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Engineering Technology Resources

The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information related to Engineering Technology, please contact the Science and Engineering Center at 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our Ask a Librarian service.

Table of Contents − Interdisciplinary Resources
Indexes & Databases for Locating Journal Articles Biography & History
News Sources & Newspaper Indexes Codes of Ethics
Library Catalogs Licensure Boards & Exams
Standards & Specifications Citation Guides, Writing Manuals & Evaluation Criteria
Patents Consider Engineering
Selected Internet Sites Educational Resources
Company & Product Directories Grant & Funding Sources
Maine Organizations
Table of Contents − Resources by Discipline
Construction Management Technology Electrical Engineering Technology Mechanical Engineering Technology Surveying Engineering Technology
Indexes & Databases Indexes & Databases Indexes & Databases Indexes & Databases
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Handbooks, Manuals, & Other Reference Works Handbooks, Manuals, & Other Reference Works Handbooks, Manuals, & Other Reference Works Handbooks, Manuals, & Other Reference Works
Selected Internet SitesSelected Internet SitesSelected Internet SitesSelected Internet Sites
Professional Societies & Research Organizations Professional Societies & Research Organizations Professional Societies & Research Organizations Professional Societies & Research Organizations

INTERDISCIPLINARY INDEXES & DATABASES

Use these databases to locate references to journal articles, books, conference papers and dissertations. Once you have located articles of interest, the second step is to search URSUS by the journal title or conference title to determine if we have the materials you need.

  • Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title).compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy at Sci Index TA1. E6, 1884 - 1995.
  • Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or theses.
  • Academic Search Complete. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more comprehensive search, search Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
  • Business Source Complete. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Providesfull text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
  • Business and Company Resource Center. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.comprehensive source of information for conducting company, industry and market research. Provides access to the contents of over 4,000 business and economics periodicals (over 3,000 with full-text).
  • Dissertations and Theses (Proquest). Indexes dissertations and theses written by graduates of North American and European universities. The complete text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996 is included.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free scholarly journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also provides access by broad subject areas.
  • Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
  • E-Print Network. Maintained by the Dept. of Energy. Allows simultaneous searching of a variety of preprint servers.
  • GreenFILE. Search this database for human impacts on the environment. Covers areas such as green building, pollution, renewable energy, and global climate change.
  • INSPEC. Coverage is 1969 - Present. Provides worldwide coverage of the research literature for the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computer hardware and software, control engineering and information technology. It is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Great Britain. Literature is reviewed from over 3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings each year. Database is updated weekly. Searching in combination with Compendex is recommended and utilize the "Remove Duplicates" feature.
  • MasterFILE Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 1,000 journals.
  • MathSciNet. Coverage is 1940 - Present. Searchable database of citations and abstracts of mathematical journal articles and books. It also includes full-text reviews of many of the articles. This is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews (Sci Index QA 1 M7) and Current Mathematical Publications (shelved in Sci Periodicals).
  • NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects, archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other relevant worldwide research.
  • National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). Provides indexing to a collection of more than 2.2 million historical (pre-1900) to current U.S. government-sponsored technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Over 700,000 documents are available in full-text format. Subject coverage includes engineering, computer science, transportation, medicine, biology, energy, communications, agriculture, and more.
  • Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
  • Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
  • Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index Q1. A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online access is available through Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present.
  • ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
  • Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for full text searching and across a variety of databases.
  • TechXtra. Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research, thesis & dissertations and more all from one simple search.
  • Virtual Technical Reports Center. Maintained by the University of Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.

News Sources & Newspaper Indexes

  • EurekAlert. Service of the AAAS.
  • LexisNexis Academic. Worldwide coverage of newspapers, newsletters, and trade journals with good coverage of environmental and water resources issues.
  • Maine Newsstand. Indexes four Maine newspapers.
  • New York Times Article Archive. 1851− present. Full text of articles can be purchased online or use the microfilm collection in Fogler Library.
  • News on the Web - Archive. Provides links to U.S. and international newspaper archives that are searchable. Also has links to TV and radio broadcast archives.
  • ProQuest Newspapers. Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
  • SciCentral. Gateway to the best scientific and engineering research news sources

LIBRARY CATALOGS

  • URSUS. University of Maine System catalog. Use the Request function to request items from other campuses. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
  • MaineCat. College and university libraries in Maine. Use the Request function to request items from other libraries. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
  • WorldCat. International catalog containing the holdings of over 8,000 libraries.
  • Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Catalog.

STANDARDS & SPECIFICATIONS

Standards are located in the first row of reference shelving facing the center of the Science & Engineering reading room. See the Engineering Standards and Specifications Guide for more information what standards are available at Fogler and how to request standards.

PATENTS

SELECTED INTERNET SITES

COMPANY & PRODUCT DIRECTORIES

MAINE ORGANIZATIONS

Biography & History

ENGINEERING ETHICS

ENGINEERING LICENSURE BOARDS & EXAMS

CITATION GUIDES & EVALUATION CRITERIA

Citation Guides and Style Manuals at Fogler

  • A writer's handbook for engineers / David A. McMurrey, Joanne Buckley; Toronto, Ont., Canada: Thomson, c2008. (SciRef T11 .M3685 2008)
  • How to write and publish a scientific paper, 6the ed. / Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. (SciRef T11 .D33 2006)
  • Using the engineering literature / edited by Bonnie A. Osif; New York: Routledge, 2006. (SciRef T10.7 .U85 2006)

CONSIDER ENGINEERING

Web sites that describe the engineering profession, link to college and university web sites, and that provide guidance on choosing a major field of study.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

GRANT & FUNDING SOURCES

RELATED FOGLER SUBJECT GUIDES

Construction Management Technology (CMT)

Capstone Course related sites for bonding:

Indexes & Databases (CMT)

  • ASCE Library. The ASCE Library is the most extensive resource for civil engineering research and application-oriented content, with full text of more than 86,000 technical and professional articles from 33 ASCE Journals (1983 to the present), and more than 300 Conference Proceedings. ASCE publishes approximately 7,000 new articles in the ASCE Library each year. For coverage prior to 1983, The Civil Engineering Database covers bibliographic records of ASCE documents published back to 1958, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Fogler Library also has the print copy of "Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications," 1950 - 1979: Sci Index TA1.A53.
  • Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title).compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy at Sci Index TA1. E6, 1884 - 1995.
  • Academic Search Complete. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more comprehensive search, search Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
  • Business Source Complete. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
  • Business and Company Resource Center. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.comprehensive source of information for conducting company, industry and market research. Provides access to the contents of over 4,000 business and economics periodicals (over 3,000 with full-text).
  • Fire Research Information Services (FRIS). Made available by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory BFRL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). BFRL Publications since 1992 are available in full-text. FIREDOC indexes over 55,000 reports, articles and proceedings.
  • Forest Products Abstracts. Index to all aspects of the forest products literature including wood properties, timber extraction, conversion, and measurement, damage, utilization, veneers, composite boards, laminated products, the pulp industry, and marketing and trade economics. Coverage is 1978 - present.
  • HUD User. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this databaseis dedicated to housing and community development issues. It contains more than 10,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields.
  • International Architecture Database. Contains information on more than 13,000 buildings mainly from the 20th and 21st centuries. Searchable by architect, type of building, location, etc.
  • LexisNexis Academic. Worldwide coverage of newspapers, newsletters, and trade journals with good coverage of construction and business publications.
  • On the main search screen choose News in the left column.
  • Then choose General News from the "Step One" pull down box at the top of screen.
  • Then choose "Major Papers" or "Magazines and Journals" from "Step Two" box.
  • Type in keywords in the Step three boxes.
  • Change the date range in Step four to all available dates or whatever date range is appropriate.
  • To search regional publications, choose U.S. News or World News in "Step One" and then choose the appropriate region, country, or state in "Step Two. "
  • TRID: the TRIS & ITRDDatabase. TRID is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information. It is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the US National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities. ITRD is produced by ITRD member organizations under the sponsorship of Joint Transport Research Centre (collectively JTRC) of the International Transport Forum and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and ITRD. TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 900,000 records of published research. Over 64,000 records contain links to full-text documents. A Transportation Research Thesaurus is available to download and provide guidance on searching TRID.
  • Transportation Research Board (TRB). Publish several technical reports series that disseminate important transportation research results, including the Transportation Research Record, available online full-text or in print at Fogler Library. They also make available the Research in Progress Database. This includes over 6,000 projects. Most of these have received state or federal funding.
  • State of Maine. Department of Transportation. They have a technical publications page which has some recent reports in PDF format. Also interesting is the Contact DOT page. Link to specific office to view completed research project reports.
  • Structurae. Large free internet database covering structural buildings, bridges, dams, etc. Provides dimensions, type of structure, contractors and architects and relevant web sites and bibliography. Covers structures from the Egyptian pyramids to the present.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias(CMT)

  • Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
  • ASM Materials Engineering Dictionary (SciRef TA402. A86 1992)
  • Construction Glossary. Wiley, 1993 (SciRef TH9. S78 1993)
  • Credo Reference (online). Over 3.2 million entries from more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields.
  • Means Illustrated Construction Glossary (SciRef TH9. M4 2000)

Handbooks, Data Compilations & other reference works (CMT) (See next section for Cost estimate guides)

  • Advanced Building Systems. By K. Daniels. Birkhauser, 2003 (ORO Stacks TH845. D35 2003 FOLIO)
  • ASHRAE Handbook. 4 volumes. HVAC Applications (SciRef TH7011. A832 2003)
  • ASM Engineered Materials Reference Book. 2nd ed. ASM International, 1994 (SciRef TA403. 4. A84 1994)
  • ASM Handbook. 9th and 10th eds. ASM International (SciRef TA459. A5 vol. 1 - 21) See especially vol. 21: Composites. 9th edition entitled Metals Handbook.
  • ASM Metals Reference Book. 3rd ed. ASM International, 1993 (SciRef TA459. A78 1993)
  • Building Change-of Use. Renovating, adapting and altering. . . McGraw-Hill, 2004 (ORO Stacks TH3411. H45 2004)
  • Building Codes Illustrated. A Guide to Understanding the 2006 International Building Code. (SciRef TH420. C49 2007).
  • Building Surveys. 5th ed. By P. Glover. Butterworth, 2003 (ORO Stacks TH439. G56 2003)
  • Civil Engineering Handbook (SciRef TA151. C57 1995)
  • Civil Engineering Project Management. By A. C. Twort. 4th ed. Butterworth, 2004 (ORO Stacks TA190. T86 2004)
  • Civil Engineering Reference Book (SciRef TA151. C58 1989)
  • Concise encyclopedia of the properties of materials surfaces and interfaces / editor. J.W. Martin; Oxford ; Amsterdam : Elsevier, c2008 (SciRef TA402 .C665 2008)
  • Concrete and Masonry Databook. By C. Beall. McGraw-Hill, 2003 (SciRef TH1461. B42 2003)
  • Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook (SciRef TA681. C743 1997)
  • Construction Inspection Handbook. Total Quality Management. 4th ed. Chapman and Hall, 1997 (SciRef TH439. O27 1997)
  • Construction Materials Reference Book. Butterworth, 1992 (SciRef TA403. 4. C66 1992)
  • Construction Materials: types, uses and applications. 2nd ed. Wiley, 1991 (SciRef TA403. H59 1991)
  • Construction Waterproofing Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 2000 (ORO Stacks TH9031. K78 2000)
  • CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook. 3rd ed. CRC Press, 2001 (SciRef TA403. 4. C74 2001) Contains thermal conductivity, tensile strength, yield strength, hardness, modulus of elasticity, corrosion rates, resistivity,
  • CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. 31st ed. CRC Press, 2003 (SciRef QA47. C17 2003)
  • Design of Wood Structures ASD. 5th ed. By D. Breyer. McGraw-Hill, 2003 (ORO Stacks TA666. B473 2003)
  • Details of Conventional Wood Frame Construction. . American Forest & Paper Association, 2001
  • Durability by Design: A Guide for Residential Builders and Designers. HUD. 2002.
  • Engineered Wood Construction Guide. Published by the APA-Engineered Wood Association. See their publications list (Note: you have to register for this publication)
  • Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
  • Engineering Mathematics Handbook (SciRef TA332. T85 1998)
  • Foundation Engineering Handbook. 2nd ed. VanNostrand Reinhold, 1991 (SciRef TA775. F675 1991)
  • Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering: Design and Construction. McGraw-Hill, 1999 (ORO Stacks TA705. D32 1999)
  • Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook. Kluwer Academic, 2001 (SciRef TA705. G427 2001)
  • Geotechnical Engineering Calculations and Rules of Thumb; Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann (SciRef TA705 .R283 2008)
  • Green Building Handbook. Spon, 1997 (SciRef TH455. G74 1997) See web site at: http://www.greenguide.com.
  • Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (ORO Stacks TH7687. S27 2001)
  • Handbook of Building Materials for Fire Protection. McGraw-Hill, 2004 (ORO Stacks TH1065. H363 2003)
  • Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations. McGraw-Hill, 2000 (SciRef TA332. H53 2000)
  • Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety and Health. CRC Press, 1999 (SciRef TH443. R434 1999)
  • Handbook of Structural Engineering. (SciRef TA633. H36 1997)
  • Heating & Air-Conditioning of Buildings. 9th ed. Butterworth, 2002 (ORO Stacks TH7222. O94 2002)
  • Highway Engineering Handbook (SciRef TE23. H484)
  • Human Factors Design Handbook. (SciRef TA166. W57 1992)
  • Interior Graphic and Design Standards. Whitney Library of Design, 1986 (SciRef NA2708. R49 1986) Contains the dimensions and drawings for items used in interior spaces from kitchen equipment to door hinges to shelving and flooring.
  • Materials handbook : a concise desktop reference / François Cardarelli; London : Springer, c2008. (SciRef TA404.8 .C37 2008)
  • MatWeb. complete physical property data on polymers, metals and alloys, and composites.
  • Metal Building Systems. 2nd ed. By. A. Newman. McGraw-Hill, 2004 (ORO Stacks TA684. N435 2004)
  • Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data. 2nd ed. Architectural Press, 1999 (SciRef TH2031. M48 1999) Contains dimensions, drawings and planning designs for all types of buildings and structures.
  • Residential Structural Design Guide. 2000 ed. U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
  • Roof Construction Manual: Pitched Roofs. By E. Schunck. Birkhauser, 2003 (ORO Stacks TH2401. R65 2003 FOLIO)
  • Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers. 5th ed. Ed. by Jonathan Ricketts. McGraw-Hill, 2004 (SciRef TA151. S8 2004)
  • Standard Handbook of Structural Details for Building Construction. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1993 (ORO Stacks TH2031. N4 1993)
  • Structural Performance Database (PEER). Provides the results of over 400 cyclic, lateral-load tests of reinforced concrete columns. Maintained by the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering.
  • Structural Steel Designer's Handbook. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1999 (ORO Stacks T684. S79 1999)
  • Successful RPF's in Construction: managing the request for proposal process. Fria, Richard T. McGraw-Hill, 2005 (ORO Stacks TH425. F65 2005)
  • Ten Commandments of Better Contracting. ASCE, 2003 (ORO Stacks TA210. H28 2003)
  • Timber Construction Manual. 4th ed. American Institute of Timber Construction, 1994 (SciRef TA666. T47 1994)
  • Time-Saver Standards for Building Types. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (SciRef NA2750. D42 2001)Provides basic data for the architectural planning of a wide variety buildings, i. e. homes, offices, hotels, libraries, police stations, airports, etc. .
  • Whole Building Design Guide. Sponsored by the National Institute of Building Sciences.
  • Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1997 (SciRef TA666. W63 1997)
  • Wood Frame Construction Manual. Design of Wood Frame Buildings for High Wind, Snow and Seismic Loadings. American Forest & Paper Association, 2004.
  • Wood-frame house construction. By G. Sherwood. Agriculture Handbook, no. 73 (ORO Gov Docs A 1. 76. 73/989)
  • Wood Handbook: Wood as an engineering material. 2nd ed. Forest Products Laboratory (SciRef TA419. W78 2000) Good starting point for background information and list of references on a topic. Contains physical and mechanical properties of woods (Note: 1st edition in ORO Stacks TA419. W66 1999)

Keep up with the most recent book acquisitions in Engineering Technology at Fogler Library.

Construction Costs Estimating Guides (CMT)

  • ADA compliance pricing guide : cost estimates for more than 70 common modifications; Kingston, MA : Reed Construction Data, c2004. (SciRef TH435 .M415 2004) 
  • Building construction cost data; Kingston, MA R.S. Means Co. (SciRef TH435 .B84  66th ed. 2008) 
  • Concrete & masonry cost data; Kingston, MA : R.S. Means Co. (SciRef TA682.26 .C66  26th ed. 2008)
  • Construction Leads. from McGraw-Hill Dodge Construction. Provider of project news, plans, specifications and analysis services for construction professionals in the United States and Canada.
  • Cost Calculator and a Custom Cost Estimator. R. S. Means: Reed Construction Data. Must register first for free access.
  • Electrical cost data, 2008 / RS Means ; senior editor, John H. Chiang; Kingston, Mass. : R.S. Means Co., c2007. (SciRef TK435 .M42 2008)
  • Engineer's Cost Handbook. M. Dekker, 1997 (SciRef TA183. E64 1997)
  • Heavy construction cost data; Kingston, Ma : Means. (SciRef TH435 .M429  2008)
  • Means estimating handbook; Kingston, MA : Reed Construction Data (SciRef TH435 .M42 2003)
  • Mechanical Cost Data. 22nd ed. R. S. Means, 1999 (SciRef TH435. M435 1999)
  • Metric construction cost data; Kingston, MA : R.S. Means Co. (SciRef TH435 .M417  66th ed. 2008)
  • National Construction Estimator. Labor, material and equipment costs and geographic adjustments for costs. 50th ed. Craftsman, 2002 (SciRef TH435. N3) See also the Craftsman web site.
  • Plumbing estimating methods : includes standard plumbing & fire protection systems, special systems including medical gas & glass piping byJoseph J. Galeno and Sheldon T. Greene; Kingston, MA : Reed Construction Data (SciRef TH6235 .G2423 2004)
  • Rental rate blue book for construction equipment. CDROM Edition (Media Resource Center - CDROM TH900. R4 2002)
  • Repair & Remodeling Cost Data. 20th ed. R. S. Means, 1999 (SciRef TH3411. R6 1999)
  • Site work & landscape cost data; Kingston, MA : R.S. Means Co. (SciRef TH435 .M4367  27th ed. 2008)
  • Square Foot Costs. 20th ed. R. S. Means, 1999 (SciRef TH435. W44 1999)

Construction Product & Company Directories (CMT)

  • Blue Book of Building and Construction. Lists and indexes over 1 million companies and contractors.
  • BuilderSpace.com. Architecture and construction industry directory.
  • BuildFind.com. Building industry exchange. Lists many job opportunities in construction, architecture and engineering.
  • Buildingindex.com. Provides access to suppliers for the construction industry. Also provides access to professional and industry societies.
  • Building Materials by McGraw-Hill Sweet's. Searchable database of commercially-available construction equipment and materials, including product specifications and descriptions.
  • Craftsman Online Product Directory.
  • Design Linc. Design resource information for products and services for the physically challenged.
  • Directory of the Wood Products Industry (Buyers and Sellers Directory of the Forest Products Industry). Random Lengths, 2001 (SciRef HD9753. D57 2001) Directory of sawmills, board manufacturers, exporters, etc.
  • Construction Equipment. Cahners Business, 2001 (SciRef HD9715. U52C57 2001) Directory of manufacturers and products, dealers and distributors.
  • Emporis. News about construction and the real estate market and data on buildings. Especially helpful about skyscrapers.
  • Equipment Sales Online. Clearinghouse for used heavy machinery and trucks and trailers.
  • Green Building Products.
  • Maine Contractor's Directory.
  • 'Specified' Construction Products. Accessto over 11,000 manufacturer's web sites.
  • Thomas.net. formerly Thomas Register Lists over 173,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers.
  • Thomas Global Register Europe. European industrial buying guide. For 17 European countries.
  • Wood Design and Building Magazine Wood Design & Building magazine. Contains links to products, services, associations, standards and design and construction information.

Codes & Standards (CMT)

  • ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities.
  • American Concrete Institute (ACI). ACI Manual of Concrete Practice. SciRef Standards Collection TA439. A61 2000. This is a 5 part compilation of current ACI standards and committee reports.
  • American Forest and Paper Association. American Wood Council. Their web site contains technical information, codes and standards. At Fogler we own: National Design Specification for Wood Construction. SciRef Standards Collection TA666. N37 1998-1999. This defines the methods to be followed in structural design using wood products. Publication updates and errata are available from the Council web site.
  • American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE Standard. Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. SEI/ASCE 7-02. ASCE, 2003 (SciRef TH851. M56 2003)
  • ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library. See also: American Society of Testing and Materials. Annual Book of ASTM Standards. (SciRef TA401.A653 Standards shelves) 2009 edition. Older editions in ORO Stacks at TA401.A653.
  • Building Codes Illustrated. A Guide to Understanding the 2006 International Building Code. (SciRef TH420. C49 2007).
  • BOCA National Building Code. SciRef Standards Collection TH223. B8 14th edition, 1999. Contains building construction minimum standards to insure public safety, health and welfare. The codes address measured performance and do not make restrictions to specific materials.
  • Construction WebLinks. Provides links to state and industry building codes.
  • FirstSource. Reed Construction Data. Building codes. Codes for the 50 states, some cities and foreign countries. Must complete free registration to gain access to codes.
  • ICC Evaluation Service. U.S. source of information on building codes, building products and technology.
  • International Building Code. 2006 edition. International Code Council. (SciRef TH420 .I58 2006).
  • International Code Council. Codes and Standards. Setting the standard for building safety.
  • Ramsey/Sleeper architectural graphic standards. 10th ed. Wiley, 2000 (SciRef TH2031. R35 2000 and CD-ROM)
  • Steel Construction Manual. 2005 edition. American Institute of Steel Construction. (SciRef TA684.A47 2005).
  • U.S. Dept. of Energy. Energy Building Codes. Federal Building Energy Codes. Residential and Commercial.
  • Uniform Building Code. 75th ed. 1997 ed. SciRef Standards Collection KF5701. U55 1997 vol. 1 - 3. This publication is dedicated to the development of better building construction and greater safety for the public by uniformity in building laws.
  • Whole Building Design Guide. Sponsored by the National Institute of Building Sciences.

Codes of Ethics (CMT)

Careers and Jobs (CMT)

Historic Buildings (CMT)

Selected Internet Sites (CMT)

Internet Directories (CMT)

Professional Societies & Research Organizations(CMT) (See next section for Maine Resources)

Maine Resources (CMT)

Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)

Indexes & Databases (EET)

  • Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title).compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy in Sci Index TA1. E6, 1884 - 1995.
  • IEEE Xplore & IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). Complete full-text access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). Includes over 160 journals published by the IEEE and IET, transactions, conference proceedings and active IEEE standards. Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and conference proceedings and further back to 1913 for selected publications. Offers an alerting service, saved searches, and other valuable Web 2.0 capabilities for users who register for free personal accounts.
  • INSPEC. Coverage is 1969 - Present. Provides worldwide coverage of the research literature for the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computer hardware and software, control engineering and information technology. It is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Great Britain. Literature is reviewed from over 3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings each year. Database is updated weekly. Searching in combination with Compendex is recommended and utilize the "Remove Duplicates" feature.
  • Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or theses.
  • Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
  • Citidel. Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. Guide to internet tools and research resources developed by a university consortium.
  • CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer Science (e. g. , artificial intelligence, robotics, vision, learning, speech, neural networks). Access is provided by browsing a subject category or searching by keyword. Full text of the cited references is available.
  • Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. A collection of bibliographies on subjects such as artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer graphics, etc. maintained by researchers worldwide. Journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports are listed. Some links to the online fulltext.
  • Computing Research Repository (CoRR). This service is sponsored by the ACM, arXiv.org, NCSTRL and AAAI. This is a database of preprints in computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting preprints are provided. These preprints are not referreed.
  • DOE Information Bridge. FULL TEXT DATABASE. Full-text reports for 1995 to present contracted by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
  • EECS Technical Reports. A searchable database of computer science technical reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are available in full text.
  • Energy Citations Database. Coverage is 1948 - Present. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical reports and papers sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. It provides coverage of traditional and alternative forms of energy production and conservation. Many aspects of electrical engineering and applied physics are covered including fission and fusion.
  • National Standards Systems Network (NSSN). Searchable bibliographic database of thousands of industrial standards and specifications and links to many standards-issuing organizations.
  • National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). Provides indexing to a collection of more than 2.2 million historical (pre-1900) to current U.S. government-sponsored technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Over 700,000 documents are available in full-text format. Subject coverage includes engineering, computer science, transportation, medicine, biology, energy, communications, agriculture, and more.
  • Virtual Technical Reports Center. Maintained by the University of Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (EET)

Browse the shelves near these books to find many other related works.
  • Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
  • Communications Standard Dictionary. SciRef TK5102. W437 1996.
  • Credo Reference (online). Over 3.2 million entries from more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields.
  • Dictionary of Computing. 6th ed. Oxford Reference, SciRef QA76.15 .D526 2008.
  • Encyclopedia of Energy. ed. by C. Cleveland. Elsevier, 2004 (SciRef TJ163. 2. E539 2004)
  • Encyclopedia of Electronics.SciRef TK7804. E47
  • Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ed. by H. Nalwa. American Scientific Pub. , 2004 (SciRef T174. 7E53 2004 vol. 1 - 10)
  • New IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical & Electronics Terms. SciRef TK9. I478
  • Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics.SciRef TK7804. T87
  • MacMillan Encyclopedia of Energy.SciRef TJ163. 28. M33 2000
  • McGraw-Hill Electronics Dictionary. SciRef TK7804. M354
  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Wiley, 1999 (SciRef TK9. E53 1999 vol. 1 - vol. 24 and suppl. )

Handbooks, Data Compilations & other reference works (EET)

  • American Electrician's Handbook. SciRef TK151. S855
  • Antenna Engineering Handbook. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1993 (ORO Stacks TK7871. 6. A67 1993)
  • Broadband Telecommunications Handbook. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2002 (SciRef TK5103. 4. B38 2002)
  • Circuits and Filters Handbook. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2003 (ORO Stacks TK7867. C4977 2003)
  • Communications Handbook. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2002 (SciRef TK5101. C6583 2002)
  • CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. 31st ed. CRC Press, 2003 (SciRef QA47. C17 2003)
  • Electric Power Engineering Handbook. IEEE and CRC Presses, 2001 (ORO Stacks TK1001. E398 2001)
  • Electrical cost data, 2008 / RS Means ; senior editor, John H. Chiang; Kingston, Mass. : R.S. Means Co., c2007. (SciRef TK435 .M42 2008)
  • Electrical Engineering Handbook. 2nd ed. IEEE and CRC Presses, 1997 (SciRef TK145. E354 1997)
  • Electronic Engineer's Master (EEM). Directory of electronics manufacturers and products.
  • Encyclopedia of Electronics.SciRef TK7804. E47
  • Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
  • Industrial Power Engineering and Applications Handbook. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001 (SciRef TK4035. F3A37 2001)
  • International Electrotechnical Commission. International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) online database. Over 20 000 terms in English, French, German and Spanish some with definitions in English and French.
  • New IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical & Electronics Terms. SciRef TK9. I478
  • NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. Workbook on statistical methods for scientists and engineers
  • Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering. SciRef TK5102. 5. F68 1994
  • Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers. 14th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2000 (SciRef TK151. S83 2000)
  • Television Handbook. SciRef TK6642. T43
  • U.S. Dept of Energy. Technical Standards.

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Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET)

Indexes & Databases (MET)

  • Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title).compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy at Sci Index TA1. E6, 1884 - 1995.
  • Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or theses.
  • Advanced Technology Vehicles. Document Database. Provides indexing and access to the full text of technical reports on fuel cells, hybrid vehicles, alternative fuels, etc. Produced by the Dept. of Energy, Clean Cities Program.
  • Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center. Background information and full text publications by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
  • DOE Information Bridge. FULL TEXT DATABASE. Full-text reports for 1995 to present contracted by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
  • Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
  • Energy Citations Database. Coverage is 1948 - Present. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical reports and papers sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. It provides coverage of traditional and alternative forms of energy production and conservation. Many aspects of electrical engineering and applied physics are covered including fission and fusion.
  • Environmental Engineering Abstracts. Coverage is 1990 - Present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The focus of this database is engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals are covered and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings.
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management. Provides access to the electronic versions of several standard indexes: Agricultural & environmental biotechnology abstracts (1993-present); AFSA Aquatic pollution & environmental quality (1990-present); Ecology abstracts (1982-present); EIS Digests of environmental impact statements (1985-present); Environmental engineering abstracts (1990-present); Health & safety sciences abstracts (1981-present); Industrial & applied microbiology abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982-present); Bacteriology abstracts (Microbiology B) (1982-present); Pollution abstracts (1981-present); Risk abstracts (1990-present); Toxicology abstracts (1981-present); Water resources abstracts (1967-present). Helpful to search all the files at once.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Makes available many databases that index technical data and research reports. Also review the list of research programs. National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS). This Environmental Protection Agency site contains the full text of over 6,000 EPA documents. Searching is by keyword.
  • Military and Government Collection. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Search over 600 military titles, government periodicals, trade publications and newsweeklies for topics concerning all branches of the military. Full text is available for more than a third of the periodicals indexed. Over 240 pamphlets are also included
  • NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects, archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other relevant worldwide research.
  • National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). Provides indexing to a collection of more than 2.2 million historical (pre-1900) to current U.S. government-sponsored technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Over 700,000 documents are available in full-text format. Subject coverage includes engineering, computer science, transportation, medicine, biology, energy, communications, agriculture, and more.
  • Pollution Abstracts. 1981 - present. Presented by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts this resources covers air, water, land and noise pollution. Industry pollution problems and solutions are covered. Updated monthly.
  • Recent Advances in Manufacturing. Covers over 500 journals.
  • Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
  • TRID: the TRIS & ITRDDatabase. TRID is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information. It is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the US National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities. ITRD is produced by ITRD member organizations under the sponsorship of Joint Transport Research Centre (collectively JTRC) of the International Transport Forum and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and ITRD. TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 900,000 records of published research. Over 64,000 records contain links to full-text documents. A Transportation Research Thesaurus is available to download and provide guidance on searching TRID.
  • Transportation Research Board (TRB). Publish several technical reports series that disseminate important transportation research results, including the Transportation Research Record, available online full-text or in print at Fogler Library. They also make available the Research in Progress Database. This includes over 6,000 projects. Most of these have received state or federal funding.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (MET)

  • Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
  • Credo Reference (online). Over 3.2 million entries from more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields.
  • Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living.
  • Encyclopedia of Energy. ed. by C. Cleveland. Elsevier, 2004 (SciRef TJ163. 2. E539 2004)
  • Encyclopedia of Energy Technology and the Environment. SciRef TJ163. 235. E53 1995
  • Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ed. by H. Nalwa. American Scientific Pub. , 2004 (SciRef T174. 7E53 2004 vol. 1 - 10)
  • MacMillan Encyclopedia of Energy. SciRef TJ163. 28M33 2000

Handbooks, Data Compilations & other reference works (MET)

  • ASHRAE Handbook. 4 volumes: Fundamentals, HVAC Systems and Equipment, HVAC Applications, and Refrigeration (SciRef TH7011. A547 to TH7011. A835)
  • Concise encyclopedia of the properties of materials surfaces and interfaces / editor. J.W. Martin; Oxford ; Amsterdam : Elsevier, c2008 (SciRef TA402 .C665 2008)
  • CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering. CRC Press, 1998 (SciRef TJ151. C73 1998)
  • CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook. 3rd ed. CRC Press, 2001 (SciRef TA403. 4. C74 2001) Contains thermal conductivity, tensile strength, yield strength, hardness, modulus of elasticity, corrosion rates, resistivity,
  • CRC Standard Mathematical Sciences. (SciRef QA47. H324 1978)
  • Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics. Gulf Pub. , 1986-1993 (ORO Stacks TA357. E53 1986 vol. 1 - 10 and Suppl. 1- 3)
  • Energy Efficiency Manual. Energy Institute Press, 1999 (SciRef TJ163. 3. W85 1999)
  • Engineer's Cost Handbook. M. Dekker, 1997 (SciRef TA183. E64 1997)
  • Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
  • Engineering Mathematics Handbook. (SciRef TA332. T85 1998)
  • Fluid Flow Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 2002 (ORO Stacks TA357. S35 2002)
  • Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (ORO Stacks TH7687. S27 2001)
  • Handbook of Applied Mathematics. (SciRef QA40. H34)
  • Handbook of Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Machinery. Wiley, 1996 (ORO Stacke TA357. H286 1996 vol. 1 - 3)
  • Heating & Air-Conditioning of Buildings. 9th ed. Butterworth, 2002 (ORO Stacks TH7222. O94 2002)
  • Machine tools handbook : design and operation by P.H. Joshi.; New York : McGraw-Hill Company, c2008. (SciRef TJ1185 .J65 2008)
  • Machinery's Handbook. 26th edition. Industrial Press, 2000 (SciRef TJ151. M3)
  • Marks' Standard Handbook of Mechanical Engineers. 10th ed. McGraw-Hill, 1996 (SciRef TJ151. S82 10th 1996)
  • Materials handbook: a concise desktop reference / François Cardarelli; London: Springer, c2008. (SciRef TA404.8 .C37 2008)
  • Mechanical Design Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1996, (SciRef TJ230. M433 1996)
  • Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (SciRef TJ181. S28 2001)
  • MEMS Handbook. (Microelectromechanical systems) CRC Press, 2002 (SciRef TJ151. M46 2002)
  • Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations. (SciRef TA332. S73 1995)
  • Tables of Integrals, Series, and Products. (SciRef QA55. G6613 2000)

Keep up with the most recent book acquisitions in Engineering Technology at Fogler Library.

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Professional Societies & Research Organizations (MET)

Maine Organizations (MET)

Surveying Engineering Technology (SVT)

Indexes & Databases (SVT)

  • Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title).compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy at Sci Index TA1. E6, 1884 - 1995.
  • ASCE Library. The ASCE Library is the most extensive resource for civil engineering research and application-oriented content, with full text of more than 86,000 technical and professional articles from 33 ASCE Journals (1983 to the present), and more than 300 Conference Proceedings. ASCE publishes approximately 7,000 new articles in the ASCE Library each year. For coverage prior to 1983, The Civil Engineering Database covers bibliographic records of ASCE documents published back to 1958, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Fogler Library also has the print copy of "Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications," 1950 - 1979: Sci Index TA1.A53.
  • Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or theses.
  • Academic Search Complete. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (SVT)

  • Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
  • Credo Reference (online). Over 3.2 million entries from more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields.
  • Surveying Units and Terms. Also has slang.

Handbooks, Manuals, & Other Reference Works, Data Compilations & Other Reference Works (SVT)

  • Civil Engineering Handbook. CRC Press, 1995 (SciRef TA151. C57 1995)
  • Engineering Fundamentals (EFUNDA). Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
  • Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering: Design and Construction. McGraw-Hill, 1999 (ORO Stacks TA705. D32 1999)
  • Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook. Kluwer Academic, 2001 (SciRef TA705. G427 2001)
  • Geotechnical Engineering Calculations and Rules of Thumb; Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann (SciRef TA705 .R283 2008)
  • Land development handbook : planning, engineering, and surveying (3rd ed.) / Dewberry ; editor-in-chief, Sidney O. Dewberry; coordinating editor, Lisa N. Rauenzahn; New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008. (SciRef TA549 .L29 2008)
  • Landscape estimating methods by Sylvia H. Fee; Kingston, Mass. : RSMeans : Reed Construction Data, c2007 (SciRef SB472.565 .F44 2007)
  • Land Surveyor Reference Manual. Harbin, A. L. 3rd ed. Professional Publications, 2001 (SciRef TA551. H37 2001) Examination questions and study guide.
  • Professional Land Surveyors. Requirements for Licensing in Maine.
  • Surveying Handbook. 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall, 1995 (SciRef TA555. S87 1995)

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