Using the engineering literature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: SciTech Book News | Date: September 1, 2007 | Copyright information

0824729641

Using the engineering literature.

Ed. by Bonnie A. Osif.

Routledge

2006

614 pages

$215.00

Hardcover

T10

Osif (Engineering Reference and Instruction Librarian, Pennsylvania State U.) has prepared this reference to guide readers to engineering information resources with the goal of avoiding information overkill by pointing to good resources in a wide variety of formats t...

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