Assistant Professor and Reference & Liaison Librarian (STEM)
Kristyn Caragher
Contact:
Richard J. Daley Library
801 S. Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607
801 S. Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-2730
Resources for context on a problem
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AccessEngineeringAccessEngineering is an engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students
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Credo ReferenceGrowing collection of electronic reference books -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, bilinguals, almanacs, handbooks, atlases, and directories.
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Oxford Reference OnlineOxford Reference Online is a digital reference shelf of topical encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries with emphasis on Literature and Western Civilization . Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
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Engineering Case Studies Online-ProquestEngineering Case Studies Online will dramatically improve teaching and research by providing a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
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CQ : Congressional Quarterly ResearcherProvides snapshots of current affairs. Single-themed reports are researched and written by experienced observers from a range of viewpoints. From 1923 to present.
Articles
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ACM Digital LibraryACM Digital Library (formerly ACM Portal) offers full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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IEEE XploreIEEE journals and conference proceedings; Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journals and proceedings; all current IEEE Standards.
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Google ScholarSearches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Web of ScienceAccess to the Web of Science Core Collection which is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented. This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.
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Engineering Village 2Platform of Compendex and Inspec, the most comprehensive databases of engineering and technical research available. Backfile access only to Compendex (Engineering Index).
Tip: If you have problems with off campus access, use AnyConnect VPN. To install, go to AnyConnect VPN and make sure you select the Library-Resources group . Off campus users can also log in with username UICLib and password Eresources . Ignore the message to change password and select the search menu.
Popular Titles
Here are some newspapers and magazines that are either generally useful or particularly relevant to ECE:
(For any other titles, you can access them by going to the Journals link from the library homepage (under the searchbar) and entering the journal or magazine title into that searchbar.)
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Chicago Tribune (1985-current)This publication's detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need.