A key source of up-to-date technical information for the architecture and construction industries. Information includes building regulations, advice notes, British Standards, government reports as well as journal articles, e.g. from the Architects' Journal and books such as the Metric Handbook. You can also link out to the AJ website and read digital editions of the Architects' Journal. Watch the video to find out how.
You can access Architect's Journal from 2014 onwards for the University of Portsmouth.
A comprehensive source of technical information for the construction industry from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Many of the articles, standards and publications indexed can also be viewed online.
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Provides access to those Institution of Civil Engineers titles to which we have access.
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Full text of technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Full text of technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics, however it also includes a lot of civil engineering and surveying material which may be of use.
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Archive of the Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers including over 200,000 pages of unique material.
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OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. Content includes journal articles and conference proceedings.
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ScienceDirect's extensive and unique full text database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, published by Elsevier. More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available in ScienceDirect providing access to the physical sciences and engineering life sciences. This resource is also available through the Discovery service. A Science Direct Advanced Search guide video is available.
This is a large collection of maths, science, technology and medicine related full-text and bibliographic information.
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