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Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Library
This is a guide to selected sources of information for CVE 497/498 and graduate students. To locate books on civil and environmental engineering, go to the URI Libraries Advanced Search, select "subject" from the drop down box, and use terms like civil engineering or environmental engineering. Similar searches in Reference Databases such as Compendex (Engineering Village 2), Agriculture & Environmental Science, or TRIS Online will locate articles.
One type of resource that you should look for is a handbook; they contain practical information such as specifications, regulations and legal restrictions, tolerances, equations, and properties of materials and thus are extremely useful. You can find handbooks simply by adding "handbook" in another search box in the URI Libraries Search.
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URI Libraries SearchLocate books, videos, online resources and more available through the URI Libraries.
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Compendex (Engineering Village)Indexing and abstracts of professional magazines, scholarly journals, and conference proceedings in engineering. 1970-. Updated weekly. Links to articles open in a pop-up window, so you will need to deactivate the pop-up blocker on your browser to connect to full text.
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Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)Find citations to and full text of articles, proceedings, reports, and studies about environmental studies, pollution, waste management, energy, land use and environmental design. Includes the AGRICOLA, ESPM, and EIS databases. 1960-
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TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service)Offered by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, this site provides citations and abstracts for transportation research covered in books, journal articles, technical reports. Other media, federal, state, local, and association publications and conference proceedings are also covered. The database extends from the 1960s to the present, with some coverage before 1960.
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