These handbooks and encyclopedias may be good places to start if you'd like to review key concepts and theories in post-secondary STEM education...
If you'd like to search for specific concepts or theories across collections of encyclopedias, these databases are good places to start...
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Selected titles only. Platform for Sage book and reference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. Only select book titles purchased by the UT Libraries are fully accessible.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
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Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files.
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To find books from our collection, always start at the Library Catalog or the search box on the main library site
Once you've searched with your keywords, use the options on the left to create filters. The options under are particularly useful, as there you can limit to eBooks by choosing "Resource Type > Books" and "Show Only > Available Online"
Much research about undergraduate engineering students can be found in dissertations, and the databases below can lead you to that work. You may also find other engineering dissertations useful as you undertake your own doctoral work.
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Updated regularly. Holds digital works and provides related services that constitute an institutional repository for the University of Texas at Austin. Archives and provides persistent and reliable access to the digital works of faculty, staff, and students and aims to provide the greatest possible dissemination and recognition to these works as possible. Digital works include research and scholarship, as well as works that reflect the intellectual and service environment of the campus.
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Updated monthly. Contains more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Provides full text for many dissertations and theses, including most done after 1997. All subject areas are covered. The database includes more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America with selective coverage for other parts of the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Only bibliographic citations are available for earlier years. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Many dissertations from The University of Texas at Austin are included in the database, though theses from the University are only rarely included.
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