Subject Guides: Materials Science &amp; Metallurgical Engineering: Search for Books

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Discovery Services
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E-reference books

AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
AccessEngineering is an award-winning engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students that provides seamless access to the world's best-known, most-used collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information. AccessEngineering also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work.

E-book platforms

Knovel Library This link opens in a new window Knovel’s offerings include three key elements – validated content, optimized search, and data analysis tools. The library is focused on the engineering community, offering more than 30 subject areas featuring guidance and best practice information on a wide range of topics including material selection and tolerances, environmental impacts, safety and compliance.

Knovel provides general reference and best practice insights, process and design applications, material and substance properties data, and equations for specific engineering disciplines.

ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.

Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central was selected by your library to provide authoritative ebooks in a range of subjects from the world's top publishers.

UPSpace

UPSpace: Metallurgical engineering
UPSpace is an open access digital repository that is used to collect, preserve and share digital items that were created, are owned and are hosted by the University of Pretoria.
The UPSpace: Chemical engineering page contains scholarly items authored by students and staff from the department.

International thesis and dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
Nexus Database System (NRF) This link opens in a new window