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HOW TO LOCATE ENGINEERING LITERATURE

TYPE OF MATERIAL	PRODUCER	ACCESS TOOLS	LOCATION
Books	Authors, Publishers, Societies, Companies	UC Library /OhioLINK catalogs , Books Online, WorldCat (OCLC), Books in Print, Library catalogs on the Web, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, etc.	UC Libraries, OhioLINK delivery, Books Online, ILL (ILLIAD) , Purchase, Local Libraries
Reference Books, Bibliographies, Directories, Catalogs, Encyclopedias, Databooks, Handbooks, Dictionaries, Tables	Publisher, Companies, Societies	UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs , WorldCat (OCLC), Engineering Reference Guides, Books Online, Publisher catalogs, Web search engines	UC Libraries, Books Online, Public Library, Other Local Libraries, Companies, CD ROMs, Engineering Library Databooks page, Engineering Reference Guides
Journals	Publishers, Societies, Companies	UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs , WorldCat (OCLC), Library catalogs on the Web, Full-Text Journals, Serials Directory	UC Libraries, OhioLINK Libraries, Public Library, Other Local Libraries, Electronically through the UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs
Journal articles	Authors	Databases at UC, OhioLINK Research Databases, Full-Text Journals, Web search engines, Paper indexes and abstracts	UC Libraries, OhioLINK Libraries, Local Libraries, OhioLINK EJC, Full-Text Journals, ILL (ILLIAD) .
Conference proceedings	Societies, Publishers for Societies, Companies, Government	UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs (KEYWORDS search), COMPENDEX and other databases, ProceedingsFirst, Library catalogs on the Web, Web search engines	UC Libraries, OhioLINK Libraries, ILL (ILLIAD) , Purchase at the conference
Conference papers	Presenters	COMPENDEX and other databases on network and OhioLINK Older paper indexes and abstracts, PapersFirst, Web Search Engines	UC Libraries, OhioLINK Libraries, Buy copy at conference, ILL (ILLIAD)
Government documents	US government departments and agencies, State governments, Foreign goverments	UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs, SciTechResources.gov, Marchive Web DOCS, State Checklist of State Publications	UC Libraries - Government Documents (not all gov't docs are listed in the UC Library Catalog), OhioLINK libraries, US Gov't Bookstores or libraries, ILL (ILLIAD) , GPO Access, Web
Technical Reports (of govt-funded research)	US Government agencies, Research institutes, Universities, Companies	UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs , NTIS database, Energy Citations Database, DOE Information Bridge, Aerospace & High Technology Database, NASA Technical Reports Server, Web search engines	UC Libraries, EPA Library, Order from DOE, NASA, NTIS, ILL ( ILLIAD) , Web
Technical Reports (corporate)	Companies	Databases, Web search engine	Company, Websites
Dissertations	US, Canadian and foreign universities	ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, NDLTD, Ohio theses	ILL (ILLIAD) , Write to author, Buy from UMI, Author's advisor or author's department OhioLINK
Standards and regulations	US Government, US Military, Industry, Societies	UC Library/OhioLINK catalogs (search on society name), Marcive Web DOCS, Standards reference guide, IEEE	UC Libraries, OhioLINK Libraries, Public Library, Issuing agency, ILL (ILLIAD) . Regulations on Lexis/Nexis, IEEE standards, Web
Patents	US Patent office, Patent office of other countries	Patent databases on web, Patent reference guide, Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar online), SCOPUS, Other databases	USPTO, Espacenet, Freepatentsonline.com, Cincinnati Public Library, Patent offices of other countries, Order from NTIS

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Created by Dorothy Byers: September 20, 1994
Send comments to: Dorothy F. Byers, Head, Engineering and Mathematics Libraries

Last modified: jwc 10/3/08

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