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Engineering: Getting Started

What's in This Guide

Welcome to the Engineering Subject Guide.  These pages provide access to engineering and related resources.

To get started on your research, click on one of the links below:Gear wheels

Books / e-Books / Handbooks & Videos - find books, e-books, and media

Standards - how to search for engineering standards

Article Databases - databases for finding articles

e-Journals - locate electronic journals

Conference Proceedings - how to find a paper from a conference

Technical Reports - find Web resources and technical reports of government agencies and organizations

Statistics Resources - find data sets and statistics to support project development

Materials Properties - reference sources of materials properties

Patents - information and resources for patent searching

Cite Sources - sources of information about various citation styles

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UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center. Searches almost everything.

Use this QuickSearch link to search Books, E-Books & Media.

Lastly, use this QuickSearch link to search Course Reserves.

Interlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service! Interlibrary Loan link.

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Library Search/Retrieval Options

 

UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center.

 


Prospector: a unified catalog of twenty-three academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. UW students, faculty and staff can borrow materials from Prospector.

 

 

yellow arrow on a sky blue boxInterlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service!