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Descriptions & Search Tips



  1. Engineering Village
    • Abstracts of articles, descriptions and links to websites, and patent information in engineering
    • Consider limiting searches to the Abstract or Title fields
    • Under "LIMIT BY," change "All document types" to "Journal article"
    • Under "LIMIT BY," change "All Languages" to "English"
    • Under "SORT BY," choose "Publication year"

  2. IEEEXplore
    • Abstracts and full-text articles from IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines published since 1998
    • Choose "Advanced Search" on the right
    • To limit your results to items the library owns, under "Publications" select "Search subscribed full-text content only." Don't do this if you're willing to try borrowing items through Interlibrary Loan
    • In Option 1, consider limiting searches to the Document Title, Publication Title or Abstract fields
    • In Option 2, do more sophisticated searching using nesting, field codes and proximity operators
      • use < and > brackets around proximity operators like <in> and <near>
      • limit your searches to certain fields, like ab, au, jn and ti
      • “Learn more about Field Codes, Search Examples, and Search Operators” online

  3. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
    • After "SEARCHES" click on "Keyword"
    • After "Category" change "Author" to "Title"
    • Search only for one or two words at a time; you can put synonyms all on one line with OR between them. Put another word with its synonyms on the second line.

  4. ScienceDirect
    • Full-text journal articles in science, technology, and medicine
    • Click on the "Search" button
    • Articles from before 1995 will not be full-text; check to see if we own the journal or can Interlibrary Loan the article

  5. WorldCat
    • An international catalog of books, websites, maps, etc.
    • Click on "Advanced Search"
    • Under "Subtype limits" change "Any Content" to "Thesis/dissertation"
    • Consider limiting searches to the Title field
    • Do simple searches of just one or two words


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