Databases Used by All Engineering Disciplines
Databases are generally located at UT Engineering and Technology Databases. Use databases to find peer-reviewed articles and other information.
Locating Materials at UT and outside UT
- Interlibrary Loanfor materials not owned by UT. Free to students, faculty and staff at UT.
- FindTextFindText is the button that allows you to link to journals holdings in many databases. Watch this video to see how.
- Requesting an item that is checked out
- Article/Chapter Scanfree service for UT students, faculty and staff to obtain scans of articles and book chapters owned by UT.
- Proxy Bookmarkletif you do research off-campus, this bookmarklet will save you from having to type in your netid and password all the time.
- Google Scholar Preferencesif you edit your Google Scholar preferences, you will be able to check holdings at UTK.
What database should I use?
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Materials Science Engineering
- Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
- Nuclear Engineering
BooksPlus, the Library Catalog
The BooksPlus box on the library home page searches the library's catalog to find out what books or journals are owned. Keep in mind that individual articles are not listed in the catalog.
Search Operators
Most databases require that you combine words in your search with AND or OR. AND retrieves records with all words. OR retrieves records with any of the words.
mercury pollution AND coal
mercury pollution OR mercury accumulation
nuclear AND computer* AND (reliability OR dependability)
The asterisk (*) truncates a word so that for this example, either computer or computers has to be in the records.
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