Key Resources
To search for books and e-books, start with Scholar OneSearch.
To search for articles, start with these databases:
- ACM Digital Library - contains full-text access to most Association for Computing Machinery periodicals and conference proceedings from 1985 to the present.
- Engineering Village (Includes Compendex and Inspec) - a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. Contains over 43 million records, including journals, conferences and trade publications
- Knovel - primarily e-books, especially handbooks and scientific and engineering reference manuals and data. For certain properties there are specific chemical equations and digital graphs. Analyze data, sort, filter, and export from 'live tables', resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'What If' experiments.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers is the world's largest association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE/IEL Electronic Library/Xplore gives access to the world's highest quality technical literature in engineering and technology, and includes select content published since 1950 from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards, including Spectrum Magazine and Proceedings of the IEEE.
- Web of Science - indexes over 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences (1975-present). Web of Science's strength is in its interdisciplinary focus and its ability to perform citation searching.
Looking for Technical Reports?
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Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
You can also browse TRAIL's collections by series using these TRAIL guides.
Anti-Racism in Engineering
This list of resources and organizations is intended to support the College of Engineering's work to support diversity, inclusion, equity and justice in our communities and practices. The list is not comprehensive, and the resources inevitably reflect the biases of the various creators. They are intended to provide a starting point to explore the wide variety of resources within the Engineering and STEM communities. This page will be continuously updated and feedback is welcome! If you're looking for more resources or for something different, please reach out to Jodi Bolognese at j.bolognese@northeastern.edu.
For more anti-racism resources in Engineering, please check out the full Diversity and Anti-racism in Engineering page.
For more anti-racism resources in STEM, please check out our Diversity and Anti-Racism in STEM page.
For more anti-racism resources and ways to get involved at Northeastern and beyond, please check out our Anti-Racism guide.
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10 simple rules for building an antiracist labAn article written by Dr. V. Bala Chaudhary and Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe published in PLoS Computational Biology in October 2020.
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ASEE: Shared Community Resources on Anti-RacisomAmerican Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE) convened a group of panelists, from K-12 to higher education, to discuss and share resources that can help engineering educators tackle racism in their classrooms and institutions.
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Black in EngineeringBlack in Engineering was founded in 2020 and is focused on convening the Black engineering community in social justice efforts. This site includes a call to action that lays out principles and recommendations for creating an anti-racist university culture, a 'Black Engineering Faculty Speak' video, and an extensive list of resources for further exploration into social justice work and perspectives.
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Engineering Change PodcastEngineering Change is a podcast designed to help redefine the engineering education experience as we know it by re-imaging who we see as engineers and what we see as engineering, de-siloing academic programs and problem solving, and fine-tuning academic culture and climate using best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion so people from all backgrounds can succeed. Hosted by engineering educator of color Dr. Yvette E. Pearson.
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Engineering and Social Justice by Utilizing techniques from radical pedagogies of liberation and other movements for social justice, this book presents a roadmap for engineers to become empowered and engage one another in a process of learning and action for social justice and peace.
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National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)In pursuit of their vision for "an engineering workforce that looks like America", NACME is the largest provider of college scholarships for underrepresented minorities pursuing degrees at schools of engineering.
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE): A Call for JusticeA call to action from NSBE, whose long-time mission is "to increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community." This site includes a series of town halls and social justice resources compiled by NSBE leaders.
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Why Should I Care About Diversity in Engineering?A group of National Society of Professor Engineers (NSPE) members respond to FAQS about diversity in the profession. Published in July/August 2020.
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