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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Books
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Options for finding book material. 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:
• News
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Newspaper and magazine articles may be helpful although note that they are not considered 'scholarly resources'.Use these powerful tools to find out which articles are citing other articles, to follow up references and to see which are the most highly cited articles: (NB: Google Scholar - see above - also has a similar feature. Look for the 'Cited by...' link.)
Watch this video for a brief introduction to citation searching.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
Web of Science - part of the Web of Knowledge collection of databases - consists of a number of databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports and conferences. Three citation databases (Science Citation Index Expanded (1970-), Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts (1975-) and Humanities Citation Index (1975-)) also contain the references cited by the authors of the articles. You can use these references to do cited reference searching, allowing you to find articles that cite a previously published work. Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science includes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of scientific disciplines.
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