Engineering and Public Policy

Below are selected databases, reference resources and other sources of information to support the research and teaching interests of the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University. For additional sources of information, see the Research Help links on the University Libraries' Homepage.

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Research Specialists
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Lynn Berard
Principal Librarian
Engineering and Sciences Library
412-268-2428

Sue Collins
Senior Librarian
Hunt Library
412-268-5019

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Welcome/Welcome Back to Carnegie Mellon!!

Wharton Research Data Services
The WRDS database gateway (previously only accessible at Tepper School). Find multiple datasets in finance, economics and banking, including Compustat, CRSP, Dow Jones Averages, and OptionMetrics.

Gartner Core Research
A selection of research reports from Gartner dealing with every aspect, product, and service of the technology industry. Includes famous "Magic Quadrant" and "Hype Cycle" reports. -- NB:"Dataquest" and some other well-known Gartner reports are NOT part of the current subscription. TIP: Do a "Browse" search, which defaults to "Research You Own," and your results will be (mostly) just the Gartner reports available at CMU.

SciFinder Scholar is on the Web! No more downloads! A one-time registration is required to use SciFinder.

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Homeland Security Digital Library: Provides access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

AccessScience, the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology on the Web, provides access to articles, terms, and research updates in all areas of science and technology. Includes biographies of leading scientists through history, weekly updates on sci/tech breakthroughs and discoveries, resources to guide research, and links for further research.

CorpTech contains contains contact information, key personnel, products, annual sales, number of employees, ownership, and type of company for more than 50,000 U.S. technology companies. Use it to indentify potential customers and competition, business start-ups, market research, and job targets in 17 technology areas. The companies are public and private, primarily U.S. companies, but also include the business units of international companies that operate in the U.S.

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Knovel: Answers for science and engineering contains online interactive reference books and databases. Knovel has a database of some of the leading science and engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings from publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, ASME, SPE, and ASM International. Knovel's unique combination of aggregated information, proprietary analysis tools, and technology empowers users to attain information across multiple sources and information formats.Requires IE or Netscape 7.0 or higher.


 Did you know...
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...that you can access CMU databases with any ISP(Internet Service Provider)? See Off Campus/Wireless Access to use WebVPN or to download the client vpn.

...that by using E-ZBorrow you can get books from other libraries in 3-5 days?



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  August 21, 2008 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/EngineeringAndSciences/EPP/index.html
  Sue Collins, Reference Librarian, sc24@andrew.cmu.edu
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