Materials Science & Engineering Research: Home

Last Updated: Oct 17, 2024 2:48 PM

Getting Started

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

Please contact an Engineering Librarian for individual consultations, 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.

The Annual Review of Materials Research covers the significant developments in the field of materials research, including original methodologies, materials phenomena, material systems, and special keynote topics.

Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
The combined Compendex, Inspec, and GeoRef databases.More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
One-pass searching of Web of Science citation indexes, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE and more. More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
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

Streaming Media

JoVE Unlimited This link opens in a new window
A peer reviewed video journal and science education platform. More Info
Streaming Media UB ONLY
AVON - Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video in a wide range of subjects and genres. More Info
Streaming Media UB ONLY
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Videos from major educational film producers. More Info
Streaming Media UB ONLY

For more streaming media available at UB, check out our Streaming Media webpage.

U.S. Patent 6641893 B1: Functionally-graded materials and the engineering of tribological resistance at surfaces

How to Read a Scientific Paper

The video above was created by the librarians at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Purdue University Libraries has also put together a wonderful tutorial. It was originally created to be an interactive tutorial using flash player, but flash is no longer supported in Chrome browsers. Therefore, you can access a PDF version by clicking on this link.

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.