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 Resources for Environmental Engineering


 Environmental Engineering definitions, overviews, facts and figures

  • Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
  • Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
  • Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Blackwell's concise encyclopedia of environmental management

Dictionary style entries, cross-referenced and some with historical commentary

Encyclopedia of desalination and water resources (DESWARE)

Covers science, technology, methodologies, experience and management of desalination and water resources

The encyclopedia of ecology & environmental management

Entries of varying length, with cross-referencing and some illustrations

Environmental engineering dictionary and directory

Over 8000 terms, abbreviations and acronyms used in environmental engineering and environmental science

Environmental engineers' handbook

Examines interrelated factors affecting the global environment

Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

The Australian environment directory: a comprehensive guide to the environment sector in Australia

363.7063/6

Dictionary of environment and ecology

333.703/5

Encyclopedia of environmental analysis and remediation

628/40

Encylopedia of environmental science and engineering

301.3103/2

Handbook of methods in environmental studies

628.161/57

To find additional reference items

  1. Search the Library Catalogue
  2. Select advanced keyword search
  3. Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
  4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
    e.g. environ** will retrieve environs, environmental, environment etc

    environ** AND dictionar**

    environ** AND encyclop**

    environ** AND engineer** AND handbook**

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 Environmental Engineering books and more

Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos and e-resources

If you know the exact title

  1. Select title search
  2. Type in the exact title
  3. Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection

If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area

  1. Select advanced keyword search
  2. Type in keywords from your topic
  3. Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
    e.g. environ** and remediat**
  4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
    e.g. remediat** will retrieve remediate, remediates, remediation

Catalogue search tips:

  • Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. environ** and remediat** and soil**
    OR
    Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
  • Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
  • Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location

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 Environmental Engineering journal articles

Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters and conference papers.

Try these first

Database

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Current Contents Connect

Current information in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, technology and medical science. International. Latest 5 years.

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Web of Knowledge search tips

Ecodisc

Ecology and the ecosystem, including conservation, the environment, marine sciences and pollution. 1990 - present.

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Silverplatter search tips

Proquest5000

Multidisciplinary. International. Partial full text.

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Proquest search tips

ScienceDirect

Peer reviewed titles from physical, life, medical, technical and social science areas. International. 1995-present, some earlier. Partial full text.

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ScienceDirect search tips

Wiley Interscience

Science and medicine, humanities and social sciences. International. Full text.

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Search tips

Complete list of Engineering databases

Found a useful reference?

Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.

Database search tips:

  • Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
  • Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
  • To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords

    e.g. environ* AND remediat*
  • To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords

    e.g. remediat* OR decommission*
  • Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword.

    e.g. decommission* retrieves decommission, decommissions, decommissioning
  • Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
  • Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search

Need help? More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial

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 Environmental Engineering Internet sites

It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.

Try the following sites as a starting point.

 Internet sites

 Professional organisations

 Government departments

 Search engines

Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.

Try these first:

 Directories

Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.

 UOW sites

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Last reviewed: 15 August, 2008 

 
   
 
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