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If you know the title of the online (electronic) journal you want, use:
You can also search Discover to see if we have a journal in print:
If you are a final year undergraduate, a postgraduate student or member of academic staff, and require access to a book or journal article which we do not have in stock, we can obtain it for you as an interlibrary loan.
You can request this service using Discover.
Journals (also known as periodicals, serials or magazines) are published on a regular basis and cover a particular subject or profession. Because they are published frequently, they are an excellent source of up-to-date information and are usually the first place new research is published.
Each journal issue contains a number of articles, written by different authors, all of which will relate to the subject covered by the journal. Different types of journals are published, these include:
Journals often contain more specialised information than books, so you will use them as your academic interests develop, and they are useful for reading about more niche or specific topics.
You can find most Journal articles by searching on Discover, see below.
Some resources, in particular law, are not searchable on Discover, so you may also want to search separately on the databases below.
Please note you will need to download File Open to be able to download the full standards. Rather than download, you can view the document by clicking on 'Quick View' but please note it isn't always the full version.
This is the database for all publications from the British Standards Institute (BSI). It includes current, historic, and draft British Standards; BSI adopted European and international standards; technical handbooks; codes of practice; guidelines; and specifications for products, dimensions, performance, and glossaries.
Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Full text coverage in all disciplines of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily.
Holds content on health and safety toolbox talks, case studies, industry news and research.
Please note: we do not have access to all publications – if you require full text CIRIA publications we advise using the Construction Information Service database to find these.
Comprehensive source of technical information standards and legislation for construction industry professionals. Includes Building Regulations Approved Documents, Codes of Practice, Specimen Contract Documents, Architects' Journal and the SCI Blue Book.
Please note, for British Standards please search the British Standards Online database.
A collection of databases/services that provide maps and map data of Great Britain. Data is available either to download, to use with appropriate software such as geographical information systems (GIS) or computer-aided design (CAD), or as online maps. Leeds Beckett does not subscribe to all of the Digimap databases/services. Our subscription gives you access to:
Please note Digimap can only be accessed within the United Kingdom.
Contains articles from 103 management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994. Emerald eBook series brings together two collection of over 1,600 titles which focus on two different areas. Business, Management & Economics and Social Sciences.
Leeds Beckett staff and students have access to the entire eBook collection within the Virtual Library, in addition to full text journal archive content between 1836 and 2001. Once you have logged into the database you can chose to limit your search to full text (years 1836-2001) by selecting the options available in Advanced search.
This resource is not just relevant to Civil Engineers but also to anyone researching architecture, building and the built environment, land management, property management, urban design, planning, transport and urban design. The journal archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the ICE between 1836 and 2001.
Provides access to: Construction Information Service (CIS); Environmental Management and Specify-it (via Knowledge Workspace)
Large legal database containing UK, EU and international case law, legislation (up-to-date, amended versions), legal journals, commentary texts, current awareness, and news. Very good range of practitioner texts in the Commentary section including Butterworths Company Law Handbook and Butterworths Family Law Service. Includes All England Law Reports, Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, and Halsbury's Laws.
Contains a homepage for each practice area (Company Commercial, Property and Dispute Resolution) holding essential resources chosen and compiled by an expert team of solicitors and barristers. LexisPSL provides KnowHow, primary law, precedents, forms and excerpts from authoritative Butterworths commentary. Additionally, links to Lexis Library take you directly to a broader range of relevant legal resources.
This database provides up-to-date information on companies, industries and countries across the world.
A database of market research reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets. You can search for relevant publications by market category. Please note Mintel has a 200 concurrent user license.
Sources on property law within Lexis Library.
Provides coverage of real estate intelligence from across the United Kingdom. The database enables users to analyse deal and availability data, generate major cost and efficiency savings and aiming to create a timely, and complete view of the UK real estate industry.
Statistics portal, allowing you to access a wide variety of statistics, and download them as images, Powerpoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets. Includes comprehensive support information, allowing you to fully get to grips with the data and place it in context.
Large legal database containing UK and EU case law, legislation (up to date revised versions), legal journals, commentary texts such as Civil Procedure (the White Book) and Law Reports such as ICLR Law Reports and Weekly Law Reports. The current awareness section is useful for keeping up-to-date. Also links to Westlaw International for access to all Westlaw content outside of the UK and Europe. The News section is not included in our subscription.
Statistics portal, allowing you to access a wide variety of statistics, and download them as images, Powerpoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets. Includes comprehensive support information, allowing you to fully get to grips with the data and place it in context.
A patent protects new inventions and covers how things work, what they do, how they do it, what they are made of and how they are made. If a patent application is granted, it gives the owner the ability to take a legal action under civil law to try to stop others from making, using, importing or selling the invention without permission. Patents can give valuable technical information.
BSI Education explains what a British Standard is, how they are developed, and how to find information about relevant standards.
Intellectual Property Office Ipsum - Online Patent Information and Document Inspection Service this is a UK Patent Office resource which allows you to check the status of UK patents/patent applications.
GB Esp@cenet covers all GB applications published by the Intellectual Property Office under the Patents Act 1977, plus GB patents granted by the Intellectual Property Office since June 2002. The GB database is one of a number of databases available through esp@cenet through which patents from Europe and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), and information about patents worldwide, are available.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) produces the Patent Full-Text and Full- Page Image Database. Coverage is from 1790 onwards for issued US Patents, full-text from 1976 onwards. Google Patents also searches information from the USPTO.
Other search services include Patents.com, FreePatentsOnline search service and IAMIP WIKI.
Patent Pal makes available a toolbar containing over 30 unique patent related searches and other features. You can download this toolbar to your browser.
