LIBRARY
Information Sources Guide:
Electronics and Electrical
Engineering
Books
You can search for books in the library by
looking on the library catalogue:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library See
reading lists online for books
recommended for individual modules.
Knovel: Comprehensive eBook package
with hundreds of engineering eBooks
available.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Dharma, P., Agrawal and Bin Xie (ed.)
(2010) Encyclopedia on ad hoc and
ubiquitous computing: theory and design
of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and mesh
networks.
Kaplan, S.M. (2004) Wiley electrical and
electronics engineering dictionary.
Journals
Summon™
For a ‘google type search’ of all the
resources available via the University of
Bradford use Summon. See the quick
guide:
To search for a specific title use the
‘journal title’ search in the library
catalogue. Some examples of journals
available:
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/media/
library/documents/summon_quick_guide.p
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
ebooks
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
Go to Library home page/ subject
support/ Engineering/ Electronics and
Electrical Engineering/ebook
collections.
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
ebrary Academic Complete: ebrary
Academic Complete offers 70,000+
eBooks in many different academic subject
areas.
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Robotica.
Advanced Robotics.
Information Databases
Electrical Engineering/ finding articles
using databases.
ACM Digital Library: Access to the fulltext of Association of Computing
Machinery Journal, transactions,
proceedings etc.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital
library: Vast collection of industry-leading
standards and technical engineering
information, broad range of engineering
disciplines.
Business Source Complete: Over 300
different titles related to engineering.
Engineering Village: Engineering Village
is the most comprehensive database for
engineering. You can search for journal
articles, technical papers and conference
proceedings. The material dates back to
1884.
IEEE Xplore® Digital Library: An excellent
resource that provides indexing and fulltext access to IEEE journal articles and
conference proceedings.
Web of Knowledgesm: This has two very
useful, scholarly, comprehensive
databases within it: Web of Science and
Journal Citation Index. Web of Science
indexes peer reviewed journals. It is a
good multi-disciplinary database.
Go to Library home page/ subject
support/ Engineering/ Electronics and
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ScienceDirect: Full-text access to over
2,000 peer reviewed journal titles.
Wiley Online Library: Access to over 4
million articles from 1500 journals,
hundreds of reference works, laboratory
protocols and databases.
Conference Proceedings
IEEE Xplore® Digital Library: Includes
conference proceedings in full-text.
Web of Knowledgesm: Indexes
proceedings of conferences.
British Library Integrated Catalogue: Has
an index of UK conference proceedings.
Health and Safety
Barbour: Wide range of health and safety
documentation, including legislation,
regulations, standards and guidance.
Standards
BSO British Standards Online®: The
library has access to all current British
Standards in full-text via BSOnline.
Eurocodes also included.
IEEE Standards: Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers are available through
IEEEXplore.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital
library: A vast collection of industryleading standards and technical
engineering information.
ITU: International telecommunications
union: They allocate global radio spectrum
and satellite orbits, develop the technical
standards.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) – US.
Email alerts
Patents
IEEE Xplore® Digital Library: This service
has its own email alerting service.
Espacenet Patent Search, Esp@cenet:
Worldwide coverage from 63 different
countries.
Zetoc: Regular updates from the British
Library.
Theses and Research
EthOS (Electronic Theses Online Service):
Look here to find UK PhD theses which
have been digitalised. If Ethos is unable to
supply you with the theses please ask and
we might be able to get it via the
Interlibrary Loans service.
Bradford Scholars: Bradford Scholars is
an online service designed to host the fulltext of research materials produced by
staff and MPhil/PhD students at the
University of Bradford.
Search the library catalogue for MSc
dissertations.
Past Exam Papers
Past exam papers are available via
Blackboard. To access them log into
Blackboard and click on ‘Past Exam
Papers’ under ‘Student Organisations’.
Professional Organisations
The Institution of Engineering and
Technology (IET) – UK
Help
If you need any further information or help
using all the resources, please contact:
Kirsty Carver: Subject Librarian for
Engineering Room 1.5
k.carver@bradford.ac.uk Telephone:
01274 233374 Follow on Library
feed: @LibraryUoB
Library language: words and definitions
A glossary of frequently used words in the
library. Find the link from the Library
home page and the subject support pages.
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/help/library
-language/
You will also find useful information on
the Library Home page.
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library