Forming Public Policy in Engineering
Search Tools used by Engineers
Matt Marsteller
matthewm@andrew.cmu.edu

Government Technical Literature
NTIS
“Agency Publications Indexes”
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/api/index.html

Engineering Databases
Ei Compendex
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (incl. Risk Abstracts)
Medline
INSPEC
SAE Publications and Standards
SciFinder Scholar
Web of Science

Important Odds & Ends
Book Literature – CAMEO, WorldCat
IEEE Xplore
JSTOR
Public Perception?  Misunderstandings?