The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library
or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information
related to Transportation Engineering, please contact the Science and
Engineering Center at 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our
Ask a
Librarian service.
Use these databases to locate references
to journal articles, books, conference papers and dissertations. Once
you have located journal articles of interest, the second step is to search URSUS by the journal title or conference title to determine if the University of Maine owns the material
needed. We may own journals in print or online or both
formats. Need to check the record listed as Serials (for print holdings)
and E-Serials (for electronic holdings). Must click on the
"Restricted Access UM" link to see the online holdings. If we do
not own the item you need, consider requesting through Interlibrary
Loan. Remember most of the articles listed in these databases cannot be
located by using a regular web browser such as Google. These databases
provide the means to locating scholarly research articles.
Tips for Searching:
Use truncation to allow for the various spellings of a word. Truncation symbol for most databases is the * (asterisk). For
example: Comput* will retrieve: computer, computing, computers,
computational, etc.
Use double quotes to search for an exact phrase: "wave
energy" will retrieve much more precise results. Searching
without quotes in most databases yields a search for - wave and
energy. Finds the words anywhere in the same record not as a phrase.
Check the length of the article. Would probably
not want to pursue articles under 3 pages unless you are looking for news
items to gather information on companies or research labs making news.
Use synonyms to make your search more comprehensive. Link synonyms
with 'or' operator. For example: underwater or submers*
Link concepts with the 'and' operator. Use parentheses to group
synonyms together when using one search box. For example: (hybrid*
or electric*) and (automobile* or vehicle* or cars or car)
When you have located some relevant articles, review the abstract and
subject headings of these records. Utilize subject headings for more precise
results. Most databases you can click on a subject heading for a new
search and then refine this new search with additional keywords.
Utilize the bibliography at the end of relevant research papers to expand
your list of resources. Some of these references may have
errors. It has been found that 20% of the references cited will have
an error.
Most Relevant databases:
Transportation
Research Information Service(TRIS). TRIS Online is the largest research index to transportation
information. It is produced by the Transportation Research Board and indexes over
535,000 records covering books,
journal articles, technical reports and other articles. Coverage includes
Federal, state, local and association publications and conference
proceedings from the 1960s to the present. There are links provided when the
full text document is available on the internet. Search the database
by author, title, subject, corporate author/publisher, journal/conference
title. A Transportation
Research Thesaurus
is available to download and provide guidance on
searching TRIS. Also be sure to see theHelppage for valuable
search tips.
Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best
multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering
journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to
obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes:
author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the
abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference
title). Compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also
provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards
database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy in Sci Index
TA1.E6, 1884 - 1995.
Web
of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version
of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and
Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one
method for bringing your list of references more up- to- date. Take your
most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have
been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500
journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or
theses.
ASCE
Civil Engineering Database. PARTIAL FULL TEXT
DATABASE. The database covers ASCE documents
published 1973 to present. It provides access to all the journals,
conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and
newsletters. A unique feature of the database is that it links
discussions, closures, and errata's back to the original records. The full
page image of all journal articles is available from 1999 to present. For
coverage prior to 1973, use the "Cumulative Index to ASCE
Publications," 1950 - 1979. Located at Sci Index TA1.A53.
Academic
Search Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over
3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering,
and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. Good for
newspaper coverage and public policy and business aspects.
This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more
comprehensive search, search Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose
Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
Advanced
Technology Vehicles. Document Database. Provides indexing and
access to the full text of technical reports on fuel cells, hybrid vehicles,
alternative fuels, etc. Produced by the Dept. of Energy, Clean
Cities Program.
DOE Information Bridge. FULL TEXT DATABASE. Full-text reports for 1995 to present
contracted by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Health
and Safety Science Abstracts. Coverage is 1981 - present.
Provides
citations and abstracts to the literature on public health, safety, and
industrial hygiene. Draws on government reports as well as journal articles,
conference proceedings, books, and other publications. Major areas of
subject coverage include occupational safety and health, transportation,
environmental and ecology, food and drugs, pesticides, natural disasters,
toxicology, etc.
Business Source Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.Provides full text for over
3200 business and industry
journals. Coverage is back to the 1950's for some important
publications and contains detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000
largest companies
California
PATH Database. Provides access to research on intelligent
transportation systems. It contains over 24,000 records from the 1940s to
the present. This is also searchable within the TRIS
database.
Dissertations and Theses (Proquest). Indexes dissertations and theses written by
graduates of North American and European universities. The
complete text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996
is included.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free
scholarly journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also
provides access by broad subject areas.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Scientific and Technical Information Network. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Access to all unclassified, unlimitedcitations to documents added
into DTIC from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in
full text.
Environmental
Engineering Abstracts. Coverage is 1990 -
Present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The focus
of this database is engineering aspects of air and water quality,
environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals
are covered and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and
conference proceedings.
Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management. Provides access to the
electronic versions of several standard indexes. Coverage is back to
the 1960's for most databases. May be helpful to
search all the files at once.
Google
Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes
scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar
includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results
based on their relevance criteria.
IEEE
Xplore. IEEE Xplore is a searchable
database which includes the 130+ journals published by the IEEE and IEE and
also their conference proceedings and the current edition of IEEE standards.
Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and conference proceedings
and further back to 1950 for selected publications. Full text of IEEE
journal articles is available for 1998 to present. Full text is not
available through IEEE Xplore for the IEE journals or IEEE and IEE
conference proceedings and standards. Check URSUS to determine our holdings
of these publications. The database allows simple keyword and phrase
searching or complex search queries employing a variety of operators. Tables
of contents are available for browsing and there is also a useful alerting
service. Register to have an email alert sent of the table of contents when
a new issue is published. We have contracted for 5 simultaneous users.
Military
and Government Collection. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Search over 600 military titles, government periodicals,
trade publications and newsweeklies for topics concerning all branches of
the military. Full text is available for more than a third of the
periodicals indexed. Over 240 pamphlets are also included.
MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
NASA
Technical Report Server (NTRS). This database collects,
archives, and disseminates aerospace information produced by NASA and other
relevant worldwide research.
Pollution
Abstracts. 1981 - present. Presented by Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts this resources covers air, water, land and noise pollution. Industry pollution problems and solutions are covered. Updated
monthly.
Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
Science.gov. New improved gateway to
U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are
collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked
order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700
web sites.
Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index
Q1.A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you
to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles
that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how
to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online
access is available through
Web
of Science, online coverage is 1900 to present.
ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect
interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for
full text searching and across a variety of databases.
Scitopia.
Search over 3.5 million science and technology documents, technical reports,
and patents from Esp@cent, Japan Patent Office, and the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office.
TranStats: Intermodal
Transportation DatabaseThis is produced by the U.S. Dept. of
Transportation and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. This data library allows
you to explore by mode of transportation, broad subject areas or by the
agency producing the data. Also has a keyword search engine.
Virtual
Technical Reports Center.Maintained by the University of
Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text
and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.
MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
New York Times Article Archive. 1851− present. Full text of articles can be purchased online or use the microfilm collection in Fogler Library.
News
on the Web - Archive. Provides links to U.S. and international
newspaper archives that are searchable. Also has links to TV and radio
broadcast archives.
ProQuest
Newspapers. Full text of more than 500 U.S.
and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news
sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers
included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and
selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine
Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
SciCentral. Gateway to the best
scientific and engineering research news sources
URSUS- University of Maine System
catalog. Use the Request function to request items from other
campuses. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
MaineCat - College and
university libraries in Maine. Use the Request function to request
items from other libraries. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
WorldCat. International catalog containing the holdings of over 8,000 libraries.
Access
Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science
& Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
Bartleby.com. Dictionaries,
thesaurus, quotations, etc.
Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control. Ed. by K. J.
Button. Pergamon, 2001. (ORO Stacks TA1151.H36 2001)
Handbook of Transportation Engineering. Ed. by M. Kutz. McGraw-Hill, 2004. (Sci Ref TA1151.H34 2004)
Hazardous Materials 181: The Guide for
Shippers, Handlers & Transporters. Keller, 1993. (Sci
Ref KF3945.H37 1991) For additional information see the J.J. Keller
web site for transportation
of hazardous materials reference materials and regulations.
Highway Capacity Manual. Transportation Research Board, NRC,
2000. (Sci Ref HE336.H48H54 2000) Provides techniques for determining
the level of service for all types of facilities: multilane freeways
to bicycle lanes.
Highway Design and Traffic Safety
Engineering Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1999. (Sci Ref TE175.L36
1999) Concentrates on design of roadways and their alignment and
evaluates speed recommendations, safety criteria, and human
factors.
Highway Engineering. By Paul
Wright. Wiley, 1996. (ORO Stacks TE145.W74 1996.) Comprehensive
textbook.
Highway Engineering Handbook. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill,
2003.. (Sci
Ref TE151.H54 2003) Provides information on highway design, pavements,
bridges, walls, safety systems, signs and economic analysis.
Interstate System. A Report on the Condition and Future Challenges of the Interstate
System.
Manual
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. MUTCD defines the standards
used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control
devices on all streets and highways. Published by the Federal Highway
Administration. 2003 and 2000 eds. Millenium
edition.
Manual of Traffic Design. Edited
by J. H. Kell. Prentice Hall, 1990. (ORO Stacks TE228.K44 1990)
Manual of Transportation Engineering
Studies. Prentice-Hall, 1994. (Sci Ref HE333.M28) A "how to"
guide for conducting field studies with appendices on data analysis and
presentation.
AASHTO LRFD bridge design specifications: customary U.S. units. 4th ed. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). (SciRef TG310 .A43 2007).
AASHTO LRFD movable highway bridge design specifications. 2nd ed. American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
Subcommittee on Bridges and Structures. (SciRef TG420.A43 2007).
Guide manual for condition evaluation and load and resistance factor rating (LRFR) of highway bridges. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
(SciRef TG305.A47 2003).
LRFD bridge construction specifications. 2nd ed. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). (SciRef TG310.A27 2004).
Standard specifications for highway bridges. 17th ed. American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials (AASHTO). (SciRef TG310.A6).
Standard specifications for transportation materials
and methods of sampling and testing. 25th ed. American Association of
State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). (Sci Ref TE 200.A615 2005).
Standard Specifications, Highways and Bridges. State
of Maine. Department of Transportation. (SciRef TE5062.M2M2 1995).
Fueleconomy.gov.
Helps consumers make informed fuel economy choices when purchasing a vehicle
and helps them achieve the best fuel economy possible from the cars they
own. Maintained jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. Includes data, statistical reports and references.
National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
Society of Women
Engineers (SWE). A not-for-profit educational and service
organization that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career
aspiration for women.
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