Construction Information Service

Publications from industry and government organisations including BRE, BSRIA, CIOB, CIBSE, CIRIA, Highways Agency and Transport Research Laboratory.

Please note that when accessing this resource as part of authentication your University email address is shared with the supplier.

Our subscription does not include British Standards. Please see the British Standards (BSOL) entry listed further down the page for information about access and downloading documents.

 

Emerald Insight

This resource includes journals and books relevant to a range of subject areas, including accounting and finance, management, marketing, education, information studies, built environment and engineering. You can also search for case studies.

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Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library

Publications from the Institution of Civil Engineers on buildings and structures, coastal and offshore engineering, development, planning and urban engineering, energy, geotechnical engineering, health and safety, law and contracts, leadership and management, transportation, water engineering and wastewater management.

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Lexis Library+ (formerly Lexis Library)

Provides access to UK legislation, case law documents, commentary, forms and precedents.

Guide to migrating to the new platform (Lexis Library+) for those wishing to transfer user data such as Alerts, Saved Searches, and Bookshelf Sources.

 

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Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: academic journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus is a comprehensive resource covering chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences, psychology, business and economics; arts and humanities and biological and environmental sciences. It also includes the Geobase database.

New version available.

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LexisLibrary Construction

LexisLibrary Construction includes leading sources of primary law, consolidated legislation, key commentary and journals.

To log in please click on Use Academic Sign-in (top left of screen) then click on view all institutions and select Loughborough University from the list.  If you are on campus or using VPN you will probably be auto-commected, otherwise it will take you to Loughborough University's standard sign-in page where you login with your University username and password.

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Westlaw UK

Westlaw UK is an ever-growing and easily searchable source of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal matters.

Nb. To access Westlaw resources through the Loughborough University subscription you must register using your University email address.

 

Digimap

An online map and data delivery service which offers a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, LiDAR and marine maps and spatial data.

Click on login and enter Loughborough as the institution you would like to sign in with. Choose Loughborough University from the list NOT Loughborough University (ATHENS).  You will be asked to complete a registration form the first time you use this service.

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British Standards (BSOL)

A standard is an agreed way of doing something e.g.making a product, managing a process or delivering a service. Our subscription covers BS standards and BS EN ISO standards.

To log in please click on the Institutional login link, select Loughborough University from the list and log in with your usual University credentials. Please note BSOL documents can only be opened with a plug-in installed on your device (File Open). The File Open plug-in has been installed on University lab machines and is available via the Software Centre to those using the University’s managed desktop service. To download it onto your own device the BSI have provided this guide  Please be aware that the FileOpen plug-in does not support opening encrypted PDFs in-browser. In order to view the PDF, it must be opened in Adobe PDF viewer, FileOpen viewer, or similar PDF viewer applications. Please see section 3 of the guide for further information.

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Business Source Ultimate

Full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals including articles, case studies, trade magazines, industry and market research reports. This database covers all disciplines of business including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.

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BCIS - Independent data for the built environment

BCIS is a toolkit and construction cost dataset for the costing of capital expenditure during the appraisal, design, and construction phases of building projects. It can also be used at the end-of-life phase.

Request access using this link the first time you use this database: https://subscriptions.bcis.co.uk/institutions/loughboroughuniversity/self-invite Register with your university email address. You will need to confirm your email address and set a password to login. Contact K.Ayinla@lboro.ac.uk for assistance if needed.