The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library
or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information
related to Electrical & Computer Engineering, please contact the Science and Engineering
Center: 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our
Ask a
Librarian service.
Use these databases to locate citations or full text for journal
articles, conference papers, technical reports and theses in electrical and
computer engineering. Once you have located relevant articles, search URSUS by journal
or book title to determine if Fogler
Library owns the item. We may own journals in print or online or both
formats. You will need to check the record listed as Serials (for print holdings)
and E-Serials (for electronic holdings). Must click on the
"Restricted Access UM" link to see the online holdings for this
campus. If we do
not own the item you need, consider requesting through Interlibrary
Loan. Remember most of the articles listed in these databases cannot be
located by using a regular web browser such as Google. These databases
provide the means to locating scholarly research articles.
Tips for Searching:
Use truncation to allow for the various spellings of a word. Truncation symbol for most databases is the * (asterisk). For
example: Comput* will retrieve: computer, computing, computers,
computational, etc.
Use double quotes to search for an exact phrase: "wave
energy" will retrieve much more precise results. Searching
without quotes in most databases yields a search for - wave and
energy. This finds the words anywhere in the same record not as a phrase.
Check the length of the article. Would probably
not want to pursue articles under 3 pages unless you are looking for news
items to gather information on companies or research labs making news.
Use synonyms to make your search more comprehensive. Link synonyms
with 'or' operator. For example: underwater or submers*
Link concepts with the 'and' operator. Use parentheses to group
synonyms together when using one search box. For example: (hybrid*
or electric*) and (automobile* or vehicle* or cars or car)
When you have located some relevant articles, review the abstract and
subject headings of these records. Utilize subject headings for more precise
results. Most databases you can click on a subject heading for a new
search and then refine this new search.
Utilize the bibliography at the end of relevant research papers to expand
your list of resources. Some of these references may have
errors. It has been found that 20% of the references cited will have
an error.
Utilize articles that are more than one year old and use the Web of
Science database to locate more recent articles that have cited the know
paper.
INSPEC. Coverage is 1969 - Present. Part of the Engineering Villageinterface. Provides worldwide coverage of the
research literature for the fields of physics, electrical engineering,
electronics, computer hardware and software, control engineering and
information technology. It is produced by the Institution of
Electrical Engineers, Great Britain. Literature is reviewed from over
3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings each year. Database is
updated weekly. Searching in combination with Compendex is recommended and
utilize the "Remove Duplicates" feature. If you need
articles prior to 1969 use the print copy of Electrical and Electronics
Abstracts which is located in the Science and Engineering Center Reference
Room at Sci Index TK1.D4, 1903 - 1968.
IEEE Xplore & IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). Complete full-text
access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). Includes over 160 journals
published by the IEEE and IET, transactions, conference proceedings and
active IEEE standards. Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and
conference proceedings and further back to 1913 for selected publications.
Offers an alerting service, saved searches, and other valuable Web 2.0
capabilities for users who register for free personal accounts.
Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary
engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals,
conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more
precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author,
author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and
title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title).
Compendex is part of the Engineering Villageinterface. If you need
articles prior to 1970 use the print copy of Engineering Index which is
located in the Science and Engineering Center Reference Room at Sci Index TA1.E6, 1884 -
1995.
Web
of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version
of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and
Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for
bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important
known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more
recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not
include books, technical reports, conference papers or theses.
Academic
Search Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over
3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering,
and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more
comprehensive search, search Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose
Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select these multiple databases.
DOE Information Bridge. FULL TEXT DATABASE. Full-text reports for 1995 to present
contracted by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
Databases that may also be helpful:
Business
Source Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.Provides full text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is
back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed
company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
Citidel. Computing and
Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. Guide to
internet tools and research resources developed by a university consortium.
CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer
Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison,
learning, speech, neural networks). Access is provided by browsing a subject
category or searching by keyword. Full text of the cited references is
available.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. A collection of bibliographies on
subjects such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer graphics, etc.
maintained by researchers worldwide. Journal articles, conference papers, and
technical reports are listed. Some links to the online fulltext.
Computing Research
Repository (CoRR). This service is sponsored by the ACM,
arXiv.org, NCSTRL and AAAI. This is a database of preprints in
computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting
preprints are provided. These preprints are not refereed.
Digital
Dissertations. (Proquest) Contains
records of dissertations and theses written at American universities. Dissertations
written at University of Maine since 1996 are available online, full-text.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free scholarly
journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also
provides access by broad subject areas.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added
into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in
full text.
E-Print Network. Maintained
by the Dept. of Energy. Allows simultaneous searching of a variety of
preprint servers.
Energy
Citations Database. Coverage is 1948 - Present. Contains
bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical
reports and papers sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its
predecessor agencies. It provides coverage of traditional and alternative
forms of energy production and conservation. Many aspects of
electrical engineering and applied physics are covered including fission and
fusion.
Google
Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes
scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar
includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results
based on their relevance criteria.
Ingenta. (Formerly UnCover). Coverage is 1988 - Present. It is a global research
gateway providing free online searching of over 20,000 journals in all
disciplines. Indexing is limite to author, keyword from the title and
abstract (not all records have an abstract), and journal title. Subject
headings are not available. It is updated daily and this would be an
excellent choice to look for articles published in a particular journal or
published very recently.
MasterFILE
Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 1,830 general
reference, business and industry, . Full text
extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is
available for an additional 1,000 journals. Cover over 75 magazines in
electronics and power.
MathSciNet. Coverage is 1940 - Present. Searchable database of citations and
abstracts of mathematical journal articles and books. It also includes
full-text reviews of many of the articles. This is the electronic
version of Mathematical Reviews (Sci Index QA 1 M7) and Current
Mathematical Publications (shelved in Sci Periodicals).
MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
NASA
Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects,
archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other
relevant worldwide research.
National Standards
Systems Network (NSSN). Searchable bibliographic database of thousands of
industrial standards and specifications and links to many standards-issuing
organizations.
Science.gov. New improved gateway to
U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are
collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked
order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700
web sites.
Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index
Q1.A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you
to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles
that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how
to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online
access is available through
Web
of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present.
ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect
interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for
full text searching and across a variety of databases.
SPIN:
Searchable Physics Information Notices. A bibliographic database
published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks
with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also
includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical
Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
Virtual
Technical Reports Center. Maintained by the University of
Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text
and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.
New York
Times. 1999−present. Indexing and full text of this
important newspaper.
Online Newspaper.com.
Provides links to U.S. and international
newspaper archives that are searchable. Also has links to TV and radio
broadcast archives.
PE Magazine. News magazine from the National Society
of Professional Engineers.
ProQuest
Newspapers. Full text of more than 500 U.S.
and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news
sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers
included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and
selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine
Morning Sentinel (1993-1997)/
URSUS. University of Maine System
catalog. Use the Request function to request items from other
campuses. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
MaineCat. College and
university libraries in Maine. Use the Request function to request
items from other libraries. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
WorldCat. International catalog containing the holdings of over 8,000 libraries.
Great resource to verify a book, conference proceedings, journal or
technical report.
Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages
including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials
are extensive.
National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
NetLibrary. A collection of 7,400 e-books (3,400 copyrighted titles and 4,000 in the
public domain). Although access to the public domain titles is unrestricted,
users must create a personal account in order to check out copyrighted
titles and in order to access these titles from non-University IP addresses
or commercial internet service providers. The check-out period is 4 hours
and can be repeated.
Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of
Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and
Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000
illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology,
10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich
content, terms, images and video.
Bartleby.com. Dictionaries,
thesaurus, quotations, etc.
Communications Standard Dictionary. Sci Ref TK5102.W437
1996
Handbook for Digital Signal Processing. Sci Ref TK5102.5.H318 1993
Handbook for Sound Engineers. Sci Ref TK7881.4.H36 1991
Handbook of Electronics Formulas, Symbols, and
Definitions. Sci Ref TK7825.B73
Handbook of Thin Film Materials. Academic Press, 2002. (Sci Ref TA418.9.T45H34 2002 vol. 1 - 5.)
Contains sections on ferroelectric and dielectric thin films, semiconductor
and superconductor thin films and nanomaterials and magnetic thin films.
High Performance Printed Circuit Boards. McGraw-Hill, 2000. ORO Stacks TK7868.P7H545 2000. Provides
a wide range of property and performance data and also includes
chapters on design, soldering, and cleaning. Also has a chapter on
environmental concerns and reliability.
IC Master. Sci Ref TK7874.5.I35
IEC
61360 Component Directory. This online handbook contains the
classes and associated characteristic properties (data element types or DETs)
for electric/electronic components and materials used in electrotechnical
equipment and systems.
Logic IC Master Reference. Sci Ref TK7868.L6H451
Means Electrical Cost Data. Sci Ref TK435.M42
Mechatronics Handbook. CRC Press, 2002. ORO Stacks TJ163.12.M434 2002.
NSSN.
National Standards Systems Network. Searchable bibliographic database of
thousands of industrial standards and specifications and links to many
standards-issuing organizations. Provides information on purchasing
standards from Global Engineering Documents.
TechStreet. The information store for technical professionals. Index to standards
from more than 300 organizations. Can download a standard online by
payment with a credit card.
STANDARDS
ANSI / IEEE Standards. (Standards Collection, Sci Ref TK275.A56) Fogler Library owns some IEEE standards. They are
shelved in the standards section of the Science and Engineering Reference Collection, by
standard number. Search the IEEE
Standards Products Catalog by subject to find the standard you need. Once you
know the number of the standard, check the Fogler Library shelf or call Martin Wallaceat
581-1678 to see if we own the standard.
National Electrical Code Handbook. 8th ed. National Fire Protection Assoc., 1999.
(Standards Collection, Sci Ref TK260.N47b )
National Electrical Safety Code 2002
ed. IEEE, 2002. (Standards
Collection, Sci Ref TK152.N345 2002) and NESC Handbook. (Discussion of the National Electrical Safety Code) 5th ed. IEEE
2001. (Sci Ref TK152.N345 2001)
Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation. Benchmarks. A non-profit corporation
formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant
benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance
computers.
C|net. Online home of
cable television's C|net program. Includes current reviews of software and hardware,
industry news and a vast archive of freeware, shareware and demos
DevX Sourcebank. Collection
of source code and other resources gathered from hundreds of technical sites
around the Web. Searching and browsing features are available.
EDN Magazine. portal
to a wide array or resources.
EE Compendium. electronic
engineering and embedded system programming.
Energy Tutorial. Provides introduction to over 25 energy production technologies.
Engineers Edge. contains
design and technical data, equations, current news, job announcements, links
to free trade journals.
INFOMINE. Scholary internet
resources. University of California, Riverside
NIST Data Gateway. Covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different
scientific disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
American Men and Women of Science. (Sci Ref Q141.A47 20th ed.)
Dictionary of Canadian
Biography Online. This first phase presents persons who died
between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls
within these years. Contains many mathematicians and scientists.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (Sci Ref Q141.D5)
World of Scientific
Biography. (Eric Weisstein's). Interactive encyclopedia listing
over 250 important researchers in mathematics. Links to information
about their contributions.
Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages
including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials
are extensive.
National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
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