Disciplines & Professions: Electrical Engineering

Web Sites

Open Directory's Electrical Engineering Directory
http://dmoz.org/Science/Technology/Electrical_Engineering/

Provides links to 200+ sites dealing with computer science and offers visitors an additional subject heading under which more information may be located online in addition to 40 direct, annotated links to useful URLs.

Yahoo!'s Electrical Engineering Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Engineering/Electrical_Engineering/

Directory covering a wide range of electrical engineering topics. Organized into several categories including an annotated listing of popular Web sites, in addition to offering an Internet search that can be limited to search only for this topic.

Databases

IEEE Xplore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

This database includes IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, as well as IEEE standards. Includes full-text of sources.

Inspec (The Institution of Electrical Engineers, available through OCLC FirstSearch and SilverPlatter)

A database that includes electrical engineering, computers, and information technology sources. Covers mostly articles from journals, but also includes important books, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Over 4 million sources from 1969 to the present.

Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)

Provides references to current research and applications. Over 170,000 records from 1981 to the present.

Print Resources

Applied Science and Technology Index. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1958-.

Published annually, this work indexes more than 350 English language periodicals. Covers all engineering disciplines. Entries are organized alphabetically by subject.

Christiansen, Donald, ed. Electronics Engineers' Handbook. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Covers principles and techniques, materials and hardware, circuits and functions, and systems and applications of electrical engineering. Final chapter provides a list of resources. An index is included.

Computer and Control Abstracts. Piscataway, NJ: INSPEC, 1966-.

Indexes and abstracts journals, reports, books, conference papers, and more. Focuses specifically on sources about computers and control. Organizes entries topically.

Electrical and Electronic Abstracts. Piscataway, NJ: INSPEC, 1989-.

Provides abstracts of articles on all aspects of electrical engineering and electronics found in journals, books, reports, dissertations, and more. Entries organized topically. Annual subject and author indices.

Fink, Donald, and H. Wayne Beaty, eds. Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers. 14th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Provides articles oriented toward practical applications of electrical engineering. Organized into topic chapters. An index is included.

Hurt, C. D. Information Sources in Science and Technology. 3rd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.

Covers all disciplines within science, mathematics, and engineering. Sources organized by discipline, then by type of reference work. Includes an author/title index.

Lord, Charles R. Guide to Information Sources in Engineering. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.

Provides descriptions of hundreds of sources. Organizes entries by type of source, then by specialized field. An index is included.

Mildren, K. W., and P. J. Hicks, ed. Information Sources in Engineering. 3rd ed. London: Bowker-Saur, 1996.

Organizes descriptions of sources by specialized field in engineering. An index is included. This book covers print and non-print sources.

Sclater, Neil, and John Markus. McGraw-Hill Electronics Dictionary. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

12,000+ definitions and descriptions of electrical terms and concepts. Also provides more than 800 illustrations. Organized alphabetically.

Webster, John G., ed. Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. 24 vols. New York: Wiley, 1999.

1,400 articles on electrical engineering topics. Entries are organized alphabetically. Intended for a wide array of readers. A cumulative index is provided in volume twenty-four.