Subject Guide: Environmental Engineering

Finding Journal Articles and Conference Papers

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Coverage: 1981–present
All areas of the environment and pollution.
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Compendex
Coverage: 1884–present
All areas of engineering, journals and conferences.
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Web of Science
Coverage: 1900–present
Article database covering the core journals in all scholarly fields. Provides cited reference searching.
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Finding Books and Conference Proceedings

Melvyl
Library catalog for the UC System. Find call numbers, locations, and online access for books, journals, conference proceedings, and more.
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Finding Background and General Information

ENVIROnetBASE
An online collection of environmental engineering handbooks from CRC Press. Selected titles include:

• Air Sampling and industrial Hygiene Engineering. Lewis, 2001.
• Contaminated Ground Water and Sediment. Lewis, 2004.
• Environmental Engineering Dictionary and Directory. Lewis, 2001.
• Environmental Engineers' Handbook. 2nd ed. Lewis, 1997.
• Hazardous Air Pollutant Handbook. Lewis, 2002.
• Natural Attenuation of Contaminants in Soils. Lewis, 2003.
• Remediation Engineering Design Concepts. CRC-Lewis, 1997.
• Soil Engineering: Testing, Design and Remediation. CRC Press, 2000.
• Waste Sites as Biological Reactors: Characterization and Modeling. Lewis, 2003.

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Finding Electronic Journals

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Finding Videos

The UC Berkeley Library houses a Media Resource Center in the Moffitt Library. It currently has more than 250 documentaries under the category Environment and Natural Resources. UCB faculty can arrange to borrow these for use in class and can have titles placed on course reserves so students can watch them in the Media Resource Center. About the Media Resource Center provides information on how to check items out and put them on reserve.

Finding Dissertations and Theses

For the most part, only UCB dissertations are available in the UCB Libraries. To find specific UCB dissertations, search Melvyl by Author. To locate sample UCB dissertations from your department, search Melvyl for the Subject berkeley dissertations environmental engineering.
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