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Information Literacy Skills Support for Dubai Students: Engineering

Welcome

Welcome to the Engineering Subject Pages for Dubai Students

This page brings together key resources for the students of Engineering.


Getting Started

Here are a few important resources to help you on your way:

Click here for more in depth information on how to search key engineering databases effectively.

Subjects

Databases

Click here for more in depth information on how to search key engineering databases effectively.


Primary sources

Primary source databases will help you find technical papers, standards codes of practice and technical data.

 

 

Websites

There is a huge range of information on the Internet, but you need to be vigilant about the quality of what you find. Using subject gateways and sites which are created by subject specialists will ensure that you find information that has been evaluated for its academic quality. Useful websites that are relevant to Mechanical Engineering include:

Key EBooks

The following ebooks are also relevant to the School of Mechanical Engineering:

Databases

The following databases will help you find journal articles, conference papers and technical papers

Click here for more in depth information on how to search key engineering databases effectively.


Primary sources

Primary source databases  will help you find technical papers, standards codes of practice and technical data.


Websites

There is a huge range of information on the Internet, but you need to be vigilant about the quality of what you find. Using subject gateways and sites which are created by subject specialists will ensure that you find information that has been evaluated for its academic quality. Useful quality websites that are relevant to Electrical Engineering include:

Databases

 

Click here for more in depth information on how to search key engineering databases effectively


Primary sources

Primary source databases  will help you find technical papers, standards codes of practice and technical data.


Websites

 There is a huge range of information on the Internet, but you need to be vigilant about the quality of what you find. Using subject gateways and sites which are created by subject specialists will ensure that you find information that has been evaluated for its academic quality. Useful quality websites that are relevant to Computer Engineering include:

Databases

The following databases will help you find journal articles, conference papers and technical papers

 

Click here for more in depth information on how to search key engineering databases effectively


Primary sources

Primary source databases  will help you find technical papers, standards codes of practice and technical data.


Websites

There is a huge range of information on the Internet, but you need to be vigilant about the quality of what you find. Using subject gateways and sites which are created by subject specialists will ensure that you find information that has been evaluated for its academic quality. Useful quality websites that are relevant to Mathematics include:

 

Databases

The following databases will help you find journal articles, conference papers and technical papers

Click here for more in depth information on how to search key engineering databases effectively.


Primary sources

Primary source databases  will help you find technical papers, standards codes of practice and technical data.


Websites

There is a huge range of information on the Internet, but you need to be vigilant about the quality of what you find. Using subject gateways and sites which are created by subject specialists will ensure that you find information that has been evaluated for its academic quality. Useful quality websites that are relevant to Physics include:

  • arXiv
    arXiv is an eprints repository with over 438,000 articles in physics, maths, computer science and non linear systems
  • INIS Database
    INIS is an information system on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. It covers references with abstracts and has a collection of full text non-conventional literature that would be difficult to obtain elsewhere.

eBooks

You can find many individual eBook titles by searching in FindIt@Dubai. To restrict your search:

  • select 'eBooks and eJournals from the drop-down menu, or
  • refine your search results by eBooks from the menu on the left-hand menu

The following are general collection of ebooks which cover many disciplines:

It is important to remember that whenever you are accessing ebooks you need to ise the sign in link at the top right of FindIt@Dubai to enter your University username and password to ensure that you get full access to all the resources. This proves to the suppliers of theses resources that you are entitled to use them. 

Yes, you can, but the same restrictions apply for eBooks as they do for print books. Individuals are permitted to print up to one chapter or 5% under the University's copyright licences signed with publisher organisations.

eBooks are different however in that they may be subject to Digital Rights Management (DRM) controls. DRM technology allows publishers to control and manage the usage of their eBooks, for example they can restrict the number of concurrent users and limit the number of pages a user can copy, print or download. As we purchase our eBooks from a variety of sources DRM will vary between each provider. Any restrictions to DRM are imposed by the eBook provider and not the Library. Once these restrictions have been met the provider will prevent you from printing or copying any further text.

See our copyright pages for further information.

There are a number of ebooks and ebook packages available which will be of interest to Mechanical Engineering. Here are just a few of them. To find more ebook collections for your area of study use the Databases option in FindIt@Dubai and filter your search by 'type'.

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