Lafayette College Library

Indexes core periodicals in engineering and other technical fields.

Full-text of journals and conference proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Journal coverage goes back to 1995; all ASCE conference papers published from 2003 to the present are available, with select papers available from 1999-2002. For an index of ASCE publications back to 1970 use the ASCE CE Database.

The Transportation Research Information System database contains references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. Sponsored by the National Transportation Library.

Index covering the journal literature of science and technology. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Help using Web of Science for cited reference searching)

Full text of articles reviewing the scholarly literature for a variety of topics in the physical sciences and engineering.

The Getty Institute's searchable vocabulary of terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture, and material culture from antiquity to the present.

Collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories of historic structures and sites in the United States dating from the 17th through the 20th century. Draws from the collection of the Historic American Building Survey and the Historic American Engineering Survey from 1933 to the present.

Collection of over 10,000 digitized images of buildings and cities throughout the world. Search by building name, city, country or other keyword. Provided by the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections project.

Collection of 19th century American bridge engineering books, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections.

Includes building and construction cost indexes, sourcebooks with rankings of top contractors, and directories of contractors as well as the text of Engineeering News Record. Note that not all articles are freely available on the ENR site. If prompted to login or pay, search for the article title in ENR via LexisNexis Academic.

Brief illustrated guide for interpreting Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, courtesy of the University of Virginia Library. (Sanborn maps for the Easton area are available in Skillman Library's microfilm collection. A digital collection of Sanborn maps for Pennsylvania is also available.)

Gateway to civil engineering news and information. Sections include the Big Project Watch, Failure Watch, and Engineering Ethics.

Well organized gateway to high quality, freely available resources on the Internet.  Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities with students, staff and researchers in higher education in mind. Search 'All Science records' for links in related fields.

Collection of digitized documents from the US Department of Transportation Library. Includes historical reports of investigations of railroad and aircraft accidents.

Maps of towns or cities in Pennsylvania originally created for use by fire insurance companies. Maps are drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch, list street blocks and building numbers, and are coded for building materials used.

Full text of all US patents issued since 1976, and full-page images for all US patents issued since 1790. (Note: Full-page images can be viewed using pat2pdf.org, which generates PDFs based on patent numbers, or by downloading one of the TIFF image viewer plugins recommended on the USPTO website.)

Detailed data on soil in counties across the U.S. From the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the USDA.