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Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers

This book, Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers, is intended to expand experiential learning course offerings for undergraduate students through a series of interactive modules. The developed resource includes seven independent modul

Find Books

Topic 2: Finding Books

In this tutorial, you will learn about how to search for books through the library as well as about some common engineering e-book collections.

How to Find a Book

This tutorial demonstrates how to search for EBSCO eBooks.

EBSCO eBooks

This tutorial demonstrates how to search for eBooks using Ebook Central

Ebook Central

This tutorial will show you how to use Google Scholar and Google Books

Google Scholar and Google Books

 

Quiz

Find Books Summary

 Summary

In this module, you learned about the different types of books that exist and how you can use them to support your research. You also learned how to find engineering e-books through the library.   

Icon for references References

[1] McMaster University Library. “Scholarly vs. popular sources.” https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/scholarly-vs-popular-sources#tab-definition (accessed Oct.22, 2021).  

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Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers by Katie Harding, Alanna Carter, Shelir Ebrahimi, and Eva Mueller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.