Subject Guide: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Finding Journal Articles and Conference Papers

INSPEC  UCB access only
Coverage: 1898–present
Electrical engineering, computer science, physics, and related fields.
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Compendex  UCB access only
Coverage: 1884–present
All areas of engineering, journals and conferences.
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Web of Science  UCB access only
Coverage: 1900–present
Article database covering the core journals in all scholarly fields. Provides cited reference searching.
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Business Source Complete  UCB access only
Coverage: 1965–present
Covers management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing.
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MathSciNet  UCB access only
Coverage: 1940–present
Theoretical and applied mathematics.
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Finding Books and Conference Proceedings

Next Generation Melvyl Pilot
The Next Generation Melvyl Pilot is a collaboration between the UC Libraries and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Holdings from all ten UC campuses are included.

Current Melvyl
Library catalog for the UC System. Find call numbers, locations, and online access for books, journals, conference proceedings, and more.
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OskiCat
OskiCat is the UC Berkeley library catalog. It does not include some engineering-related libraries at UC Berkeley. All library users can find course reserves and renew items in OskiCat. UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and other UC Berkeley library cardholders may request materials from NRLF in OskiCat.

Finding Overviews and Data

ENGnetBASE  UCB access only
Compilation of engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Selected industrial engineering and operations research titles include:

• The Engineering Handbook, 2nd ed. CRC Press, c2005.
• Operations Research Calculations Handbook. CRC Press, 2001.
• Statistical Quality Control. CRC Press, 2001.
• The Technology Management Handbook. CRC Press, 1999.

MATHnetBASE  UCB access only
Compilation of mathematics handbooks published by CRC Press. Selected titles include:

• CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2003.
• CRC Standard Mathematical Tables & Formulae, 30th ed. CRC Press, 1996.

STATSnetBASE  UCB access only
Compilation of statistics handbooks published by CRC Press. Selected titles include:

• Complex Stochastic Systems. CRC Press, 2001.
• CRC Standard Probability & Statistics Tables & Formulae. CRC Press, 2000.

AccessScience  UCB access only
Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

The Desk Reference of Statistical Quality Methods. ASQ Quality Press, 2000.
TS156.C79 2000 Reference

Encyclopedia of Operations Research & Management Science, 2nd ed. Kluwer, 2001.
T57.6.E53 2001 Reference

Encyclopedia of Optimization. Kluwer, 2001.
QA402.5.E53 2001 Reference (Mathematics Statistics Library)

Encyclopedia of Production & Manufacturing Management. Kluwer, 2000.
TS9.E53 2000 Reference

Handbook of Industrial Engineering (Salvendy), 3rd ed. Wiley, 2001.
T56.23.H36 2001 Reference

Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook, 5th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2001.
T56.M39 2001 Reference

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Q121.M3 2002 Reference

Finding Electronic Journals

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Finding Dissertations and Theses

For the most part, only UCB dissertations are available in the UCB Libraries. To find specific UCB dissertations, search Current Melvyl by Author. To locate sample UCB dissertations from your department, search Current Melvyl for the Subject berkeley dissertations industrial engineering operations research.
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