Access Engineering User Guide: Home

Why create a personal account?

Creating a personal account provides you with additional valuable tools within AccessEngineering, including bookmarking content, saving DataVis projects, saving searches, and organizing research with labels.  A personal account also enables you to sign up for various alerts including new book alerts, saved search alerts, and spreadsheet update alerts.

How do I register for a free personal account?

• Click on the yellow My Account button in the site header
• Select Log in via email/username
• Click Register, then fill in the form with your name, email address, and a password 
• (Optional) Select topics of interest to receive email alerts when new content is added in those areas

Note:

• Personal accounts are an optional feature and are not required to view or use any of the content on the site.
• Personal accounts do not replace authentication via your institution; you must access the database from the NJIT Library Website, provide your UCID and password or connect to NJIT VPN.

BOOKS - Filter to specific book components including figures, tables, graphs, and example problems. Categories of books on AccessEngineering include:

• Engineering Reference Books
• Handbooks
• Textbooks
• Schaum's Outlines
• Makerspace Books
• Code Commentary
• Calculations
• Business Skills

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS - AccessEngineering has over 900 instructional videos created by engineering faculty that show step-by-step solutions to example problems.  All videos offer closed captioning and full transcripts.

GRAPHS, TABLES, & FIGURES - AccessEngineering's interactive graphs and downloadable tables and figures help users visualize and analyze data.  Pinpoint values on a graph or input specific values for the variables.  Download data from tables into an Excel spreadsheet for further data manipulation. 

USER MANUALS & TUTORIALS - View available video tutorials and comprehensive user guides providing step-by-step instructions on how to use AccessEngineering's personalized research tools.  LibGuide content is available for copy and reuse in your own research guides.