The Owen library contains many resources for students and faculty interested in electrical engineering and 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 or computer science, please contact Joel Cummings. For questions about the WSU's academic programs,  please see the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Find a Book or Compilation

• Find a book here at WSU.
• Find a book at nearby schools.
• Borrow a book from anywhere in the world.
• Request that we buy a book for the WSU libraries. Please provide us with your contact information.
• 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.

Find an Article or Conference Presentation

• If you know the title of the journal (magazine, proceeding, book) your article is published in, look for the title at WSU.
• If you need articles, but don't know where to begin, there are a large number of places to search. 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.
  • Watch for the 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.

Find a Dissertation

• An international database of dissertations.
• An up-to-date list of WSU dissertations housed in the WSU Libraries.
• A list of WSU dissertations available digitally. Some are full text, others may have to be ordered.

Find a Standard

• Helpful guide to finding standards.
• IEEE Standards.
• Annual Book of ASTM Standards. TA401.A653. The Index is located in the reference collection on the first floor of the Owen Library Ref TA401.A653.
• International Telecommnunications Union Databases
• National Institute of Standards and Technology

Search for a Patent:

• Helpful guide to patent searching.
• Search for a U.S. Patent.
• Try Google Patents if you need full text patent searching before 1975.
• Search for a European patents

• NTIS
• NTIS DARTS, accessible only in the Owen and Holland/Terrell Libraries.
• Science Accelerator: Searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.
• TRIS
• Science.gov

Internet Links

• American Electronics Association
• American Physical Society
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Computing Research Association
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
• Engineers Australia
• IEEE Communications Society
• IEEE
• IET
• Optical Society of America
• Society of Women Engineers

• Dict.org: Online dictionary
• Free Online Dictionary of Computing
• Glossary of Internet Terms
• Webopedia

• Internet Acronym Server

• Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society: Formed to bring together the users and developers of electromagnetic modeling codes. 
• CiteSeer: A digital library of scientific literature.
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Computer Vision Homepage: A repository for links relating to computer vision research.
• Intute: Intute is a free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research.
• TechXtra: Full-text articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports from a variety of science and engineering resources.
• 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 contains information about upcoming conferences, lectures, and other meetings relevant to the fields of mathematics and computer science.
• Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB): Contains information repositories of data, papers, software, newsgroups, bibliographies, as well as  links to other repositories.