Books and Journals

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Search the Classic Catalog:

The Library Catalog is the best first access point for finding books and journals available at Cornell. If you cannot find what you need through the Catalog, try the following:

• For books not available at Cornell, search the combined catalogs of seven consortial major university libraries and place a request through Borrow Direct.
• For journals not available at Cornell, check the WorldCat database or speak with a Reference librarian.

Journal abbreviations: the catalog allows you to search journal titles by abbreviation.  Simply enter an abbreviation, or part of an abbreviation, as it appears in a citation; select "Title" search type, and the results will show all journal titles that match the characters entered.  For example, "z phy" will return all subsets of "Zeitschrift fur Physik"; "j fluid mech" will return Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  For broader results, you may enter the abbreviation, but choose "Journal Title Abbreviation" for search type.  Other search options...

E-Journals 

Articles in Engineering

• Compendex
• GeoRef
• INSPEC
• Web of Science
• Databases by discipline (all)...

See also the Find Articles feature of the Catalog.

E-Books

New Books

Other Resources:

• Class Bibliographies
  Helpful bibliographies and how-to guides for Engineering courses and resources.
  
  
• Engineering Research Guides
  Use the Engineering Research Guides for indexes to journals and conferences, full-text electronic resources, technical reports, and societies, listed by engineering field. Most of these databases are available by Cornell subscription only. Help is available at engrref@cornell.edu and (607) 255-5935.
  
  
• Patents
  Use Micropatent, US Patent and Trademark Office, or Patent Fetcher
  
  
• Question of the Month - compiled by the engineering reference librarians. Read answers to frequently-asked questions.
  
  
• Standards
  
  ILI Standards database allows you to search by keyword, Standard Number and other criteria
  
  
• Technical Reports
  You can search in the NTIS database.  Use the Technical Reports Guide for help.
  
  
• Theses and Dissertations
  Cornell -- search the Library Catalog.  For works since 1996, you may also use  Current Research@Cornell
  For broader searches, use Proquest Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts or Theses.org