LibGuides: Civil Engineering: Get Articles

What is a database?

Databases are collections of articles and other sources of scholarly information. They can be searched by using keywords, or words that describe a topic. Databases often provide peer-reviewed or scholarly articles for your research.

FAU Libraries Video Tutorials on Citation Management

Learn about Citation Tools
This short PowerPoint includes
■ Main features of Citation Tools
■ Screenshot of Mendeley interface
■ Links to Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote websites

FAU Libraries VIDEO: Citation Tools Overview and Mendeley
Brief overview of Citation Tools in general and Mendeley features and use
FAU Libraries VIDEO: Exporting and Importing Citations in .ris Format
It's easy to export citations from a database, citation manager, or other resource using .RIS format and then import them into a citation manager.

Selected Databases

All of the databases in this discipline can be found in our Engineering and Applied Sciences databases section.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal, magazine and newsletter articles. In addition, this resource provides access to transactions, conference proceedings and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature.
Civil Engineering Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Content/Info: Civil Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in civil engineering and its complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. This database provides comprehensive international coverage as well as numerous non-serial publications. Many of the more recent records in the databas
Compendex (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
Contents/Info: Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Compendex contains over 8 million records and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications. Coverage is from 1969 to present and the database is updated weekly. Combined with the Engineering Index Backfile, the database includes over 9.7 million records and spans back to 1884.
Elsevier ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Content/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines.
Materials Science & Engineering Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Content/Info: The ProQuest Engineering Collection contains engineering related full-text articles, granular access to millions of figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from the CSA Engineering Research Database,a comprehensive index to world literature on technological and engineering innovations.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
IEEE Xplore:IEEE/IEL Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Contents/Info: IEEE/IEE Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Standards from 1988 to the present.
INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Contents/Info: Includes Physics Abstracts, Computer and Control Abstracts, and Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. The largest English language file of bibliographic information and abstracts on the world's output of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings. Includes some books, reports, and dissertations.
Materials Business File This link opens in a new window
Contents/Info: Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Contents/Info: The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

O'Reilly for Higher Education
Provides an on-demand digital library that delivers content in both book and video form from leading authors in technology and business. Formerly Safari Books Online.
Generously funded by the FAU Student Government Association.

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