LibGuides: Engineering: Useful Web Sites

Useful Web Sites

These resources are freely available online.

ASSIST
U.S. military standards and handbooks
Canadian Patents Database
Search and access 151 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,420,000 patent documents.
engrXiv (Engineering Archive)
Dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently. engrXiv was launched in beta in July 2016 under the direction of Devin R. Berg, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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The server is operated by Open Engineering Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit, which provides financial support for server operations.
European Patent Office
Searchable database of European patents from 1836-present.
Google Patents
Search engine for freely available patents from around the world.
Google Scholar
Limits Google searches to scholarly literature. This is a good place to search for citations to older, non-English language, and hard to find publications.
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Use the advanced search for more focused results. Check the Trinity links to see if we have the item you want.
IEEE Editorial Style Manual
Provides general editing guidelines for IEEE Transactions, Journals, and Letters.
IEEE EMBS
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is the world's largest international society of biomedical engineers.
Science.gov
Searchable gateway to STEM websites from U.S. Government agencies.
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You may now search here for science images, including animal and plant, weather and space, earth and sun, and more. The information is free and no registration is required. Select the Image Search link under Special Collections.
Standards.gov
The NIST Standards Coordination Office provides tools, programs, services, and educational resources about documentary standards and conformity assessment.
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Full-text searchable database of patents from 1976-present.
Wolfram Alpha
'Computational knowledge engine' with the goal to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.

WorldWideScience This link opens in a new window
Federated search interface to national and international science portals for searching world science literature. Modeled after Science.gov, it was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the British Library in conjunction with other international organizations. 1930-present

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
Designed to help students communicate their technical work. Guidelines contain advice, models, and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science.