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Article Databases for Civil Engineering Research

• American Society of Civil Engineers Online Journals

• MathSciNet

• ICE Virtual Library Journals

The ICE Virtual Library is provided by Thomas Telford, the knowledge business of the Institution of Civil Engineers. This platform gives alternate access to the 19 e-Journal CUA subscription titles, as well as Web 2.0 tools for use with these titles. Topics include Civil Engineering, Engineering Sustainability, and Energy and Construction Materials.

Help with eBooks

Engineering Books located in Mullen Library will give you more information about broad topics, like transportation engineering or building materials. Try searching for them in the WRLC Libraries Catalog.

Here are some ways to search:

• Try a search like precast and concrete. This search will return all of the records that have both the words precast and concrete, no matter what order they're in. If word order is important, just put quotation marks around the term: "precast concrete".
• On the Search Results screen, select "Publish Date Descending" from the "Sort by:" drop-down menu to see the most recent books first.
• Remember that words may be in singular or plural form, depending on how the author used them. With a Keyword Search you can use a ? to truncate words -- a search for structur? and mechanics will return both "structural mechanics" and "mechanics of structures".

Searching the WRLC Libraries Catalog returns catalog records from all of the academic libraries in the Washington Research Library Consortium. CUA students and faculty can borrow materials from any of these libraries. You can go to any of these libraries to borrow the material directly, or click the Request button at the top of the catalog record and fill out the form to request the material from the consortium. The material will be sent for you to be picked up at Mullen Library (or viewed on the web, for articles).

The below videos provide a useful introduction to library services. Topics covered include how to find a book in the stacks to requesting ILL requests. 

To see more tutorial videos, visit our Online Tutorials page.