This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Civil Engineering and Surveying.
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Books
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Options for finding book material. For some assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with.
Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles. An example might be Building magazine for a print title which you can find via the catalogue, or for electronic titles such as Building Design or Construction News check the Publications Search Page for which there is a link here.
Two journal titles are a little more tricky than others. They require individual login/registration. For both Estates Gazette (or Radius Data Exchange) and Architects' Journal you need to go to our Passwords for Resources page, make sure you're logged into the Library website (blue login button on top right of screen), and then click on "Passwords for Resources page" before choosing the journal of interest.
This page lists key sources for Civil Engineering and Surveying:
Much Health & Safety (or Occupational Safety & Health as is often used in North America) information can be found in our standard databases such as Discovery or Engineering Village. However, we do have some subject specific resources which may be of use - particularly for specialised information such as fact sheets or reports.
Barbour is a health and safety information service providing information sourced from over 900 providers. Information within it includes legislation, technical guides and best practice along with director level briefings and employee training guides. The legislation diary identifies all known upcoming changes in legislation relating to different health and safety topics.
The following video from Barbour shows you how to get the best from this resource
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This supplier gives access to two major resources for Construction and Health and Safety professionals (Construction Information Service and OHSIS), needing rapid, reliable and up-to-date online access to standards, legislation and other guidance information related to their industries. Many items included in full-text. Product catalogues are also available covering construction, engineering, process and electronics industries.
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Newspaper and magazine articles may be helpful although note that they are not considered 'scholarly resources'.
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