Where to Locate Information and Good Starting Points

Where to Locate Information and Good Starting Points 

From electronic full-text databases to traditional print reference sources to discussions with colleagues, engineers use a range of information sources to solve problems. With all of the options available, engineers need to have a selection of peer-reviewed sources that they can rely on and trust. An overview of the different types of information resources along with specific examples is outlined here. 

Web Resources. The unreliability of Web resources and the importance of evaluating and filtering Web pages using such techniques as CARDS has been covered in previous sections. However, there is another technique for performing research on the Web that has not been discussed. Many times 

Index and abstract INSPEC Covers electrical engineering, computer science, and physics. Provides abstracts and indexes for millions of journal articles and conference papers. 

Full-text collection lEEEXplore A full-text database of all IEEE publications. 

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