NUsearch finds Northwestern library books, documents, articles in some databases, and other material.

You can also search NUsearch right from the library homepage. Please watch a one minute video tutorial below which shows how to find a book using NUsearch and how to request and pick it up at the circulation desk. 

Open Textbooks for Engineering

The listing of open textbooks is organized by engineering discipline.  To browse resources within a discipline, select the appropriate icon.  Note that some specific disciplines have been grouped within a larger discipline (e.g., transportation engineering texts can be found in civil & environmental engineering).  If you don't find a needed discipline, try the search icon, which will connect you to the Mason OER Metafinder search engine.

When an inventor comes up with a new creation/product, usually the first thing they want to do is to get it patented to make sure the owner with the right to exclude others from exploiting the patented technology, including, for example, making, using, or selling the patented invention. Are you wondering whether someone has made a device to the one you want to make? You can see if a similar product has been patented in InnovationQ Plus, Derwent, or the US patent database.

Available Standards Provided by the Libraries

• ASTM Standards - click on the appropriate standards category, search by standards number, or search by keywords. You can request an ASTM standard by filling out a form on the library website. Please read instructions before filling out the form.
• IEEE Standards - you can search by keywords or by standards number.
• Federal Standards and Specifications - click on the List of Federal Standards or List of Federal Specifications.

ISO Standards

Currently, the Libraries doesn't provide access to ISO standards. For faculty, if you need ISO standards for a class, the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) University Outreach Program will provide ISO standards for classroom use. You can contact ANSI directly or email Anna Ren, Engineering Research and Collection Librarian, for more information. For students, please contact your faculty directly about accessing to ISO standards. 

If you need ISO standards for your research or project outside of classroom, you can make a request through our Interlibrary Loan Service.

All Other Standards

Please make a request through our Interlibrary Loan Service for all other standards. If you need help, please schedule an appointment with Anna Ren, using "Schedule a Research Consultation" tab in the left column.