News and Important Links
Locating Materials at UT and outside UT
- Interlibrary Loanfor materials not owned by UT. Free to students, faculty and staff at UT.
- Scan on Demand Servicefree service for UT students, faculty and staff to obtain scans of articles and book chapters owned by UT.
- Google Scholar Preferencesif you edit your Google Scholar preferences, you will be able to check holdings at UTK. Go to the settings icon in Google Scholar, click on Library Links, and select "University of Tennessee-FullText at UT Libraries."
- FindText
FindText is the button that allows you to link to journals holdings in many databases. - LibKey NomadA Chrome extension that allows you to get PDFs at publisher's sites.
Solving Off-Campus Access Problems
Occasionally there are temporary problems accessing databases off-campus. If it happens, there are several options to solve this problem:
- Use Databases with Similar ContentMany databases overlap with other ones that UT subscribes to. For example, Compendex and Scopus share a great deal of content. Contact Jeanine Williamson, the Engineering Librarian, if you want to know what other resources to use when a database is unavailable.
- Submit a chat question on the library siteThe staff who receive chat questions can connect your question with the library's eproblems unit,
Resources Used by All Engineering Disciplines
What database should I use to find scholarly literature? (Knoxville and UTSI programs)
Aviation Systems
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Industrial and Systems Engineering/Engineering Management
Materials Science Engineering
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Physics
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.
Research Librarian
Jeanine Fletcher
Contact:
Pendergrass Library
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
(865) 974-9164
jwilliamson@utk.edu
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
(865) 974-9164
jwilliamson@utk.edu
Subjects: Engineering, Veterinary Medicine
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