Rensselaer Libraries

Your Librarian for June 2010 session, Fran Scott
Office: Greene Building 3rd floor and Folsom Library, 2nd floor North (238)
Voice Mail: 276-6312, E-Mail: scottf2@rpi.edu

Housekeeping Items

• Library Survival Guide
  To help you use the collections and services of Folsom Library successfully

• Library Hours

• Logins for Library Databases, Materials and Services

• Evaluating Information on the Web (University of Iowa Library)

• Writing & Citing Guides

• Center for Communication Practices at Rensselaer

Article Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  Multi-disciplinary full text database including publications in nearly every area of academic study. (TUTORIAL PROVIDED)
• Compendex (Engineering Village)
  Indexing for national and international engineering journals and papers from engineering conference proceedings. Compendex covers content described above as well as backfiles of Engineering Index and the INSPEC (physics and engineering) database.
• CSA Engineering Research
  International serial and non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics/computation.
• Science Citation Index Expanded
  Citation databases treat the references of an article as index terms, allowing them to be searched.
• ScienceDirect
  ScienceDirect is a web information source for scientific, technical, and medical research (STM) that offers access to more than 1,100 journals across 16 fields of science. ScienceDirect offers full-text articles, browseable tables of contents, and article abstracts.

Search Tips

• Accessing Full Text Resources Using SFX
  SFX is a software tool that connects you from a database citation to available full text and other services from the Rensselaer Libraries.

Patents

• Introduction to Google Patent Search
  • PowerPoint Introduction by Colette Holmes for Introduction to Engineering (IED)course

• Google Patents
  • Advanced Search Engine
  • Search Help
  • FAQ

• Rensselaer Libraries' Guide to Patent Searching

Encyclopedias & Handbooks

• AccessScience: the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online
  Encyclopedia providing background information for scientific and technical topics.
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
  Resource for data on chemical substances. This latest edition features interactive tables and reference sections on everything from aqueous solubility of organic compounds, to flash point data of common substances.
• Credo Reference
  Simultaneously search a variety of reference works including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, handbooks, etc.
• ENGnetBase: Engineering Handbooks Online
  Compilation of essential engineering information contained in CRC Press handbooks.
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Online
  Wide scope of articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. Also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering.
• Knovel Interactive Books and Databases
  Knovel offers a system of interactive books and databases for quick accessibility of scientific and engineering information. For certain properties there are specific chemical equations and digital graphs. More information may be found at the Help Center on the main screen.
• Oxford Reference Online: Physical Sciences & Mathematics
  Oxford Reference Online provides several resources in its Physical & Mathematics section related to nanoscale science and engineering.

Standards/ Specifications/Codes

• Housekeeping Items
• Articles & Search Tips
• Patents
• Encyclopedias & Handbooks
• Standards/Specifications/Codes

Some of the content on this page was prepared by Colette Holmes, Management Librarian and adapted by Fran Scott, Manager of Reference and Instructional Services, Rensselaer Libraries, Troy, NY, scottf2@rpi.edu.