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.
See our popular titles:
If you know the title of online (electronic) journals that you want, search the:
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 from the interlibrary loans box of the Library tab of MyBeckett.
Some resources, are not searchable on Discover, so you may also want to search separately on the databases listed below.
Please note you will need to download File Open to be able to download standards.
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 and some British Standards Including Eurocodes & Supporting Documents.
Please note, if the British Standard you want can't be found on Construction Information Service, you should 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.
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); Engineer-it; Environmental Management; LABC Type Approval; OHSIS Document Alert; Specify-it; Trading Standards Specialist (TSS).
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.
Sources on property law within Lexis Library.
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 Westlaw UK’s Journals section includes abstracts from the Legal Journals Index, vised versions), legal journals, commentary texts such as Civil Procedure (the White Book) and Law Reports such as ICLR Law Reports and Weekly Law Reports. 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.
Statista 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.
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Office for National Statistics
Census data You must first register; log in with your Leeds Beckett username and password (select Institutional login via UK Federation and then go to the Leeds Beckett University Log In page).
Eurostat Series of EU statistics publications.
World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum engages political, business, academic and other leaders of society in collaborative efforts to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
The Global Gender Gap Report Seeks to measure the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics.
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 WikiPatents.
Patent Pal makes available a toolbar containing over 30 unique patent related searches and other features. You can download this toolbar to your browser.
