Engineering Resources

The University of Mount Union Library provides access to these resources for use by Mount Union students, faculty and staff. Indexes for general research are listed at the top of the page with subject specific resources below. Off-campus access is possible using your name and barcode as found on your Purple Plus Card (barcode number begins 27048, please use the entire number). Please direct questions you may have about these resources to a University Librarian at 330-823-3795 or 330-257-5742 (texting).

General Research     Engineering Resources

General Research Databases:

• Academic Search Complete
  Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study
• EJC - Electronic Journal Center
  Full text of 6000+ research journals
• Films on Demand
  Over 8200 full-length streaming video programs from academic and commercial publishers including PBS, BBC, CNBC, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Bill Moyers Journal, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• Image Quick View (searches Academic Search Complete) 
• ISI Web of Knowledge
  Portal to Web of Science, providing high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities
• JSTOR
  Full text scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Business, Language and Literature
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information
• Media Education Foundation
  Streaming videos for the arts and sciences
• NYTimes.com - online version of The New York Times
  • Digital access requires an account which user MUST set up at www.NYTIMES.com/Pass using their Mount Union email address
  • Once account is created and verified user will have access for 364 days using that account information – please renew password from the UMU Library website when account expires using links on Library webpages for Subject Research or Newspapers
  • Users will have unlimited access to The New York Times archived articles before 1923 and after 1980. Access during those years is limited to 5 free articles per day.
  • FAQs
• NYTimesinEducation.com - user must create their own login account to use this resource.
• VAST: Academic Video Online
  A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video which will include access to 20,000 videos in 2013.

Engineering Research Databases:

• ACM Digital Library
  Full text of journal and conference papers from the Association for Computing Machinery Includes or has links to full text
• ACS Journals
  Access to journals from the American Chemical Society, 1879-the present. Current and archival ACS journals are searchable both through this site and through the EJC; other ACS publications may also be available through this site
• Access Engineering
• Access Science
  Encyclopedia of science and technology; contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news and technology
• Applied Science & Technology Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
• ASME Digital Collection, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Chemical and Engineering News
  Electronic journal available in HTML and Adobe Acrobat files.
• Energy & Power Source
• Information Bridge
  266,000 (and growing) full-text technical reports from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• Journal of Green Building
• SAE International, Society of Automotive Engineers
• Safari Books Online
  Full text books for computing and science technologies
• Science Online
• Shock & Vibration Digest