Research Guides: Aerospace Engineering: Find Books (online & Print)

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AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Engineering handbooks and reference books.
Alternate titles: Access Engineering Library
Published by: McGraw-Hill Companies
ASM Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
ASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty one ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions.
Published by: ASM International
ENGnetBASE This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to the full text of more than 700 online handbooks from CRC Press in all fields of engineering.
Alternate titles: Engineering database online
Published by: CRC Press
CHEMnetBASE This link opens in a new window
Collection of CRC chemical databases, including the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Polymers Property Database, and the Combined Chemical Dictionary.
Alternate titles: Chemical databases online
Published by: CRC Press
Knovel This link opens in a new window
INCLUDES the full text of 70+ books published by AIAA. Covers many engineering subject areas and many publishers.
Safari Tech Books Online This link opens in a new window
Searchable full text electronic book package that includes computer and technology books from publishers such as: O'Reilly, Que, Sams Publishing, Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley, New Riders Publishing, and Peachpit.
Alternate titles: O'Reilly Safari books online
Published by: ProQuest
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Compendex This link opens in a new window
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature.
Alternate titles: Ei Compendex web
Published by: Elsevier
Inspec This link opens in a new window
Indexing of the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering with more than 8 million records taken from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings. Coverage from 1896 to the present, and records are updated weekly. Inspec is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology).
Published by: Elsevier
Book Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Coverage of over 30,000 editorially selected books, starting with publication year 2005 with 10,000 new books added each year.
Alternate titles: BCI
Published by: Thomson Reuters

Multi-disciplinary eBook databases - books access through these databases are also listed in Libraries Catalog

CRCnetBASE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 3,600 ebooks in a variety of subject areas including business, engineering, mathematics, and forensics, among others.
Alternate titles: CRC net base
Published by: CRC Press
ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Ebook Central provides access to tens of thousands of authoritative books and other documents from over 150 academic, trade, and professional publishers.
Published by: ProQuest
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Note: The number of simultaneous users for a particular ebook depends on the number of copies purchased which varies by title.
EBSCO eBook Collection provides access to over 52,000 ebooks.
Alternate titles: NetLibrary ; EBSCO e-Book collection; Net Library
Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)
MATHnetBASE This link opens in a new window
MATHnetBASE provides online access to more than 390 mathematical reference books.
Alternate titles: Mathematics Online
Published by: CRC Press
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full text of major journals in the life, physical, and social sciences, technology, and engineering; full text of online reference books and >2000 Elsevier-published journals.
Alternate titles: Science Direct
Published by: Elsevier
Springer Nature Link Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Fully-searchable and browsable electronic book collection of over 9000 scholarly titles in computing, mathematics, science, technology, and medicine.
Published by: Springer
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browsable full-text access to over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases. Topic coverage includes business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medical, veterinary and health sciences, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science, psychology, and humanities and social sciences.
Alternate titles: Wiley Interscience
Published by: Wiley