Industrial & Systems Engineering Research: Home

Last Updated: Sep 20, 2018 2:53 PM

Getting Started

This guide provides resources for conducting research in industrial and systems engineering. It is your library research work space. Use the tabs above to link to article databases, online books, properties data, standards, test methods, patents, and other types of information related to research in your field.

Please contact me for individual consultation, group instruction, library purchase recommendations, and suggestions for this guide.

Best Bets

Short on time? These resources are your best bet for this subject area.

Engineering Village
The combined Compendex, Inspec, GeoRef, NTIS, and Knovel databases. More Info
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Web of Science
One-pass searching of Web of Science citation indexes, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE and more. More Info
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Ergonomics Abstracts Online
International literature of ergonomics and human factors. More Info
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PsycINFO
psychology, psychiatry, social work & related disciplines. More Info

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Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering
Full-text of a thousand science and engineering handbooks with a focus on books containing numeric data. More Info
Partial Full-TextUB ONLY

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How to Read a Scientific Paper

This wonderful tutorial was created by the librarians at Purdue University Libraries.

Engineering Librarian

Erin Rowley

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Citation Management Software

UB has a site license to EndNote, software that allows you to collect, store, organize, retrieve, and automatically format references to journal articles, books, patents, and more in your papers. Contact me for more information.