Hi, I'm David Evans, the Academic Support Librarian for the University of Greenwich Engineering degrees running at the Medway Campus. I'm here to provide you with library support during your studies.
These pages are intended to provide you with information on selected resources in your subject area available from the Drill Hall Library and other reputable agencies and organisations.
Please contact me using one of the following methods:
- Call into the Drill Hall Library to see me.
- Leave a comment (see below) on this page for anyone to view: tell us what you are reading, recommend useful text books and websites or ask me a question.
- Book an appointment with me for help with a specific enquiry or a library skills training session. Use the online form or call me on 01634 883319.
- Chat with me right now by using live help
Books
The Drill Hall Library catalogue contains all the books currently held in the Drill Hall Library. Help and advice is available on using the catalogue. Please call into the library and see me for help or use our online presentation. You need to use the catalogue to locate material in the Drill Hall. The Engineering collection covers several classmarks which are located in different areas of the library.
Some useful classmarks
| Software engineering | 005.1 | Engineering & applied operations | 620 | Electrical engineering | 621.3 |
| Military and nautical engineering | 623 | Civil engineering | 624 | Railroads & roads | 625 |
| Hydraulics | 627 | Sanitary & municipal engineering | 628 | Vehicle technology | 629.22 |
| Chemical engineering | 660 | Metallurgy | 669 | Manufacturing processes | 670 |
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Author Zeid, Abrahim Title Mastering CAD/CAM
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Author Blackwell, G. (ed) Title Surface-mount technology for PC boards
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Author Dieter, G. (ed) Title Engineering design: a materials and processing approach
Printed Journals
Use the library catalogue to search for printed journals held in the Drill Hall, these are shelved in the journals section and are arranged on the shelves alphabetically by title. Printed journals in the Drill Hall include:
- Bulk solids & powder science & technology
- Concrete
- Construction news
- Game developer
- Ground engineering
- IEE computing and control engineering
- IEEE transactions (various titles)
- International journal of robotics research
- Magazine of concrete research
- Materials and structures
- Materials science and technology
- Measurement science and technology
- MSDN magazine
- New civil engineer
- Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers (various titles)
- Structural engineering
- Tunnels and tunnelling
Electronic Journals
University of Greenwich students The University subscribes to a vast number of journals in an electronic format. Many of the subscriptions are available in full-text. To access e-journal subscriptions please use the electronic journal management system Swetswise.
Databases
Databases are an excellent means of keeping abreast of developments in your field of study, and provide either the full text of journal articles or a bibliographic reference and abstract.
A full list of available resources is provided in the databases section of the Library & Computing area in the Student Portal. The most relevant databases for your subject are listed below. You can access these databases on campus or off campus – you must access via the Student Portal at all times. You cannot login to the websites directly.
One of the databases, SwetsWise, functions as a portal service. That is, it effectively includes the content of many of the other databases. Therefore, we would often recommend that you first attempt your search in this database.
If you'd like help in using any of the databases listed, then please see the section Training on this subject guide for details of workshops or to book one-to-one training.
Engineering sources
ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews and over 54,000 full-text articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations, plus the use of a powerful search engine. Full-text access from University of Greenwich network via http://www.pubs.asce.org. Alternatively, search by title of journal via SwetsWise. For external access, please use the proxy server.
Engineering Village 2 A route to EI Compendex together with many valuable websites as well as US Patents.
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) Provides online access to 25 Society journals and transactions, and more than 1700 selected conference proceedings.
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Virtual Library The ICE's Virtual Library gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. From here you can search the ICE's archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day, viewing papers on screen in fully printable form.
ScienceDirect access to over 1200 journal articles, many in full-text.
Web of Knowledge access to the Science Citation Index.
ZETOC provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.
Business sources
Business Source Premier The world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications.
Emerald Searchable full-text articles from a selection of Emerald journals. Subjects include HRM, marketing, management, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering.
FAME Provides financial information on UK companies from Companies House.
Other subject related sources for engineering
Construction Information Service - Contains a collection of technical information covering most aspects of building and engineering design and construction. Full text with images.
MathSci American Mathematical Society database on mathematics, statistics and computer science.
OHSIS an occupational health and safety database with Construction Information Service data plus engineering, electronic engineering and process engineering information.
Websites
Athenus: engineering and science search an engineering search engine.
BRE : building research and consultancy The BRE Trust Companies, BRE and BRE Global, are world leading research, consultancy, training, testing and certification organisations delivering sustainability and innovation across the built environment and beyond. Our mission is to 'Build a better world'. We help our clients create better buildings and communities and solve problems with confidence.
Connet a gateway to the European building and construction industry. Excellent search engine for documents.
efunda engineering fundamentals: formulae, materials, processes and unit conversion.
Engineering Council A body involved in the accreditation of academic engineering courses. It seeks to provide a bridge between government, industry and education to ensure that UK engineering qualifications continue to compare with the best internationally.
Engineering resources online the Engineering Resources Index.
Eric Weisstein's World of Physics contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community.
Espacenet esp@cenet is a free service on the internet provided by the European Patent Organisation through the EPO and the national offices of its members states.
How Stuff Works an unusual and entertaining website which takes a wide range of everyday items and explains the engineering principles behind them.
iCivil Engineer a directory of internet resources for civil engineers.
IMECHE The Institution has been the home of Mechanical Engineers for 150 years. Around 80,000 engineers world-wide are members. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is the United Kingdom''s qualifying body for mechanical engineers.
The Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics is a leading international professional body and learned society, established to promote the advancement and dissemination of physics.
Institution of Civil Engineers UK website for all aspects of civil engineering.
Institution of Engineering and Technology We are a new institution formed in spring 2006 by the coming together of the IEE and IIE. We aim to serve a global community engaged in engineering and technology, providing a knowledge network accessible whenever or wherever you choose.
Intute: Engineering The Intute Engineering Gateway provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. The target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education.
SearchLT Quality learning and teaching resources for engineering.
Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory shows the top ten civil engineering sites with plenty of links to other information sites.
Other Libraries
British Library 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings and more besides.
IET Library and Archives The Institution of Engineering and Technology was formed by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) and now has more than 150,000 members worldwide. The Library provides access to the latest technical, business, marketing and company news to ensure that you are professionally competent in your field of expertise.
IMECHE Library The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) maintains one of the best engineering libraries in the UK. The core collection includes engineering and related books, journals and all IMechE Proceedings, seminars and conferences. Archives charting the development and progress of mechanical engineering are another key feature.
Institution of Civil Engineers Today, the ICE library is the largest civil engineering library in the UK, and amongst the largest in the world.
Sconul Access SCONUL Access is a co-operative venture between most of the higher education libraries of the UK and Ireland. It enables staff, research students, full time postgraduates and part-time, distance learning and placement students to borrow material from other libraries.
Training
If you'd like some help developing your library research skills then please contact me to arrange a short training session. You can contact me by using the online form or call me on 01634 883319.
The types of training I can offer:
- Using the library catalogue and locating material
- Online search techniques
- Introduction to using databases in your subject area
