Subject Guides

Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Finding Articles, Technical Reports & Conference Papers
• Finding Books E-books & Full Text Online Journals
• Web Resources
• Finding Dissertations & Theses
• Finding Standards

Finding Articles, Technical Reports & Conference Papers

Citation information from databases can be used to help locate the full-text in the following ways:

• Link to the full-text of the article in another location by clicking on a button that says .
• If you don't see the find it @ SU button, search Socrates, the online catalog, using Periodical Title to determine whether the journal is available through the Stanford Libraries.
• If the journal is not in Socrates, you can request it from another library via Interlibrary Services (ILL).

BIOSIS – Civil / Environmental Engineers will be interested in its coverage of microbiology and biochemical/biological treatment of wastes.

Business Source Premier - A good source for articles on the business and market aspects of civil, environmental, and construction engineering.

Civil Engineering Database – Provides access to all ASCE (American Society for Civil Engineering) documents published since 1974.

Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder - Worldwide literature from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts - Topics in structural dynamics, seismology, geology, architecture, political science, economics, planning, public policy, and hazards mitigation as they relate to earthquake studies.

Engineering Index – (also called Compendex) Contains over 9 million records and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Databases - Covers air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and U.S. federal environmental impact statements.

INSPEC via LANL - Civil and Environmental engineers should be interested in INSPEC's coverage of mechanics, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, and computing.

Institute of Transportation Studies - The University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies Library's holdings is an excellent starting point for researching transportation-related topics.

NTIS (National Technical Information Service) - Citations and abstracts from unclassified government-sponsored research reports from the Departments of Defense, Energy, NASA, and other federal agencies. Includes some international document abstracts.

QUAKELINE – Covers Earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazards mitigation, and related topics. An attempt is made to exclude the items already listed in NTIS, Engineering Index/Compendex, and GeoRef.

SciSearch via Web of Knowledge - Indexes authors who have been cited in current literature across 100 scientific disciplines. Key feature is the ability to search by who is citing various papers by other authors.

Scitopia – A federated search portal created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies. It searches the electronic libraries of these societies, including more than three million documents, peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers. Though the search is freely available, access to many documents requires authentication.

TRIS Online – offers references to all modes of transportation and various aspects including design, planning, safety, and environmental issues.

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Finding Books E-books & Full Text Online Journals

To locate print books and journals on the Stanford Campus, use Socrates, the online catalog. The articles in the journals will NOT appear in the catalog, only journal titles (ex. Coastal Engineering, Structural Engineer).

Grouped Resource Pages

• E-journals at Stanford

Specialty Resources

ASCE Journals

CivilENGINEERINGnetBase - Ebooks - Civil engineering collection of over 139 books is included here.

ENGnetBASE – E-books - Environmental engineering, law, management and compliance books are included here.

Knovel Library: Civil Engineering & Construction Materials – E-books - Over 800 books. Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics materials, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, food sciences, and mechanical engineering.

MRS Online Proceedings Library – E-conferences and journals Contains peer-reviewed papers presented at Materials Research Society Meetings since the 2000 Spring meeting.

ScienceDirect – E-books and journals - A web information source for scientific, technical, and medical research (STM) that offers access to more than 1,800 journals across 24 fields of science including the social sciences. Offers full-text articles, browsable tables of contents, and article abstracts. Many titles have full-text coverage from the first volume to the present.

SpringerLink - Books and journals in Engineering, Earth and Environmental science and other Science & Technology topics.

Water Intelligence Online - Access books, research reports, research papers and conference proceedings covering water, wastewater and related environmental topics.

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Web Resources

Civil Engineer's Mega Bookmark - The site includes links to over 1,000 online resources of interest to civil engineers. Various categories such as Research/Education, Subject-Based Resources, Information Sources, Building Codes/Standards from 15 countries, Organizations/ Institutes, and Civil engineers biographies are included.

Directory of Open Access Journals Technology and Engineering (DOAJ) - Includes free full text online journals in Chemical Technology, Computer Science, Construction, Electrical and Nuclear Engineering, Environmental Engineering, & Environmental Technology.

DOE Information Bridge - provides results of Department of Energy R&D in energy technologies, physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, and more.

EnergyFiles - Sponsored by the Department of Energy's OSTI, EnergyFiles combines information, tools, and technologies to facilitate access to and use of scientific resources through over 500 databases and Web sites.

National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) - EPA's electronic documents site allows you to search, view and print, including full images of all original pages and full-text, from a collection of over 11,000 archival and current documents.

Virtual Technical Reports Center - full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web.

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Kathleen Gust
Engineering Library
engreference@stanford.edu