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Subject Guide for Architectural Engineering

Abstracts and Indexes | Dictionaries | Directories | Encyclopedias | Handbooks and Manuals | Internet Links | Bibliographic Management Tool

A discipline that deals with the technological aspects of buildings, including the properties and behavior of building materials and components, foundation design, structural analysis and design, environmental system analysis and design, construction management, and building operation. Environmental systems, which may account for 45-70% of a building's cost, include heating, ventilating and air conditioning, illumination, building power systems, plumbing and piping, storm drainage, building communications, acoustics, vertical and horizontal transportation, fire protection, alternate energy sources, heat recovery, and energy conservation. In addition, to help protect the public from unnecessary risk,architectural engineers must be familiar with the various building codes, plumbing, electrical and mechanical codes, and the Life Safety Code. (Access Science)

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Abstracts and Indexes to Academic or Scholarly Articles
Although many databases contain links to full-text articles, when you find article or book citations in the index databases, you need to search Chinook to see if University Libraries own that periodical or book title.

CU Applied Science and Technology Index
Indexes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1983 - present.

 

CU Architectural Index
Indexes a small selection major architectural journals, including Architectural Record, Builder, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture. Emphasis is on aesthetics rather than engineering. Coverage: 1982 - present.

CU ASCE Research Library
The Research Library provides access to more than 33,000 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings. Coverage: varies.

 

In addition, the ASCE Civil Engineering Database indexes and abstracts all ASCE publications, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers back to 1970. When available, this Database links to the full-text in the Research Library. The handout below explains how to search and find full-text from the CE Database.

Handout: ASCE Database Overview

 

CU Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains more than 440,000 thousand entries surveying over seven hundred American and international journals. Coverage: Varies.

 

 

CU Engineering Village 2--Compendex and INSPEC
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature. Contains references and abstracts to engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Subject areas include: chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications as well as civil and mechanical engineering. Includes links to full text when available.Coverage: 1884 - present.

INSPEC is a bibliographic database that indexes physics, astronomy and astrophysics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. The database contains full-text links when available. Coverage: 1898 - present.

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Scitopia

This federated vertical search portal was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies. It searches the entire electronic libraries of these societies, including more than three million documents, peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site. Though the search is freely available, access to many documents requries authentication. Coverage varies.

Dictionaries

These publications provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.

CU Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations

Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction.
Engineering Library Reference TA9 .W44 1997

Directories

Scholarly Societies--Civil Engineering

Encyclopedias
These publications provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.

CU Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science & Technology

Handbooks and Manuals

APA Engineered Wood Handbook
Engineering Library Reference TA666 A634 2002

 

Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook
Engineering Library Reference TA 681 C743 1997

 

CU EngNetBase--over 400 CRC engineering handbooks online

 

Formulas for Structural Dynamics: Tables, Graphs, and Solutions
Engineering Library Reference TA 654 K27 2000

 

Handbook of Structural Engineering
Engineering Library Reference TA 633 H36 1997

 

CU Knovel Library --Combines essential and authoritative reference books and databases from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Covers 17 industrially important subject areas in the fields of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.

 

Structural Engineering Handbook
Engineering Library Office Reference TA 635 S77 1997

 

Structural Steel Designer's Handbook
Engineering Library Reference TA684 S79 1999

 

Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook
Engineering Library Reference TA 666 W63 1997

Internet Links

 

InfoMine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Math

 

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

 

Science.gov

 

Scitopia

This federated vertical search portal was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies.

CU Refworks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

 

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