For assistance, please contact Matthew Pickens at mpickens@mst.edu

Databases

Use these databases to find journal articles and other materials on civil engineering, environmental engineering, architecture, and related topics.

• ACI Abstract search

  Index of materials published by the American Concrete Institute. No full text.

• ASCE Civil Engineering Database

  Index of all ASCE publications since 1970. No full text.

• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

  Citations and abstracts for articles published in the architecture literature.

• BuildingGreen.com

  Articles "providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings."

• Compendex

  Bibliographic citations and abstracts for engineering and technical literature in a broad range of disciplines, dating back to 1884. Some full text.

• Earthquake Engineering Abstracts

  Comprehensive indexing of earthquake engineering literature since 1971. No full text.

• Environmental Engineering Abstracts

  Provides bibliographic information and abstracting for international literature focusing on technological and engineering aspects of air, water, energy, and other environmental issues since 1990. No full text.

• Knovel Digital Library

  Knovel is a large collection of downloadable science and engineering ebooks, including reference works.

• Materials Research Database

  Allows simultaneous searching of several databases containing scholarly literature on a variety of engineered and structural materials. No full text.

• Scopus

  Scopus provides multidisciplinary indexing of the science and engineering literature. It is Elsevier's counterpart to ISI's Web of Science, providing the same core functionality but indexing a wider variety of journals and proceedings.

• Technology Research Database

  The Technology Research Database simultaneously searches a number of science and technology databases.

• Transportation Research Record

  Full text of the Transportation Research Record from 1996-present. Coverage begins with volume 1517.

• TRIS Online

  Database containing almost half a million references to transportation research. Links to some full text.

Print Resources

• Fire Protection Handbook
  REF TH 9150 .F47 20th 2008
• RS Means Building Construction Data
  REF TH 435 .B84 68th 2010
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering
  REF TD 9 .E5 2006
• Earthquake Engineering Handbook
  REF TA 654.6 .E374 2003
• Handbook of Transportation Engineering
  REF TA 1145 .H36 2004
• The Engineer's Career Guide
  Reference Reserve

Web Resources

• National Fire Codes from the National Fire Protection Association -- freely viewable online, free registration required. (If you are using a standard campus computer, you may only be able to view these documents in Internet Explorer.)
• Bridge Engineering -- From SC Solutions
• iCivilEngineer
• DoE Engineering Bridge
• Municode.Com -- Searchable collection of municipal codes from across the US
• Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Library Technical Reports
• ICARIS -- Integrated CAD in Civil Engineering
• National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
• TranStats -- from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• North American Transportation Statistics Database --collaborative effort of the three North American transportation agencies
• US Army Corps of Engineers
• US Green Building Council's LEED Rating System (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)

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Last Updated 07/07/2010