LibGuides: Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering: Home

Key databases: Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

Marine Digimap
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Digimap is an online map and data delivery service, offering a number of data collections. Marine Digimap contains two types of data:
- raster nautical charts derived from UK Hydrographic Office paper charts and chart panels;
- Marine Themes vector data covering all UK waters, derived from authoritative material obtained from the UK Hydrographic Offices as well as comprehensive source data where available.

Please note - downloading data for use in GIS or CAD applications requires specialised software which is NOT available on PCs in the Library.
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All users must register an account with EDINA upon accessing the Digimap service for the first time. EDINA's Privacy Notice can be accessed via a link in the registration form. All users must agree to the end user licence for the relevant Digimap Collection(s) they wish to access.
Compendex [Engineering Village]
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Compendex database via the Engineering Village database platform.
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884. Subject coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering.
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Construction Information Service
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The Construction Information Service Online (CIS Online) provides electronic access to technical information including an index to a selection of standards, regulatory and advisory documents, guidance and other material for the UK construction industry. The online service provides bibliographic data such as document titles and summaries plus full text images, either Adobe pdf format or scanned facsimiles.
Users cannot sign in to this eResource using University credentials. Users must register and log in using an individual account. Please follow our Construction Information Service, OHSIS and Specify-It registration and login instructions to access this eResource. You must register using your University of Strathclyde email address. For security reasons, please do not reuse your University password when registering your account. Links to S&P Global's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are available on the login/registration page.
IEEE Xplore
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IEEE Xplore provides full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Access is to the full text published since 1988 and select content published since 1913 from: IEEE journals, transactions, proceedings, and magazines; IEEE conference proceedings; IEEE published standards; IEEE Spectrum Magazine; IEEE-Wiley eBooks collection; IET journals; IET conference proceedings.
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Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts
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Part of Materials Science & Engineering Database, this database provides indexing and abstracts to records from periodicals, conference papers, trade journals, magazines, books, patents and technical reports in the fields of mechanical and transportation engineering.
Dates of coverage: 1966 - current.
Subject coverage includes: automotive engineering, naval and marine engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering.
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Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS)
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Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS) provides up-to-date reference sources of key Health and Safety documentation relevant to the workplace. OHSIS covers Health and Safety issues such as training, first aid, electrical safety, manual handling, dangerous substances, fire safety, and environmental health guidance. It also includes a selection of British Standards relating to Health and Safety and government legislation and documentation from organisations such as ROSPA and HSE, all available in full text.
Users cannot sign in to this eResource using University credentials. Users must register and log in using an individual account. Please follow our Construction Information Service, OHSIS and Specify-It registration and login instructions to access this eResource. You must register using your University of Strathclyde email address. For security reasons, please do not reuse your University password when registering your account. Links to S&P Global's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are available on the login/registration page.
Oceanic Abstracts
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Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
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OnePetro
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A library of technical documents and journal articles for the oil and gas exploration and production industry.
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Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
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The ProQuest Advanced Technologies and Aerospace Database features wide coverage of research in subjects such as computer and information systems, electronics, telecommunications, military technology, solid state and superconductivity, lasers and many other areas. Sources covered include not just within academic journals but in the grey literature including patents, conference proceedings, government reports and more to provide the widest awareness and discovery of developments in the field.
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SCOPUS
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Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature.
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Encyclopedia of Maritime and Offshore Engineering
The Encyclopedia of Maritime and Offshore Engineering (EMOE) is a major reference work covering the design, construction and operation of ships, offshore installations and other marine structures used for transportation, exploration and the exploitation of ocean-based resources including oil, gas and renewable energy. It embraces all of the disciplines of engineering and naval architecture that are found in the complementary marine and offshore industries.

Knovel - Ebooks and interactive formulae

Knovel
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Knovel is an online library of full-text content from many different publishers, including reference handbooks, conference proceedings and databases. It has extensive coverage across all Engineering disciplines and Chemistry.

Knovel also provides additional tools. A substantial unit conversion tool, key interactive formulae from the major engineering and chemistry professional bodies, tables and graphs that allow users to manipulate, analyze, and export data.
Strathclyde members should access Knovel using library records in SUPrimo, A-Z, LibGuides, Reading Lists etc. and sign in using University credentials. Strathclyde members should not create a My Knovel account with a separate Knovel password.
Knovel allows users to register a profile for access to personalised features. This is optional. Please read our Knovel Login and Profile user guide for information on how to register a profile. Elsevier's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy can be accessed via the links on the Knovel website.

Useful templates

Literature search planning template
This a word template which will help you design your search strategy.
Literature search management
It is always a good idea to record your literature search strategy with the date, resource searched and the results. This is an example spreadsheet.
Synthesis Matrix
A synthesis matrix helps you bring together articles/research on the same theme.

Faculty Librarian

Alasdair Stewart

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Subjects: Advanced Forming Research Centre, AFRC, Architecture, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Process Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Design, Manufacture & Engineering Management, Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering, Prosthetics & Orthotics

Fighting Ships and SIgnificant Ships

Jane's fighting ships
Call Number: Reference D 623.82502 JAN
This annual publication can be found on level 1 of the library. It provides detailed overviews, specifications, photographs and silhouettes of naval platforms and military ships in development, in production and in service worldwide.
Significant Ships of... by Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Call Number: D 623.81 SIG
Significant Ships is published by RINA and contains illustrations and drawings of the vessels that are being described along with information about the designer and shipbuilder and other descriptive details. The technical particulars (e.g. length, breadth, draught, engine & speed etc) are given along with the ships classification.
Significant Small ships of ... by Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
Call Number: D 623.81 SIG

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Anchor literature review

Literature review

Searching for literature and understanding how that interlinks with writing up your findings and influencing new ideas for your research is a vital skill. The graphic below may help you to understand these processes and how they are inter-linked.

Anchor shelf

Useful shelf numbers

Library books are arranged by the Dewey Decimal classification scheme whereby each subject is represented by a number.

You wil find books on the same subject will have the same number. The shelfmark is preceded by the letter D and will be followed by 3 letters, which are usually the first 3 letters of the author's name.

Here are some useful shelfmarks.

D 620.4162 Ocean engineering

D 621.3121 Renewable energy

D 622.3382 Petrolium engineering

D 623.81 Naval architecture

D 623.82 Shipbuilding