The Owen library contains many resources for students and faculty interested in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website or would like to request a book, journal conference proceeding etc. on subjects related to Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, please contact Mark O'English. For questions about the WSU's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science programs,  please see the  WSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 

To Find a Book or Compilation:

• Find a book from here at WSU
• Find/borrow a book from nearby schools (generally takes three days).
• Borrow a book from anywhere in the entire world (generally takes a week).
• Request that we buy a book for the WSU library (please include WSU contact info!).
• Come by and browse the shelves! Here are the call numbers where you can find most Engineering topics on the top floor of the Owen Science and Engineering Library.

To Find an Article or Conference Presentation:

• If you know the title of whatever its printed in, look for the specific publication at WSU.
• If you don't know that, there are a large number of places to search for articles. WSU pays for some resources to help:
  • Go to the WSU Libraries' Electrical Engineering or Computer Science research sources. To search within any one of these, click on the name and it'll take you to that database. If you want more information about what's in a database, click on the to the right of the name. You can also click on "Find Database" at the top, then go to the Subjects list and look at sets of other fields' databases.
  • Important Help: Watch for the "Find It at WSU" button: Click on this button and the computer will open a new window where you can see if we have an article electronically, check the catalog for it, or borrow it from another library.

Search for a Dissertation:

• An international database of dissertations.

Search for a Standard:

• IEEE Standards online.
• Annual Book of ASTM Standards. Print only (sorry!), located on the 6th floor in the Owen Science and Engineering Library.
• International Telecommnunications Union (ITU) Databases
• Helpful information on finding further standards.

Search for a Patent:

• Search for a U.S. Patent. Or try Google Patents if you need full text patent searching before 1975.
• Search for a European patents
• Helpful information on patent searching.

Search for a Technical Report:

• Think U.S. Government documents: NTIS (also the new NTIS Archive, NTIS DARTS, accessible only in the Owen and Holland/Terrell Libraries), TRIS, or even science.gov

Internet Links

Societies

• American Electronics Association
• American Physical Society
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Association of Women in Computing
• Computing Research Association
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
• IEEE Communications Society
• IEEE
• IET (formed from merging of IEE and IIE)
• Institution of Engineers (Australia)
• Optical Society of America
• Society of Women Engineers

• Free Online Dictionary of Computing
• Glossary of Internet Terms
• Online Dictionary Query
• Webopedia

• Internet Acronym Server

• The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society: Formed in 1986 to bring together the users and developers of electromagnetic modeling codes. 
• CiteSeer: A digital library of scientific literature digital library. 
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: Two million brief article references from 1500 bibliographic indexes.  
• The Computer Vision Homepage: From Carnegie Mellon University, provides a central location for WWW links relating to computer vision research 
• Intute: Science, Engineering, and Technology: web resources
• TechXtra: searches full-text of electronic engineering journals
• Introduction to cryptography
• Electronic Privacy Information Center: Promotes privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography 
• Netlib: This database contains listings of upcoming conferences. 
• Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB): Contains information repositories of data, papers, software, newsgroups, bibliographies, as well as  links to other repositories and addresses