Selected Resources for: Engineering, Geotechnical


Subject Librarian: Jon Jeffryes
E-Mail: jeffryes@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: design of foundations, retaining walls, roads, slopes, dams, and tunnels using rocks and soil.


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Indexes over 300 major English-language periodicals in a wide variety of technology subjects ranging from aeronautics, chemistry, and computers to physics, plastics, and transportation. Many recent citations include abstracts.

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ASCE Civil Engineering Database
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1973. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters.
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Environmental Engineering Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Sources include more than 500 primary journals and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Geobase Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. Provides good coverage of the literature of landscape architecture that deals with restoration and rehabilitation ecology.

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GeoRef Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Index to the worldwide literature of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, hydrogeology , hydrology, and mineralogy. Publication types covered include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government publications, theses, reports, and maps. Provides citations, with a small percentage accompanied by abstracts. Produced by the American Geological Institute.
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Pollution Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. Includes material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents, along with information from primary journals in the field. This database is one component of the "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)" database. To identify additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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General Reference Sources

Directories

Scholarly Societies -- Civil Engineering
A well-selected set of internet links to scholarly societies, associations, institutes, interest groups, and consortia in the field.
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Scholarly Societies -- Earth Sciences
A well-selected set of internet links to scholarly societies, associations, institutes, interest groups, and consortia in the field.
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General Reference Works
ENVIROnetBASE Authentication Required
A collection of electronic books on various environmental science and environmental engineering topics.
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Knovel Authentication Required
Knovel provides online access to reference books, databases, and conference proceedings from a number of publishers that cover all areas of engineering and includes content relevant to related sciences (e.g., chemistry and earth sciences). It includes interactive graphs and tables and is a good starting point when you need a piece of data quickly.
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Handbooks and Manuals






Internet Resources

Web Sites
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
"Established in 1971 at the University of California, Berkeley, the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) provides timely access to technical research and development information in earthquake engineering and related fields of structural dynamics, geotechnical engineering, engineering seismology, and earthquake hazard mitigation policy. NISEE is located at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. The NISEE project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of California, Berkeley and directed by a voluntary Advisory Committee comprised of representatives of the earthquake engineering community".
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions
Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries.
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Writing Guides
<i>How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper</i>
Concisely covers all aspects of science writing, from choosing a title to acknowledgments and references: submission strategies; other forms of science writing (book reviews, theses, presentations, posters); English language usage.
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Library Information

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