The best databases to search for engineering information are:

• Access Engineering Search or browse for information from engineering handbooks and textbooks. Also includes cases/case studies, videos and DataVis a data visualisation tool.

• SAE Mobilus (formerly SAE Digital Library) Full-text of SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) papers from 1998 onwards. Search or browse eBooks, eJournals and technical papers for aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle engineering information. 

• IEEE Xplore Digital Library Access to journals, conference proceedings, technical standards, ebooks and educational courses.

• ScienceDirect  Summaries of journal articles, and full-text for selected journals. Access to over 3000 full text scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals published since 1 January 1995 (Green icon shows subscribed content).                                                                                                                                                                    

• Springer Compact  includes access to over 2,000 full-text journals covering a wide range of health, humanities, medical, social sciences, science and technology subjects.

• British Standards Online Library Search or browse for full-text access to British Standards and other international standards.

• Sustainable Development Goals Online Search or browse more than 12,000 sources, including book chapters, journal articles, videos and case studies, centred around each of the seventeen United Nations sustainable development goals.

More information can be found on the Engineering Subject guide. 

You can also book a tutorial with James Dean, the Learning and Teaching Librarian for Engineering or you can e-mail him at James.Dean@bcu.ac.uk