Industrial & Systems Engineering Research: Books & eBooks

Last Updated: Oct 25, 2024 3:11 PM

Electronic book resources are provided below. To search for both print and electronic books, please use the UB Libraries Everything Search (click here to access). The Everything Search will search all 4 million+ print books available at UB, hundreds of thousands of ebooks, as well as all print books (not e-books) from all SUNY libraries.

You can also use the Everything Search to search books from all over the world using WorldCat. Change the dropdown menu next to the search box to "WorldCat" to search. For items UB does not own, you can request them using Delivery+ (click here for Delivery+). Delivery+ is a completely free service for UB faculty, staff, and students.

eBook Collections

The UB Libraries subscribe to a number of eBook collections:

Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering This link opens in a new window
Full-text of a thousand science and engineering handbooks with a focus on books containing numeric data. More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Engineering handbooks and reference materials from McGraw Hill.More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to 'born-digital' books in engineering and computer science. More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY
Lecture Notes in Computer Science This link opens in a new window
The whole series is searchable, but full-text is from 1997-present only. More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Over 200,000 authoritative ebooks at your fingertips. More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY

Open Textbooks

More and more open education resources (OERs) are being developed in engineering! The Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has compiled a list of open textbooks in various areas of engineering. Use the link below view available open textbooks.

Open Textbooks for Engineering

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. For help using EndNote, visit the EndNote Basics Guide.

Zotero, an open-source citation management tool similar to EndNote, is also available. For help using Zotero, visit the Zotero Basics Guide.