Library Catalog
- UC Library Search This link opens in a new windowUC Library Search is the unified discovery and borrowing system for all 10 UC Campuses. Select the UCLA Library Catalog scope to search holdings of materials owned by the UCLA Library and other UCLA collections, whether online or in print. Does not contain full-text articles or article citations. Select the Articles, books and more scope to search for materials in all 10 UC campuses. More information in this guide.
Locating Books
To locate books on your topic, use the UCLA Library Catalog. As a starting point, use a keyword search on the likely terms. You may also browse by call number. Call number ranges for materials science and engineering include:
- QC 176 - Solid state physics / Condensed matter physics
- QD 380-388 - Polymer chemistry
- QD 965 - Crystallography
- TA 401-409 - General materials science
- TA 410-418 - "Special" materials, including composites, nanomaterials. etc.
- TA 459-489 - Metals and alloys
- TK 7871 - Electronic materials
- TN 600-799 - Metallurgy
- TN 690 - Alloy phase diagrams
- TP 1087-1190 - Plastics and polymer engineering
E-book Collections
Selected e-book collections. For full list, see E-books in Science and Engineering.
- AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
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A repository of fully searchable engineering content. Includes the latest editions of classics such as Marks; Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. - ASM Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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The complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions. Metals and metallurgy.
- ASME eBooks 1993-presentASME Press publishes professional and reference works, handbooks, select non-ASME conference proceedings, as well as advanced monographs in established and emerging areas of interest to mechanical engineers and allied disciplines.
- ASTM eBooksCollection of standards and technical engineering information. Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.
- Cambridge eBooks
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This collection includes most science and engineering titles from 2014 to present. - CHEMnetBASEComplements the databases of CHEMnetBASE with dozens of resources, references, and CRC handbooks. Chemistry topics covered include: analytical, industrial and applied, inorganic, materials, medicinal, organic, physical, polymer, and surface & colloid. Also covers electrochemistry, geochemistry, fuels and petrochemicals, photochemistry, separation science/chromatography, and spectroscopy
- Elsevier (ScienceDirect) eBooks 2013-present
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This collection covers science, technology, and health sciences disciplines (excluding specialty medical titles). After searching, limit to Book Chapters. - Institute of Physics (IOP) eBooks 2013-presentAccess to titles being published in two series: IOP Expanding Physics (which offers in-depth texts on key areas in Physics) and IOP Concise Physics (which contains shorter texts focused on rapidly advancing areas). The ebooks are published without DRM in HTML, PDF, and EPUB formats.
- Knovel LibrarySearch/browse 2500+ science and engineering encyclopedias, handbooks, texts, and databases. Advanced features include numerical range searching and interactive graphs and tables. Excellent resource for chemical & physical property data.
- MIT Press eBooks Library: The Computing & Engineering CollectionThe collection includes more than 450 titles from 1943 to the present in the fields of computer science and engineering technologies, including artificial intelligence, information theory, computer programming, information technology, and electrical engineering.
- Momentum Press eBooks 2007-2014Manufacturing, mechanical, civil, environmental technology, and materials science and engineering books.
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Includes RSC eBook Collection, RSC Journals, and RSC Journals Archive.
- Safari Technical Books Online for Programmers (O'Reilly)Programming and information technology e-books, many up-to-date titles.
- Springer eBooks 2005-present
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Nearly every Springer eBook (~120,000 titles) published in English and German from 2005 to present, across many disciplines. - Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer ScienceContains many 50- to 100-page "Lectures", or self-contained e-books that synthesize a research or development topic, authored by an expert.
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E-books from Routledge, Psychology Press, and Focal Press, mostly in the humanities, social sciences, and behavioral sciences. UCLA subscribes to only a small number of the available titles. Also includes the scientific, technical, and medical reference books formerly contained in CRCnetBASE. UCLA subscribes to only a small number of titles beyond the former CRC collection.
Reference Sources (Encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, etc.)
- AccessScience This link opens in a new window
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Full access to thousands of articles, dictionary terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies containing literature citations, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. Updated daily. Also includes biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
- Comprehensive Materials Processing13 volumes. A resource consolidating and enhancing the literature of the materials processing and manufacturing universe. It provides authoritative analysis of all processes, technologies, and techniques for converting industrial materials from a raw state into finished parts or products. Assisting scientists and engineers in the selection, design, and use of materials, it matches the adaptive complexity of emergent materials and processing technologies.
- Comprehensive Nanoscience and TechnologyFive volumes: Nanomaterials; Biological Nanoscience; Nanostructured Surfaces; Nanofabrication and Devices; Self-Assembly and Nanochemistry
- Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science (3rd ed.)Draws together the interface-related aspects of chemistry, materials sciences and engineering, biology, physics, computer sciences, and applied mathematics.
- The Engineering Handbook, Second EditionThe Engineering Handbook, Second Edition provides a single volume a ready reference for the practicing engineer in industry, government, and academia.
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical TechnologyPresents articles on chemical substances, properties, manufacturing, and uses; on industrial processes, unit operations in chemical engineering; and on fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field.
- Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical EngineersQuick access to more than 100 topics relating to modern mechanical engineering principles, standards, and practices.
- Materials Processing HandbookProvides a comprehensive treatment of materials processes accompanied by key data, synthesizes scientific fundamentals of materials processes and their practical application, and presents state-of-the-art knowledge, covering subjects such as ceramics, glasses, polymers, metals, composites, semiconductors, and biomaterials.
- McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Materials ScienceDerived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Edition, this title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in the materials science discipline. Includes appendices with conversion tables; listings of scientific, technical, and mathematical notation; tables of relevant data; and more
- Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference10 volumes: Basic Concepts and Polymer Properties; Polymer Characterization; Chain Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers; Ring-Opening Polymerization and Special Polymerization Processes; Polycondensation;Macromolecular Architectures and Soft Nano-Objects; Nanostructured Polymer Materials and Thin Films; Polymers for Advanced Functional Materials; Polymers in Biology and Medicine; Polymers for a Sustainable Environment and Green Energy
- Smithsonian Physical Tables, Ninth Revised EditionThis reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
- ThermopediaA-to-Z guide of thermodynamics, heat & mass transfer, and fluids engineering (formerly International encyclopedia of heat & mass transfer).
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial ChemistrySubject areas include: inorganic and organic chemicals, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys, biotechnology and biotechnological products, food chemistry, process engineering and unit operations, analytical methods, environmental protection, and many more.
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Composites (2nd ed.)Contains over 265 new and revised articles addressing the new technological advances in properties, processing, formulation, design, analysis, evaluation, manufacture, testing, and reliability of composites.