Forming Public Policy in Engineering

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Forming Public Policy in Engineering

• Search Tools used by Engineers
• Matt Marsteller
• matthewm_at_andrew.cmu.edu

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Government Technical Literature

• NTIS
• Agency Publications Indexes
• http//www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/api/ind
  ex.html

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Engineering Databases

• Ei Compendex
• Environmental Sciences Pollution Management
  (incl. Risk Abstracts)
• Medline

• INSPEC
• SAE Publications and Standards
• SciFinder Scholar
• Web of Science

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Important Odds Ends

• Book Literature CAMEO, WorldCat
• IEEE Xplore
• JSTOR
• Public Perception? Misunderstandings?