Librarian Info
Erich Purpur
Contact:
Clark Hall
Brown Science & Engineering Library
Office - I046
ep9k@virginia.edu
Brown Science & Engineering Library
Office - I046
ep9k@virginia.edu
434 924 1557
Skill Building
- Internet Research Tutorial for Civil EngineeringUse this free, interactive tutorial to improve your Internet research skills.
- Guide to Internet Searching by Dean SherwinExtensive list of tips and suggestions for more effective use of internet resources.
Search Google
Search Google Scholar
Enter names of authors, titles of articles, key words, etc. in the search box and then check in the results for full text access using the 
button. NOTE that not all online resources are indexed by Google Scholar!
Science and Engineering Web Search Engines
While Google and Bing, for example, are fine search engines, there are other web search tools that are optimized for science and technology searches. Try one of these instead!
- AcademicInfo Online Subject GuidesThis in-depth directory is a round up of the best and most useful links and resources within a specific subject area. In most cases it lists both printed reference works and electronic resources. The subject guides are also put together taking into account their accessibility, authoritative sources as well as their ease of use and aim to present a fair and well rounded perspective of the respective subject matter.
- BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search EngineBASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
- Best of the Web - ScienceA categorized listing of web pages relating to science.
- Best of the Web - TechnologyLinks to a wide variety of engineering web sites.
- OSTI: Office of Scientific and Technical Information This link opens in a new windowProvides links to several types of web searching and federated searching of government-produced web resources.
- RefSeekCurrently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
- Science.govA searchable directory of U.S. government web resources considered most important and useful by the agencies that sponsor them.
- ScienceResearch.comA free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases.
- Scitation This link opens in a new windowDiscover more than one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific societies and technical publishers.
- Symbolab - Scientific Equation SearchSymbolab is a semantic web search engine for math and science. It allows users to search for equations, formulas and expressions using mathematical symbols and scientific notations as well as full text search. The stated goal of the site is to provide the most relevant search results that are theoretically and semantically similar, rather than visually.
- WorldWideScience.orgWorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
Select Sites
- Best of the Web - Civil EngineeringGuide to civil engineering sites on the web.
- Building Green This link opens in a new windowInformation on environmentally sensitive design and construction. Includes Environmental Building News, Case Studies, and Greenspec.
- IABSE Online LecturesOffers a wide range of Lecture Series, including Web Casting of Lectures, Short Courses, Videos and Animations related to Structural Engineering.