For details of these and other standards, see the Library's standards web page . Like the journals on the shelves, Mechanical Engineering journals will be found under Engineering . You'll find all the IMechE and ASME journals are available online. You'll find these full-text databases included in the list of Mechanical Engineering databases. The IEEE and IEE journals are also in the Library catalogue, but individual IEEE and IEE conference proceedings are not.
Most electronic journals publish their papers in pdf format.
Your web browser should automatically launch Adobe Acrobat Reader so that you can look at them. They are designed to be printed out rather than being read on screen. Rather than reading new messages posted to daily to newsgroups, you may prefer to search archives of newsgroups for useful information. These are like the Library's Selected web sites , but on a larger scale. These allow you to search for keywords within individual web pages.