Subject Guide: Civil Engineering

Books

A Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers [REF] TA139 .A53 1991 v.2
Dictionary of Civil Engineering : English-French [REF] TA9 .K88 2004
A Dictionary of Environmental & Civil Engineering [REF] TD9 .W43 2000
Dictionary of Water & Waste Management [REF] TD 9 .S37 2002
Environmental Engineering [REF] TD145 .S2397 2003
Handbook of Transportation Engineering[REF] TA 1151 .H34 2004
Reference Guide to Famous Engineering Landmarks of the World [REF] TA 15 .B42 1997
Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers [REF] TA151 .S8 2004

Looking for books on civil and construction engineering? Here's where to look:

TA 1-2040 Civil engineering (general)
TC 1-978 Hydraulic engineering
TE 1-450 Highway engineering
TG 1-470 Bridge engineering
TH 1-9745 Building construction

Articles

Print and Electronic Periodicals :
The library subscribes to a number of periodicals in print. These are located in the Periodicals Room on the second floor of the library. There are also many full-text electronic journals available in the library's online databases. For a complete list of the library's periodicals holdings in both formats, go to Journal Finder.
Here, you can search by title or subject for all print and full-text electronic periodical holdings.

You can search for a particular periodical by title in the McQuade Library Catalog.

Search these databases to find articles (for off campus access you will be prompted to enter the 14-digit number on the back of your Merrimack College ID):

Agricola - Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, animal science & engineering via FirstSearch.

Directory of Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Emerald Fulltext - A collection of the world's widest range of full-text management journals with selected titles in engineering, applied science and technology as well.

GEOBASE - Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology via FirstSearch

Infotrac OneFile - A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 39 million database records at researchers' fingertips. More than 9,200 titles and backfile coverage from 1980 from mainstream and specialized sources.

JSTOR - A searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly journals, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most recent 3 to 5 years of archive.

Proquest Science Journals - With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 490 titles—with more than 380 available in full text.

Scientific American Archive Online -Contains the entire editorial content of Scientific American with all special issues from January 1993 through to the present---updated monthly.

Transportation Research Information Service - "The Transportation Research Information Services database of TRIS Online is created and maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. It abstracts information from books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles on all modes of transportation. TRIS Online excludes topics such as vehicle standards, patent information, market research, military transportation, and news articles." -Choice Reviews

Wiley Interscience - Search the full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals published by John Wiley & Sons.

Web Sites

Professional Associations

Online Tutorials

Internet Civil Engineer is a tutorial of Internet information skills from EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library). Includes a tour of key Internet sites for civil engineers, how to search the Internet, what to trust on the Internet, and more.