Subject Guide: Engineering and Project Management

Finding Journal Articles and Conference Papers

Compendex  UCB access only
Coverage: 1884–present
All areas of engineering, journals and conferences.
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Business Source Complete  UCB access only
Coverage: 1965–present
Covers management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing.
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Web of Science  UCB access only
Coverage: 1900–present
Article database covering the core journals in all scholarly fields. Provides cited reference searching.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  UCB access only
Coverage: 1930s–present; with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s
Architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and related disciplines.
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Civil Engineering Database
Coverage: papers with abstracts, 1970–present; papers without abstracts, 1920s–1969
Indexes all ASCE publications, including journals, conferences, books, standards, and manuals.

Finding Books and Conference Proceedings

Next Generation Melvyl Pilot
The Next Generation Melvyl Pilot is a collaboration between the UC Libraries and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Holdings from all ten UC campuses are included.

Current Melvyl
Library catalog for the UC System. Find call numbers, locations, and online access for books, journals, conference proceedings, and more.
» A Brief Guide to Melvyl
» How to Find Conference Proceedings

OskiCat
OskiCat is the UC Berkeley library catalog. It does not include some engineering-related libraries at UC Berkeley. All library users can find course reserves and renew items in OskiCat. UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and other UC Berkeley library cardholders may request materials from NRLF in OskiCat.

Finding Background Information and Data

ENGnetBASE  UCB access only
An online collection of civil engineering handbooks from CRC Press. If an item has a call number, it is also in the Engineering Library in print.

• The Civil Engineering Handbook. W.F. Chen, J.Y. Richard Liew. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2003.
  TA151.C57 2003 Reference
• Construction in Cities: Social, Environmental, Political, and Economic Concerns. Patricia J. Lancaster. CRC Press, 2001.
  TA190.L35 2001
• Construction of Marine and Offshore Structures. Ben C. Gerwick, Jr. 2nd ed. CRC Press, c2000.
  TC1665.G47 2000
• Design for Reliability. Dana Crowe and Alec Feinberg, eds. CRC Press, c2001.
  TK7836.D473 2001
• Design Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications. B.S. Dhillon. CRC Press, c1999.
  TA174.D4929 1999
• Engineering Design Reliability Handbook. Efstratios Nikolaidis et al, eds. CRC Press, 2005.
  TA174 .E544 2005
• Engineering Project Management: the IPQMS Method and Case Histories. Louis J. Goodman and Rufino S. CRC Press, 1999.
  TA190.G73 1999
• Forensic Engineering. Kenneth L. Carper. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2000.
  TA219.F67 2000
• What Every Engineer Should Know About Decision-Making Under Uncertainty. John X. Wang. CRC Press, 2005.

ENVIROnetBASE  UCB access only
An online collection of civil and environmental engineering handbooks from CRC Press.

• Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and Risk Management. Vlasta Molak, ed. Lewis Publishers, 1997.

To access other reference tools, consult our complete list of Electronic Books or browse the Engineering Library Reference and Stacks Collections under the call number areas TA190–TA195 (engineering management), HD66–HD69 (project management), and HD9715 for books on construction management. Also browse the Business & Economics Library collections under HD66–HD69 for books on project management.

Finding Electronic Journals

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Finding Dissertations and Theses

For the most part, only UCB dissertations are available in the UCB Libraries. To find specific UCB dissertations, search Current Melvyl by Author. To locate sample UCB dissertations from your department, search Current Melvyl for the Subject berkeley dissertations civil engineering.
» Guide to locating dissertations and theses