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Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training
Information on apprenticeship and industry training in Alberta including industry standards and financial assistance for training.

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Websites important to your program are listed here.

Workready Electronics
This site offers modules that explain the principles of electrical systems, and also provides on-line quizzes that students can take to test their understanding of each module.

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AccessScience
Covers information on more than 7000 scientific topics. Includes over 8,500 articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and over 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Also includes illustrations, animations, videos, bibliographies, biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists, and news articles and videos on current science and technology topics.

AccessEngineering
Covers a wide range of McGraw-Hill engineering-related resources.  Includes over 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Also includes core eBooks such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. Indexes over 250 eBook publications.

Alberta Building Code
Full text of the 2006 code.

CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety: Web Information Service)
Covers occupational health and safety information. Includes Canadian health, safety and environmental legislation plus CSA and CGSB standards referenced in the legislation, MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets), CHEMINFO, RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances), OSH references, OSH answers, IPCS INCHEM, CHEMINDEX, fatality reports, and WHMIS classifications.

CSA C22.1-09 Canadian Electrical Code, Part 1. Safety Standard for Electrical Installations
Includes full text of CSA C22.1-09, Part 1, Canadian Electrical Code and the 2009 CE Code Handbook.

ENGnetBASE
One of the eBook collections in CRCnetBASE. Covers a wide range of civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mining, and power engineering topics.

Knovel
Full text of reference books in the fields of chemistry and the life sciences, metals, and engineering. Click on "My Subscription" to retrieve only titles that NAIT has full access to.

National Building Code
Full text of the 2005 code. The 2010 code is currently available in print only and is located in Special Collections, behind the Lending Services desk.

Referex
Covers six collections of full-text engineering eBooks: Chemical, Petrochemical & Process Engineering; Electronics & Electrical Engineering; Materials & Mechanical Engineering; Computing; Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Networking & Security. Includes information engineering eBooks, how-to books and practice guides. Referex is available via the Engineering Village platform.

Safari Books Online Business Collection
Covers topics in business, management and professional development. Includes over 1800 electronic books, handbooks by publishers like Wiley and McGraw-Hill.

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Provides online access to the core reference source on electrical and electronics engineering. Covers information relating to education, historical background of fields in electrical & electronics engineering, patents, technology and society, and computer & software engineering. Includes scholarly journal articles and eBook titles.

The subject headings and keywords listed below can also be used as search terms in databases and the internet. Check the help section in each database or search engine for details.

Subject headings group resources by topic.

Use these subject headings to search the Library catalogue for resources relevant to your program.

• electric apparatus and appliances
• electric circuit analysis
• electric circuits
• electric controllers
• electric currents
• electric engineering
• electric motors
• electric wire
• electric wiring
• electricity

Keywords can also find relevant resources.

Quotation marks ("") around words mean that the words will be searched together as a phrase.

• "alternating current"
• capacitors
• "circuit breakers"
• "direct current"
• "eddy currents"
• "electrical maintenance"
• "fuel cells"
• grounding
• "power supplies"
• rectifiers
• regulators
• transformers

Call numbers help you find the areas of the library shelves relevant to your program. You can also use them to virtually browse the Library's shelves.

• 537 Electricity
• 621.3 Electrical Engineering; Electronics
• 621.31 Generation, modification, storage and transmission of electric power
• 621.319 Transmission
• 621.31912 Direct current systems
• 621.31913 Alternating current systems
• 621.3192 Electric circuits
• 621.31924 Interior wiring
• 621.32 Lighting
• 621.46 Electric motors

The most effective way to find articles is to search the appropriate database.  Databases may include articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, newspapers and magazines. Try the databases listed here first. If you don't find what you need, ask us for more suggestions. You can also browse all of the databases by category.

>Database list

Applied Science & Technology
Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields in science, engineering and technology. Includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexes over 400 core English-language scientific and technical publications.

Compendex
Covers scientific and technical engineering research in all bioengineering, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, mechanical, and petroleum engineering disciplines. Includes millions of multilingual citations and abstracts in engineering-related scholarly journals, trade magazines, conference proceedings and technical reports. Some full-text articles are included. Compendex is available via the Engineering Village platform.

ScienceDirect : College Edition
Covers all aspects of engineering and the social, physical, health and life sciences. Includes full text journals, reference works, books, and images. Indexes more than 10.6 million scholarly articles (including articles currently in press) from over 9,500 titles.

Click on the SciVerse Hub link at the top of the search page to access selected quality web-based resources from government, research and science organizations.

To locate print and online journals by title check our Journal Title List.  It lists all of the journals that you can access through the Library.

To search for articles remember to use the databases listed under the Articles tab.