Civil and Environmental Engineering: Find Articles

Starting Points for Finding Articles and Conference Papers

ASCE Civil Engineering Research Library
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A comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering.

The ASCE Research Library includes ASCE conference proceedings beginning in 1998, and all ASCE journal and periodical volumes published since 1995. It contains articles from ASCE journals, papers from conference proceedings, and e-books and standards. Selected e-books from 1998 to the present are included, including all in-print ASCE Manuals of Practice and ASCE Press titles.

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Compendex This link opens in a new window
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Search Compendex to find information about your topic in all fields of engineering, including civil and environmental engineering topics. This is a great place to start for information when you are beginning to investigate your research topic.

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ASCE Civil Engineering Database This link opens in a new window
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. There are more than 170,000 bibliographic and abstracted records. Journal papers with abstracts go back to 1970. Non-abstract journal records go back to 1958. The book records are complete dating back to the early 1900s.
JSTOR Sustainability This link opens in a new window
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Discover a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of sustainability. The subjects of resilience and sustainability are explored broadly, covering research on environmental stresses and their impact on society.
TRID This link opens in a new window
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.
Use the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) to search more efficiently and successfully when using TRID.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
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Full-text of IEEE and IET journals and conference proceedings, and current IEEE standards all in full-text.

Additional Databases

Statista This link opens in a new window
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Market, industry, and country statistics, studies and infographics.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Contains abstracts, articles and full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

Earthquake Engineering Online Archive- NISEE
The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive is a database of significant, publicly-funded research and development literature, photographs, data, and software in earthquake, structural, and geotechnical engineering. It includes full text for EERC, SEMM, and PEER reports published at UC Berkeley, the NISEE software library, and images from EQIIS.

Full-text access requires a membership.

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles and other material covering environmental sciences.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
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Search GeoRef for information about all fields of geology, including engineering geology and environmental geology, both in North America and worldwide. Resources include information from journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

BCC Research
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Specialized market research reports covering high-tech, energy, and healthcare sectors.

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