Engineering, Civil and Construction Subject Guide

Article Databases

 

9 resources available
restricted - Restricted to WMU users open access - Open Access

ASCE Research Library (American Society of Civil Engineers) restricted This digital library provides full text access to all 30 ASCE Journal and Periodical volumes published since 1995. (Some journals are available going back a little further.)

ICE Virtual Library (Institution of Civil Engineers, UK)Electronic index to every peer-reviewed paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in Great Britain from 1836 to 2001. You can search for free via keyword (title, author, full text, location, and contractor), year, and journal title. WMU does not presently subscribe to most of this material (so you do not have access to the full text) but articles we do not have can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. This is a rich source of historical information on civil engineering projects.

TRIS Online (National Transportation Library)TRIS Online is a database to transportation related books, government reports, trade publications and conference papers. It is funded by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies (U.S.). Coverage is mainly back to the 1960's, with some coverage of other sources even further back.

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts restricted Basic undergraduate engineering database. It covers only English-language journals, no conferences. WMU libraries own about 60% of the titles indexed. Good first choice for engineering/technology. Coverage: 1983-present. Tutorial

Article @ INISTArticles, books, conferences, and dissertations in the catalog at the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique. Most seem to be in English, but includes material from around the world.

Ei Compendex restricted The most comprehensive index for scholarly research in engineering and applied science. Includes conference papers and foreign language material. Coverage 1969-present, updated weekly.
Available through Engineering Village 2.

INSPEC restricted Indexes scientific and technical journals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.

Scopus restricted Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

  • RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


Web of Science restricted Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.   Tutorial

Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database.

RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".

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