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Electrical Engineering

The Circuits and Filters Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TK7867 .C4977 2003

Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TK9 .C575 1999

Encyclopedia of Wireless Telecommunications
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TK5103.2 .B68 2002

English-Spanish, Spanish-English Electrical and Computer Engineering Dictionary
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TK9 .K37 2000

Handbook of Formulas and Tables for Signal Processing
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TK5102.9 .P677 1999

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (v.1-24)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TK9 .W55 1999

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
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Electronic Books

ENGnetBASE Provides full-text access to hundreds of leading engineering handbooks in PDF format published by CRC Press. Also searchable from Engineering Village 2. Updated monthly. Note: In order to view entire e-books, Adobe Acrobat must be set to open PDF files within your browser.

netLibrary Offers a comprehensive collection of electronic books (e-books) including tens of thousands of scholarly, reference, and professional e-books on all subjects from leading university, academic, and professional publishers. Browse e-books for quick research and reference or check them out and read them at your leisure. Since e-books are online, you don't have to worry about returning them. E-books are automatically "returned" at the end of your check-out period. Updated daily. Tipsheet Available

Referex Engineering (via Engineering Village 2) Provides PDF full-text access to over 300 leading engineering monographs in three collections: Chemical, Petrochemical, & Process Engineering; Mechanical & Materials Engineering; and Electronics & Electrical Engineering. Updated frequently. Title list

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Databases & Article Searching

ACM Digital Library (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text access to computer science and information technology literature in all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals and magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, and SIG newsletters. Coverage for some titles begins in the 1950s. Updated weekly.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Offers indexing and abstracting of articles from selected journals in engineering, aeronautics, transportation, physics, computers, and other science and technology topics. Features full-text articles from more than 100 publications in these disciplines. Includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexing coverage from 1993 to current; full text coverage from 1997 to current. Updated regularly.

Computer and Information Systems Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Indexes and abstracts more than 800 journals, including conference literature, from 1981 to the present. Published jointly with Engineering Information and also included within EI Compendex.

Computer Abstracts International Database (UTSA subscription)
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Indexes articles from journals, proceedings, and transactions that chronicle developments in computer science, computers, and computing research. Included in these publications is theoretical, applied, and commercially oriented research on artificial intelligence, systems, hardware, programming, human-computer interaction, and other topics. Dates of coverage 1987-current. Updated monthly.

Engineering Village 2 (UTSA subscription)
Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1970. The database is updated weekly. Citations Only

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,100 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full Image

SIAM Journals Online (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 1994 to the present. Full Image

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text access to approximately 200 of the more than 400 journals published by Wiley, plus tables of contents and abstracts. Updated constantly. Full Image

In addition, explore other databases, both citation and full-text, listed under "Databases by Subject > Engineering and Technology" on the UTSA Library Homepage.

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Associations

IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Free Website: http://www.ieee.org
The IEEE (Eye-triple-E) is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 380,000 individual members in 150 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others.

WebEE: The Electrical Engineers Homepage
Free Website: http://www.web-ee.com/

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Technical Reports

DTIC's Public STINET
Free Website: http://stinet.dtic.mil/
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs effectively. Includes DTIC's technical reports collection and some full text resources.

NTIS: National Technical Information Service
Free Website: http://www.ntis.gov/
NTIS is the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Approximately 2.5 million products are available in a variety of formats including online, electronic, multimedia, CD-ROM , paper, and microfiche. Thousands of new products are added each week. Additionally, many records now include free links to the full-text publication on an agency's web site, or can be downloaded directly from the NTIS archival copy for a nominal charge. Be sure to search UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any material referenced here.

NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
Free Website: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
NASA's Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program's mission is to collect, archive, and disseminate NASA aerospace information. Examples of information found here include research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data. Check UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any material referenced here.

U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Free Website: http://www.osti.gov/
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) provides access to a wealth of energy, science, and technology research and development information from the Manhattan Project to the present. Includes three areas of information: Information Bridge, which has full text DOE research reports (primarily from 1995 to today); Energy Citations, with bibliographic citations of DOE research from 1948 to today; and E-print Network, which is a collection of documents that researchers circulate electronically in advance or in lieu of publication. Check UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any materials referenced here.

Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
Free Website: http://www.science.gov/
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

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Conference Proceedings

ACM Digital Library (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text access to computer science and information technology literature in all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals and magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, and SIG newsletters. Coverage for some titles begins in the 1950s. Updated weekly.

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

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Standards

IHS Standards (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to a number of engineering and architecture related standards, including the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (sections II and X) and the AEC Referenced Standards collection. Updated regularly. Full Text/Full Image
Tipsheet Available

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Free Website: http://www.iso.org/
ISO is a non-governmental network of the national standards institutes of 148 countries. You can view a list of standards in the ISO Catalogue. There is also a helpful guide to abbreviations in the Your Guide to ISO Online.

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Further Research

BioChipNet : The Informational Site on BioChip Technologies
Free Website: http://www.biochipnet.de/
Information platform on micro arrays and related fields. News, meetings, company information, patents, and literature database.

Circuits Archive
Free Website: http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/
A collection of over 100 circuit schematics. Useful but not easy to navigate.

EEVL
Free Website: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
EEVL is a British guide to Internet resources in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.

IEEE History Center
Free Website: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/
The mission of the IEEE History Center is to preserve, research and promote the history of information and electrical technologies. The Center maintains many useful resources for the engineer, for the historian of technology, and for anyone interested in the development of electrical and computer engineering and their role in modern society.

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