1. University Libraries
Engineering and Architecture Library
American University of Beirut
February 06, 2013

2. Services

4. Important dates

7. Researching/Finding Material

8. Use Catalog to
Search for books,
eBooks, & Thesis

9. Print Book
E-Thesis
E-Books

10. Print Book

11. E-Thesis
E-Thesis can be accessed
Online and downloaded
On Campus only

12. E- Book

13. E-books databases

14. Books (Print and Electronic),
Theses, Projects, Videos
Encyclopedias (Access Science,
McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science
and Technology )
AUBCAT
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks
Knovel Engineering Library
CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE
Ebrary , Springer eBooks
Elsevier eBooks

16. Title Subject Coverage Availability
ASME- Journals Mechanical Engineering 1998- Full-Text
Citations,
INSPEC engineering 1970-
Abstracts
PubMed Citations,
Biomedical Engineering 1947-
Abstracts
Citations,
Scopus General 1960-
Abstracts
Citations,
Web of Science General 1980- Abstracts
Electrical & Computer
IEEE Xplore/IEL 1988- Full-Text
Engineering

17. Books (Print and Electronic),
Finding Articles
Theses, Projects, Videos
Use search all to find
print books,Ebooks,
& articles From all
databases
Encyclopedias (Access Science,
McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science
and Technology )
AUBCAT
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks
Knovel Engineering Library
CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE
Ebrary , Springer eBooks
Elsevier eBooks

19. List of Mechanical
Engineering Databases

24. PubMed
is helpful in
Biomedical Engineering
research

27. Journal
Assessment Tools

28. Journal
Assessment
Databases

34. Cited By
Databases &
finding Influential
Authors

35. An H-Index of # of papers # of citations
5 means that 5 1 20
of the author’s 2 18
articles have 3 13
received at 4 10
least 5 citations 5 7
each 6 3
7 2
8 1

37. My h-index is higher But more people
than yours! know who I am!
Edward Witten Stephen Hawking
Physicist Physicist
h=132 h=62
Taken from: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=amanda+werhane+and+h-index

38. Cited By
Searching Using Scopus

41. Select Cited by
to organize by
highly cited first

43. Cited By
Searching Using WOS

47. H-Index calculation

48. Cited By
Searching Using
Google Scholar
Click Here
to do exact phrase
searching in the title
to retrieve relevant
results

55. Not all
PhD dissertations
are available
in full text

56. full text

58.  A patent is a legal document giving
the patent owner certain exclusive
rights to his/her invention for a
limited time.
 Patents are an excellent source of
information on new technology, trends
in technological development, and
specific products or innovations.

61. Use Google advanced
search and limit to PDF
to retrieve reliable reports
and conference articles

66. You can import citations from
GoogleScholar and all databases
and arrange them in folders and
do the References according to
style (ASCE,IEEE, ASME, APA,…)

72.  Table of Contents Alert
 Saved Searches Alert
 Google Scholar Alert

73. Table of contents
email alert after
Clicking on Journals
On top

74. You can choose
After typing your
Email and then click
Subscribe to alerts
In the bottom

75. To set a Saved Search
email alert
you have to Register

76. Register here

78. You should have
A gmail account to set
Email Search alerts

82. Contact Me AT:
Engineering Library – Ext: 2630
Email: kn07@aub.edu.lb
Working Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8:00am-5:00pm