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Civil & Environmental Engineering

  • ASCE Library
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    ASCE Research Digital Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles across all disciplines of civil engineering. It provides unprecedented access to more than 40,000 full-text papers and published proceedings.
  • ICE Virtual Library Archive - Proceedings Collection
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    Online back file of conference proceedings from the (British) Institution of Civil Engineers, supplementing current holdings at USC. Coverage is from 1836-2002.
  • International Civil Engineering Abstracts (ICEA)
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    International Civil Engineering Abstracts provides online access to over 142,000 abstracts dating back to 1976 from the 150 most prominent journals in civil engineering. The ICEA accredited journal coverage list is compiled from the library holdings of civil engineering centres of excellence worldwide, such as the Institute of Civil Engineers and Imperial College, London.
  • Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures
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    A database of nearly 60,000 works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history, and around the world. Documentation begins with the pyramids in Egypt and Roman construction, continues to Romanesque and Gothic churches and through to the Industrial Revolution all the way to today and beyond. It deals mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc.Includes numerous images, including multiple views of some structures; chronology of the individual work; technical information; bibliographies; and links to relevant web sites.Discreet ads appear on each page.
  • Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)
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    TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.