Library Guides: Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Guide: Background

Online Reference Resources

For a complete list of encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries go to Library Search. You can also recommend a book for the library to purchase.

ENGnetBASE: Engineering Collection
Full text of over 2300 handbooks in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering, many of which contain substantial tables of data. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.

STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Handbooks
Full text reference books on statistics and probability. Organized into categories including biostatistics, computational statistics, statistical theories and methods, and probability theory and applications, among others. Search all the books from a single search box.

O'Reilly for Higher Education (OHE), replaces Safari Books Online
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE) is a collection of full-text books and other resources specializing in computer programming and information technology. The database includes more than 35,000 book titles, plus 30,000+ hours of video, learning paths, case studies, expert playlists, audio books, and more. Access with your Gold password after choosing University of California Santa Cruz from the list of institutions. Replaces our Safari subscription.
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
The library consists of a 50- to 100-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field.

The library and its lectures are organized by series. New series and lectures will be added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed. Published by Morgan & Claypool.
Google Patents
Google Patents includes over 87 million patent publications from 17 patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books. Non-English patents are translated, so you can search for them with English keywords.

European Patent Office
Simple searches on bibliographic data in patent documents. The default printing option is page by page only - but they are free. To print an entire patent, follow these instructions: Search for a patent. Click on a title; when the page loads, click on the original document tab. When this page displays, the printer icon is grayed out. Click on Save Full Document at the top of the page. Read the screen and enter the letters shown. The entire document loads now as a pdf and all the pages can be printed.

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