Construction Management Resources

Library resources to support research and instruction for the activities of the Construction Management department in the College of Technology

Resources for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

This is a LINK to Dr. Song's information on the research project needed to complete the requirements for your master's degree

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Highly cited journals in the sciences and engineering. Find who cited who from 1955-present.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Similar to Web of Science for citation searching. Find who cited who from 1996-present. Covers more publications than Web of Science.

Google Scholar
May retrieve more than other citation searching products, but check your results.

Knovel This link opens in a new window
Find data whether buried in a table, graph, or chart inside hundreds of ebooks. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel, ASCII, and HTML.

Especially good for lab homework also since you can search for your topic across all the ebooks.

Dissertations and Theses Database (Proquest)
Search by topic, author, or university to see what has already been published on your topic
Dissertations and Theses at UH Libraries
Search the Proquest database for dissertations by UH students. Many are full text.

ASCE Online Research Library
Full text to the journals and conference papers from ASCE.

ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text of Elsevier journals, the largest publisher of science and technology journals
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Similar to Web of Science for citation searching. Find who cited who from 1996-present. Covers more publications than Web of Science.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database that includes peer reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers

Wiiley Online Library
Full-text to many Wiley journals, a key science and technology publisher.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Visit the following link, go to Scholar Preferences and select the library link for "University of Houston Libraries - Fulltext @ UH Libraries" to obtain online access to library subscriptions.
Worldcat
WorldCat is one of the world's largest networks of library content and services. It provides online search and, sometime, full content in PDF or other multimedia formats on a wide variety of subjects
ACM Digital Library
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) DL is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. This database can be very useful if your interest is in computing, modeling, simulation, and IT in construction. Most articles are available in PDF format.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Highly cited journals in the sciences and engineering. Find who cited who from 1955-present.

Need to find books on a topic? Looking for a specific journal? Search the Library catalog

Obtain articles and books the Library doesn't own through the free Interlibrary Loan service.

Look up the library's catalog for books and ebooks on this topic HERE

Access books on Communications in Construction: