Library Guides: Civil Engineering: Databases

Databases for Civil Engineering

The following databases are particularly useful to Civil Engineers. For a complete list of all Engineering database holdings, visit the A-Z List of Databases and filter by Engineering & Technology using the Subject drop down.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Databases

Databases have either citations with a link to full text by clicking on the button or full text. Citation databases contain a wide array of disciplines and a deep history, sometimes going back as far as the late 1800s. The full text databases have in depth information from one publication source but don't have the same breadth in terms of coverage or data range.

ASCE Research Library
ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles and conference papers published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in all disciplines of civil engineering. It provides access to more than 33,000 full-text papers from Journals (1993 - present), Proceedings (1996 - present), and Standards (1983 - present).
Civil Engineering Abstracts
CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in civil engineering and its complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation.

This database provides comprehensive international coverage as well as numerous non-serial publications. Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author's e-mail address, and publisher contact information.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation, since 1971. Contents include selected technical reports, conference papers, monographs, and journal articles.
Engineering Village (Compendex & INSPEC Combined)
Engineering Village is the information discovery platform to search across both Compendex and INSPEC databases.
Note: The following standards collections are indexed in Compendex: ACI, AIAA, ASCE, ASTM, AWS, AWWA, BSI/ISO, IEEE, IET, SAE, SMPTE, TAPPI (as of 6/2/2021).
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
This database is a comprehensive index to world literature on all technological and engineering aspects of air, water and soil quality, environmental safety, sustainability and energy production.

Coverage: 1990 - current
TRID
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.