Assistant Professor and Reference & Liaison Librarian (STEM)
Kristyn Caragher
She/her/hers
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
- AccessEngineering
AccessEngineering is an engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students that provides access to the world's best-known, most-used collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information. Includes captions and transcripts.
- 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.
- Credo ReferenceProvides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.
- Engineering Case StudiesEngineering 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.
- 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.
Articles
- ACM Digital Library
This site provides access to tables of contents, abstracts, reviews, and full text of every article ever published by ACM and citations from major publishers in computing.
- IEEE XploreIEEE journals and conference proceedings; Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journals and proceedings; all current IEEE Standards.
Note: If you're unable to set up an IEEE account, go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. After creating an account, go to IEEE in the library website and sign in. - 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.
- Web of ScienceMultidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as published proceedings for over 12,000 conferences per year, and over 50,000 scholarly books. Allows searching for articles in the database that have cited a particular work, as well as perform other analytics.
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.)
- Chicago Tribune (1985-current)This publication's detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need.
- Wall Street Journal - Eastern edition (1984 - current)
(1984-present)