The University of Adelaide Library

Indexes and databases for Civil Engineering

Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering information resources

Databases for Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering

These commercial lists of articles from journals, papers given at conferences, chapters in books, patents, research reports and theses, are available to staff and students, through links from the Library's Catalogue, where the Library pays a subscription to the publisher.
You will be asked to authenticate your status as a member of the University with your acount name and password.

To find journal articles on a topic use one or more of the databases listed below.

Remember - these databases are international in coverage; the Barr Smith Library does not provide acess to all of the articles listed. If you need an item that we don't have, use our Document Delivery Service.

Searching

Use the same search strategy as for the Library Catalogue when you search by Keyword (use and, or, not, " ") You can develop your search strategy in the Library Catalogue [Searching by Keyword (use and, or, not, " ")] and copy and paste into the search bar in each of the databases.

For most aspects of civil engineering use -


Ei Compendex 1884-
The international coverage for all aspects of engineering from journals articles, conference papers, research reports; any language; from any country.

Select Expert Search from the search option buttons, then paste in a search strategy by Keyword (use and, or, not, " ") from the Library Catalogue or create your own keyword search in the Expert Search box.

CEDB : Civil Engineering DataBase 1973-
Lists all material published by the ASCE; with links to the full text of journal articles where the Barr Smith Library has a subscription to the journal.

The result list displays the 100 most recent titles; to view the rest of the results, amend your search strategy by choosing a date range or adding more search words.

In addition, see databases from other disciplines which include aspects of civil engineering -

Architectural and Structural
ARCH: Australian architectural database 1980-
AVEry Index 1880-
BUILD: Australian Building Construction and Engineering 1945-
Geobase
Physical and human geography, geology and geophysics, environmental studies, ecology, geomechanics and oceanography, international development
GEODOK: Virtual Geographic Library Database
NISEE: National Information Center for Earthquake Engineering
RIBA Library Online


Geotechnique
AESIS: Australia's Earth Sciences Information Service
GEODOK: Virtual Geographic Library Database
Georef 1933- (from 1785- for North America)
GSW: GeoScience World
Aims to be the comprehensive resource for research and communication in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals. Includes links to GeoBase.
NISEE: National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering


Water Resources
Water Resources Abstracts
Streamline: Australia's Natural Resources Database


Environmental issues
ASFA1: Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA3: Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
BIOSIS Previews
Life sciences
EVA: environmental abstracts (Australia)
Geobase
Physical and human geography. Includes environmental studies, ecology, communities and international development
VPI&E Victorian Primary Industry & Environment Library


Chemistry and Materials
SciFinder


Management
Business Source Complete
Emerald


Citation searching
Web of Science


Mathematics
MathSciNet 1940-
From the American Mathematical Society, MathSciNet is the major index for pure and applied mathematics.


Computing applications
ACM digital library 1985-
Indexes and provides links to the full text of the journal articles and conference papers of the Association for Computing Machinery.

INSPEC 1898-
Includes applications of computing in engineering disciplines.


Management matters
Business Source Complete 1965-
International coverage of business and management. Full text is available for many of the articles.

Emerald FullText 1994-


Agriculture
Agricola
CAB abstracts


Technology and Science
ENGINE: Australian Engineering Database 1980-
ENGINE covers the publications of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and other technical publications relevant to Australia.

NTRS: National Technical Reports Server
Provides public access to NASA’s technical literature; citations and full-text documents and to publically available material in environmental surveying, monitoring and forecasting

EnergyFiles 1948-
From the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), EnergyFiles is a virtual library of over 500 science and technology databases and Web sites.

ENGINE: Australian Engineering Database 1980-
ENGINE covers the publications of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and other technical publications relevant to Australia.

Some of the multi-disciplinary databases may be useful.

The databases listed below have an interdisciplinary coverage across science, technology, medicine, business, the humanities, social sciences and popular culture.

This material is taken from journals, magazines and newspapers.

Full text links are provided for many of the articles.


Academic Search Premier 1985-

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre 1990s- with some material from the 1930s

eLibrary

Expanded academic ASAP 1980-

Web of Science 1900-

For higher degree theses from other universities see

ADT: Australian Digital Theses Program
Aims to provide a digital copy of each Australian higher degree thesis.

Libraries Australia
The primary source for locating Australian theses.
Under 'Limit to:' tick the box against theses to limit your search.

Index to theses 1716-
Lists theses from British and Irish universities
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 1861-
Lists higher degree theses primarily from North American.

Copies of theses may be able to be borrowed or purchased. Use the Library's Document Delivery Service in the first instance.

<>If you are not getting the results you expect, please contact the Engineering Librarian, Kay Leverett.