Effective research for civil & environmental engineering

University LibrariesEngineering and Architecture Library

American University of BeirutJanuary 23, 2013

Services

Important dates

Researching/Finding Material

Use Catalog to Search for books,eBooks, & Thesis

Use quotes when searching for exact phrases

Print Book

E-Thesis

E-Book

E-Thesis

E-Thesis can be accessedOnline and downloaded On Campus only

Print Book

You can access similar titlesBy clicking on Traffic Congestion here

E- Book Online Access

E-books databases

Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos

Encyclopedias (Access Science, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology )

AUBCATAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks

Knovel Engineering Library  CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE Ebrary , Springer eBooks Elsevier eBooks

You can search all E-Book titles from all E-bookdatabases Here Especially the ones that youWon’t find in the library catalog

Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos

Encyclopedias (Access Science, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology )

AUBCATAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks

Knovel Engineering Library  CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE Ebrary , Springer eBooks Elsevier eBooks

Finding Articles

Use search all to find print books,Ebooks, & articles From all databases

List of Civil Engineering Databases

Environmental Sciences Resources

Water Resources

You may browse or search a specific journal title or proceeding

Icon means fulltext

available

Select an article and check who cited it

Saved SearchAlert

Journal Assessment

Tools

Journal Assessment Databases

Cited By Databases &

finding Influential Authors

An H-Index of 5 means that 5 of the author’s articles have received at least 5 citations each

# of papers # of citations

1 20

2 18

3 13

4 10

5 7

6 3

7 2

8 1

Cited By Searching Using Scopus

Select Cited by to organize by highly cited first

Cited By Searching Using WOS

Use * to retrieve

Fiber and fibre

H-Index of author

Cited By Searching Using Google Scholar

Click Here to do exact phrase

searching in the title to retrieve relevant

results

Not all PhD dissertations

are available in full text

Use advanced search to Search for

dissertations by advisor, committee

Member, Degree (MS, PhD)

full text

You can limit bysubject or date

You may click on advisor to check other dissertations s/he advised

Use Google advanced search and limit to PDFto retrieve reliable reports and conference articles

You can import citations from GoogleScholar and all

databases and arrange them in folders and do the

References according to style (ASCE,IEEE, ASME, APA,…)

Table of Contents Alert Saved Searches Alert Google Scholar Alert

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