INSPEC Archive Science Abstracts 1898-1968 (Ovid)
The Inspec Archive Science Abstracts provides access to 71 years of science abstracts in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, and control technology. In addition to the abstracts, this database includes the accompanying tables, graphs and diagrams when available.
SPIEWeb
Index to over 90,000 SPIE conference proceedings and other publications. Includes many abstracts.

Web Resources

Comprehensive Subject Lists

Chips

Circuit Diagrams

Component Locators

Organizations

Patents

Patent Information on the Web

Software, Applets, etc.

Standards

National Electrical Code Internet Connection
(See also Brown Library Reference Collection)
Scientific Standards Information on the Web

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