Subject Guides: Science and Engineering

The Royal Military College of Canada Library

Aeronautical Engineering

1. Reference Sources

Additional resources can be found in the reference section under the call no.TL 500 (Aeronautics). Please note that these resources do not go out of the library.

Some of the links below lead to a site belonging to an entity not subject to the Official Languages Act. Information on this site is available in the language of the site.

2. Books

To locate books in our library, go to the Library Catalogue.

Search Tips

• select a Keyword type search to search for keywords within a field (words or phrase - will search all fields)
• select a Browse type search to browse through a particular index e.g. author - Smith John
• combine keywords using AND, OR, or NOT; Ex:
• heat AND transmission (to retrieve records with both these terms)
• lubricant OR lubrication (to retrieve records with either one of these terms)
• materials NOT composites
• Use parentheses to specify order:

  Ex.: materials and (test or testing)

• Use the “$” symbol to retrieve words starting with certain letters

  Ex.: lubric$ (lubricant, lubricants, lubrication, etc.)

• Use single quotes to search for a phrase: ‘materials testing’
• Use positional operators to specify proximity
• adj – next to each other, same order
• near – next to each other, any order
• adjn, nearn – within “n” words, where “n” is a number
• Use Power Search or Limit Search  to specify:
• Language
• Material type e.g. E-book, DVD
• Collection/Location
• Publication Year – the following operators are also available:

<      less than

 >      greater than

=       equal to

>=    greater than or equal to

<=   less than or equal to

Locate a title on your topic. If copies are available, click on Details and copy down the call no. and location. If copies are not available, but there is a wait time specified, click on Place Hold. (If the wait time is longer than 2 weeks, come to the Circulation Desk to request a recall.) If there are no copies available and the wait time is unspecified, come to the Circulation Desk for assistance; the book may be in process.

To find more books in your subject area, click on one of the following links:

• Find more on these topics
• Nearby items on shelf (books on the same topic are classified under the same or similar call no.)
• One of the subjects listed under You Found Titles in Categories (alternatively, use one of the subject categories in a Browse search in the Subject field).

To locate books in other libraries, consult:

• Amicus Web, a catalogue of holdings from over 1,300 Canadian libraries.

Items listed can be obtained on interlibrary loan. Forms are available at the circulation desk and on the web

3. Journals

Note: remote access to the library’s Electronic Journals is available through the RMC portal or VPN.

For information on more specific topics, you will have to check for journal articles. See our Electronic Journals - by title web page for a list of titles available in electronic format. The library's print journals are available on the main floor. Most recent issues are kept on display shelves, in alphabetical order by title. Back issues are in order of call no., in the bound journals section. (Note: issues prior to 1991 are on the second floor, in Rm. 214.) To find the call no. for a print journal, check our library catalogue or the journals list kept near the main floor workstations.

Some useful journal titles:

• Aeronautical Journal (Royal Aeronautical Society)
• AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) publications
• Air and Space Power Journal
• Air and Space Smithsonian
• Aviation Week and Space Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• Journal of Aerospace Engineering
• Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Pt. G. Journal of Aerospace Engineering

4. Journal Indexes and Databases

Note: remote access to the library’s Indexes and Databases is available through the RMC portal or VPN

To locate articles on your topic, use a journal index. Unless indicated otherwise, the following resources are available from the library's Indexes and Databases page:

• General
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Oxford Journals Collection and Archive
  • ScienceDirect (Elsevier), 1995-
  • SpringerLink
  • Web of Science, 2004-
  • Wiley Interscience

5. Internet Sites

For help, contact the Massey Library at okr@rmc.ca