Guides @ UF: EEL 5934: ECE Technical Writing: Books and E-books

Finding books

Library Catalog (Books, E-books, Journals, Videos, & More)

Most of the print engineering books are in the Marston Science Library, but books on topics such as logic are more likely on the shelves of Library West and medical books are in the Health Science Center Library.

Browsing Guide: call numbers

QC 966	Lightning
TJ 163	Power Resources and Conservation
TJ 211-225	Control Engineering, Robotics
TK 1-999	Electrical Engineering and Electronics, General
TK 1000-2999	Electrical Power Production: motors, machinery, batteries
TK 3000-3999	Power Distribution and Transmission
TK 4000-4999	Electrical Power Applications: mechanical, electrical, lighting
TK 5101-5105	Telecommunication: signal processing, wireless, satellites, data transmission, networks
TK 5107-6720	Telegraph, telephone, radio, radar, television, digital video, fax
TK 7018-7500	Household Appliances
TK 7867-7868	Electronic Circuits, general
TK 7869-7872	Electronic Circuits: Applications and Materials, Semiconductors
TK 7874	Integrated Circuits
TK 7876	Microwaves
TK 7880-7999	Sound systems, Computer Engineering
TK 8300	Photoelectronic Devices
TK 9900	Electricity for Amateurs

Off-campus access

For off-campus access to library-licensed e-Journals, research databases and e-resources, use either:

UF VPN - or - the library proxy server (on the remote logon page)

When you see in your search results, click for access to digital full-text material.

E-books - for current UF students/staff/faculty.

You may find links to individual e-books through the Library Catalog. Here are some e-book services that specialize in areas of engineering. Newly-added books will appear in these services before they show up in the Library Catalog.

IEEE-Wiley eBooks content areas focus on electrical engineering and include Bioengineering, Power & Energy and Communication technologies, and other growing areas of research. More than 400 books, from 1974-present.

Books24x7 contains thousands of e-books. UF's license includes:

The EngineeringPro collection includes general reference topics important to all engineering professionals, whether looking for quick answers to problems or specific information for a project, learning new skills or refreshing existing ones.
The ITPro collection includes books for IT professionals, programmers, database and web designers and administrators, network managers, tech support staff, and more. Includes popular series such as The Complete Reference, Inside Out, Bibles as well as many highly technical series such as IBM Redbooks.
The BusinessPro collection includes books on all areas of business, including quality and manufacturing management, operational risk, project management, and technology in business.
How-to instructional videos on IT & and desktop computing topics from industry experts.

ENGnetBASE has over 1670 cutting-edge and bestselling e-books from CRC Press in civil, electrical, general, industrial, mechanical, and mining engineering. HINT: Check the box in the header for "Full Content Access Only" to filter the UF-subscribed e-books.

Knovel provides access to over 700 handbooks, databases, encyclopedias, reference books, and standards from the world's leading publishers and professional societies in engineering, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry and materials. Knovel's productivity tools, (including interactive tables, graphs and live equations) allow users to work within Knovel to analyze the data they find.

Springer publishes series such as the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Control & Information Science, Electrical Engineering, Energy, Nanoscale Science & Technology, and more.

Synthesis Lectures Brief 50- to 100-page e-books that synthesize an important research or development topic in engineering or computer science. Series include Biomedical Engineering, Data management, Energy and the Environment, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Synthetic Biology, and many more. Published by Morgan & Claypool. UF has Collections 1-4.