The University of Toledo Libraries : McMaster Engineering Library

Location & Hours

The Harold & Helen McMaster Engineering Library is located in Room 2600 of Palmer Hall.  A complete floorplan is available.
See the table on the main Hours page for hours of operation.

Finding

There are pathfinders to help you find information on Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.  

Books:  You can use the UT Library Catalog to identify books and other materials; if you limit to Location: Engineering you'll only find materials that are housed in the Engineering Library.  See the Finding Books page for more details.

Articles: Finding journal articles and conference proceedings is best accomplished using one of the engineering research databases.  

Search several engineering and math databases at once:

Or, a list of suggested databases is given here:

Engineering Field	Database Name	Comments
All of engineering	Compendex (1969-) Compendex  Historical (1884-1968) >>Web Tutorial >>Tutorial Podcast (5.3 Mb mp3, Right Click & Save As... to download)	Journals, proceedings, & books
All of engineering	Computers & Applied Sciences Complete	Core journals
Electrical & Computing	INSPEC  >>Web Tutorial	Journals, proceedings, & books
Computing	Computers & Applied Sciences Complete	Information Technology Journals & Magazines
Computing	ACM Digital Library	Full text journal & conference papers from the Association for Computing Machinery
Chemical	SciFinder  (Chemical Abstracts) >>Web Tutorial >>Tutorial Podcast (4.5 Mb mp3, Right Click & Save As... to download)	Not web accessible, need to download to your desktop.

More Information

See also a list of web resources for Women Engineers.

Contact Information

John Napp
Engineering Librarian  Mail Stop 310
John.Napp@utoledo.edu
Phone: (419) 530-3948
Fax: (419) 530-8006
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