Research Guides: Civil and Urban Engineering: Databases & Journals

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AccessEngineering

AccessEngineering provides reference E-Books and instructional videos on major areas of engineering. It features content from a broad range of engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, and Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain. This collection also includes some Schaum's outlines.
ASCE Library
The ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Library is a digital library that provides access to a collection of civil engineering content. It contains articles from ASCE journals, papers from conference proceedings, and ebooks and standards.
Engineering Village (Formerly Compendex)
Engineering Village is a specialized discovery platform where researchers can effectively search multiple engineering databases all in one place.
Environment Complete
An interdisciplinary database that contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
Knovel
Knovel is a library of science and engineering ebooks, articles, handbooks, and datasets.

Additional Databases

ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is a large, multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a portal for scholarship published in the sciences, engineering, and technology disciplines.
Scopus
Scopus is a multidisciplinary index of peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
SpringerLink
SpringerLink provides access to journal articles, books, and reference works in the biomedical sciences, life sciences, and computer sciences.
Web of Science Core Collection
Web of Science Core Collection is a multidisciplinary citation index that includes scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and books in the biomedical, psychosocial, and arts and humanities. The collections contain Science Citation, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Current Chemical Reactions index.
Wiley Current Protocols
Current Protocols has been the leading source of laboratory protocols for over 25 years and comprises more than 14,000 straightforward, step-by-step procedures and techniques across 17 titles. This is the Protocols database of Wiley ONLINE LIBRARY.

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