The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is the world's longest established professional engineering body. Thomas Telford Ltd. is the knowledge business of the ICE, publishing authoritative journals featuring new research and practical case-studies from across the civil engineering and construction markets.
The ICE Virtual Library platform brings 173 years of core civil engineering knowledge under one roof, from the Geotechnique archives to the new ICE Manuals, opens up the vast archives of ICE back to 1836, provides powerful new functionality such as chapter purchasing for books, offers an innovative range of e-books with no DRM restrictions.
Titles are available individually or gathered together to create broad or subject specific collections including:
Details of the contents of the Complete ICE Journals Collection can be found here
Titles are available for purchase as collections, subject bundles or title by title. To see a list of ICE journal titles and proceedings click here.
A brochure containing more information on ICE Virtual Library products can be downloaded here.
The ICE Virtual Library gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world, including the full text of all material published in ICE proceedings and various associated publications. From here users can search the ICE's archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day, viewing papers on screen in fully printable form and allowing comprehensive searching across over 20,000 articles.
The complete ICE journals archive is available on a one-time purchase basis. The archive contains the ICE Proceedings (1836-2002), Geotechnique (1948-2002) and Magazine of Concrete Research (1976-2002).
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) also recently launched an e-book collection which is available as a subscription or one time purchase, and has no DRM restrictions. The e-books are available on the same platform as the journals and journal archives. At present the collection includes 346 e-book titles.
The complete titles list is available here
Libraries can choose from subscription and purchase models and have a choice of complete, customised and subject collections.
The e-books cover all important subject areas within Civil Engineering:
