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Civil Engineering

Finding articles

Best bets

  • Compendex (Engineering Village)
    covers all aspects of engineering. Check out the short tutorial below on the basics of searching Compendex on the Engineering Village platform
  • ProQuest Engineering Index
    covers technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, bridges and tunnels, construction materials, energy production, waste management, seismic engineering and more
  • Scopus
    covers all disciplines and provides citation searching
  • TRID Database
    Transport Research International Documentation Database is the world's largest online bibliographic database of transportation research
  • Web of Science
    covers all disciplines and provides citation searching

Additional databases

  • DOAJ
    Find Civil Engineering open access journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) by typing Civil Engineering in the "Subjects" search box on the left-hand side of the page
  • engrXiv
    open access database of engineering research
  • IEEE Publications Online (IEEEXplore)
    locate IEEE publications including journal articles, conference papers and technical standards
  • INSPEC
    covers physics, electronics, computer science, electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering
  • MathSciNet
    provides access to pure and applied mathematics publications
  • MEDLINE
    premiere health sciences database
  • ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
    combines specialist topic resources from engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, ecology and more
  • ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
    covers literature in the natural sciences, engineering and technology
  • SciFinder Discovery Platform (register here using your McGill email address)
    Chemical Abstracts plus substance and reaction information

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Interlibrary Loan

  • Interlibrary Loan
    All McGill students and staff may order materials not available at McGill using Interlibrary Loan

Compendex (Engineering Village) Quick Search Tutorial

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