Civil Engineering & Surveying

Useful links

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Civil Engineering and Surveying.

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Getting Started

Options for getting started with Library resources.

Books

Options for finding book material.

Finding Articles and more

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For some assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with.

Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles. An example might be Building magazine for a print title which you can find via the catalogue, or for electronic titles such as Building Design or Construction News check the Publications Search Page for which there is a link here.

Two journal titles are a little more tricky than others. They require individual login/registration. For both Estates Gazette (or Radius Data Exchange) and Architects' Journal you need to go to our Passwords for Resources page, make sure you're logged into the Library website (blue login button on top right of screen), and then click on "Passwords for Resources page" before choosing the journal of interest.

This page lists key sources for Civil Engineering and Surveying:

Check out this video on how to find journal titles.

Check out this introductory video on finding journal articles.

If we don't have an item you're interested in, we may be able to obtain it via Interlibrary Loan or watch this video which explains how.

• Why use journal articles?

• Finding articles on a topic

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You can get the most out of searching databases by considering what keywords you use.

For an introduction to Discovery watch this video by our Business Librarian.

Watch this video for a demonstration of how to analyse your keywords and this video for a demonstration of using your keywords in an advanced search.

Alternatively, either see this two page Library Guide on Choosing Keywords for tips on this or use this form to analyse the concepts of your searches. For a sample assignment title to unpick the concepts, look at the PowerPoint below.

• SCES keywords