Academic Search Tools in the field of Construction Management
Academic databases and search engines exist to combine the power of web-based search tools with the rigour of peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Unlike a more general search engine such as Google, they eliminate sources which can't be verified, and provide options specifically to group and rank by topic and citation. Different tools function in different ways; a search of the literature surrounding the tools and a comparison of them makes interesting reading in and of itself!
Some resources require a login or subscription. If you are based in an academic institution, you may have credentials from your institution that allow you to access these for free. Some are freely available to all.
CM Abstracts
CM Abstracts is a curated and indexed catalogue of construction management research. It holds the metadata for around 30,000 records from selected refereed journals and doctoral theses from around the world. Every record is indexed against a structured vocabulary of around 7,500 index terms, which have been derived from the vocabulary used by these authors. The primary aim of CM Abstracts is to remove wasted effort in discovery.
The catalogue is for anyone who needs to find applied research in this area without wading through everything that shares its everyday vocabulary, including researchers at every stage, junior or experienced, working inside the field or approaching it from another discipline, and practitioners, who often struggle to see the practical use buried in theoretically dense papers.
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Other Academic Databases and Search Engines
The lists below are alphabetical and not exhaustive, but contain tools which are focussed more in the area of Construction Management (as opposed to, for example, Medicine or Arts and Humanities). Inclusion of a resource in the list below does not imply a recommendation from ARCOM.
Academic Databases
Academic Search Engines