Guide to Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts
 

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The following databases and paper indexing and abstracting publications may be used to locate articles relevant to Civil Engineering in journals, magazines, conference proceedings, books, and other sources.  Contact a librarian (688-5570 or 800-786-2038) for more information or if off-campus access is denied to a current SDSU student, faculty member, or staff member.

Databases, Periodical Indexes and Abstracts Most Useful for Civil Engineering Research

Contact a reference librarian for more information or if off-campus access is denied.

Databases

ASCE CE Database.
American Society of Civil Engineers information retrieval service for all its publications.  Current coverage: 1970-present.

Engineering Village - Compendex.
The world's premiere engineering abstracts database. Sources include journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports in all areas of engineering. Older paper volumes of this resource are shelved as Engineering Index on the main floor at Abstracts 620.5 .En332.

Academic Search Premier. (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,040 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. 

Current Contents.
This multidisciplinary, current awareness resource provides indexing and tables of contents to over 6,000 journals covering a broad range of disciplines. Many clinical and social/behavioral journals are included in this database.

Science Citation Index, 1992+, (via Web of Science).
This multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature can be used as a conventional author-subject index, or it can be searched by cited author or paper. Access this database via Web of Science for citations from 2001 to the present and on a specific workstation in the reference area the library for the time period 1991 - 2002. Prior years (1965-1990) are available in paper at Abstracts 016.5 .Sci27.

Scitation, Produced by the American Institute of Physics and it indexes articles from journals, magazines, conference proceedings, technical publications, and other publications from scientific societies and technical publishers including the American Society of Civil Engineering.  Abstracts, references, and citations are available for all references and PDF or html full-text for many articles from journals to which SDSU subscribes.  References are linked from the abstracts and articles referencing the displayed article can also be searched.

 

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Paper Bibliographies, Indexes, and Abstracting Publications:

Analytical Abstracts (Abstracts 543.05 .An14)
This reference covers topics such as: new or modified methods of analysis; design, construction and use of analytical apparatus; reviews of analytical techniques and applications; comparison or evaluation of methods; and chemometric or computer applications in analysis.


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Other Useful Databases/Indexes/Abstracts:
Contact a reference librarian for more information or if off-campus access is denied.