Planning

Acompline / Urbaline [electronic resource].
Acompline and Urbaline are two complementary databases created and updated daily by the GLA Research Library. They contain details of around 400,000 documents covering all aspects of urban and social policy from the early 1980s to the present.

Digimap [electronic resource].
Digimap allows users to view and print contemporary and current Ordnance Survey maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information [electronic resource].
An independent unbiased resource, the Resource for Urban Design Information (Rudi), commissions, researches and creates materials, and also re-publishes significant documents contributed by professional and government bodies, practitioners, academics and community organisations. RUDI is a virtual library containing full text documents and valuable excerpts from others. It displays unique items and significant works which are difficult to locate or are out of print, and has materials specially commissioned to fill gaps in urban design information.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource].
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

Emerald [electronic resource].
Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

Lexis Library [electronic resource].
UK Cases (including the All England Reports), UK Journals and Newspapers.
International Legal Materials includes access to an extensive collection of US law journals.

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource].
All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database. Strong in the Humanities, Languages, Science and Medicine.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

RICS Library Direct [electronic resource].
This is an online version of the RICS Library's key information source Abstracts and Reviews. It provides an index and abstracts to over 50,000 items held in the RICS Library.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

Technical Indexes: Construction Information Service (IHS) [electronic resource].
Complete documents from over 150 issuing bodies essential to the design and construction of buildings, including legal data, setting out, structural tolerances and product information. Includes:
LANTAC (Local Authority National Type Approval Confederation). Local authority building control information and approval certificates.
OHSIS (Occupational Health & Safety Information Service). A full text collection of key United Kingdom health and safety, fire safety and environmental health guidance material. Includes legislation, standards, etc. Updated monthly.
Specify-It Building. A database of building products and manufacturers, searchable by product, trade name or company name.

Westlaw [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of cases and legislation for UK materials, some EU and International documentation plus considerable US resources. It incorporates the Legal Journals Index and the Case and Legislation Citators.

Camden Planning Online
Example of a local authority planning department website

Centre for Education in the Built Environment
Includes links to planning, housing and transport sites; software for teaching and learning; online journals.

Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
`.a research institute based at Sheffield Hallam University [which]. undertakes research and consultancy in. community based research, urban and regional competitiveness, housing, town and country planning, transport and planning, urban regeneration.'

Chronicle World
An international digital magazine on changing black urban communities in Britain and abroad.

City Review
".a 'zine devoted to Manhattan affairs. with a strong emphasis on architecture, planning, real estate."

CYBURBIA - Internet Resources for the Built Environment
Architecture and planning: public, private and international; links to 5500 sites

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This site includes material on the environment (i.e. green issues), wildlife resources, the countryside, farming, and food industries

English Heritage

English Partnerships
`The national force for regeneration and development in England'; includes their Urban Design Compendium (which can be downloaded).

Greater London Authority
GLA's web site has many planning-related links, including the London Planning Advisery Committee (at the GLA home page click on London, then Links).

Habitat See: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements

Hackney Building Exploratory-interactive
A site designed `.to explore the use of Internet-based visualisation to aid the design process of urban morphology'.

HUD USER
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research's information service.

Internet Resources for City Planning Research
The University of California at Berkeley's Environmental Design Library Website: "...selected Internet sites for city and regional planning".

Local Government Management Network
London Planning Advisery Committee
Now transferred to the GLA
includes Development Plan progress reports.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
References/Links to the "Office of the Deputy Prime Minister" This site contains the housing, planning etc. services previously available on the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions website. Particularlyuseful for Laws, regulations and circulars etc.

Online Planners Forum
The aim of the Forum is `. to provide community and regional planners a chance to use the resources of the Internet and access to planning and related information'.

Planning Portal
This is an online planning service which sets out to provide an electronic gateway into the planning system in England & Wales. Development Plans are gradually being added.

Planning-uk.com
The UK town planning information portal.

PlanWeb
An Internet information resource for town planners and the land and property professions from Peter Thorpe Consulting: has links to planning related sites.

Regional Studies Association
`An independent, inter-disciplinary body concerned with urban and regional planning and development.

Regeneration-uk.com
The UK regeneration information portal.

Royal Town Planning Institute
The UK national planning association: includes press releases and lists of publications.

RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information)

A full text/multimedia information resource servicing the world of urban design': absolutely key five-star gateway with links to some of the sites listed here.