Contents

• Using engineering literature
• Accessing Library resources
  • Find books
  • Find articles
• Selected web resources
• Catalogs and suppliers
• Standards
• Patents

Disciplines

• Civil
• Electrical
• Mechanical

To look for books, find articles, find sources for help, and more, start at the Library's home page.

Remember CSM faculty, staff, and students can access resources from off-campus. Use the Virtual Private Network (VPN) and sign in with your CSM email user name and password. (For more information on the VPN.)

Find books

• Search the online catalog, Catalyst, for books, CSM theses and dissertations, journal titles, conference proceedings, and society publications at the CSM Library.
• Search the regional catalog, Prospector, for books, etc. at other Colorado and Wyoming academic and public libraries.
• Browse the book collection. Look for the "T's" on floor 2M or  in Reference (floor 2). To find a specific engineering disciple, check out the T Schedule.
• Cannot make the trip the CSM Library, search Open WorldCat. Enter your location to see what books may be at a library near you.

• Doing in-depth research? Search EI Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS, and/or Web of Science for citations and/or abstracts of articles, conference proceedings, and society publications. For guidance on obtaining print or electronic copies of articles, check out the finding articles help. For guidance on obtaining print copies of conference proceedings, check out finding conference publications help.
• Need full text now? Search Academic Search Premier, IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, and/or ASCE Conferences.
• Cannot access resources off-campus? Search Google Scholar, Academic Live, and/or open access journals and check out web resources.

• EEVL Engineering central access point to selected networked engineering information
• WWW Virtual Library: Engineering
• Engineering Societies and Organizations from Cornell
• Engineering Ethics Resources from National Academy of Engineering
• Exam Cafe from Professional Publications, Inc.
• Digest of Engineering Statistics 2003/04 from the UK's Engineering Council
• Engineer on a Disk quick online tutorials in many areas of engineering
• Free-Calc Online applications for engineering design, from Beacon Engineers
• Engineers Edge online calculators, equation charts, part specifications, (e.g., drill sizes, gauge charts) etc.

• Electronic Engineers Master (EEM) Electronic products search; registration recommended
• Digi-Key Electronic components search
• McMaster-Carr Industrial supply company catalog
• Omega product handbooks Products for measurement and control of temperature, humidity, pressure, strain, force, flow, level, pH and conductivity
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (free registration required)— Regional and European
• More links: Google categories
  • Business - Industrial Goods and Services - Engineering - Directories
  • Business - Electronics and Electrical - Directories

The CSM Library has current and past ASTM Standards. The Library does not actively collect standards from other agencies. Search Catalyst to determine if the Library has your standard. Search Prospector to see if other regional libraries have your standard. Not all standards are available in the catalogs, try calling UC Boulder Engineering Library at 303-492-5396 or Denver Public Library at 303-604-6280.

• NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards Searchable database of national, foreign, regional and international standards
• Global Engineering Documents From IHS Engineering; source for industry, government, and military standards
• rmLibrary Links to agencies and organizations that issue standards