Databases for Construction Management

Building Trades Databases

►  GreenFILE
GreenFILE, an EBSCOhost database, offers well-researched 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, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

ICC Codes

•  International Building Code (IBC)
 

NFPA Codes

​• NEC and NFPA

►  Vocational and Career Collection
This EBSCOhost is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Business Databases

►  Business Source Complete
This EBSCOhost database is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
► Business Searching Interface (on campus link)
The Business Searching Interface from EBSCOhost provides both the ability to perform a keyword search and a "lookup" feature that lets you search within the Indexes and Authority Files. You can also go directly to screens that let you browse Company Profiles, Industry Reports, Country Reports and Market Research Reports. 
► Regional Business News
This EBSCOhost database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Computer & Applied Science Databases

►  Applied Science & Technology Source
This EBSCOhost database offers extensive coverage of research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines. It offers full text for almost 1,200 journals. The content within Applied Science & Technology Source derives from numerous sources, including leading trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings.

►  O’Reilly for Higher Education
60K+ titles (including early release books and audiobooks) and 30K+ hours of video
covering IT topics including cloud computing, software architecture, infrastructure and operations, programming languages, AI and machine learning, security, team management, critical thinking, and more. You can create your own profile for personalization

General/Scholarly Databases

► Academic Search Complete
This comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text EBSCOhost database provides Full text for more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.  The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
►  MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary EBSCOhost database was designed specifically for public libraries. It provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily.
► TOPICsearch 
TOPICsearch from EBSCOhost contains full text for over 150,000 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
►  Vocational and Career Collection
This EBSCOhost is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.