The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library
or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information
related to Water & Wastewater Engineering, please contact the Science and Engineering
Center: 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our
Ask a
Librarian service.
Use these databases to locate citations or full text for journal
articles, conference papers, technical reports and theses. Once you have located relevant articles, search URSUS by journal
or book title to determine if Fogler Library owns the item. 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.
Most relevant databases:
Water
Resources Abstracts. Index to international
scientific literature on all aspects of water resource issues. Includes
abstracts of journal articles, monographs, technical reports, books, and
conference proceedings. Updated monthly and produced by Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts.
Coverage is 1967 to the present. Also provides results of evaluated
internet sites. Utilize the thesaurus for more precise search results.
Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management. Provides access to the
electronic versions of several standard indexes all in one search: Agricultural
& environmental biotechnology abstracts (1993-present); AFSA Aquatic pollution
& environmental quality (1990-present); Ecology abstracts
(1982-present); EIS Digests of environmental impact statements
(1985-present); Environmental engineering abstracts (1990-present); Health
& safety sciences abstracts (1981-present); Industrial & applied
microbiology abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982-present); Bacteriology
abstracts (Microbiology B) (1982-present); Pollution abstracts
(1981-present); Risk abstracts (1990-present); Toxicology abstracts
(1981-present); Water resources abstracts (1967-present). Helpful to
search all the files at once.
Agricultural
Engineering Abstracts. Part of the CAB Direct package. This package covers all areas of plant science, ecology, forestry, soil
science, food science and biotechnology. Over 4 million records are
searchable.
ASCE Civil
Engineering Database. The database covers ASCE documents published
1970
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 erratas
back to the original records. The full page image of all journal articles is
available from 1995 to present. For coverage prior to 1970, use the
"Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications," 1950 - 1979. Print copy at Sci Index TA1.A53.
BIOSIS
Previews. Indexes over 5,200 scholarly journals. Most comprehensive
database for biology, biotechnology and molecular biology. Coverage is 1969
- present.
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 at 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.
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.
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. Science Inventory. This is a searchable, agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science
activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along
with more than 750 peer-reviewed products and an archives of over 19,000
records.
ACS
Journal Archives. Full Text of all ACS journals from volume 1 up
until 5 years ago. Includes important titles: Chemical Research in
Toxicology, Environmental Science and Technology, and Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry. Provides for locating a known citation or
searching by author, keywords or the full text of the articles.
AGRICOLA. 1979 - Present online. This database contains records
for articles, technical reports, and book chapters on all aspects of agriculture and
allied disciplines, including agricultural economics, agricultural engineering,
agricultural products, and alternative farming practices. (Non-UMaine users may want to use the AGRICOLA database at the National Agricultural Library website. ) Updated monthly.
Agricultural
and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts. Coverage is
1993 to present. Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Covers
biotechnological techniques in the food industry, agriculture, and the
environment. Also covers a wide range of environmental developments and
issues. Indexes a wide range of journals from genetics and cell biology to
animal and crop science. Updated bimonthly.
AGRIS. 1975 - Present. This database is sponsored and produced by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AGRIS is a cooperative
system in which participating countries input references to the literature
produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information
provided by the other participants. 199 national, international and
intergovernmental centers participate. AGRIS indexes
journal articles and books as well as technical and statistical reports and
theses. The records have been divided into two parts: references from 1975
to 1995 are in an archive file and from 1996 to present in the current
database. Updated monthly.
AIRSData. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning
& Standards Information Transfer & Program Integration Division Information Transfer Group.
Academic
Search Premier. 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. 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.
Chemical Abstracts. (Sci Index QD7.C44) Online
access now available through
SciFinder Scholar,1907 to present. Software needs to be loaded on
your computer to utilize SciFinder Scholar. We have a contract for just one user at a time but the
service is available almost 24/7. This is the major
indexing source for the worldwide chemical literature. Published by the American Chemical Society. Approximately 14,000 journals are monitored, plus patents,
conference proceedings, and other types of literature.
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.
Ecology
Abstracts. 1982 - present Indexes the broad area of the interactions of organisms with their environment.
Includes information on conservation, pollution, management, environmental
degradation, and reclamation. Indexes approximately 5,000 journals.
Updated monthly.
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.
Georef. Coverage: 1785+ for North America and 1933+ for the rest of the world. Produced by the American Geological Institute,
it covers geology and related disciplines including: geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, mineralogy, and paleontology. Indexes over 3,500 journals as well as books, reports, theses and dissertations, maps, and conference proceedings and corresponds to the following print indexes: Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Updated monthly.
Print copy located at Sci Index QE1.G2145
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.
JSTOR. A digital full text archive of complete backfiles for 360
core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Contains 21 journals in the field of Ecology and 8 journals in Botany. Searchable by full text and author and title.
MInd: The Meetings
Index. Provides a free databases of future national and
international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
MSDS Search - National
Repository. FULL TEXT DATABASE. This site pulls together in one place a great many
sites containing material safety data sheets. Large list of
manufacturers is included.
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.
Proquest Digital
Dissertations. 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.
Science.gov. Newimproved 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. 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 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.
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.
Dictionary of Environmental Science and
Technology. 2nd ed. Wiley, 1996. (Sci Ref GE10.P67 1996)
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.
Handbook of Coastal Engineering. McGraw-Hill, 2000. (Sci Ref TC205.H33 2000)
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th
ed. John Wiley, 1991. (Sci Ref TP9.E685 1991) Starting to receive the 5th ed. John Wiley,
2004. (Sci Ref TP0/K54 2004) Excellent resource for
students and researchers of all levels. Covers all areas of chemical
technology and articles are written by experts in the field. General scientific and technical articles are included.
Extensive bibliographies. May need to consult the 2nd and 3rd
editions for some topics in the ORO stacks.
NIOSH Pocket Guide to
Chemical Hazards. Contains physical and chemical properties and
exposure hazard information for several hundred chemicals that are common in
the work environment.
Chemical Hazards Response Information
System (CHRIS). Hazardous Chemical Data Manual. U.S. Dept.
of Transportation. (Sci Ref TD1032.C44 1999 pt. 1
- For use during emergencies during waterborne
transport of hazardous chemicals.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation. Wiley, 1998. (Sci Ref GE10.E49 1998 vol. 1 - 8)
Encyclopedia of Environmental Control
Technology. Gulf Pub., 1989. (Sci Ref TD191.5.E5 1989
vol.1-8)
Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and
Engineering. 4th ed. Gordon and Breach Science, 1998. (Sci Ref TD9.E5 1998 vol. 1-2)
Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. Wiley,
2002. (Sci Ref GE45.S73E53 2002 vol. 1 - 4) Covers the use of
quantitative measurements in the analysis of environmental phenomena and
problems.
Encyclopedia of Hydrology and Water
Resources. Kluwer Academic, 1998. (Sci Ref GB655.E53 1998)
Environmental Technology Resources Handbook. Ed. by D. W.
Gottlieb. Lewis, 2003. (Sci Ref TD169.5.G68 2003)
Field Analytic Technologies Encyclopedia
(FATE). web site. This online encyclopedia is intended to provide
information about technologies that can be used in the field to characterize
contaminated soils and water. Provided by the U.S. EPA.
MSDS Search - National
Repository. FULL TEXT DATABASE. This site pulls together in one place a great many
sites containing material safety data sheets. Large list of
manufacturers is included.
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial
Materials. 10th ed. Wiley, 2000. (Sci Ref T55.3.H3L494
2000, v. 1-3)
Standard Handbook of Environmental
Engineering. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1999. (Sci Ref TD145.S72
1999)
Standard Handbook of Environmental Science,
Health and Technology. McGraw-Hill, 2000. (Sci Ref GE123.S73 2000)
Standard Handbook of Hazardous Waste
Treatment and Disposal. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1998. (Sci Ref
TD1032.S73 1998)
Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater. 20th ed. American Public Health
Assoc.,
American Water Works Assoc. and Water Environment Federation. (Sci Ref
QD142.A5 20th ed. 1998 Standards Shelves)
National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
NIST Data Gateway. Covers
a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific
disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Scorecard. Get answers to your
questions about local pollution. Can put in zip code and locate local
superfund sites and other environmental data. By the Environmental Defense
Network.
Toxics
Release Inventory (TRI) Program. Sponsored by the U.S. EPA. The
database indexes information on toxic chemicals released into the
environment and waste management activities. Has full text guidance
documents.
The Utility
Connection. More than 300 links to electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities,
news and information.
Water and Wastes Digest. Index to 6 magazines including "Water and Engineering
Management" Full text of articles is included. Also has calendar
of events and career center.
Water
Experts Database . Areas of expertise and contact information for
water resource experts. Compiled by the International Water Resources
Association (IWRA).
Water Online. This
commercial site includes a searchable catalog of water and wastewater products and
manufacturers plus current news from the industry.
NSSN. National Standards Systems Network. Searchable bibliographic database of
thousands of industrial standards and specifications and links to many
standards-issuing organizations.
Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater. 20th ed. American Public Health Asoc,
American Water Works Assoc. and Water Environment Federation. (Sci Ref
QD142.A5 20th ed. 1998 Standards Shelves)
Dictionary of Canadian
Biography Online. This first phase presents persons who died
between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls
within these years. Contains many mathematicians and scientists.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (Sci Ref Q141.D5)
Marquis
Who's Who. Includes professional and personal
profiles of over 850,000 U.S. and international figures.
Society of Women
Engineers (SWE). A not-for-profit educational and service
organization that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career
aspiration for women.
World of Scientific
Biography. (Eric Weisstein's) Interactive encyclopedia listing
over 250 important researchers in mathematics. Links to information
about their contributions.
National Science Digital Library. A digital library of
exemplary resource collections and services, organized in
support of science education at all levels.
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