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CivEng resources
Engineering information resources


Information sources for Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering

   |  Engineering Planning & Design  C&ENVENG 1008  |  | Engineering Communication (EAL) ENG 3003  |  Engineering Communication & Critical Thinking  ELEC ENG 7057 |
Useful Shortcuts
 
EiCompendex
CEDB: Civil Engineering DataBase 
ENGINE
 
GeoRef
AESIS

 
WRA: Water Resources Abstracts 
STREAMLINE
 
SciFinder Scholar
 
Business Source Complete
Emerald
 
Web of Science


An alphabetical list of other databases potentially useful for aspects of Civil, Environmental, Geotechnical, Mining, Structural and Water Engineering -

Academic Search Premier    
ACM Digital Library
 
AGIS
AGRICOLA
APA-FT
ARCH
ASFA1  
ASFA3      
AVEry index
Biosis Previews       
BUILD   
CAB abstracts
Expanded Academic ASAP  
eLibrary

EVA
GeoBase
INSPEC
MathSciNet
NISEE          
ProQuest dissertations and theses
  
RIBA Library Online
 
VPI&E    

Libraries Australia  

Library Catalogue

Ask a Librarian

Document Delivery

Intercampus Requests


Patents
Standards
  Australian Standards online
  Building Code of Australia online 
Statistics

Engineering ethics
Engineering history and heritage

Biographical sources

Essay, thesis, report writing
Theses and dissertations
How your references should look
EndNote
  styles  |  training & manuals

Image and Copy Centre


Exam papers

Remote student library service

Other tertiary and research institutions

School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Need to understand a topic but don't need the in-depth presentation of a textbook?
Try a specialised handbook or encyclopaedia.  These sources are intended for the professional engineer who needs a quick, reliable answer, but does not have a library of textbooks at hand.

For specific lists go to 
| Biography | Civil engineering | Coastal engineering | Construction | Computer applications | Earthquake engineering | Environmental engineering | Geotechnical engineering | Management  | Mathematics | Materials | Mining | Professional practice | Structural engineering | Transportation | Water Supply
 
Who wrote what, when, where?
When you need to find articles or papers on a topic use an appropriate database or index to find out what has been written.
Some databases will provide a link to the full text of an article; where this is not the case, check the Library Catalogue and see if we provide access to the source journal. 

For all topics in Civil and Environmental engineering start with Ei Compendex or CEDB (Civil Engineering DataBase from the ASCE) which each cover a wide range of subjects.
For Australian issues in engineering see  ENGINE: Australian Engineering Database from the IEAust

Specialised databases from related subject areas may be useful including -

Environmental issues 
ASFA1: Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
BIOSIS Previews  life sciences
EVA: environmental abstracts (Australia)
Geobase
VPI&E Library catalogue

Geotechnique 
AESIS
Geobase
 
Georef 
NISEE

Materials
Compendex 
SciFinder 

Regional Planning
AVEry Index
Geobase  
GEODOK: Virtual Geographic Library Database
RIBA Library Online

Structures
ARCH 
AVEry Index 
BUILD
NISEE: National Information Center for Earthquake Engineering 
RIBA Library Online

Water Resources
Water Resources Abstracts
 
Streamline

 
Management 
Business Source Complete
Emerald

Comment on current issues is often found in the broad, multidisiplinary databases such as
Academic Search Premier  
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre 
eLibrary
Expanded Academic ASAP  

Citation searching

Web of Science 

Computer Science and Mathematics 
ACM Digital Library  
MathSciNet 

Agriculture 
Agricola 
CAB abstracts 

For higher degree theses from other universities
Index to theses
Proquest dissertations and theses 


For Engineering ethics
Wikipedia has a useful article on engineering ethics with links to the relevant sites of professional associations.