Research & Subject Guides: Applied Science & Technology Ph. D. Program: Home

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Interdisciplinary Databases

American Society of Civil Engineers This link opens in a new window
Journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Combined database searching of Compendex, Inspec and NTIS, including deduplication of Compendex and Inspec records. GeoRef, GEOBASE, and Patents have been added to the searching capabilities on a trial basis through October 31, 2024.
Emerald Insight Journals This link opens in a new window
Contains over 275 titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering including titles such as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, The TQM Magazine and Industrial Robot.
GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new window
GeoScienceWorld provides online access to 47 geoscience journals from several societies including GSA, AAPG, Geological Society of London, the Paleontological Society and the Mineralogical Society. North Carolina A&T also has access to over 2200 ebook titles from these societies and publishers.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies.
SAI Global Standards Infobase This link opens in a new window
Worldwide engineering standards & specifications. Users will need to register with their North Carolina A&T email address and create an account to use this resource.

Cite Your Sources

Any time you use another's work in your research, you need to cite the source with both in-text and reference list citations. American Psychological Association (APA) style is the citation style most commonly used for research at N.C. A&T. To learn how to cite in APA style, visit the resource linked below.

American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides a comprehensive guide to formatting a paper and citing sources in APA style.
RefWorks
Use this link to sign up for RefWorks. ProQuest RefWorks is an easy to use, cloud based citation management tool, which will help you organize your citations and PDFs, and enable you to cite your sources within your papers quickly and easily.

AI Research Tools

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