The Society
of Automotive Engineers, SAE, was founded in 1905. Now
with over 80,000 members worldwide, its focus of interest is the design,
manufacture, maintenance and operation of air, space, land and sea vehicles.
Books-
SAE publishes a number of books including the series: Progress in Technology
and the Historical series.
Conferences - SAE sponsors or co-sponsors a number of conferences each year. The papers from these are published on microfiche and collected in the Engineering Library. These reports are filed by year and paper number in file cabinets along the office wall. Fiche reader/printers are available in the library. Many conference papers also are available in print format in books. These books follow a theme and collect selected papers from a conference.
Journals – SAE publishes several journals including: Aerospace Engineering and Automotive Engineering International.
Standards - SAE publishes three types of standards: The Ground Vehicle Standards (J reports) found in the SAE Handbook (Reference - TL151.S62), Aerospace Material Specifications and Aerospace Standards, as well as topical standards collections.
The different SAE publications
provide state of the art information on a variety of vehicular issues.
Access to these SAE resources, as well as other research is available
through a search of the Global Mobility Database. Coverage
is international in scope. SAE provides English language subject access,
bibliographic citations and abstracts and SAE report numbers through the
Global Mobility Database. SAE fiche numbers up to 1993 are
also available through the Cumulative Index of SAE Technical Papers
(Reference TL1.S62). Use The SAE Technical Literature Abstracts
(formerly Transactions) for more recent information (Reference TL1.T43).
The CAT
provides access to entire items. Search by conference title or editor,
book title, author or editor or journal title.
Compendex - Coverage includes journal articles and conference papers. Search by authors, title words of the journal article or conference paper, keywords, subject terms or SAE publications type.
When searching SAE in Compendex, use SAE. Ex. SAE Technical Papers Series. Use Compendex when you are more interested in the subject than retrieving information only from SAE. Coverage of SAE publications is not comprehensive. For example, the technical papers are not indexed past 1992.
Compendex does not always give the SAE fiche report number.
Global Mobility Database (GMD) - THE index to the over 110,000 items in the field. Covers all SAE publications plus appropriate items from other sources. Includes journal articles, technical papers, standards, regulations, conference papers, etc. This CD ROM database is located on a workstation in the Engineering Library.
Remember to find the
SAE fiche number from the SAE Cumulative Index or the GMD.
It is the key to finding the report.
If the report has also been published in a book, you must know the title of the book to find the item in the cat. The CAT does not index by SAE report number or by the title of the particular paper.
If the University Libraries does not own the item you need, use either Interlibrary Loan or Document Delivery.
For more information about the Society of Automotive Engineers see their web site [http://www.sae.org]
