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Environmental Engineering

A guide to Environmental Engineering resources including research papers, articles, data, material properties, codes, standards, patents, & product information.

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This guide will help you find reliable resources for your research assignments for Environmental Engineering. Use the recommended resources below or navigate this guide using the tabs at the left to find more specific resources or get additional information.

Recommended Resources for Environmental Engineering

  • EnviroMapper
    • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
    Best Bet
    Welcome to EnviroMapper for Envirofacts, a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. This Web site provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States. With Envirofacts, you can learn more about these environmental activities in your area or you can generate maps of environmental information.
  • Environmental Studies in Video
    • Access restricted to Illinois Tech students, faculty, & staff
    Best Bet
    Films covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science. The collection addresses specific topics including alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.
  • EPA Science Inventory
    • Mostly free or Open Access. Some content may be paywalled or restricted to Illinois Tech
    Best Bet
    This resource is a searchable, agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments. The database contains more than 19,000 records in the archives including project descriptions, products produced, types of peer review, links to related work and contacts for additional information. Users can conduct keyword searches or search within nine cross-cutting science topics.
  • GreenFILE
    • Access restricted to Illinois Tech students, faculty, & staff
    Best Bet
    GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and recycling.
  • ProQuest SciTech Collection
    • Access restricted to Illinois Tech students, faculty, & staff
    Best Bet Featured

    The ProQuest SciTech Collection is a database providing access to scientific and technical literature across various disciplines. It offers full-text articles, abstracts, and citations from journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports in fields such as engineering, computer science, physics, and environmental science. 

  • Web of Science
    • Access restricted to Illinois Tech students, faculty, & staff
    Best Bet Featured

    Web of Science is a multidisciplinary citation indexing database that provides coverage of high-impact scholarly literature across the sciences, technology, engineering, and math. It offers powerful tools for tracking research trends, analyzing citation networks, and evaluating research impact. 

  • Illinois Tech Library Catalog
    • Free to search. Full-text content likely to be paywalled or restricted to Illinois Tech
    Best Bet
    The library catalog searches through all of Illinois Tech’s physical library holdings and hundreds of thousands of digital titles available through our databases and digital collections. Sign in to your Illinois Tech Library account to access all available materials and review your current loans, requests, fees, blocks, messages, and other personal details.

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