Full text (free)

BCSA
All the BCSA's publications including the Handbook of structural steelwork and national structural steelwork specification for building construction and the Historical structural steelwork handbook can be viewed in their entirety (but not printed off)

Building regulations approved documents
All the current Documents

Digital bridges
Scanned full-text reproductions of thirty nineteenth century books and reports on bridges held at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and publications on bridges

Electronic journal of structural engineering
The only electronic-only journal on the subject the Institution is aware of. One volume has been produced annually since 2001.

Highways Agency
The design manual for roads and bridges (BAs, BDs etc), manual of contract documents for highway works (including the specification for highway works) and interim advice notes are all now available.

Modern Steel Construction
The American Institute of Steel Construction's journal.

Network Rail Standards
The railway group standards. Full text of the current, formerly British Rail, standards.

NIST World Trade Center Report
Draft federal report.

Safety in Design (SiD)
The SiD design guides can all be downloaded.

The Structural Engineer online archive
Full text access to Institution members and journal subscribers back to the first volume of 1923.

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Full text (subscription based)

Barbour product search
A product-led, image rich, online directory from the people who bring you the Barbour Compendium. Offering a specifier-friendly and accessible platform for architects, contractors and other specifiers within the construction community.

British standards online
The BSI catalogue can be freely searched here but a subscription is required for access to the full text

The Construction Information Service - index only
Database of bibliographic records for more than 22,000 construction documents. It can identify the current versions of regulations and construction standards, and highlight supporting material.

Construction Plus
Emap's web-based construction information service from it's 10 construction magazines, including NCE, AJ and Construction News and the Emap Glenigan market information service.

ENGnetBASE
Searches the full text of the engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Also available as part of the Engineering Village 2 package.

ICE virtual library
Full text access to the ICE proceedings back to the first volumes of 1836. Access is by pay-per-view or subscription.

Knovel
Access to a selection of e-books, arranged in subject categories.

SteelBiz
The SCI's subscription based online information service, offering online access to SCI and other steel related publishers publications.

Taylor & Francis
Owner of Spon Press and Routledge, amongst others. Offers various subscription packages and individual ebook purchases for most of their titles published since 2000

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Legislation

Acts of Parliament
All public Acts back to 1988 and local Acts back to 1991

European Parliament
Not always the easiest material to find but this has all the directives etc and the Official Journal back to 1998.

Statutory Instruments
Statutory Instruments back to 1987 and draft Statutory Instruments back to 1997

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Standards/Eurocodes

BSI Catalogue

Eurocodes [BSI pages]

Eurocodes expert

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Photos/images

Construction photography
Images can be uploaded and downloaded with fees and licenses applicable.

ICE image gallery
Primarily images from the ICE Archives and the British Construction Industry Awards. Sold as prints, slides or digital images

IMechE picture gallery
Images from the IMechE Archives. Sold as prints or digital images.

Mary Evans picture library
A leading commercial photo library

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Product literature

Barbour product search
A product-led, image rich, online directory from the people who bring you the Barbour Compendium. Offering a specifier-friendly and accessible platform for architects, contractors and other specifiers within the construction community.

Specify-it
Freely searchable to locate products and suppliers with catalogues and literature downloadable to subscribers

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Bibliographic databases

ACI abstracts
Search ACI journal and conference papers back to 1929

ASCE database
Search ASCE journal and conference papers back to 1970

British library direct
Launched this year, a free searchable current contents service, covering the contents of each issue of the main journals held by the British Library.

Compendex
Bibliographic database available via Dialog or via Engineering Village 2. Compendex is the database version of the printed Engineering Index which began in 1884. The whole database back to that date is now available as a separate one-off archive purchase.

Engineering Village 2
An Elsevier service, offering access to the COMPENDEX and ENGnetBASE databases

Google Scholar
Google's attempt to enter the academic journal article searching market. Searches websites as well as publishers' sites so searching is not as effective as the commercial databases, although it is free.

Quakeline
Free earthquake engineering database, run by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at the University of Buffalo

Scirus
A free database from Elsevier which searches all its own journals (and selected websites). Full text access is then available if you have online access to that journal or by pay-per-view.

Scopus
A major new product from Elsevier. Similar to Web of Science, offering extensive database searching across all journals by publishers in the CrossRef scheme. CrossRef is a consortium the major publishers who have developed a scheme whereby each individual paper, once available electronically, is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) enabling papers referenced in one paper to be hyperlinked to directly.

Swedish Geotechnical Institute Database
An excellent free geotechnical resource.

Web of science
Offered by ISI/Thomson, databases include Science Citation Index and Current Contents, all with hyperlinked referencing via CrossRef (see Scopus). ISI runs the impact factor rating system for journals which is given particular importance in the world of academia.

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Bookshops

AddAll Books
Second hand books

SCI Bookshop

Thomas Telford Bookshop

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Libraries

British library catalogue

ICE library catalogue

IMechE library catalogue

Imperial College & Science Museum library catalogues

RIBA library catalogue

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Archives/Records

Access to archives
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day

ARCHON directory
Directory of archive repositories in the UK and overseas with material included in the National Register of Archives

Companies House
Useful for checking company name changes etc

National Archives
Formerly the Public Record Office

National Register of Archives

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Portals

EEVL/EEVL Xtra
A portal for web-based engineering information. Initially set up as an engineering gateway in 1996, its coverage was extended to mathematics and computing in 2001. Has a search facility for freely available full-text ejournals

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