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Construction contracts, building regulations, legislation

British Standards Online (BSOL) This link opens in a new window
Contains over 60,000 British, European, and adopted international standards
HudHelp: Guidance for accessing Standards in British Standards Online (BSOL)
Construction Information Service This link opens in a new window
Building regulations, legislation, technical reports, and sustainability issues - search for JCT contracts
Lexis+ Practical Guidance This link opens in a new window
Use the Construction section on Lexis Practical Guidance to access standard form construction contracts including JCT and NEC contracts

Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) This link opens in a new window
A tool to help prepare cost plans, provide early cost advice to clients and benchmark costs for both commercial and residential buildings.

Architectural Periodicals Index
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) library catalogue. Provides bibliographic references to journal articles, books, and technical reports.
Does not include full-text access.

Art, Design and Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts, including architecture, interior design, contemporary art, and photography.
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- Art, Design and Architecture Collection search samples
Scopus This link opens in a new window
A large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature from more than 18,500 journals.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
A leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books.
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Digimap This link opens in a new window
Digimap delivers Ordnance Survey maps and geospatial data, available either via download facilities for use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. The mapping tool (Roam) allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales as well as enabling the user to specify a map scale, area and content.
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Art UK
Art from over 3,000 UK public art collections. Search by artwork, artist or subject.
Europeana
The mage collection on Europeana comes from galleries, libraries, archives and museums from all over Europe. Collections include art and fashion.
The National Gallery
Search or browse the National Gallery collection of more than 2,600 paintings.
V&A Search the Collections
V&A Search the Collections features objects and images from the V&A's collections.

Non-commercial use of content downloaded from the V&A Search the Collections site is allowed

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