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The Patent Behind the Lego "Toy Building Brick"

Patent for a bicycle brake disc.

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ScienceDirect

Zahnow Library does not subscribe to any books on the ScienceDirect platform. Full text is to subscribed journals and open access titles (journals and books) only.
Applied Science & Technology Source
This resource is a mixture of full text articles and citations in the science and technology fields including Engineering.

MeL Database. It's similar to Applied Science & Technology Full Text, but with more resources indexed within it.
SpringerLink

Full text to subscribed titles only. Other articles must be requested through ILL.
IEEE Xplore
Computer Society Digital Library
ACM Digital Library
Computer science research, including computer engineering.
OurEnergyPolicy.org - Resource Library

Access World News
Search news sources from around the world.
Auto Repair Source

MeL.org resource. If off campus and not affiliated with SVSU, please use this link: https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebscoprofile-autorepso
Credo Reference
Use this instead of Wikipedia -- seriously! Credo is a collection of online encyclopedias, dictionaries, images and other topical material.
Google Books
Many books that are out of copyright are located in Google Books. For other titles, please see a Librarian for ways to obtain access.
Google Scholar
Searches broadly for many different types of information resources, including scholarly articles, books, theses, dissertations and more.

Google Scholar does NOT include everything.

IEEE Editorial Style Manual
MelCat
Borrow books, audio books, music and more from other Michigan libraries. Items delivered to the Zahnow Library circulation desk for pick-up.

ProQuest
Multisubject database that searches journals, magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, technical papers, figures, tables and more.