Sometimes you will need to look up words or get some basic information before you are able to fully understand the articles you are reading in scientific journals. Using this encyclopedia and dictionary can help to get your research started.
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Engineering 5 : Engineering Methodology (SC)
Finding Definitions & Background Information:
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Full-text access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology.
Encyclopedia of 20th-century technology
Publisher: New York : Routledge, c2005.
Ref T9 .E462 2005 v. 1 & 2
Finding Journal Articles:
You should be able to find what you need for this E5 papers and assignments here at Swarthmore. If you are having difficulty finding materials here, please talk to your professor or drop by the Science Librarian's office and talk to Meg Spencer. And always look for the 
button to link you to the online article, if we have access to it!
button to link you to the online article, if we have access to it!
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Always a good place to begin your research. Covers 1971-present.
ScienceDirect
A Web database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet. TriCo does not have full-text access to ALL the Elsevier journals in ScienceDirect.
Finding Web Sites:
CiteSeer
A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Intute Engineering
The Intute Engineering Gateway provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. Our target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education.
Scirus
A web search engine devoted to Science & Technology, developed by Elsevier publishers. You will turn up both journal articles and web pages here.
Note: You can turn on the FIND IT! button in Scirus by going to SEARCH PREFERENCES. Select ENABLE next to ‘Library Partner Links’, then select Swarthmore College Library from the drop-down menu. Then select the SAVE PREFERENCES button.
Note: You can turn on the FIND IT! button in Scirus by going to SEARCH PREFERENCES. Select ENABLE next to ‘Library Partner Links’, then select Swarthmore College Library from the drop-down menu. Then select the SAVE PREFERENCES button.
InterLibrary Loan & TriCollege Borrowing:
While Cornell Library has a really good collection, obviously there will be times when we don't actually own something you've located in your research. That is when you'll need to borrow from other libraries and to do this you will need Inter-Library Loan (ILL). (For this course, you should be able to get everything you need from within the TriCo Library network.)
Tri-College ILL - BOOKS: If you want a book from Bryn Mawr or Haverford, simply press the REQUEST button at the top of the Tripod screen. Enter your name & barcode, and select WHERE you want to pick up the book. Delivery takes approximately one day library to library.
Non-TriCollege ILL - BOOKS: For books NOT available in Tripod, try E-Z Borrow and request books directly from nearby Pennsylvania & NJ libraries. Books usually arrive within a few days.
JOURNAL ARTICLES: For articles in journals not available from the main libraries in TriCo*, use the online ILL form. You must put the COMPLETE JOURNAL TITLE in your request - do not use abbreviations, or your request will most likely be sent back to you. For complete journal titles, check the book behind the Circulation Desk, or go to Journal Abbreviation Sources.
Journals DO circulate from main libraries, so if you need an article from a non-science library journal, place a hold on the actual journal volume in Tripod and it will be sent via TriCo van!
Citing Your Sources:
A guide to writing as an engineer
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2005.
Ref T11 .B396 2005 Look at Chapter 11 for information on citing your resources!
Duke University Citation Guide
For information on CITING information, check out this online guide. It gives examples of different citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago & Turabian) for both print and electronic resources.
Credo Reference: Technology
A collection of online dictionaries covering all aspects of technology.