e-Library

• IHS Information Services (containing the Construction Information Service (CIS) including technical guidance, standards legislation, research reports and e-books)

Specialist resources for the built environment (that include professional bodies):

• Chartered Institute of Building catalogue, and the following subscription services:
• ISURV – the online information service and containing published material from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• RICS’ Building Cost Information Service – an online database containing elemental cost analyses for over 20,000 projects across the UK
• Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) – a test, instrumentation, research and consultancy organisation, providing specialist services in construction and building services
• DELTA T – the quarterly digital journal of BSRIA
• NEC Academia – a series of tools and support covering the new engineering contract
• Property Week – the leading news magazine in the commercial property market
• EGi (Estates Gazette Interactive) – providing access to comprehensive, independently research property data, coverage and interpretation on recent changes in property law, and breaking property news
• Estates Gazette – digital journal

• EBSCO Business Source Premier database (containing academic journals, newspapers, magazines, trade publications and product reviews)
• Emerald Insight database (containing academic journals. Note: UCEM students have access to around 150 e-journals and the entire ‘property management and built environment’ specialist collection (current and archived backfiles). In addition to this, staff and students also have access to the latest ‘emerging markets case study’ collection and around 2,600 e-book titles.
• Taylor&Francis Online (containing high quality, rigorously peer-reviewed academic journals and open access research across all disciplines). UCEM subscribes to three key academic journals; ‘construction management and economics’, ‘building research and information’ and ‘journal of property research’.
• Ingenta Connect (containing scholarly publications). Note: UCEM subscribes to the full ‘business and management’ collection of Henry Stewart Publications (HSP) via this platform, including ‘Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal and Valuation’, ‘Corporate Real Estate’, ‘Urban Regeneration and Renewal’ and more. (6) HSP also has a companion website, HSTalks, accessed through OpenAthens and containing multimedia resources surrounding business and management and supporting the e-journal collection.

In addition to the Construction Information Service and Emerald Insight 

• VLeBooks contains reference e-books, and within our:

Specialist legal resources:

• Westlaw EDGE UK contains a library of legal information that include case law, journal articles, current awareness and e-books.
• vLex Justis (containing an online legal research platform that helps you find leading authorities and establish the current status of the law)

In addition to these valuable library subscription services, please note that there are further databases within the e-Library to help you find information easily. Further guidance is provided within each section. These databases/directories include:

• (a) e-journal (section 3)
• (b) e-book directories (section 4)
• (c) UCEM study papers (section 7)
• (d) UCEM dissertation library (section 8), where there is also access to the:
• British Library: EThOS – e-thesis online service. Gain free access to the full text of over 500,000 theses online for use by all researchers to further their own research
• Section 9 contains a database of useful weblinks to e-resources and is used to help collate the articles and shape the production of the e-Library monthly current awareness service, Knowledge Foundations (accessed through section 6 of the VLE e-Library). This service also contains an A-Z guide (circa 15-pages) to useful references and web-links.

Industry information sources:

There are further information and industry sources (via section 5) of the VLE e-Library, including:

• Open educational resources and openly licensed material containing access to 12 useful databases of further resources (including access to books, journals and research)
• Open University (UK) catalogues
• JSTOR open access content – a digital library for scholars, researchers and students
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) e-Library – simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools.
• LinkedIn Learning – using LinkedIn skills and jobs data to identify emerging trends, high-quality courses are created covering the following areas: business, analysis and strategy, business software and tools, career and professional development, finance and accounting, human resources, leadership and management, marketing, project management, sales, small business and entrepreneurship, and education and training.