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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
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