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Background Information

Environmental Engineering

Biological Risk Engineering Handbook : Infection Control and Decontamination
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QR48 .B487 2003

Concise Guide to Environmental Definitions, Conversions, and Formulae
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TD145 .F55 1999

Environmental Engineering
Location: JPL Stacks TD145 .S2397 2003

Environmental Engineering Dictionary and Directory
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TD9 .P36 2001

Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TD145 .H27 2000

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
Search UCAT to locate books, journal titles (not articles), government documents, maps and multimedia materials available at the UTSA Library. Read the Search Tips to learn how to conduct a better search.

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Electronic Books

ENGnetBASE Provides full-text access to hundreds of leading engineering handbooks in PDF format published by CRC Press. Also searchable from Engineering Village 2. Updated monthly. Note: In order to view entire e-books, Adobe Acrobat must be set to open PDF files within your browser.

netLibrary Offers a comprehensive collection of electronic books (e-books) including tens of thousands of scholarly, reference, and professional e-books on all subjects from leading university, academic, and professional publishers. Browse e-books for quick research and reference or check them out and read them at your leisure. Since e-books are online, you don't have to worry about returning them. E-books are automatically "returned" at the end of your check-out period. Updated daily. Tipsheet Available

Referex Engineering (via Engineering Village 2) Provides PDF full-text access to over 300 leading engineering monographs in three collections: Chemical, Petrochemical, & Process Engineering; Mechanical & Materials Engineering; and Electronics & Electrical Engineering. Updated frequently. Title list

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Databases & Article Searching

Applied Science and Technology Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Offers indexing and abstracting of articles from selected journals in engineering, aeronautics, transportation, physics, computers, and other science and technology topics. Features full-text articles from more than 100 publications in these disciplines. Includes 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. Indexing coverage from 1993 to current; full text coverage from 1997 to current. Updated regularly.

CSA Engineering Research Database (UTSA subscription)
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Covers the international serial and non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics/computation. Content includes basic and applied research, design, construction, technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production and developments in new technologies. Over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports. These subfiles can be searched individually: ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts

Energy Fiche
Location: JPL Microfiche Cabinet GE105 .E547
Index Location: Energy Research Abstracts JPL Reference Stacks TJ163.2 .E48
Energy Fiche were put out by the U.S. Department of Energy covering most of the documents issued by DOE. The fiche also include items from other government agencies pertaining to energy. The fiche are especially useful for energy and conservation research but also have reports relating to chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.
UTSA Library has fiche covering documents from 1973 onward with a few documents before 1973. The collection is fairly comprehensive from 1975 until the fiche program was terminated in 1995. The fiche are filed by their report numbers.

Engineering Village 2 (UTSA subscription)
Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1970. The database is updated weekly. Citations Only

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (UTSA subscription)
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) A multidisciplinary database, including 12 subfiles, focusing on environment, ecology, energy, water resources, health and safety, pollution, hazardous waste, risk, bacteriology, and toxicology. Includes citations and abstracts, from 1981 to the present, from more than 4,000 scientific journals as well as books, conference proceedings, reports, and government documents.

Environmental Universe (via LexisNexis) (UTSA subscription)
Features access to a full complement of resources on environmental issues, including energy, air and water pollution, sustainable development and population, waste management, land use, biodiversity, global warming, and many others. Included in the database is access to Environment Abstracts, which indexes some 6,000 publications, many of which can be found in the Envirofiche microfiche collection (see UCAT, the UTSA Library online catalog, for more information on Envirofiche.) (Older reports are indexed in Environment Index JPL Reference GF1 .E5531) Also included in this database are full-text news, journals, and reference materials on environmental topics; federal and state codes and regulations; federal and state case law and agency actions; and waste site data and hazardous materials information. Updated regularly.

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,100 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full Image

TOXLINE (UTSA subscription)
Offers access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the care journal literature in toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; furthermore, it is a "rolling 5-year" database, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text access to approximately 200 of the more than 400 journals published by Wiley, plus tables of contents and abstracts. Updated constantly. Full Image

In addition, explore other databases, both citation and full-text, listed under "Databases by Subject > Engineering and Technology" on the UTSA Library Homepage.

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Associations

American Academy of Environmental Engineers
Free Website: http://www.aaee.net/
The American Academy of Environmental Engineers is dedicated to excellence in the practice of environmental engineering to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare to enable humankind to co-exist in harmony with nature.

AASHTO : Transportation Center of Excellence
Free Website: http://www.transportation.org/
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Official, this non-profit organization represents highway and transportation departments in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Five modes are represented: air, highways, public transportation, rail and water. Fosters the development, operation and maintenance of an integrated national transportation system.

ASCE : American Society of Civil Engineers
Free Website: http://www.asce.org/
Reliable up-to-date information particularly useful to undergraduates. Notable is the access to annotated citations of all ASCE publications from 1975 to present (journals, books, standards, conference proceedings and more. Standard options for searching and good searching tips.

Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society
Free Website: http://www.eegs.org
The Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) is an applied scientific organization founded in 1992 whose mission is: To promote the science of geophysics especially as it is applied to environmental and engineering problems; to foster common scientific interests of geophysicists and their colleagues in other related sciences and engineering; to maintain a high professional standing among its members; and to promote fellowship and cooperation among persons interested in the science.

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Technical Reports

EPA Publications Source
Free Website: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/publications.htm
The National Service Center for Environmental Publications at the Environmental Protection Agency is a central repository of more than 7,000 EPA documents in paper and/or electronic format available for free distribution. Database includes both newer and older documents.

DTIC's Public STINET
Free Website: http://stinet.dtic.mil/
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs effectively. Includes DTIC's technical reports collection and some full text resources.

DARTS (Depository Access to Reports, Technical and Scientific) / NTIS Pilot Project (Federal Depository Database)
Provides access to the full text of over 240,000 online National Technical Information Service (NTIS) reports from 1964-2000. Includes technical reports from a wide variety of sciences, including physics, chemistry, environmental science, and health and behavioral sciences. Access Restrictions: Free at UTSA Library, a Federal Depository Library, as a pilot project between NTIS and GPO. Access is restricted to users within the library. Patrons must be logged on by a Reference staff member. Ask at the JPL or Downtown Reference desks for assistance. Access is not available from off-campus locations. Full Image

NTIS: National Technical Information Service
Free Website: http://www.ntis.gov/
NTIS is the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Approximately 2.5 million products are available in a variety of formats including online, electronic, multimedia, CD-ROM , paper, and microfiche. Thousands of new products are added each week. Additionally, many records now include free links to the full-text publication on an agency's web site, or can be downloaded directly from the NTIS archival copy for a nominal charge. Be sure to search UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any material referenced here.

NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
Free Website: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
NASA's Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program's mission is to collect, archive, and disseminate NASA aerospace information. Examples of information found here include research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data. Check UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any material referenced here.

U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Free Website: http://www.osti.gov/
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) provides access to a wealth of energy, science, and technology research and development information from the Manhattan Project to the present. Includes three areas of information: Information Bridge, which has full text DOE research reports (primarily from 1995 to today); Energy Citations, with bibliographic citations of DOE research from 1948 to today; and E-print Network, which is a collection of documents that researchers circulate electronically in advance or in lieu of publication. Check UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any materials referenced here.

Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
Free Website: http://www.science.gov/
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

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Conference Proceedings

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

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Standards

IHS Standards (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to a number of engineering and architecture related standards, including the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (sections II and X) and the AEC Referenced Standards collection. Updated regularly. Full Text/Full Image
Tipsheet Available

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section 11, Water and environmental technology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA401 .A65311 2003

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Free Website: http://www.iso.org/
ISO is a non-governmental network of the national standards institutes of 148 countries. You can view a list of standards in the ISO Catalogue. There is also a helpful guide to abbreviations in the Your Guide to ISO Online.

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Further Research

EEVL
Free Website: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
EEVL is a British guide to Internet resources in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.

The Water Librarians' Homepage
Free Website: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/waterlib.html
An excellent portal to websites in environmental and earth sciences.

See also UTSA Subject Guides Biology, Chemistry, and GIS

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