Library Guides: Engineering Research Guide: Overview

Purpose

Find Engineering Resources and Standards

Use this guide to help find engineering sources, databases, handbooks, standards, and more in many engineering subject areas.

Research and Writing Help

This guide will also walk users through the research process and provide tips for writing and finding engineering research, and citing sources.

Top Engineering Databases

ASTM Compass This link opens in a new window
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Current and historical ASTM standards
Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
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(Includes Compendex) Largest engineering database with articles and proceedings in all engineering fields.
Knovel This link opens in a new window
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Engineering and science handbooks in full-text: properties, formulas, and equations
SpringerMaterials This link opens in a new window
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Physical and chemical data in materials science
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Large, combined database of scholarly articles, books, and data sets

Additional Databases for Engineering Research

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Professional computer science journals, proceedings, and transactions from the Association for Computing Machinery
Building Green This link opens in a new window
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Case studies, articles, and news about green and environmentally friendly building techniques
Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Find full-text doctoral dissertations and select theses from the U.S. and around the world

An incomplete listing of MSU theses & dissertations can be found in this database. We recommend using ScholarWorks to search for MSU published theses & dissertations and research.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
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Electrical engineering and computing journals, proceedings, and standards
MADCAD This link opens in a new window
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Find online building codes
ScholarWorks This link opens in a new window
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Open Access research published by Montana State University faculty and students including theses & dissertations and journal articles
SciFinder-n (Registration Required) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of chemical literature including articles, patents, reactions, and structures. First time users register here.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Cross searchable, full-text database of papers on optics and photonics from SPIE journals and proceedings, as well as SPIE eBook titles

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