Research Guides: Engineering (General): Finding Books

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About Mirlyn

The library catalog, referred to as Mirlyn, enables you to search and browse the University of Michigan Library’s collection of books, journals, audio/video materials, electronic resources and more. It lists materials owned by the University Library (Ann Arbor), Clements Library, Bentley Historical Library, UM Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and UM-Flint.

The default search in Mirlyn on the UM Ann Arbor campus includes all of the Library's holdings in Ann Arbor as well those at the Biological Station in northern Michigan. You can change the libraries that are being searched by clicking on the drop-down menu next to "Search in" above the search box.

Online Reference Collections

These reference collections allow you to search topics in several e-books at once.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Provides thorough, up-to-date overviews of a broad range of contemporary scientific and technical topics, including the latest developments in nearly 100 fields, and well-illustrated, detailed coverage of major discoveries, breakthroughs, and milestones. Contains more than 7,000 articles by 5,000 contributors, with 12,000 digitally prepared illustrations.
AccessEngineering
Complete online access to McGraw-Hill's Engineering Handbooks. This resource has powerful search tools, global engineering news, interactive tables and graphs, instructive videos and student study guides and time-saving curriculum guides.
ASM Handbooks Online
Features the complete content of thirty ASM Handbook volumes, several ASM Handbook supplements, and two ASM Desk Editions. To preview the database, enter a keyword in the search box below or at the top of the screen. Or, use the table of contents at left to navigate to content of interest.
Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
Provider of electronic versions of popular reference books in engineering and applied sciences. Titles include Lange's Handbook of Chemistry and books from the AIAA.
Safari Tech Books Online
Searchable full text of 30,000+ technical books from O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group (including Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams) and other publishers.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Online access to over 100 selected academic books published by Taylor & Francis, primarily in the humanities and social sciences and approximately 6,000 titles published by CRC Press in science, technology and medicine. Includes selected books published under the imprints Routledge, Psychology Press, and Focal Press, as well as Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, AK Peters, Apple Academic, Chapman and Hall, and Pan Stanford.

More Engineering E-books

For more information about e-books in the library, check out the Finding and Using Electronic Books (e-Books) Guide.

ACS Symposium Series
American Chemical Society

Full text of titles from the ACS Symposium Series and the Advances in Chemistry Series.
ASME Digital Collection
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM Compass
American Society for Testing and Materials
Books 24x7
Business, technical and engineering e-books
ProQuest Ebook Central
EBSCOhost

Access to over 80 databases provided by EBSCO, in the EBSCOhost interface, including databases formerly published by H.W. Wilson Company on the now discontinued WilsonWeb interface. Among the included databases are: PsycINFO, OmniFile Full Text Select, Readers Guide Abstracts, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Art Abstracts with Full Text, Book Review Digest Plus, Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life, International Political Science Abstracts, ATLA Religion Database, Social Work Abstracts, LGBT Life with Full Text, the EBSCO eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary), and many more.
HathiTrust Digital Library
IEEE Xplore
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
MIT Press e-Books

MIT Press has partnered with IEEE to bring its high quality eBooks content in computer science and engineering technologies to an even broader audience via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. With over 470 titles available in fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, computer programming, information technology and electrical engineering, the collection is very relevant to IEEE Xplore users and significantly enhances any eBook collection.
MyiLibrary

MyiLibrary is an electronic platform that offers library users access to some of the most topical and current e-books available today. Users can access a wide range of research, reference and reading materials online from any location. Users can search across many e-books or conduct searches within a particular e-book.
RSC Books
Royal Society of Chemistry

Provides full-text access to scholarly books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1968 to present.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier Books & Journals Online)
SIAM Ebook Collection
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The SIAM e-books collection includes a wide spectrum of applied mathematics areas, including: science, engineering, statistics/probability, data mining, computational science, economics/finance, and more.
SPIE E-Books
The international society for optics and photonics

Online source for three valuable series of SPIE Press titles in optics and photonics: * SPIE Press Monographs are authoritative reference books, textbooks, and handbooks. * Tutorial Texts cover fundamental and emerging topics at introductory and intermediate levels. * Field Guides present key information that students and practicing engineers and scientists need in a concise format. SPIE eBooks launched with 120 books in January 2010; 15 to 20 new titles and editions will be added during the year. As new books are published, they will be available in SPIE eBooks first.
SpringerLink

Provides online full-text access to many of the Springer electronic journals along with many electronic books and series. Personal copies of some books can be purchased for $24.99 each through a service offered by Springer called MyCopy. The MyCopy offer is currently valid for over 20,000 Springer eBooks. Books are new soft cover editions with a color cover and black and white book content. NOTE (March 6, 2015): The online ordering system for MyCopy titles is not working correctly and sometimes indicates the price to order a book is the full retail price of the title. You can call Springer Customer Service at 1-800-777-4643 to order a MyCopy title at the correct price. To be eligible for the MyCopy service, books must be: Fewer than 1,200 pages Single titles (not part of a multi-volume set) Published 2005 or later English language
Synthesis Digital Library

Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science.
Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It provides integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases, many of which are purchased by MLibrary and accessible to current students, faculty and staff of the University of Michigan. Included are the online journals and books previously published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd., which merged with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2007.

Finding Books at U-M Library

Mirlyn
Find books on your topic by doing an "All Fields" or "Title" search in Mirlyn. An "All Fields" search is generally the best starting point. If an appropriate title is found, you can use the subject headings listed with that title to guide further searches.
Using Mirlyn, from an engineering perspective (PDF)
Check out this guide for a more in-depth look at searching in the catalog.
Interlibrary Loan
If you find a book that the University of Michigan Libraries does not own, you can make an Interlibrary Loan request. This is a free service for all U-M faculty, staff, and students!