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BCIS (Building Cost Information Service)
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Description
The BCIS Online database contains elemental cost analyses for over 17,500 projects across the UK - information you will find indispensable when preparing cost plans, providing early cost advice to clients and benchmarking costs. Location and time-adjustment factors within the cost database allow you to use the data in a flexible way to suit your individual project needs. Includes access to data from the following BCIS online products:
- BCIS Online (including Building Maintenance Indices)
- BCIS Review Online
- BCIS Housing Online
- BCIS Building Running Costs Online
- The Duration Calculator
- The Dayworks Updating Service
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Publisher
BCIS
BCIS Online Rates Database
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Description
Online price book data from BCIS for estimating the costs of construction projects, including: building maintenance, alterations & refurbishment, civil engineering, major & minor works, painting & decorating, SMM7 and basic plant charges.
Coverage
Updated annually, this resource allows you to benchmark against 18,500 separate supply prices of which there are over 9,000 material costs and over 8,000 specialist prices collected from independent suppliers.
Publisher
BCIS
Berg Fashion Library *
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The Berg Fashion Library is a unique new online portal which offers users fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Bess of Hardwick's Letters
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Description
Letters to and from Bess of Hardwick between the years 1550 and 1607. It includes: correspondence, images, and commentaries that provide an overview of her life.
Coverage
1550 - 1607
Publisher
University of Glasgow
Bibliography of British and Irish History
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The Bibliography of British and Irish History is a database covering British and Irish history and relations with the empire and Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present. Compiled in collaboration with the Royal Historical Society and the Institue of History, this resource comprises nearly 500,000 entries from over 600 journals.
Publisher
Brepolis
BioMed Central *
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Description
BioMed Central is an independent publisher committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. This is a collection of 186 full-text journals in biology and medicine.
Publisher
BioMed Central
Blackstone's Criminal Practice (via LexisLibrary)
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Description
An annual publication from Oxford University Press which covers all areas of criminal law and is divided into 6 different subject areas.
Help available from within the site
Coverage
Full text. Updated regularly.
Publisher
LNUK
Blackstone’s Police Manuals
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NOTE: UWE only provides access to the Blackstone’s Police Manuals and not to Blackstone’s Police Investigators’ Manuals or Workbooks.
Blackstone’s Police Manuals Online provides access to the complete Blackstone’s texts for policing students. It is the only study guide endorsed by the College of Policing and offers in depth, cross-referenced information on all subject areas required for police examinations. Topics covered include Crime, Evidence and Procedure, and Road Policing, as well as consolidated tables of cases and statutes. Six PACE code of practice chapters are also included, presenting legislation alongside helpful keynotes.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Bloomsbury Architecture Library *
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Bloomsbury Architecture Library features over 40 eBooks on topics ranging from architecture and architectural history, to theory, design, urbanism, landscape, and interiors.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Hart *
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Description
This is an e-book selected collection which you can browse, read on screen, or download. Titles we own are accessible via the library search as well as being searchable within the database.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Hart
BMJ Learning
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- You will need to create an individual account when using BMJ Learning for the first time
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- There are 16 modules restricted to BMA LNC representatives
Description
BMJ Learning is a learning website for medical professionals offering a wide range of resources commissioned by the BMJ Group. These are evidence based, dealing with everyday issues in primary care and hospital medicine. There are currently over 300 modules.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
BNF
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Description
Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines
Publisher
Medicines Complete
BNF for children
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Description
Up-to-date information on prescibing, dispensing, and administering medicine for children.
Publisher
Medicines Complete
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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- Due to copyright restrictions, you need to be physically located in the United Kingdom to use Box of Broadcasts.
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Description
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ license. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels.
Publisher
BUFVC - British Universties Film Video Council.
Bridgeman Art Library Archive
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Images from over 8,000 collections and 29,000 artists selected from the Bridgeman Archive which showcases museums, galleries and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of art images.
Publisher
Bridgeman
Brill Journal Archive *
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Description
Provides access to over 50,000 articles to more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.
Note: Help available within the site
Coverage
Covers biology, humanities, human rights, international law, science and the social sciences.
Publisher
Brill publishing
Bristol Historical Resource
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Description
This is the online version of the Bristol Historical Resources CD-ROM, Created in 2000 by the UWE Regional History Centre.
Please note that the 'Resources' section is only available on the Bristol Historical Resources CD-ROM. This includes the New Bristol Historical Bibliography and the data sets from the Bristol Historical Databases Project.
Coverage
Contains 36 chapters covering aspects of Bristol's history, with topics covering methodology, building, places and people, economic history, health and social welfare, law and crime, and politics.
Publisher
Regional History Centre, UWE
British Cartoon Archive
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Description
The British Cartoon Archive contains more than 125,000 cartoons, fully-catalogued, searchable, and available to view online. The Giles Collection comprises 15,000 cartoon images, with some 5,000 pages of related paperwork, covering British political and social history. This part of the Archive is available to use free of charge for educational purposes.
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Publisher
University of Kent
British Education Index
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- This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text. You can find out if the full text is available by using the library search or by clicking the ‘check for full text’ links in the database
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The British Education Index covers research, policy, and
practice in education and training in the UK, with particular
strengths in evaluation and assessment, technology, and SEN.
Sources include journal articles, books, reports, series, and
conference papers.
Coverage
Over 300 education and training journals from 1975 onwards.
Publisher
EBSCO
British History Online
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Description
British History Online is the digital library of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and early modern history of Britain. More than 500 volumes are available, including: Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords, the Victorian County History of the Counties of England, Guides and Calendars, Gazetteers and dictionaries, and historic maps from the Ordnance Survey.
Publisher
Institute of Historical Research
British Humanities Index
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Description
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts. The British Humanities Index indexes over 370 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines, as well as quality newspapers published in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other English-speaking countries.
Coverage
Coverage from 1962 onwards.
Publisher
ProQuest
British Library Sounds
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Description
Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
Publisher
British Library
British National Corpus (BNC)
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- This database is only available from one PC on Level 3 of Frenchay Library. Booking is essential and can be made at the Level 2 Enquiry Desk.
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Description
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million-word
collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide
range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of
current British English, both spoken and written. This database is
only available from one PC on Level 3 of the Frenchay
Library.
Guides
- BNC website
- For further information and help contact the Subject Librarian for languages and linguistics
Publisher
University of Oxford
British Nursing Database*
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Description
The British Nursing Database is a full text UK nursing and midwifery database, covering over 300 UK journals and other English language titles, including core international nursing, midwifery and selective content from medical, allied health and management titles.
Coverage
1993 Onwards
Publisher
ProQuest
British Periodicals Collections I and II *
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Description
Almost 500 British periodical runs from the 1680s to the 1930s,
based on the UMI Microfilm Collection, 'Early British Periodicals'.
Multidisciplinary coverage includes literature, philosophy,
history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences, music,
drama, archaeology and architecture.
Guides
Publisher
Chadwyck-Healey (ProQuest)
British Printed Images to 1700
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Description
British Printed Images to 1700 is a digital library of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain.
Coverage
1540 - 1800
Publisher
University of London
British Union of Fascists : newspapers and secret files
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Description
Contains the three principal organs of the British Union of Fascists: Action (1936-1940), Blackshirt (1933-1939) and Fascist week (1933-1934). In addition to this, the present collection reproduces, from the National Archives at Kew, a wealth of information gathered by the Home Office, the Police, MI5 and the Cabinet Office on Sir Oswald Mosley and also his second wife, Lady Diana Mosley
Publisher
Microform Academic Publishers
BSOL (British Standards Online) *
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Description
British Standards Online (BSOL) is the British Standards Institute's flagship database of standards. Used by professionals around the world, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of British, and adopted European and international, standards.
Publisher
BSI
Building.co.uk
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Description
Established in 1843, Building is a weekly magazine covering the
breadth of the built environment, including news, analysis, case
studies, careers and regulations.
Key sectors covered include:
- Housing
- Commercial
- Public
- Regeneration
- Sustainability
- Legal
- Offices
- Industrial
- Education & Healthcare
- Retail
Coverage
1997 to present
Publisher
United Business Media International
Building Design Online
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Description
"Building Design Online complements the weekly print magazine by offering the latest news, analysis, buildings and hard industry data as well as unique video covering the architectural spectrum.
Includes access to BD Reviews, which focuses on projects, people, and products – covering the issues hitting the headlines in sectors such as public buildings, education and interiors."
Coverage
1999 to present
Publisher
United Business Media International
Building Types Online
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Description
This architectural design resource offers detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser collection of building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design. It contains a large international collection of contemporary buildings, eg housing, office buildings, museums, schools, libraries, industrial complexes, including 850 international case studies from the past 30 years, more than 120 thematic articles on specific aspects of building design, approx. 1,800 photos and approx. 3,500 technical plans. Updated annually.
Publisher
Birkhauser
Business Source Complete *
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- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
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Description
Covers UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health. Provides full-text journal articles; market, company & industry sector reports; and country intelligence.
Coverage
Please note that UWE Bristol holds an extended license for Harvard Business Review and the 'Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions' that appears at the bottom of Harvard Business Review articles in Business Sources Complete does not apply.
Guides
- EBSCOhost research databases tutorial
- EBSCOhost playlist on EBSCO Support Tutorials YouTube channel, including additional videos tutorials on advanced searching, journal alerts, search history, my EBSCOhost folder, and creating a search alert.
Publisher
EBSCO
Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service
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Description
Covers all aspects of personal injury law and litigation.
Publisher
Lexis Nexis