Civil & Environmental Engineering : Get Started

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Need a book/e-book, video, periodical, or other type of material available at Northeastern libraries?

Start with Scholar OneSearch -- One-stop searching for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media and more. Search local Northeastern collections and global resources - many items available full text online.

Knovel Library This link opens in a new window
Primarily e-books, especially handbooks and scientific and engineering reference manuals and data.
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or certain properties there are specific chemical equations and digital graphs. Analyze data, sort, filter and export from 'live tables', resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'What If' experiments.

Download: Some book chapters and sections are in PDF and may be downloaded.

Printing: Some book chapters and sections are in PDF and may be printed.

Mobile: An app is available for reading offline on a mobile device or tablet. Learn more and download

Need articles?

Begin your search with these databases:

Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Combines the citations and full text links of Compendex and Inspec with full text books from Knovel, for a more comprehensive search on computer science and engineering topics.
Coverage: 1969 to present, including some older backfiles, and new articles in press from over 1,000 journals.
ASCE Library This link opens in a new window
Select full text peer-reviewed journals, e-books, standards, and proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Web of Science, Core Collection 1975-present This link opens in a new window
Use for citation tracking, finding seminal literature, data visualizations, author alerts, institutional affiliations, and impact factors. Links to full text.
Includes:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index
Book Citation Index (2005-present)
Conference Citation Index
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Current Chemical Reactions Index
Index Chemicus
GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource containing nearly 300,000 records, with full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references with library links for more than 200 additional titles
A free version of this resource is also available.
ScienceDirect: Subscribed Content This link opens in a new window
Selected scholarly journals in full text from Elsevier publishers

TRID (Open Access)
[Transportation Research] TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide. Replaces TRIS.
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An integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.

Looking for Technical Reports?

Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.

You can also browse TRAIL's collections by series using these TRAIL guides.

Need a quick refresh on your research skills?

The library has many more research tutorials on common research questions and skills. To see what else is available, visit the library's Research Tutorials page.

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Civil & Environmental Engineering : Get Started

Key Resources

Looking for Technical Reports?

Need a quick refresh on your research skills?

3D Printing is Here!

Interlibrary loan

Need some help coping?

Ask Your Librarian

Library Quick Links

See Also