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Periodical Articles and Conference Papers
New developments and current research are often first presented as conference papers and/or periodical articles. The following article databases access this literature.
- Compendex (1969-current)Compendex covers periodical articles and conference papers for all engineering disciplines. This is a good source for current and past research, with over 5000 serials included.
- ASCE Research Library (1983-current)A repository of materials published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, including the full-text articles of journal, magazine, and conference proceedings titles.
- Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) (1975-current).Provides citations to all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers including periodical articles, conference papers, books, manuals, and standards.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar helps researchers find scholarly information on the Internet. Google is working with several publishers to access their databases of publications, plus searching sites known to include scholarly literature. Results include journal articles, theses, books, preprints, technical reports, and other publications.
- Web of Science (1900-current)This multi-disciplinary index includes article information from approximately 8,500 journals in sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities. A key feature of this index is the cited reference search, which searches for the articles that have cited a particular author’s work, or a specific article.
For product and industry news, try:
- Applied Science and Technology Source (1983-current w/abstracts since 1994)Best source for finding product reviews and news related (engineering) information. Indexes articles in 800 English-language periodicals.
Related Databases
The following indexes are of interest to selected Civil Engineering areas--geotechnical, environmental, and transportation.
- GeoRef (1785-current)Covers journal articles, conference papers, reports, books, maps and North American theses in the geosciences, including hydrology; over 25,000 sources are reviewed.
- GreenFILE (date varies)This collection of scholarly, governmental and general-interest titles covers multidisciplinary environmental issues such as recycling, global change, green buildings, and water quality management.
- Agricultural and Environmental Science Abstracts (1960-current)This database contains over 2500 sources and includes material types such as journal & magazine articles, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. Topics covered include pollution and its impact, conservation, environmental engineering, renewable energy, and waste management from scientific, consumer action and policy perspectives. Most sources begin in the 1990s/ 2000s.
- NUtranlitProduced and updated by the Northwestern University Transportation Library, this database covers all aspects of traffic and transportation in the periodical and conference literature. Previously named TranWeb.
- TRID OnlineTRID, a database that combines TRIS (produced collaboratively by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation Research Board and the National Transportation Library) and ITRD (OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation), this resource identifies published research on transportation topics. Material covered includes technical reports, magazine and journal articles, conference papers, and books.
Notes about Engineering Village
Compendex, Inspec and GEOBASE are searched jointly on the Engineering Village platform.
In the search results from these article databases, you may see an icon like this: 
This indicates the publisher is a member of a publisher and vendor group that cooperates in linking from references to full-text. IF the Library has access to the journal through the publisher, then you can access the article by clicking on the full-text icon. If it is not available through the full-text icon, then use the Find It button or the Journal Titles database to find out if it is available in another way.