Penn State University Libraries - How To Guides and tutorials

When you need to know what resources are available in engineering and how to search them, you can ask for help from the Engineering Library faculty and staff or turn to one of our "just in time" instructional tools. These include:

• Engineering Library Video Tutorials (7 videos on major databases, full text resources and the Web)
• How to Guides (web pages on tech reports, standards, and more)
• Subject Guides (subject specific web pages)
• Course Guides (outline resources for specific courses)

Don't forget - you can always email, call, instant message, or drop in too!

Databases

• How to pick the right database
• Aerospace and High Technology Database
  
• Compendex
• NTIS
• TRID
• Web of Science (Citation index)
  
• Web of Science- Advanced Features

Formats and Services

• Guide to Bibliographic Citations
• Conferences Coming soon
  
• Document Delivery Coming soon
  
• How to Find Articles Coming soon
  
• Beginning Research
• Reports Coming soon
  
• Standards
  
• How to browse journals
• How to evaluate your research

Societies

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Coming soon
  
• American Society of Civil Engineers Coming soon
  
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers Coming soon
  
• Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Coming soon
  
• Society of Automotive Engineers Coming soon