Effective Use of Internet Resources for

Teaching, Learning and Research

 

An ASEE-SE Workshop, April 2, 2006

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Fred O’Bryant, Facilitator

 

 

 

 

Links to Resources

 

            Below are links to the resources mentioned in the text of this workbook.  All were working at the time of printing.  Certain fee-based databases and search services do not show link addresses, as these will vary from library to library.  Please check with your local librarians for information about these resources.

 

 

Finding Journal Articles

 

          University of Alabama Libraries Databases

                   (http://www.lib.ua.edu/databases/ )

 

Most major databases are available only on a subscription basis.  You should check with your local library to see which databases and which vendors are available to you at your home institution.  The link above is provided for the convenience of those attending this workshop.  The resources available from the University of Alabama will NOT operate from this link EXCEPT when using a UA campus computer.  Check with your local library for access at your home institution.

 

The resources shown below should work from any computer unless otherwise noted:

 

ASCE Publications CE Database

            (http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html)

ACS Free Search

            (http://pubs.acs.org/wls/journals/query/subscriberSearch.html)

CiteSeer

            (http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/CiteSeer/)

DOE Information Bridge

            (http://www.doe.gov/bridge/)

Energy Citations Database

            (http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/)

EnergyFiles

            (http://www.osti.gov/energyfiles/)

ETDEWEB

            (http://www.etde.org/ETDEWEB/)

INIS Database

            (http://www.iaea.org/inis/inisdb.htm)

NASA Scientific and Aerospace Technical Reports

            (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/Star.html)

OSTI Information Bridge

            (http://www.osti.gov/)

Public STINET

            (http://stinet.dtic.mil/)

PubMed

            (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi)

SAE Publications Search

            (http://www.sae.org/jsp/jsps/advancesearch.jsp)

Scitation

            (http://scitation.aip.org/)

TLCat—Transportation Union Catalog

            (http://ntl.bts.gov/link.html)

Transportation Research Board Publications Index

            (http://pubsindex.trb.org/)

TRIS Online

            (http://trisonline.bts.gov/search.cfm)

 

 

Finding Books

 

Amazon.com

            (http://www.amazon.com)

Barnes & Noble.com

            (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/)

Bibliotheque Nationale

            (http://www.bnf.fr/pages/catalogues.htm)

Bookfinder.com

            (http://www.bookfinder.com/)

British Library Catalogues

            (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/toppage.html)

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Catalogue

            (http://cat.cisti.nrc.ca/)

CATNYP – New York Public Library – Science, Industry and Business

            (http://catnyp.nypl.org/)

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog

            (http://catalog.crl.edu/)

German National Library of Science and Technology

            (http://tib-hannover.de/en/catalogues/)

Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences

            (http://www.las.ac.cn:90/index_en.asp)

Library of Congress (United States)

            (http://www.loc.gov/index.html)

Libweb—Library WWW Servers

            (http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/)

Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology

            (http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/)

North Carolina State University Libraries Online Catalog

            (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/)

Open WorldCat (OCLC)

            (http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/tryit/default.htm)

Powell’s Technical Books

            (http://www.powells.com/technicalbooks)

RedLightGreen

            (http://www.redlightgreen.com/ucwprod/web/workspace.jsp)

Voyager Online Catalog – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

            (http://voyager.db.erau.edu/)

 

 

Reference Books

 

eFunda Engineering Fundamentals

            (http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm)

ENGnetBASE

(Check with your local library for availability)

ENVIROnetBASE

(Check with your local library for availability)

Knovel Interactive Library

(Check with your local library for availability)

MATHnetBASE

(Check with your local library for availability)

McGraw-Hill Digital Engineering Library

(Check with your local library for availability)

Safari Tech Books Online

(Check with your local library for availability)

 

 

Web Searching

 

Athenus

            (http://www.athenus.com/)

BUBL Information Service

            (http://www.bubl.ac.uk/)

Clusty

            (http://clusty.com/)

Dogpile

            (http://www.dogpile.com/)

EEVL

            (http://www.eevl.ac.uk/)

Globalspec

            (http://www.globalspec.com/)

Google

            (http://www.google.com/)

Google Scholar

            (http://scholar.google.com/)

Grokker

            (http://www.grokker.com/)

Infomine—Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

            (http://infomine.ucr.edu/)

Ixquick

            (http://www.us.ixquick.com/)

KartOO

            (http://www.kartoo.com/)

Librarians’ Internet Index

            (http://www.lii.org/)

Mooter

            (http://www.mooter.com/)

MSN Search

            (http://search.msn.com/)

Pinakes—a Subject Launchpad

            (http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html)

Scirus

            (http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/)

Scout Report Archives

            (http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/index.php)

Teoma [now called Ask.com]

            (http://search.ask.com/)

WWW Virtual Library—Engineering

            (http://vlib.org/Engineering)

Yahoo! Search

            (http://search.yahoo.com/)

            Information Quality WWW Virtual Library

                        (http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm)

 

 

Government Information

 

DOE Information Bridge

            (http://www.osti.gov/bridge/basicsearch.jsp)

DTIC—Defense Technical Information Center

            (http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/)

Energy Citations Database

            (http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/)

EPA Information Sources

            (http://www.epa.gov/epahome/resource.htm)

NASA Scientific and Aerospace Technical Reports

            (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/Star.html)

NASA Technical Reports Server

            (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/)

National Transportation Library

            (http://ntl.bts.gov/)

OSTI Information Bridge

            (http://www.osti.gov/)

Science.gov—Firstgov for Science

            (http://www.science.gov/)

TRIS Online

            (http://trisonline.bts.gov/search.cfm)

 

 

Patents, Trademarks and Copyright

 

Copyright and the University Community (University of Texas)

            (http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/admin3.htm)

Copyright Information Resources (University of Virginia Libraries)

            (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/acquisitions/copyright/)

Creative Commons

            (http://creativecommons.org/)

Science Commons

            (http://sciencecommons.org/)

European Patent Office—esp@cenet Portal

            (http://www.espacenet.com/)

Issues in Scholarly Information (University of Virginia Libraries)

            (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholcomm.html)

Patent Searching—Tutorial and Guide to Online Resources and Information (University of Texas)

            (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent-tutorial/index.htm)

TESS—Trademark Electronic Search System

            (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk)

USPTO Patents Database

            (http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html)

Patent Alert

            (http://www.patentalert.com/)

Web Based Patent Searching Tutorial (Univ. California at San Diego)

            (http://scilib.ucsd.edu/howto/guides/patsearch/index.html)

 

 

Standards

 

ANSI—American National Standards Institute

            (http://www.ansi.org/)

ASTM—American Society for Testing and Materials

            (http://www.astm.org/)

BSI—British Standards Institution

            (http://www.bsi-global.com/index.xalter)

IEEE—Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

            (http://www.ieee.org/portal/site)

ILI

            (http://www.ili.co.uk/)

ISO—International Organization for Standardization

            (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage)

NISO—National Information Standards Organization

            (http://www.niso.org/)

NIST—National Institute of Standards and Technology

            (http://www.nist.gov/)

NSSN (originally, National Standards Systems Network)

            (http://www.nssn.org/)

WSSN—World Standards Services Network

            (http://www.wssn.net/WSSN/index.html)

 

 

Technical Reports and Preprints

 

arXiv.org

            (http://arxiv.org/)

GrayLIT Network

            (http://www.osti.gov/graylit/)

GreyNet—Grey Literature Network Service

            (http://www.greynet.org/pages/1/index.htm)

NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library

            (http://www.ncstrl.org/)

NTIS—National Technical Information Service

            (http://www.ntis.gov/)

NTRS—NASA Technical Reports Server

            (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/)

Virtual Technical Reports Center

            (http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html)

 

 

 

Military Information

 

ASSIST—Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System

            (http://assist.daps.dla.mil/online/start/)

DefenseLINK Search

            (http://www.defenselink.mil/search/)

Defense Supply Center Columbus

            (http://www.dscc.dla.mil/)

Dudley Knox Library of the Naval Postgraduate School

            (http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/militaryinfo.htm)

Edugate

            (https://ca.dtic.mil/edugate/)

Firstgov

            (http://www.firstgov.gov/)

NTIS—National Technical Information Service

            (http://www.ntis.gov/)

Public STINET

(http://stinet.dtic.mil/)

Regulations.gov

            (http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main)

SearchMil.com

            (http://www.searchmil.com/)

 

 

 

Teaching Aids, Demonstrations and Images

 

World Lecture Hall

            (http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm)

MIT World

            (http://mitworld.mit.edu/index.php)

MIT OpenCourseWare

            (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html)

MERLOT

            (http://www.merlot.org/Home.po)

Google Image Search

            (http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi)

 

Engineer and Society: Ethics, Economics and Sociology

 

Lexis-Nexis

            (Check with your local library for availability)

CQ Researcher

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Alternative Press Index

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Ethnic Newswatch

            (Check with your local library for availability)

World News Connection

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science

            (http://onlineethics.org/)

National Institute of Engineering Ethics

            (http://www.murdough.ttu.edu/pd.cfm?pt=NIEE)

Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics

            (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jherkert/ethicind.html)

ATLA Religion Database

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Philosopher’s Index

            (Check with your local library for availability)

ABI/Inform

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Econlit

            (Check with your local library for availability)

FACTIVA

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Sociological Abstracts

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Social Sciences Citation Index

            (Check with your local library for availability)

Plagiarism Resource Site

            (http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/)

MOSS—Measure of Software Similarity

            (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html)

Plagiarism Tutorial (North Carolina State University)

            (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/tutorial/index.html)

 

Keeping Current

 

Check with your local librarians about setting up database, publisher, society or other kinds of alerts, if you have questions or problems.

 

Powell’s Technical Books

            (http://www.powells.com/technicalbooks)

Current Awareness Services for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing

            (http://www.eevl.ac.uk/current_awareness_services.html)

Tile.net / Lists

            (http://www.tile.net/lists/)

CataList—the Official Catalog of LISTSERV Lists

            (http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html)

Bloglines

            (http://www.bloglines.com/)

Wikipedia

            (http://www.wikipedia.org/)

BiblioExpress

            (http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioexpress.htm)

Bibliography Builder

            (http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/bb.html)

Scholars’s Aid Lite

            (http://www.scholarsaid.com/)

Looksmart’s Furl

            (http://www.furl.net/)

del.icio.us

            (http://del.icio.us/)

Connotea

            (http://www.connotea.org/)

 

 

Always ask your local librarians for assistance finding and using these and other useful resources that may be available to you from your home institution!