Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Librarian
Need to Know Resources for BioResource & Agricultural Engineering
Welcome to the BRAE 128 Library Research Guide!
This guide contains information about the library and links to resources to support your studies in BioResource and Agricultural Engineering.
Photo by Bob Nichols, USDA, ARS
Searching for Articles
- Compendex (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new windowCompendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
Users must have pop-ups enabled on their browser for Find It links to work. Ad blocking software may also block some functionality.
Use the below guides to get more familiar with searching in the Compendex database, which is hosted on the Engineering Village platform.
Citing Your Sources
- ASABE Style Guide for AuthorsInformation on how to properly format a manuscript in ASABE Style. Click on the 'References' link or go to page 8 of this document to view the information.
- Find citation guidelines
This Library guide introduces you to popular resources for creating and interpreting references to sources, including in APA style, which is the foundation for the style ASABE uses.
- When to citeInstructions from a popular style guide on when you should cite your source material.
Finding Patents
Patent websites and search tools
- The LensThe Lens is a free and open-source patent search tool that searches across multiple patent and scholarly research databases.
- European Patent OfficeProvides patent documents from 80 countries.
- Google PatentsCovers the entire collection of issued patents and millions of patent application made available by the USPTO, from patents issued in the 1790s through those most recently issued in the past few months.
- Japan Patent Office (JPO)Note: Use the Japanese translation of inventor name when searching.
- United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PatFT)The USPTO houses full text and images for patents issued for all patents from 1790+. Note: This search only includes accepted patents (it takes ~18 months from filing to denial/acceptance).
- UN World Intellectual Property OrganizationSearch applications from 27 national patent offices.
Research databases
- Inspec (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new windowInspec® is a comprehensive index to global literature in electronics, computer science, physics, electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering. Includes INSPEC Thesaurus, Classification Codes and other specialized search aids.
- Reaxys This link opens in a new windowReaxys provides chemical properties and preparations for inorganic and organic compounds. It is searchable in multiple ways, including chemical structure, formula, physical property, and reaction. This is a combination of retired databases Beilstein (organic reactions, spectra, properties, etc.), Gmelin (inorganic) and Chemistry Patent Database. This database includes a chemical drawing program.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n is a reference source for chemical substance information providing details on chemical substances and their related chemical structures, chemical names, regulatory information, and properties, including CAS Registry Numbers®. Users must create an account before accessing SciFinder-n; all users must complete email verification when prompted. Go here to create a new account.
If you have not accessed your account in the last 18 months, you will not be able to log in until you have contacted the CAS Customer Center and asked them to reinstate your account. Read the Scifinder-n Support FAQ.
Concerned about account privacy? View the CAS privacy policy. - Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science (Core Collection) provides a single search across Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Additional Web of Science databases are easily accessible.
