Geotechnical News December 2010
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GEOLIFI – Geotechnical Lit-
erature Finder: Papers of the
International Journal of Geo-
technical Engineering and
other conference added to the
database!
GEOLIFI, a searchable online database
of geoengineering papers, continues
to rapidly expand, offering access
to almost 3,000 geotechnical papers
published either in conferences or
journals. GEOLIFI has successfully
expanded its collection to include all
papers published in the “International
Journal of Geotechnical Engineering”
as well as all papers published in
the International Conference on the
Development of Urban Areas and
Geotechnical Engineering that took
place in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June
2008. The database is expected to
continue to expand in coming months.
GEOLIFI can be found at: http://
geolifi.geoengineer.org.
International Journal of Geo-
engineering Case Histories
(IJGCH): Issue#4 has been
published
The latest 4th issue of Volume 1 of the
International Journal ofGeoengineering
Case Histories (IJGCH) has been
completed. The IJGCH is an official
Journal of the International Society
for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering, Papers published in this
refereed journal are available in color
and are accompanied by databases that
include the electronic data presented in
the paper as well as additional figures
(as necessary). The locations of the
case histories are also positioned in a
downloadable Google Earth database.
You can download and read the papers
of the 4th issue as well as the papers
included in past issues at no cost by
visiting the journal’s website at: http://
casehistories.geoengineer.org.
Online Searchable Geoengi-
neering Library: Free access to
more than 2,000 publications
Our Online Geoengineering Library
provides free, immediate access to
more than 2,000 documents authored
by 1,894 authors, available for
download and organized into 22
searchable categories By searching
our library, you can also find relevant
documents in the GEOLIFI database at
the same time.
Visit our UPGRADED database
on Educational Resources.
The Educational Geo-websites is a
collection of educational websites
that intend to educate students and
practitioners on specific subjects of the
geoengineering field. The collection
currently includes 129 resources in 13
categories and 73 creators and can now
be found at:
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org/educational/.
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Edited by: Dimitrios Zekkos, Ph.D.,
P.E. Managing Director of Geoengi-
neer.org and Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmen-
tal Engineering, University of Michi-
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