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Science & Engineering Librarian

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Deric Hardy
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What are Case Studies in Engineering

A "case study" is a research approach that is used to generate an in-depth, multi-faceted understanding of a complex issue in its real-life context (Crowe et al., 2011).
Keywords: Case Study, Case Studies, Case Review, Case Design, Case(s)

Strategies for Searching Databases

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Strategies for Searching Google for Case Studies

Effective Google Search Strategies

  • Helps you find credible sources other than scholarly articles and books (i.e., grey/gray literature)
  • Allows you to search within a site
  • One way to find more reliable sources is to limit by the following domains with the limiters
    • "Domain Limiters" - ( .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org ) 
      • For example, site:.gov
        • autonomous vehicle
        • postal service
        • case study

For example

site:.gov

  • autonomous vehicles
  • postal
  • case study

References

Crowe, S., Cresswell, K., Robertson, A., Huby, G., Avery, A., & Sheikh, A. (2011). The case study approach. Bmc Medical Research Methodology, 11(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-100

Research Databases


A database where you can find articles from thousands of scholarly journals


Searches for journal articles in biomedicine. Citations are from MEDLINE and other medical and life science journals


Scopus let's you search peer-reviewed literature, including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings


Allows you to search for articles from all disciplines of civil engineering


Allows the user to search for journal articles and technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics disciplines


Is a multidisciplinary database that allows you to search for articles from scholarly journals in all areas of research

Journals

Clinical Case
Studies (CCS)

A peer-reviewed &
amp; published bi-monthly
electronic only is the
only journal devoted
entirely to innovative psychotherapy case
studies & presents cases involving individual, couples,
family therapy.

Case Studies
in Construction Materials

A journal of rapid
publication of short, structured Case
Studies on construction
materials and related
Short Communications, specialising in actual case
studies involving real
construction projects.