Environmental Engineering Research: Home

Last Updated: Apr 16, 2025 10:45 AM

Getting Started

This guide provides resources for conducting research in environmental engineering. It is your library research work space. Use the tabs above to link to article databases, online books, properties data, standards, test methods, patents, and other types of information related to environmental engineering.

Please contact me for individual consultation, group instruction, library purchase recommendations, and suggestions for this guide.

Best Bets

Short on time? These resources are your best bet for this subject area.

Engineering Village
The combined Compendex, Inspec, and GeoRef databases.More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
ASCE Library
Full text journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY
Environmental Studies (Gale In Context)
Coverage of environmental research, issues, policy, and decision-making in the form of full text journal articles, news stories, interactive maps, statistical data, refereed case studies, podcasts, and more. More Info

Full-Text UB ONLY
Environment Complete
Deep coverage in environmental studies. More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering
Full-text of a thousand science and engineering handbooks with a focus on books containing numeric data. More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY

Streaming Media

JoVE Unlimited This link opens in a new window
A peer reviewed video journal and science education platform. More Info
Streaming Media UB ONLY
AVON - Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video in a wide range of subjects and genres. More Info
Streaming Media UB ONLY
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Videos from major educational film producers. More Info
Streaming Media UB ONLY

For more streaming media available at UB, check out our Streaming Media webpage.

Wastewater bubbling in treatment plant. Photograph by Kristian Bjornard. WikiMedia Commons. Re-used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

How to Read a Scientific Paper

The video above was created by the librarians at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Purdue University Libraries has also put together a wonderful tutorial. It was originally created to be an interactive tutorial using flash player, but flash is no longer supported in Chrome browsers. Therefore, you can access a PDF version by clicking on this link.

Citation Management Software

UB has a site license to EndNote, software that allows you to collect, store, organize, retrieve, and automatically format references to journal articles, books, patents, and more in your papers. For help using EndNote, visit the EndNote Basics Guide.

Zotero, an open-source citation management tool similar to EndNote, is also available. For help using Zotero, visit the Zotero Basics Guide.