Research Guides: CIVILEN 5760: Getting Started

Head of Geology Library & Map Room
Mathematical Sciences Librarian
Science Education Specialist

Danny Dotson

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180E Geology Library
Orton Hall

614-688-0053

Subjects: Computer Science, Earth Science (Geology), Engineering, Geography, Math & Statistics

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Find Books

Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) [Full Text]
Electronic Book Center included ebooks on all subjects, including many encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, and guides.
Knovel Library [Full Text]
The collection includes over 2,300 reference books on a variety of engineering and technical subjects from more than 40 publishers and professional societies. These electronic books are full text searchable as a collection or within one of the 19 subject areas. Content is displayed in PDF format. Some volumes contain interactive graphs and tables.

Find Articles

Scopus
Scopus is a citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track analyze and visualize research. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help researchers focus on the outcome of their work.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions, contains over 600,000 entries surveying over 2,500 American and international journals, including many that are peer reviewed. Publications from professional associations and regional periodicals are also included.
Materials Research Database (with METADEX)
A comprehensive source on metals and alloys (their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development) that includes information from over 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books.
Web of Science Core Collection
Provides access to citation indexes which can be searched individually or as one file.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
- Science Citation Index Expanded indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines and contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 percent of the articles in the database.
- The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
- Book Citation Indexes- Science and Social Sciences & Humanties indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, with 10,000 new books added each year. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60 per cent of the articles in the database.
ASCE CE Database
Free search interface that provides access to 100,000+ bibliographic and abstracted records published by American Society of Civil Engineers.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes items Google considers scholarly, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The OSU Libraries subscribes to the electronic version of many of these materials and may own the print copy. See the Using Google Scholar movie to set the Google Scholar Preferences to ensure you find materials available free to you from the OSU Libraries and OhioLINK.

Accessing items

You'll see some important buttons while using the OSU Libraries resouces. Especially important are these 4:

Where: OSU Library Catalog.

What: Have an item sent to another location for pickup or recall an item checked out.

Where: OSU Library Catalog.

What: Check for access of an individual item via OhioLINK - such as an item checked out at OSU. Also repeats searches in the OHioLINK catalog to see additional options for your need.

Where: OhioLINK Catalog

What: Click to have an item delivered to OSU from an OhioLINK library.

Where: Library Databases

What: Check for online access to journal articles, conference papers, and more. Also gives interlibrary loan option if item is not available online.

Additional Recommendations

ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library
The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a collection of standards and technical engineering information. The Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

Help!

Choosing & Using Sources
Tutorials on finding and using info.
Citing Sources
Citation Management Software
Article Express / Interlibrary Loan
Request articles, conference papers, and even books (check OhioLINK first) when unavailable at OSU. Request scans of print-only journal articles available at OSU.

CIVILEN 5760

Head of Geology Library & Map RoomMathematical Sciences LibrarianScience Education Specialist