Civil and Structural Engineering

3D made easy [electronic resource].
3D made easy provides online tutorials to support learning and teaching of 3D modelling. Supporting up to six different software packages: Autodesk inventor, Revit architecture, AutoCAD, 3D studio max, SketchBook pro, and Google SketchUp.

ASCE Research Library [electronic resource].
The complete ASCE Journals Collection provides researchers and practitioners with the latest civil engineering research and its application. The collection's 31 journals cover every discipline within the profession, and form the most complete picture available of the civil engineering field today. The ASCE Journals Collection includes over 35,000 journal articles from 1990 to the present.

BCIS Online Rates Database [electronic resource].
Pricing and estimating information.

British Standards Online [electronic resource].
Database contains all current British Standards in full text. EN and ISO standards if adopted by British Standards appear in full text.

Boreholes Index [electronic resource].
The BGS British onshore borehole collections contain approximately 15 000 boreholes, most of which are stored at Keyworth.

Construction Website [electronic resource].
Includes:

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.

ICE Virtual Library [electronic resource].
The ICE's Virtual Library gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. ICE's archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day.

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.

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers dissertations accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of UK and Ireland, from 1716 to the present. Gives abstracts of theses published 1970 and onwards.

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.

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

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.

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.