Subject guide Engineering and Technology

Use the library's databases to search for information on a specific topic. Databases may contain abstracts and full text of journal articles, conference papers, reports and more.

• You can search our databases and journals when you are off-campus, either via our database links or via the University Remote desktop.
  To the library's database page
  

Meta search - search several databases at the same time

Discovery and Google Scholar are search tools that you can use to make a broad search in many databases at the same time.

• Discovery
  Discovery is an integrated search service which covers many of the library's subscribed databases. Follow the links to access full text. Refine your search to Academic journals to find articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
• Google Scholar
  Google Scholar is a web search engine that indexes free academic web resources as well as many publishers' journal archives. Use the library's Google Scholar link to get full text links for journals that the library subscribes to. You may need to enable library links for the University of Gävle under Settings.

• Databases covering engineering and technology

• Academic Search Premier
  Covers journals from multiple publishers in all subject areas.

• ASCE - Civil engineering database (CEDB)
  Contains references and abstracts of publications from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
• CORE
  Search for freely available articles, reports and other research output in open repositories.
• GreenFILE
  Contains references and abstracts of publications in environmental science. Follow the links to access full text.
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library
  Contains journals articles, conference papers and standards published by IEEE, mainly in electronics and computer science.
  
• Inspec
  Contains references and abstracts of publications in technology, physics, electronics, computer science and information technology. Follow the links to access full text.
• SciTEch Connect
  Documents from the US Department of Energy and associated organizations.
  
• Scopus
  Contains references and abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and other publications in all subject areas. Follow the links to access full text. Scopus also contains citation information, which means that you can search for a specific paper or author to see papers in Scopus that have cited it.
  
• SwePub
  SwePub is the national search portal for research publications from Swedish higher education institutions.
• Web of Science
  Contains references and abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and other publications in all subject areas. Follow the links to access full text. Web of Science also contains citation information, which means that you can search for a specific paper or author to see papers in Web of Science that have cited it.
• You can find more databases on the Databases A to Z page.

Printed books

Search for the library's printed books in our catalogue.
To the library catalogue

If you cannot find the book in our catalogue, search for it in the Swedish national library catalogue Libris. In Libris you will find books, dissertations and other materials from Swedish university and research libraries.
To Libris

E-books

E-books are digital versions of books, which you can read on computers, mobile phones or tablets. You can read and download the books from home, if you log in with your user account first. You don't need a library card to read our e-books.
How to search for and open e-books

Use the library's journal list to browse specific journals or to find articles based on a reference. The list covers both print and electronic journals.

• To the library's journal list

Dictionaries from Nationalencyklopedin
Contains dictionaries for several languages, among them a English-Swedish general dictionary (select Engelska) and an English-Swedish technical dictionary (select Engelsk teknisk ordbok).

Oxford English Dictionary
A dictionary of the English language.

Wikipedia
A free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by volunteers.

• JUNO (in Swedish)
  Contains Swedish law texts, commentary volumes, English law translations, the Legal English Dictionary and Swedish law journals and e-books.

• IEEE Xplore
  Standards published by IEEE, mainly in electronics and computer science.
• SIS
  Standards from Swedish, European and international standards organisations. If you cannot access a standard in full text, you can suggest an addition to the library's subscription.
  

• Find links to student essays and disserations
  

• Statistics Sweden
  Official statistics from Statistics Sweden and other Swedish authorities.

• Espacenet
  International patent database from the European Patent Office (EPO). Includes national and international patents as well as patent applications.
  

• Here are some links to help you find articles and assess whether an article is scholarly or not.
• Evaluating information - a guide from Karolinska Institutet
• Scholarly publications - an introduction from Jönköping University
• Peer review in 3 minutes (video)

You can get search help at library's information desk when it is staffed. You can also call 026-64 85 48 or send an email to biblioteket@hig.se.

• If you are working on a thesis or report and need more help, you can make an appointment for guidance in information searching.
  Book a librarian

• Make sure you cite your sources correctly. Here you will find information on citing sources, guides to reference styles such as APA 7 and IEEE, and tips on reference management tools.
  Citing sources
• When writing your own texts, it is important that you clearly indicate when you have taken information from other sources. It should be clear to the reader what thoughts and words are your own, and what thoughts and words are someone else's. Otherwise you may be accused of plagiarism. Here you can read more about plagiarism and you can also find a link to the anti-plagiarism tutorial Refero.
  Plagiarism
  

• As a student at the University of Gävle, you can get help with academic writing at Skrivarverkstaden.
  To the Writing Centre