Housing

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.

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).

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.

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

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.

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.

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 Nexis Butterworths (LNB)[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.

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.

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.

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.

Affordable Housing Finance
US monthly journal. Deals with financial background and news in the affordable housing field. Aimed at professionals and developers.

Chartered Institute of Housing
The website of "the professional body for people working in housing".

ESRC
Profiles UKs largest independent funding agency for research and postgraduate training into social and economic issues.

Homeless Pages
a comprehensive guide to information about homelessness. More than a bibliography, it provides an introduction to homelessness, plus a database of resources including research reports, directories, training courses and websites

Housing Act 1996
Full text of the Act.

Housing Corporation
Social housing.
NB: Password required for housing circulars section - yes

Housing Quality Network
On behalf of its local authority and registered social landlord members, the HQN examines and evaluates measures which can lead to improvements to the performance, quality and value of housing services.

Housing Resource Guide
Links to a wide range of housing resources.

Housing Today
Weekly news and views on the housing sector

Inside Housing
The Chartered Institute of Housing's weekly organ offering news on the housing sector. Like the printed version, very good for job advertisements. Circulated to all members of the CIH and to local government, housing associations, voluntary organisations and the private sector involved with social housing.

Local Government Association
An organisation representing local authorities in England and Wales.

Local Government Management Network
Comprehensive site describing the work and services of the LGMB.

National Housing Federation
Current information on social housing with press releases. Excellent links to Government and Government Agencies and Local Authorities.

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.

Parliamentary Publications
Statutory Instruments. Standing Committies. Public Bills. Weekly information bulletin. Hansard. Acts of Parliament.

Roof Magazine
Britians most influential housing magazine.

Sociological Research Online
Ejournal and links to important internet sources.

US Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD SER is the primary source for Federal Government reports and information on housing policy and programs, urban planning and other housing topics.