Environmental and Energy Engineering

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Michael Veitch

**Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:**
Katherine Dike	020 7815 6605
email:	LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

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Core E-resources
Background E-resources
E-Books
Selected Websites for this area

Core E-resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

OnePetro (SPE's ELibrary) [electronic resource]. The eLibrary is a repository of the technical papers presented at SPE-sponsored conferences since the late 1950s and in SPE's technical journals since the early 1950s. Papers from the conferences of SPE's predecessor organization back to 1925 are also being added. The eLibrary currently offers access to more than 45,000 technical documents covering the evolution of technology in drilling, completion, exploration, production, facilities, reservoir simulation, formation evaluation, safety and environmental protection and risk management.

OnePetro (SPE's ELibrary) [electronic resource].
The eLibrary is a repository of the technical papers presented at SPE-sponsored conferences since the late 1950s and in SPE's technical journals since the early 1950s. Papers from the conferences of SPE's predecessor organization back to 1925 are also being added. The eLibrary currently offers access to more than 45,000 technical documents covering the evolution of technology in drilling, completion, exploration, production, facilities, reservoir simulation, formation evaluation, safety and environmental protection and risk management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Background E-resources

IEEE Xplore Digital Library [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of IEEE and IEE Journals & Conference Proceedings, as well as IEEE Standards, Transactions, Magazines and Letters. This comprises more than 4000 publication titles.

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).

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.

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.

E-Books

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.

Selected Websites for this area.

AEESP
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science professors. (US)
N.B. Linked page takes one minute to load

AIVC
The International Energy Centre - Air Infiltration & Ventilation Centre site, containing search facility, details of publications and conferences, news, etc.

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
The home page of ASHRAE, it is possible to get some of the journal feature articles in PDF format for issues after January 1999.

Audio Engineering Society
The "only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology", its site listing publications, sections of education, events, news, etc. Links to related sites via WWW Audio Index.

Building and Fire Research Laboratory (US)
The national US laboratory concerned with public safety, environmental life-cycles and environmental quality of constructed facilities, etc.

CADDET Energy Efficiency
CADDET Energy Efficiency collects, analyses and enhances the international exchange of impartial information on new, cost-effective, energy-saving technologies.

CIBSE
The home page of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers.

Greentie
IEA Greentie is "an internationsl information network that distributes details of suppliers whose technologues help to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions".

Home Energy Saver
A site developed by the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US). It is concerned with: energy conservation, energy savings, energy efficiency, environment, climate change, weatherisation, solar energy, etc., etc.