Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Information Adviser:
Michael Veitch

email : LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:
Katherine Dike 020 7815 6605
email: LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Core E-resources

ACM Digital Library [electronic resource].
Full text access to all ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) journals, magazines and proceedings (165 titles in total)

British Standards Online [electronic resource].
Database contains all current British Standards in full text. EN and ISO standards if adopted by British Standards appear in full text.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

Background E-resources

IEL Online (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of IEEE and IEE Journals & Conference Proceedings, as well as IEEE Standards, Transactions, Magazines and Letters. This comprises more than 4000 publication titles.

info4education: Engineering (Info 4 Education) [electronic resource].
Comprehensive full text coverage of product catalogues covering general engineering. Updated weekly.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource].
All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database. Strong in the Humanities, Languages, Science and Medicine.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource].
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

SPE's elibrary [electronic resource].
The eLibrary is a repository of the technical papers presented at SPE-sponsored conferences since the late 1950s and in SPE's technical journals since the early 1950s. Papers from the conferences of SPE's predecessor organization back to 1925 are also being added. The eLibrary currently offers access to more than 45,000 technical documents covering the evolution of technology in drilling, completion, exploration, production, facilities, reservoir simulation, formation evaluation, safety and environmental protection and risk management.

E-Books

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

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Selected Websites for this area.

ADAM (Advanced Design And Manufacturing)
A professionally refereed international R&D e-journal for engineering and management.

Arrick Robotics
This American site has links to other robot sites, from the serious to the fun.

Engineering
The site of "Engineering" magazine. Has the full text of some articles, including back issues, a suppliers database and job vacancies

Engineering Council
National representative body of the engineering profession in the UK. Very useful links to engineering institutions and web sites. Details of council activities and other related matters.

How Stuff Works
This U.S. site is a kind of web equivalent of the "How It Works" books, covering topics from the toilet to the rocket engine.

Institute of Physics
The "web site for physics and physicists" lists events, publications and activities of IoP, plus services to business, industry and education, etc.

Science Museum
Details of the collections, special exhibitions, visitor information etc.

Scirus
The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web

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