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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lise Doucette

Allyn & Betty Taylor Library

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EI Compendex

EI Compendex is one of the most comprehensive engineering literature databases.It contains over ten million references and abstracts taken from over 6,000 scholarly journals, trade magazines, conference proceedings and technical reports.
ASCE Civil Engineering Database

The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts

This article database indexes the major publications related to earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation.
Geobase

Geobase covers the scholarly literature in earth science, ecology, geography, and marine science. You can search it simultaneously with EI Compendex.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Use this database to find dissertations or theses, many of which are available as full-text pdf downloads.

Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online

A good online encyclopedia to use as a starting point for gathering information on a topic.
Water Encyclopedia

This five-volume set covers water supply, waste disposal, water quality and resource development, ground water, and more. It is available in TAY reference at TD345.W2623 2005.
Encyclopedia of environmental analysis and remediation

Available in TAY reference at TD173.E53 1998.

ENGnetBASE

This is a collection of full-text, searchable engineering handbooks, including the Bridge Engineering Handbook, Handbook of Groundwater Engineering and Civil Engineering Handbook. Topics cover a wide range of engineering disciplines. ENGnetBASE is a good starting point for gathering information on a topic.
ENVIROnetBASE

This is a collection of full-text, searchable books on a wide range of environmental science topics.
Civil Engineering Handbook

Available online and in the Taylor Library reference section at TA151.C57 2003
Structural Engineering Handbook

Available at TAY stack TA635.G3 1997.

ACI Manual of Concrete Practice

The ACI Manual of Concrete Practice is a six-part compilation of current ACI standards and committee reports. The 2008 manual is available in TAY stack at TA681.A53.
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standards

ASTM publishes standard test methods, specifications, practices, guides, classifications adn terminology. We have the complete ASTM active standards online, and some older print editions in the RDL or ARCC
Canadian Standards Association (print)

In the Taylor Reference collection, we have print copies of CSA standards for you to use in-library.
National Building Code of Canada

Published by the National Research Council, Associate Committee on the National Building Code. The most recent edition is available in TAY reference at TH226.N37.
Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code

Published by the Canadian Standards Association. The most recent edition is in TAY reference at TA368.N383 S6-2006 (during term, it may be on reserve at TAY desk for 2 hour loan -- check the catalogue for the most up-to-date location). The Commentary on CAN/CSA-S6-2006, Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, is also available in TAY reference at TA368.N383 S6.1-2006