How To Find Out in Civil Engineering

The correct reference for a book includes author, initials, title, edition (if not first), place of publication, publisher, and year of publication.

The correct reference for a periodical article includes author and title of article, periodical title, volume and part numbers, year, and first and last pages.

For further details on making references and citations see:

810.61 PEA
PEAR: Cite them right : the essential guide to referencing and plagiarism

Citing and Referencing with the Harvard System
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/elecinfo/harvard.php

BRITISH STANDARD BS 1629:1989. Recommendations for references to published materials.

BRITISH STANDARD BS 5605:1990. Recommendations for citing and referencing material.

Referencing
http://www.learnhigher.org.uk/site/index.php
A guide to referencing

List of style manuals
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/manual.html
This has information on MLA , used in English and the humanities; APA, used in psychology and the social sciences; Chicago, used in history and some humanities; and CSE, used in biology and other sciences.

Quick Reference
810.61 CHI
Chicago Manual of Style

See also:

Referencing
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/library/resources/referencing/

Citing References
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/citing_references/citing_refs_main.html
Guides from Bournemouth University

Citing and Referencing with the Harvard System
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/elecinfo/harvard.php

For guidance on making references and citations to electronic information see:

810.61 WAL
Columbia guide to online style

Quick Reference
620 MAC
MACLEOD: Information sources in engineering

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620 LOR
LORD: Guide to information sources in engineering

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries are useful for getting a basic outline of a subject, and for finding keywords and subject terms which can be used when searching other sources. Examples are:

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org
The free online encyclopedia

Scholarpedia
http://www.scholarpedia.org/
A peer reviewed encyclopedia

Quick Reference
503 ACA
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

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503 MCG
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Encyclopedia of Energy
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/ee.html
Offers comprehensive coverage in the following areas: forms of energy, thermodynamics, electricity generation, climate change, energy storage, energy sources and the demand for energy. It includes insights from history, society, anthropology, public policy, international relations, human and ecosystem health, economics, technology, physics, geology, ecology, business management, environmental science, and engineering. The coverage and integration of the social sciences is a unique feature.

Quick Reference
624 SCO
SCOTT. Dictionary of Civil Engineering

Handbooks are useful for facts, figures and formulae. Examples are: 

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624 CHE
The Civil Engineering Handbook.

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620 DOR
The Engineering Handbook.

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620.00151 HIC
Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations

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620 KEM
Kempe's Engineering Year-Book

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620 HEI
Wiley's Engineer's Desk Reference.

To find books on a subject you can look in the catalogues of various libraries.  It is a good idea to work outwards from those immediately available to those that may have to be obtained elsewhere or through Inter-Library Loans.

Heriot-Watt Library Catalogue
Use the catalogue and follow the instructions which appear on the screen. Books on Civil Engineering may be shelved at a variety of classnumbers, including 624. It is usually better to use the catalogue than to browse round the shelves. Full text eBooks are indicated in the Catalogue by the following graphic:

Other library catalogues
You can search the catalogues of Edinburgh University Library and the National Library of Scotland . See also our Other Library Catalogues page.

For access information see our Access Other Libraries web pages or our leaflet "Edinburgh Libraries", and ask at the Service desk for a letter of introduction if necessary.

Google Book Search
http://books.google.co.uk/
Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you.

Amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/
The UK branch of the well-known Internet bookshop has a searchable database of books in print.

British Library Integrated Catalogue
http://catalogue.bl.uk
The on-line catalogue of the UK's national library.

Thomas Telford Bookshop
http://www.thomastelford.com/books/

If you find details of a book you wish to read, but it is unavailable either in Heriot-Watt Library or in a local library, you may wish to use the Inter-Library Loans Service to get hold of it. This allows us to find another library which has the book, and borrow it for you to consult for a short period. Ask for more details at the Inter-Library Loans Desk.

Journal Info
http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/
Information about 18,000 journals, including where they are indexed, alternative Open Access titles, etc.

PubList.com
http://www.publist.com/
PubList.com is a directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world.

Genamics JournalSeek
http://journalseek.net/index.htm
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet.

CUFTS Journal Search
http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search
Can also be used to find out which databases include particular journals

ticTOCs
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
Latest Tables of Contents of over 11,000 journals, plus links to home pages.

SUNCAT
http://www.suncat.ac.uk/
The Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK research community helps to locate serials held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.

Journal Citation Reports
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/websci.htm
Accessed via: ISI Web of Knowledge
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 8,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

Quick Reference
011.05 WIL
WILLINGS PRESS GUIDE

The British Library Document Supply Centre: Current Serials Received
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/serials.html
This is a searchable index of over 64,000 periodicals currently received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. The database can be used to find periodicals by title or keyword, and it is also useful as a guide to which titles would be available through Inter-Library Loans.

Heriot-Watt University Library periodicals and electronic journals
Civil Engineering journals available in Heriot-Watt University Library are listed in our Journals List and also the Catalogue. Print Civil Engineering journals are normally shelved at 620, 624 or 628 on Level 4 but relevant periodicals may be shelved in other sections.

Periodicals in other Libraries
If a relevant title is not held, it may be possible to obtain it elsewhere in Edinburgh, in the National Library of Scotland, or in Edinburgh University Library. Lists of periodicals held in these libraries are kept at the Inter Library Loans desk, and their holdings are also available through SALSER (Scottish Academic Libraries Serials).

Open Access Journals

Directory of open access journals
http://www.doaj.org/

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 1000 journals in the directory covering all subjects.

Open J-Gate
http://www.openjgate.org/
A directory of open access journals

There are many sources for finding articles which have been published on any given topic. If you need help in using any of them, please contact a Subject Librarian.

Some of the sources listed in the following sections will overlap in coverage with others, but each also indexes unique items. Depending on how complete you want your search to be, you may need to look in several sources.

Remember that availability of full text can depend on subscriptions to individual journal titles. Check the journals list for details. If you find an article you wish to read, but it's unavailable either electronically or in print, you may want to use the Inter-Library Loans Service to get hold of it.

See our list of Civil Engineering Bibliographic Databases:

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

CSA Illumina
http://www.csa1.co.uk/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=chest39&access=chest3979
This provides access to a number of databases on a wide variety of subjects.  You can select to search a broad subject area such as Technology or Natural Sciences or you can select specific databases to search.  The databases of interest to civil engineering include:

CSA Technology research database
Materials, engineering, aerospace, high-technology. 

CSA Engineering Research Database
Civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation.   

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt
Environmental biotechnology, engineering, pollution. 

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, Aquatic pollution. 

Aqualine
Water resources, water and wastewater treatment, water pollution. 

Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanography, marine and brackish-water environment. 

CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts 
Covers civil engineering and its complementary fields. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.

ZETOC
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/
With almost 15 million article and conference records, this database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities.

ISI Web of Knowledge
http://isiknowledge.com/
The Web of Knowledge provides access to the Web of Science containing details of periodical literature (i.e. articles), details of papers which have been presented at conferences, and details of some reports and letters which have appeared in the periodicals indexed.  You can search the databases using a variety of different fields such as topic, titles, authors, journal titles, author's addresses, and so on.

ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com
The ScienceDirect service is a database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 2,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet. The database of more than 6 million references can be searched.

IngentaConnect
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/
This is a large journal article database. It contains details of over 13 million articles drawn from over 28,000 periodicals covering all disciplines.

COMPENDEX (via Engineering Village)
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/
Engineering Village 2 is a web based information service which provides access to the bibliographic database Compendex.  Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.

TechXtra
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
TechXtra is a free service which can help to find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources in engineering, mathematics and computing.

informaworld
http://www.informaworld.com/
This is a service from Taylor & Francis which gives access to several titles covering engineering, environmental studies, etc.

MetaPress
http://www.metapress.com/
You can search several thousand scholarly publications from numerous leading publishers at this site.

Scitopia
http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/
Scitopia cross-searches over 3.5 million documents, plus patents and government data, from a number of professional societies, including the ASCE.

ICE Virtual Library
http://jisc.iceknowledge.com/default.aspx
The ICE's Virtual Library gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. From here you can search the ICE's archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day, viewing papers on screen in fully printable form.

Thomas Telford Journals
http://www.thomastelford.com/journals/
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is the world's longest established professional engineering body.  Thomas Telford Ltd. is the knowledge business of the ICE, publishing authoritative journals featuring new research and practical case-studies from across civil engineering.

CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts 
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/csa.html
Covers civil engineering and its complementary fields. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
Accessed via CSA Illumina

ICONDA (International CONstruction DAtabase)
http://gateway.uk.ovid.com/autologin.html
ICONDA covers worldwide technical literature relating to all aspects of planning and construction. The database covers the period from 1976 to the present. ICONDA contains references taken from sources in more than 20 different countries. Sources include periodicals, books, research reports, conference proceedings, business reports, theses, and non-conventional literature that is normally outside the public domain, with coverage dating back to the launch of the database in 1976. More than 400 periodicals, among them 47 from the United Kingdom, and over 20 from the USA, are regularly scanned for ICONDA by 17 renowned international organizations and companies.

ASCE Civil Engineering Database
http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html
The ASCE Civil Engineering Database is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1974. It provides access to all the ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Topics covered include: aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, bridges, cold regions, computer practices, construction, earthquake engineering, education, engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, forensic engineering, geotechnical engineering, highways, hydrology, hydraulics, irrigation and drainage, management, materials engineering, structural engineering, transportation, urban planning, water resources, waterway, port, coastal and ocean engineering.

Institution of Structural Engineers Library
http://www.istructe.org.uk/library/index.asp
Access to over 50,000 references.  The database can be searched by author, title, subject keyword or year and searches can be restricted to different types of publication such as books, standards, reports or journal articles. No password required.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text
http://hwwilsonweb.com/
Indexes 335 international English language periodicals in the applied sciences and technology, including some relevant to civil engineering

Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (ANTE)
http://www.csa1.co.uk/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=chest39&access=chest3979  
Indexes 450 technical and applied science journals, with an emphasis on UK publications.
Accessed via CSA Illumina

iLink RICS Library: Centre of Business Information for the Property Industry (RICS Library Direct)
http://194.154.180.3/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/0/0/0/49
The RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Library Direct service indexes over 65,000 items held in the Library, including books, RICS publications and guidance notes, articles, law cases, video and audio tapes, property market reports, and statutory publications. Subject areas include commercial, residential and rural property, land surveying, minerals, construction, planning, the environment, and several specific issues such as party walls and landfill. You can search for an item by subject, and author and/or title. Most records include an abstract of the item.

Construction and Building Abstracts (CBA)
http://www.cbaweb.co.uk/
Covers 400 journals including some in civil engineering.

Repositories are collections of electronic documents. They are sometimes called e-print repositories, archives or institutional repositories.

Repositories allow researchers to deposit copies of output in a publicly accessible resource (often in conjunction with publishing in peer reviewed journals or other published sources).  Journal articles found in digital repositories may be pre-prints - a term used to refer to an article at any stage prior to publication - from peer-reviewed and awaiting publication to documents not yet submitted to a journal for consideration. As well as journal articles, digital repositories may also include theses, conference papers, working papers and learning & teaching materials.

OpenDOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/
A directory of open access repositories.

OAISter
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister
A collection of freely available, academically-oriented digital resources.

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/
As well as searching selected scientific websites, Scirus also searches a number of digital repositories.

TechXtra
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
TechXtra searches across a number of digital repositories.

Intute: Repository Search
http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/

This searches across more than 80 UK academic eprints repositories.

SPARC list of institutional repositories
http://www.arl.org/sparc/repos/ir.html
A list, organised by country

ROS: The Research Output Service
http://www.ros.hw.ac.uk
ROS is Heriot-Watt University's institutional repository. 

The popular Internet search engines, though very useful, don't index everything.  They may not index some of the subscription-based services mentioned in this How To Find Out guide. If you use Google, note the Google Guide.

Several useful search tools are available:

Possible starting point for Internet resources is PINAKES , which is a subject launchpad to quality internet resources.

Try also:

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/
Searches a combination of web information, preprint servers, digital archives, repositories and patent and journal databases.

TechXtra
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
This site can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.

Intute: Civil Engineering
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=25646
Details the best Web resources for education and research.

GlobalSpec
http://www.globalspec.com/
GlobalSpec is a fully integrated platform of engineering search engines, content, and tools.

Open Directory : Science : Technology : Civil Engineering
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Technology/Civil_Engineering/

Construction IT Resources
http://itc.fgg.uni-lj.si/ICARIS/cr/
A database of resources civil engineering and construction

Email mailing lists can be a good source of information. See:

JISCmail
http://jiscmail.ac.uk/
JISCmail mailing lists allow you to discuss topics with other academics via electronic mail. Two Mailbase mailing lists of particular interest are:

A good way to keep up to date with new Internet resources is to consult the Library's own:

Internet Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

If you want to find out more about using the Internet to find information, try:

The Online Netskills Interactive Course (TONIC)
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TONIC/
TONIC is an easy-to-understand, structured course, offering step-by-step, practical guidance on major Internet topics, ranging from basic through to advanced.

Internet Civil Engineer
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/civil/

For the best search engines, see:

Internet Search Tools
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/websites.html

try also

del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/
Shared favourite websites

It is very difficult to read or scan all new publications appearing in any subject area. For those, such as lecturers and postgraduates undertaking research, who need to know on a regular basis what is being published in their areas of interest, there are various tools which can help.

See:

Current Awareness Services
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/currentaware.html

ticTOCs journal tables of contents service
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
Find thousands of scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from multi-publishers, view TOCs, export TOC Feeds to feedreaders, save TOCs for future current awareness.

To find out what new resources have been made available on the Internet, look in:

Internet Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html

Often the first results of new research are reported at conferences. Some conference papers are listed in various abstracts, indexes, and online databases (see above), but for another way to find out if any conference papers have been published on your subject check:

Conference Proceedingsation
This is included as part of Web of Science, available through the Web of Knowledge (see above).

Conference papers are also indexed in:

CSA Illumina
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/csa.html

Engineering Village 2/ Compendex
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/compend.html

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm
Provides full text access to their conference papers

Many research organisations make their research reports available for general use. Some reports are listed in the abstracts, indexes, and online databases mentioned earlier. Other lists will be found in:

CCLRC ePublication Archive
http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/
Contains details of some UK Reports, from the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils.

OpenSIGLE - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
http://opensigle.inist.fr/
This is an open access database to SIGLE bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe.

WorldWideScience.org The Global Science Gateway
http://worldwidescience.org/
A gateway providing one stop searching of national and international scientific databases. It provides access to research information in English from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands and includes the US database Science.gov, a searchable portal to major science databases of federal science agencies.  WorldWideScience.org was developed and is maintained by the US Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), a program within Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science.

NTIS (U.S. National Technical Information Service)
http://www.ntis.gov/
A searchable database of technical reports from U.S. government sponsored research issued since 1990.

TechXtra
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
Find reports from a number of databases via TechXtra

CIRIA
http://www.ciria.org/
The Construction Industry Research and Information Association, produce Reports and Technical Notes on various subjects. These are catalogued individually, and can be found in the Library catalogue under their titles or under the title CIRIA Report.... etc.

Official publications are produced by governments, government departments, and such bodies as the European Community. For a detailed guide to help you locate this type of information see How to Find Out: Government Information.

For government publication sources available on the Internet, see:

Directgov
http://www.direct.gov.uk/
Public service information for the UK

Office of Public Sector Information
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/
The HMSO operates from within OPSI.. From the late 1990's many documents are available in full from the web site.

The Stationery Office (TSO)
http://www.tso.co.uk
The Stationery Office is the official publisher of statutory, Parliamentary and government information and has been the official publisher to Parliament for over 200 years. TSO Online bookshop www.tsoshop.co.uk  is the business and professional bookshop from The Stationery Office. Created specifically for the UK business and professional market it offers a comprehensive range of books, as well as quick and simple access to over one million UK publications.

Science.gov: Buildings and Construction
http://www.science.gov/browse/w_113D.htm
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. This is the Civil Engineering section.

Science Accelerator
http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/
Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.

For European Information:

This Library has a number of books about the European Union and some publications produced by the various European official bodies. All are listed in the catalogue or Periodicals List. We have some useful guides to European publications:

Quick Reference
337.142 EUR
European information in Scotland: directory of information providers

Quick Reference
337.142 RAM
Ramsay. European Union information
Very useful introduction to the structure and operations of the European Union, with details of a range of printed and electronic information sources.

European Union Online (Europa)
http://europa.eu.int/

Other useful web sites for European Union information include:

CORDIS - the Community Research & Development Information Service
http://www.cordis.lu/

EUROSTAT - Statistical Information Service
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/

This Library has a wide range of EU material, but by no means a comprehensive collection. The Europa Library at Edinburgh University is a depository library for EU material, so you will find most official European publications unavailable here in that Library. Access arrangements are the same as for other parts of Edinburgh University Library .

For other links see:

Governments on the WWW
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/
Contains links to governmental institutions in over 200 countries which provide information on the web.

Statistics can be difficult to trace. Use one of the guidebooks mentioned earlier to find out what has been published. See HOW TO FIND OUT - STATISTICAL GUIDE for details of statistics held in the Library and available on the internet. For British official statistics the main guides are:

Quick Reference
051 GUI
Central Statistical Office. Guide to official statistics
The 2000 edition of the Guide is also available on the Web:
Government Statistical Service: Guide to Official Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/GOS2000_v5.pdf

National Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
This site contains the latest comprehensive range of official UK statistics and information about statistics as well providing free access to a selection of recently released publications. http://www.statsbase.gov.uk/

Eurostat
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home
Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

For unofficial sources see:

Quick Reference
051 MOR
Mort. Sources of unofficial UK statistics

Statistics Collection
Monthly Digest of Statistics .
Section 8 deals with energy, section 12 deals with construction, and section 13 with transport

Statistics Collection
Construction Forecasts
This is one of several publications of the National Economic Development Office which gives estimates on the future economic outlook for housing, construction, maintenance, etc.

Statistics Collection
Digest of data for the construction industry

In addition, there is the following guide:

Quick Reference
690 FLE
Fleming: Spons guide to housing, construction and property statistics

A standard, or standard specification, indicates the properties, dimension, performance, qualities and testing to which manufacturers and services are recommended to conform. 

British Standards online
http://bsol.bsigroup.com
Includes the full text of current, historic, and draft British Standards and more than 16,000 BSI adopted European and international standards. Also included are technical handbooks, codes of practice, guidelines  specifications for products, dimensions, and performance glossaries. 

ANSI Online 
http://www.ansi.org/
The ANSI (American National Standards Institute) online information service. Full text is not available but standards can be ordered via Inter Library loan

ASTM
http://www.astm.org/
ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world-a source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services.

ILI
http://www.ili.co.uk/
The ILI web site features a free searchable web catalogue of Standards linked to an Internet Ordering facility. This catalogue, which is searchable by Standard number, or by title, lists Standards from a large number of issuing bodies including: ANSI, API, ASHRAE, ASTM, BS, CECC, EIA, DIN, IEEE, ISO, SAE.

ISO Online (International Organization for Standardization)
http://www.iso.ch/
This service includes the catalogue of all ISO International Standards including drafts, complete lists of ISO members and technical committees and general background on ISO

School of the Built Environment Resource Centre
Technical Indexes Construction Information Service
Provides full text of standards, legislation and other material in building, civil and structural engineering.

TechXtra Patents & Standards via Globalspec
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/patents/index.html

A useful book is:

Standards Collection
Rhodes: Information on Standards: a guide to sources

See our guide on Patents for more information.

Quick Reference
608 NEW
Newton: How to find information: patents on the Internet

608 BRI
British Library.  The inventor's guide: how to protect and profit from your idea

The UK Intellectual Property Office
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/
A large amount of information about patents is available at this site. Also available is GB Esp@ceNet , a searchable database of patent specifications published over the past two years.

Google Patents
http://www.google.com/patents

TechXtra Patents & Standards via Globalspec
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/patents/index.html

See our guide on These and Dissertations for more information.

For British doctoral theses see:

Index to Theses
http://www.theses.com/
A searchable database detailing theses accepted from 1970 onwards.

EThOS
http://ethos.bl.uk/
Search across 250,000 UK Theses

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
http://www.ndltd.org/
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.

For American doctoral theses see:

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts
http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/dissert.html
This lists mainly American theses.

Theses Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/
The EPSRC Grants on the Web facility  provides information about research, training and public engagement grants supported by EPSRC.

Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html
The CORDIS website contains information about European research and development (R&D) and innovation activities.

Eduserv Chest Agreements
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/licence-negotiation/agreements

Geotechnical & Geo-environmental Software Directory
http://www.ggsd.com/
The Geotechnical & Geo-environmental Software Directory catalogues over 1500 programs in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Foundation Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geo-environmental Engineering, Data Analysis and Data Visualisation.

Higher Education Academy (HEA) - Engineering Subject Centre
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/
HEA Subject Centres provide support for discussion, dissemination and innovation in all aspects of learning, teaching and assessment for UK higher education. 

JORUM
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
A repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.

MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org
A North American collection of learning resources from a wide variety of subject areas. MERLOT offers quality control through a peer review system for learning objects

SMETE
http://www.smete.org
Resources from the US in Science, Maths and Engineering.

Some are listed in:

Calendar of Upcoming Technical Conferences
http://www.techexpo.com/events/evnts-p1.html

COMPENDEX (via Engineering Village 2)
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/
Engineering Village 2 is a web based information service which provides access to the bibliographic database Compendex.  Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
http://www.ice.org.uk/

Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
http://www.istructe.org/Pages/SeDefault.aspx

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
http://www.asce.org/

Institution of Structural Engineers
http://www.istructe.org/

CIRIA
http://www.ciria.org/
The Construction Industry Research and Information Association