Using the Engineering Literature

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Praise for Previous Editions

Winner of the 2007 Best Reference Work Award of the American Society for Engineering Education

This title aims to be selective rather than exhaustive in its survey of the engineering literature, highlighting the most useful resources. An even more selective list might have benefited the average engineering information seeker (some entries are quite extensive), but as a library instruction tool and collection development guide, this update to the 2006 edition shines. The book is organized into chapters by engineering specialty. Each chapter starts with a short history of the discipline and provides bibliographies (most annotated) for a variety of literature types (monographs, directories, journals, etc.), curated and annotated by discipline-specific experts (mostly librarians). The annotations that accompany citations vary from the descriptive to the evaluative. New to the second edition is a subchapter, "Minorities in Engineering," along with the inclusion of more recently published titles. The densely packed pages make scanning somewhat difficult, but the information is valuable. The book is an excellent acquisition for any engineering library or professional collection; it is accessible for undergraduates, but may prove most useful to more seasoned researchers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.
-J. N. Jeffryes, University of Minnesota

"... this would be a good reference to start for those seeking references in an engineering field they are not familiar with."
-American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) Online, 2008

"As Bonnie Osif, the editor of this impressive work, points out, quality information retrieval skills are often lacking in the engineering profession. This publication will hopefully go some way to rectifying this situation, and will help those within, and without, the profession to discover and exploit the many information tools that exist-some of which are at present unfortunately underused. ... The basics are covered very well. There are hints on searching library catalogues ... A lot of work has gone into compiling this book, and the result is an extremely useful reference work which should be purchased by all libraries serving engineers of any kind."
-Internet Resources Newsletter, Issue 146, December 2006

"... this reference guide[s] readers to engineering information resources with the goal of avoiding information overkill by pointing to good resources in a wide variety of formats that address most needs."
-SciTech Book News, September 2007