This guide is intended to assist you in locating books, articles, journals, subscription databases, and websites that will help you in your research. The guide is organized into the following set of pages:
If you have any favorite resources that are not a part of this guide, feel free to contact me or submit links using the Suggest a Title form.
Print resources in the STEM fields previously housed in Carnegie Library have been moved, with the majority transferred to the Libraries’ off-site Storage Facility. Those at the Facility are now available by request to the University community. When searching for an item online, University affiliates will be able to ‘Request this item’ through the Libraries’ delivery system. Depending on the item and the requestor’s University affiliation, the item may be picked up at Bird Library, for faculty and graduate students, the item may be delivered to the requestor’s department. Book chapters may be provided electronically. Most available items are delivered within one business day.
The following frequently accessed materials previously held at Carnegie are currently available at Bird Library and can be accessed directly by Libraries’ users:
Search in Libraries Search for books and E-books owned by Syracuse University Libraries. After searching, limit to Book/eBook in the left column of your results.
Allows users to search Inspec, Compendex, GEOBASE, and GeoRef, simultaneously or alone. Covers the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology and includes journal articles, conference proceedings, patents, and dissertations from 1898 to present.
Abstracts and citations of journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, includes Scopus AI.
*Users are required to authenticate with NetID and password.
Chemical literature, chemical compounds and reactions, including content from the Beilstein Database, Gmelin Database, and Patent Chemistry Database and the Reaxys Target and Bioactivity and Reaxys Retrosynthesis modules.
The collections at the Moon Library are very strong in biology, chemistry, and other environmental sciences, and all of this material is available to all SU students, faculty, and staff.
Libraries Search searches almost all of Syracuse University Libraries’ print and electronic resources.
Includes articles, books, journals, maps, sound recordings, archival materials, government documents, and more. Use for searching for articles. Narrow or expand results using multiple search refinements.
Note: some specialized Engineering and Computer Science databases are not indexed in Libraries Search. If you are having trouble finding the research information you need, consider going directly to the appropriate Engineering database or contacting the Engineering and Computer Science librarian.
For Libraries Search tips, please see the following video tutorials:
Save your searches and set up alerts to see when new articles are available - look for a "create alert" option in the database.
Focus your search results:
Have a citation and need to find the article/book? Try searching for the title in Libraries Search:
