This guide lists selected resources available for students and faculty at UBC in Mechanical Engineering. Please contact a librarian (Ursula Ellis, UBC Vancouver; Barbara Sobol, UBC Okanagan) if you need more assistance.
If you have a specific article you're searching for, Summon is a good place to start. Summon lets you simultaneously search the Library's book collection and many full text journal articles. See the sidebar for tips on searching Summon. If you're searching for articles on a topic, you'll probably want to search a database which is more focused on engineering than Summon. Here are some starting points for finding engineering journal articles or conference proceedings. Look for the icons to check for full text articles. Compendex: the gold standard engineering database. Well-rounded coverage of all engineering disciplines. Web of Science: multidisciplinary database which includes sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Less depth of engineering coverage than Compendex. Allows you to search for for articles which cite an article (and these will generally vary from what you find in Google Scholar). Google Scholar: from off-campus, use this link to Google Scholar to activate UBC eLinks to full text. You may also want to search the following databases: PubMed: the most comprehensive biomedical database; excellent for biomedical engineering. SAE Digital Library: from the Society for Automotive Engineers. Useful for automobile design and for injury biomechanics. IEEE Xplore: the core electrical and electronic engineering database; excellent coverage of mechatronics. SPIE Digital Library: focuses on optics and photonics literature. SciFinder Scholar: the most prominent chemistry database; includes the ability to search by a chemical structure you've drawn. You need to create an individual login using a ubc.ca email address the first time you access SciFinder. Metadex Materials Science Collection: materials literature. Please note that not all of the articles you find in these databases will be available full text. You can check in Summon or the UBC Library Catalogue - or ask a librarian - to see if older articles are available in print at the Library. If UBC does not have an article, you can usually request it through Interlibrary Loan at no charge.
Search Summon or the UBC Library Catalogue to find books. You may also want to search individual science and engineering ebook collections listed below. Use Document Delivery to have a book sent from UBC-O to UBC-V or vice versa: This service usually takes 2-4 business days. Please note that many older books at UBC Vancouver are located in the ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval System) in IK Barber Learning Centre. You can order these using the "Request this item: Recall/ASRS" option above.
eBook Collections ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online CRC Handbooks in Civil Engineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Metals and Materials Engineering. MATERIALSnetBASE Includes handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias that explain the theory, data, and processes shaping diverse materials applications. Covers from ceramics and textiles, to bioscience and pharmacology. SpringerLink Full-text online access to books and journals published by Springer. Knovel Basic Academic Online handbooks in science and engineering, particularly good for chemistry and related disciplines ASM Handbooks Online Provides online access to the complete ASM Handbook series including the multi-volume ASM Engineering Materials Handbook and ASM Metals Handbook. Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science Short lectures on such topics as Biomedical Engineering, Computer Architecture, Digital Circuits and Systems, Engineers, Technology and Society, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Solid State Materials and Devices, and more. More UBC Library eBooks
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text Good source for U.S. and Canadian theses. International searchable index of dissertations and theses. The full text of dissertations and theses added to the database since 1997 are available to UBC users. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. To make it easier to search across institutional repositories, NDLTD has initiated a project to harvest metadata from university electronic theses and dissertations. Electronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities. cIRcle: UBC's Digital Repository UBC theses and dissertations from 1973 to the present are available in full text in cIRcle: UBC's Digital Repository. A project is underway to digitize older UBC theses. Currently, theses and dissertations from 1919 to 1930, are available in this collection. All theses and dissertations completed at UBC's Okanagan campus are available in cIRcle (2005-present). OAIster OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources. OAIster is useful for searching multiple online archives for theses and dissertations simultaneously. How To Find UBC Theses & Dissertations An FAQ guide for locating theses and dissertations completed at the University of British Columbia.
ASTM Standards CSA Standards IEEE Standards Online UBC Science & Engineering Library Standards Guide See this guide for more details on standards at UBC Library.
esp@cenet is an excellent place to search for patents from more than 80 countries. For more details on patent searching, contact your librarian or see the Science & Engineering Patents Research Guide.
How to Cite Sources - UBC Library RefWorks and RefShare - Citation Management Software RefWorks allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references and links from online databases and catalogues. Copyright at UBC Evaluating Print Sources - UBC Library Evaluating Internet Sources - UBC Library
