LibGuides: Civil and Environmental Engineering: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Finding Articles and Research Papers

Use the"FindIt @ WSU" when searching databases to link to the full text of an article:

If you see the above icon next to an article you are searching for, click on it to see if there is an electronic version of the journal or magazine available in another database. You will be taken to Search It and shown the options for obtaining the article whether it be here at WSU or through ILL (Interlibrary Loan).

American Society of Civil Engineers Publications
ASCE Journals are the premier source of technical information for the civil engineering profession and form the core collection in the field — 30 journals available in print and online. The online journal archive contains over 28,000 articles, more than 300,000 pages, published since 1990.
GreenFile
GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. It includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
SciFinder
Full text access to: Chemical Abstracts since 1907, Chemical Abstracts Registry CASREACT: since 1974, Medline since 1985, Chemcats and and ChemList since 1979.
SciTech Connect
DOE's SciTech Connect combines DOE OSTI Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database for a portal to to free, publicly available DOE research and development (R&D) results in energy and related fields.
TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library
Seach U.S. government technical reports issued primarily prior to 1976 and digitized by TRAIL member libraries. Digitized series include Atomic Energy Commission, NACA, Bureau of Mines Bulletins, and NBS publications.
TRID
TRID combines the records from TRB's TRANSPORTATION Research Information Services (TRIS) and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD). TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.
Web of Science
Includes Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Citation indexes. This multidisciplinary database has searchable author abstract covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences. Updated weekly.

Books or Compilations

Search It
Find books, articles, and more through the library catalog.
About Interlibrary Loan at the WSU Libraries
If material essential to your research is owned by another library, WSU Libraries offers an Interlibrary Loan service. Interlibrary loans are requests from WSU Libraries to the libraries that own the material.
WSU Library Purchase Request
Request the WSU Libraries purchase a material.

Find Dissertations or Theses

Using Search It to find Dissertations and Theses

First, go to advance search:

In the first search box type "thesis" both dissertations and theses will be searched.

If you want to limit to WSU, type "Washington State University"

Next to get dissertations and thesis by department type the different versions of the department or college name. For Civil Engineering it would be "Department of civil engineering" OR "Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering".

You can also search for theses and dissertations by keyword just remember to include theses in its own search box.

Finally, limit on the left-handed side to books only.

Proquest Theses and Dissertations
Free online access to most WSU dissertations and theses.
"Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637."
In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1997 forward.

Libraries

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Engineering Librarian

Owen Science & Engineering Library

Finding Articles and Research Papers

Books or Compilations

Find Dissertations or Theses