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Information resources and services in... Engineering

Information resources and services in... Engineering

Take full advantage of databases in Engineering! Learn about the EngineeringVillage platform (Inspec, Compendex), IEEEXplore, Web of Science and Scopus.

Activity addressed to UPC PDI and PhD students. For doctoral students, this activity belongs to the "Your doctoral thesis" training itinerary. It is recommended in an initial phase of making your thesis.

  • Search strategies
  • Inspec and Compendex: databases about engineering (civil, structures, computing, electronics, energies, materials and metallurgy, bioengineering, air and water pollution, chemistry, waste management).
  • IEEEXplore: database by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. including full text from journals, standards and proceedings edited by IEEE/IEE.
  • Web of Science and Scopus
  • Web search engines
  • Keep updated in your subject area

The session on April 24 will take place in a hybrid format, with 25 places face-to-face at the North Campus and 40 places to attend online via Google Meet.



Price: Free for UPC members. Non-members, 25 eur/h

Directed to: Administrative staff (PAS), PhD, Teaching and research staff (PDI)

Keywords: Information resources, Information search, Services of libraries, Your doctoral thesis

Next sessions:
Date Schedule Campus Location Language Capacity No vacancies
2024-04-24 15:00 - 17:00 h. North Diagonal Registration (Web ICE) Catalan/Spanish 65 No
More information: 

The course will be carried out if there is a minimum of five registrations.
The ICE issues a certificate of assistance to the participants.

For PhD students this course is recommended in an initial phase of making your thesis and it belongs to “Your doctoral thesis" training path, made of the following courses:

  1. Information organization tools
  2. Information resources and services in...
  3. Reference managers  
  4. Scientific publishing
  5. Visibility and impact 
  6. Writing and preparing your manuscript
  7. Open Science
  8. Research data management
  9. DRAC for doctoral students