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Engineering, Electrical

Subject Specific Databases

Keywords for Searching

Keyword mapping tools can be useful when exploring a new topic. Try using this for discovering new keywords or for broadening or narrowing your search.

A-Z Database list

Full list of Databases the library subscribes to, including trial access.

Go to A-Z List

Technical Support

  • Students, faculty, and staff can use the resources on and off-campus.
  • Visitors need to be on campus to use the database, and to request a username and password from the Reference Desk.

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Multidisciplinary and General Databases

Broad databases, covering a wide variety of topics, are useful for interdisplinary research. These databases are a good place to begin your search on most topics.

Search Tips

Tips for better search results using Boolean or Advanced Searches

  • urban and city searches for occurrences of both words.
  • urban or city searches for  or all, but both are not required.
  • urban not city searches for occurrences of the word ‘urban’ but without use of the word ‘city'.
  • "urban planning" searches for the words as a pair not individually.
  • art* searches for art, arts, artistic, artful, etc.
  • m?n searches for man and men.