Search: Mechanical Engineering

• Link: Nautos
• Access: Campus computer, VPN
• Subject: General; Architecture, Civil Engineering and Surveying; Chemistry; Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fisheries, Home Economics, Nutrition; Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Transport Engineering, Precision Mechanics; Law; Technology in General; Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Food Technology
• Database type: Full texts, references
• Contents: Nautos is the standards database of Beuth-Verlag and holds more than 2.5 million records from 27 countries for you. The database contains standards, technical rules, German legal regulations with technical relevance, VDI guidelines as well as European and international rules (e.g. CEN / CENELEC / ISO / IEC). The following can be searched as full texts:
  • DIN standards without VDE designation,
  • DIN-EN standards.
• Note on rights of use: The full texts accessible via the licence may only be used by members of Trier University of Applied Sciences within the framework of the copyright law. Passing on to third parties is not permitted. Any unauthorised reproduction, disclosure to third parties or systematic download constitutes an infringement of rights liable to compensation and is punishable by law.

• Link: ScienceDirect (campus computer, VPN)
• Access: campus computer, VPN
• Subjects: multidisciplinary
• Database type: full texts (journal articles), references
• Contents: ScienceDirect is the online portal of the Elsevier publishing group and offers references and full texts of electronic journals and e-books. The database provides access to numerous peer-reviewed journals in the fields of natural sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

• Links: SpringerLink (Campus computer, VPN), SpringerLink (Shibboleth)
• Access: Campus computer, VPN, Shibboleth
• Subjects: multidisciplinary
• Database type: full texts (i. a. e-books, e-articles), references
• Contents: Licensed are the packages:
  
  - Business and Economics (2010 to 2015)
  - Business and Management (as of 2016)
  - Earth and Environmental Science (as of 2009)
  - Economics (as of 2007)
  - Economics and Finance (as of 2016)
  - Energy (2013 to 2020 and as of 2025)
  - Technology and Computer Science (as of 2010)

• Link: VDE Standards Library Online
• Access: campus computer, VPN
• Subject areas: electrical engineering, electronics, information technology
• Database type: full texts (read only), references
• Contents: VDE is the abbreviation for the Association of German Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies. The VDE defines regulations and guidelines that serve the safety of the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and information technology and publishes them as VDE standards. The entire VDE body of regulations comprises several thousand valid DIN VDE standards, which are updated automatically. Groups 0 to 8 of the standards are unlocked for university members (including VDE guidelines, DIN-EN, DIN-IEC-EN standards, etc.).
• Search hints:
  • If you are searching for "VDE 0687", for example, please always search with the leading "0", i.e. "0687" and not "687". The prefix "VDE" can be omitted.
  • Currently, no PDF download or print option is offered for full texts of standards. They are only displayed in the browser window.
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• Link: Wiley Online Library (campus computer, VPN)
• Access: campus computer, VPN
• Subjects: multidisciplinary
• Database type: full texts (journal articles), references (also: books, reference works)
• Contents (DBIS): The "Wiley Online Library" is a multidisciplinary publishing portal that offers a variety of sources under one interface: electronic journals, books and book series as well as reference works published by Wiley / Wiley-VCH. The portal offers search options under various aspects including access to abstracts and full texts of open access journals. With purchased licenses, further full texts can be accessed.

• Link: wiso
• Access: Campus computer, VPN
• Subjects: Economics, social sciences, psychology, law, technology
• Database type: full texts (journal articles, newspaper articles), facts (company and market information)
• Contents: The wiso database offers various media formats in the fields of economics and social sciences, psychology, law and technology. The University of Trier has licensed access to the module "journals" for its members. It makes it possible to access more than thirteen million German and English-language full texts from national and international (practitioner) journals, for example in the fields of 'Marketing & Advertising', 'Electrical Industry', 'IT', 'Legislation' or 'Environmental Management'.

• Link: DigiBib (Digital Library)
• Subjects: multidisciplinary
• Link collection: Under the tab "Additional E-Media", the DigiBib offers you a collection of database and website links from the field of technology.

• Link: Technical Information Library (TIB-Portal)
• Subjects: Architecture, civil engineering and surveying, chemistry, electrical engineering, measurement and control technology, energy, environmental protection, nuclear technology, computer science, mathematics, physics, technology in general
• Description (DBIS): Launched in January 2016, the TIB portal brings together the previous websites of the “Technische Informationsbibliothek” and the University Library Hannover. The former portal for technology and science "GetInfo" is now also integrated into the new TIB portal. Through this new portal, the TIB offers access to several million data sets from specialist databases, publishing offers and library catalogs (State: 05/2018).

• ResearchGate
• Thesius

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• DPMAregister (Official Publications and Registries)
  official publications and registries (German)
• DPATISnet (Electronic Patent Document Archive)
  electronic patent document archive (German)
• DPMAdirekt (register industrail property rights electronically)
  register industrial property rights electronically (German)
• European Patent Office (EPO)
  information page
• German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
  information page
• Google Patents (→ advanced search)
  search engine for patents
• The Lens
  Research portal, i. a. patent search
• US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  information page

• Automobil-Industrie.de - the trade magazine of the industry (Vogel Communications Group GmbH)
  i.a. company directory for the automotive industry
• ELBA - the electronic BASt archive (Federal Highway Research Institute)
  scientific documents of the Federal Highway Research Institute
• Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA)
  Type approvals, product safety, certifications

• BASE
• CiteSeerX
• Google Scholar
• Semantic Scholar
• Wolfram|Alpha

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• Beuth Publishing House: standards search
  abstracts, tables of contents and purchase
• Beuth Publishing House: standard information points
  public libraries for standards 
• German Institute for Standardization e. V.
  information page
• eBib Environmental Campus
  search e. g. with "VDI 2067"
• OPAC Trier UAS (Main Campus)
  search e. g. "VDI 2067"
• Nautos (licence Trier University of Applied Sciences)
  standards database
• VDE Standards Library (licence Trier University of Applied Sciences)
  standards database
• Note: Standard information points are places where you can research DIN standards and other technical rules and where you can view the complete German standards. The use of standard information points is free of charge, fees for library use are possible. The standards are usually accessible in electronic form on the screen (source: Beuth Publishing House).