This 3 sentence summary provides an overview of services offered by the Engineering and Architecture Library at the American University of Beirut: The library offers resources for research including books, ebooks, theses, videos, and databases covering various engineering topics that are accessible online or for on-campus use. Methods for finding materials through the library catalog and databases are described. Contact information is provided for library staff who can assist with research and setting up alerts.

1. University Libraries
Engineering and Architecture Library
American University of Beirut
January 23, 2013

2. Services

4. Important dates

7. Researching/Finding Material

8. Use Catalog to
Search for books,
eBooks, & Thesis
Use quotes when
searching for
exact phrases

9. E-Thesis
Print Book
E-Book

10. E-Thesis
E-Thesis can be accessed
Online and downloaded
On Campus only

11. Print Book
You can access similar titles
By clicking on
Traffic Congestion here

12. E- Book
Online Access

13. E-books databases

14. Books (Print and Electronic),
Theses, Projects, Videos
Encyclopedias (Access Science,
McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science
and Technology )
AUBCAT
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks
Knovel Engineering Library
CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE
Ebrary , Springer eBooks
Elsevier eBooks

15. You can search all
E-Book titles from all E-book
databases Here
Especially the ones that you
Won’t find in the library catalog

16. Books (Print and Electronic),
Finding Articles
Theses, Projects, Videos
Use search all to find
print books,Ebooks,
& articles From all
databases
Encyclopedias (Access Science,
McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science
and Technology )
AUBCAT
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks
Knovel Engineering Library
CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE
Ebrary , Springer eBooks
Elsevier eBooks

18. List of Civil
Engineering Databases

19. Environmental Sciences Resources

20. Water Resources

21. You may browse or
search a specific
journal title or
proceeding

22. Select an article and
Saved
Search check who cited it
Alert
Icon means
fulltext
available

24. Journal
Assessment Tools

25. Journal
Assessment
Databases

31. Cited By
Databases &
finding Influential
Authors

32. An H-Index of # of papers # of citations
5 means that 5 1 20
of the author’s 2 18
articles have 3 13
received at 4 10
least 5 citations 5 7
each 6 3
7 2
8 1

33. Cited By
Searching Using Scopus

37. Select Cited by
to organize by
highly cited first

40. Cited By
Searching Using WOS
Use * to retrieve
Fiber and fibre

43. H-Index of author

44. Cited By
Searching Using
Google Scholar
Click Here
to do exact phrase
searching in the title
to retrieve relevant
results

51. Use advanced
search to Search for
dissertations by
advisor, committee
Member,
Degree (MS, PhD)
Not all
PhD dissertations
are available
in full text

52. full text
You can
limit by
subject
or date

53. You may
click on advisor
to check other
dissertations
s/he advised

54. Use Google advanced
search and limit to PDF
to retrieve reliable reports
and conference articles

59. You can import citations from
GoogleScholar and all databases
and arrange them in folders and
do the References according to
style (ASCE,IEEE, ASME, APA,…)

65.  Table of Contents Alert
 Saved Searches Alert
 Google Scholar Alert

66. To set an email alert
you have to Register

67. To set an email alert
OR a Saved Search
you have to Register

74. Contact Me @:
Engineering Library – Ext: 2630
Email: kn07@aub.edu.lb
Working Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8:00am-5:00pm