This guide serves as a launching point for students studying Engineering and Manufacturing courses at Lorain County Community College, although students from another field may find the resources presented here useful.

Use this guide to find out about books and online resources for engineering, including ebook and physical items, journals articles, website recommendations, reference material, and databases containing subject-specific content.

Search Strategies

Using a combination of KEYWORDS with BOOLEAN OPERATORS between them will help maximize your relevant search results. The 3 common Boolean operators are AND, OR, and NOT.

• Example: lightning strike AND power pole

Use parenthesis to group terms together. 

• Example: (hurricane AND power poles) OR transmission lines

Use quotes to generate searches with words grouped in exactly that order.

• Example: "3d printing" OR "additive manufacturing"

Use * to include all derivatives of a word: 

• Example: comp* searches for all terms: computer, computing, computation, computers

Use NOT to exclude specific terms from the search:

• Example: alloy NOT polymer will tell the search to exclude any results that include the word "polymer"

Search Example

The following example uses the Advanced Search feature of OneSearch, which can be accessed after typing in an initial search.

Saving Your Results

Persistent links/permalinks can will connect you to your article within the article database.

Look for a link in the record: