Engineering

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Key databases
Worth a look
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
High impact journals
Web sites and Internet resources

Key databases

Engineering Village Selected Full-Text
Search GeoBase and GeoRef on a single platform. Subjects covered include geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics.

ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Worth a look

ACM Digital Library Full Text
Association for Computing Machinery - includes articles from ACM journals, newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

Biological Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Please note that our subscription covers 1998 to 2001 only.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals includes 200+ engineering titles
Open J-Gate - open access to hundreds of engineering titles.

Informit Indexes
ANR-I, ANR-I Archive, ANR-Research and ANR-Research Archive. These cover research in agriculture and natural resource management in Australia.

Other relevant indexes (Abstracts and Citations only).
ANSTI - Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Information
ATRI - Australian Transport Index
BUILD - Australian Building Construction and Engineering Database
CHERUB - Chemical Engineering Reference User Bibliography
ENGINE - Australian Engineering database
Engineering Collection - journals, conference papers and reports, developed by Engineers Australia and RMIT
EVA - Environmental Abstracts
SCANfile - produced by the CSIRO Corporate Library and Information Service.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In addition to research in pure chemistry, the database covers literature in the following areas: Agricultural Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences and Physics and Polymer Science. For further information, see the SciFinder Scholar page.

Encyclopedia and dictionaries

CRC handbook of engineering tables
Encyclopedia of environmental science and engineering
Environmental engineers' handbook
Environmental engineers' mathematics handbook
Practical handbook of material flow analysis

High impact journals

The following Engineering journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Environmental Engineering:

Ambio
Environmental Chemistry Letters
Environmental Science and Technology
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Journal of Polymers and the Environment
Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Water Environment Research

Web sites and Internet resources

American Academy of Environmental Engineers - A service for those seeking additional information about Environmental Engineering and related topics.
AuthorMapper - A free tool visualizing scientific research areas and trends through timeline graphs and bar charts, allowing users to locate other experts in a field of study.
DEWHA Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's environment.
Energy Citations Database - ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. Some full text.
Intute. Science, engineering, & technology - a free online service created by a UK network of universities. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites covering the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.
Knovel Science & Engineering Units Converter - Knovel's free online Science & Engineering Units Converter enables you to convert 864 scientific and engineering units for 82 properties - from Acceleration to Volume - to other units as appropriate. It rounds results to the desired number of significant digits selected by you.
National Science Digital Library
ScienceResearch.com - accelerates your research by returning relevant results from over 300 authoritative science and technology collections.
Standards Australia - recognised by the Government as the peak Standards body.
Wolfram Alpha - A computational knowledge engine which generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
WWEVL WasteWater Engineering Virtual Library Over 1500 resources on waste water issues