Databases: geography, geology, environment and sustainability

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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.
Database is not included in the main library search
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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.

British Humanities Index

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Access restrictions

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

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

Digimap

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

Digimap is a collection of services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain. The map data can be downloaded to use with GIS or CAD software.

There are 9 Digimap services:

Ordnance Survey Collection: a full range of current topographic Ordnance Survey maps.
Historic Digimap: historic Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1843 to 1996.
Geology Digimap: contemporary British Geological Survey map data. 1:50,000, 1:250,000 and 1:625,000 scales available in ESRI and MapInfo formats, plus information from the Lexicon of Named Rock Units.
Marine Digimap: offers two types of data, raster nautical charts derived from UK Hydrographic Office paper charts and chart panels and Marine Themes vector data covering all UK waters derived from material obtained from the UK Hydrographic Offices.
Environment Digimap: easy access to Land Cover data from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
Aerial Digimap: provides high resolution (25cm) vertical aerial imagery data of Great Britain from Getmapping.
Lidar Digimap: offers detailed Lidar data from the Environment Agency through a convenient, on-demand web interface. It also offers vertical aerial photography.
Global Digimap: is a new service in development and provides access to global datasets in cartographic styles and downloadable formats (available as a trial until 31 July).
Society Digimap: is a new service in development. Explore a range of demographic data using the mapping facility, Society Roam. A full data download application is under development, which will offer the ability to download both the census data and the corresponding boundaries together (available as a trial until 31 July).

Note: users must register with Digimap.

Guides

The Digimap resource centre provides support for all Digimap services, including guidance on downloading data for GIS, CAD, and on annotating maps. There is also an instant chat-enquiry service.
Like learning from videos? Visit the Digimap YouTube channel.

Licence and terms of use

Digimap is for educational use only, eg learning, teaching and research purposes.

The publisher does not allow UWE Bristol students based at UK and international partner institutions (and the staff that support them) to access this database
End-user licence agreement: licence for the use of Ordnance Survey mapping data.
End-user licence FAQs: questions and answers about what you can and cannot do with Digimap's maps and data.

Publisher

Edina

ENDS Report *

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Database is included in the main library search
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Description

The ENDS Report gives you access to environmental intelligence for professionals; delivering news, analysis, and reference across the carbon, environmental, and sustainability agenda.

Guides

ENDS Report user guide

Publisher

Haymarket

Environmental Management

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

UK legislation and guidance documents from over 100 issuing bodies.

Guides

Environmental Management tutorial

Publisher

IHS Technical Indexes

GreenFILE *

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More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
Staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
UWE Alumni Bristol cannot access this database

Description

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Coverage

Covers 1973 and beyond to the present.

Publisher

EBSCO

Historic England (formerly English Heritage)

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Database is not included in the main library search
Anyone can access this database

Description

Historic England carries out ground-breaking research on a wide range of subjects from archaeomagnetic dating to animal remains and building investigation to electrical imaging. The series also includes reports commissioned by Historic England but carried out by external organisations. Some of the reports are interim and the opinions expressed in the reports are the author’s and not necessarily those of Historic England.

Coverage

2006 onwards

Guides

Find out more about the Historic England, including information about recently published reports and the pre-2006 report series, on the Historic England website
Note: If browsing, use the keyword drop-down menu to select area of interest

Publisher

Historic England

IJ Global

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

IJ Global is an online intelligence service that includes news, insight and analysis on all aspects of global infrastructure finance, covering the transport, oil & gas/renewables/power, social & defence sectors. It includes a searchable database of project finance data, league tables and important market reports.

Publisher

IJ Global

InformationBridge *

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Database is included in the main library search
Anyone can access this database

Description

InformationBridge provides free public access to over 313,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 onwards and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format.

Coverage

InformationBridge provides free public access to over 313,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.

Publisher

Department of Education Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Knovel *

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Database is included in the main library search
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Description

Covering a wide range of engineering, transportation, and sustainability topics, Knovel contains over 3,000 electronic books, as well as interactive graphs and equations which allow users to accurately plot points, test ranges for 'what-if' scenarios, and solve real-world problems from tables and charts in references that would otherwise be static images on the page.

Search hints

All searches are done as keyword searches.

Publisher

Knovel Corp.

Landmap

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

The Landmap service provides UK academia with a high quality spatial data download service which is enhanced and supported by a range of learning material.

Landmap is no longer being updated. The material presented via this resource should be considered as archival.

Publisher

Mimas

LexisLibrary

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Database is not included in the main library search
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International and News sources are not available via the above link. To access this content, please use the Lexis Library International and Lexis Library News database records

Description

Covers UK legal materials including cases, legislation, journal articles, and practitioner texts.

Note: Mac users may have problems using LexisLibrary with the Safari browser. Updating to Safari 3.1 (via 'Software Update') should fix this. Alternatively use another browser such as Mozilla Firefox.

Certification and student associate

The Lexis Online Research Certification Scheme allows users to gain a nationally recognised online certificate.

Eve Jenkins is the current LexisLibrary Student Associate. Eve can help you with any training needs or difficulties that you might experience using LexisLibrary. Email Eve.

Coverage

Full text coverage of legislation in force, and case law. LexisLibrary also includes the full text of Halsbury's Laws of England; Atkin's Court Forms; Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, plus other practitioner works in full text. Practice areas include: Tax and Accountancy; Employment; Family; Personal Injury; Property. Subject areas: UK and International Cases; UK and International Legislation.

Guides

Publisher

LexisNexis

LexisLibrary International

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.

Coverage

A range of European language titles are covered; other worldwide sources are English language.

Please note the latest month of The Financial Times is not available on Nexis. Please use the Library's print copy instead.

Guides

Publisher

Lexis Nexis Butterworths

PANGAEA *

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Database is included in the main library search
Anyone can access this database

Description

The information system PANGAEA is operated as an open-access library aimed at archiving, publishing, and distributing geo-referenced data from earth system research. Most of the data is freely available and can be used under the terms of the license mentioned on the data set description.

Publisher

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM)

Passport

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

A business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It has a global perspective, with researchers working in 200 countries. Information includes full-text market reports, country reports, statistics, news and analysis.

Our subscription to Passport also includes access to Passport: Industrial, a database covering global production and supply chains, which provides an overview of the business-to-business marketplace. Find ‘Industrial’ as an option under the ‘Economies’ tab in the menu at the top of the Passport homepage.

Passport: Industrial provides economic data and analysis for the economies of 68 countries, covering 177 industries. There are detailed statistics, forecasts and industry reports for 18 core countries (including the UK) and key statistics for a further 50 countries, with extensive information about production, imports and exports and market sizes. Historic data goes back 15 years.

Coverage

Information includes full-text market reports, country reports, statistics, news and analysis.

Guides

Guides, including a video on ‘Getting started with Passport’ can be accessed from the Passport Help page.
Brochure for Passport: Industrial.

Publisher

Euromonitor International

Practical Law

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Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

Practical Law delivers online legal know-how . It includes the following materials:

Practice notes - concise explanations covering core transactions and background law
Standard documents and drafting notes
Current awareness which explains the practical implications of key developments. Our subscription includes access to the modules PLC Corporate, PLC Cross Border and PLC Finance.

Note: Please note that UWE Bristol does not subscribe to all Practical Law modules

Publisher

Practical Law Company

SAGE Research Methods *

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Database is included in the main library search
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Description

SRM (Sage Research Methods) is a web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects. SRM links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method. SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.

Publisher

Sage

ScienceDirect *

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Access restrictions

Database is included in the main library search
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Description

Access provided to over 1,000 electronic journals with abstracts from several hundred further titles.

Coverage

As well as the sciences, coverage includes business, economics and social sciences. Full text available from 1996 onwards.

Guides

ScienceDirect user guides

Publisher

Reed Elsevier

Scopus *

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Database is included in the main library search
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Description

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-review literature, including books, conference proceedings and journals, covering the following fields of research: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Coverage

Over 66 million records

Guides

Scopus tutorial

Publisher

Elsevier

Sustainable Organization Library *

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Database is included in the main library search
Students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database

Users are required to register with http://www.census.ac.uk for permission to download and use datasets from UKBORDERS.

Guides

Assistance with using UKBORDERS should be sought from Paul Satchell, FET IT Support Officer, x83917

Publisher

Edina

Westlaw UK

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Access restrictions

Database is not included in the main library search
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Description

Full-text access to current and historic UK, European Union and worldwide case reports and legislation. Also gives access to the Legal Journals Index, some full text law journals, and many law electronic books.

Certification

The Westlaw UK Certification Training allows users to gain a nationally recognised online certificate.

The Westlaw Student representative at UWE Bristol is Anita Dangova. Email Anita Dangova.

Anita can advise on certification and runs drop-in sessions for students and staff on the use of Westlaw products.

Coverage

Subject areas: UK, EU, and International Cases; UK, EU, and International Legislation. Includes full text of various practitioner texts including: Chitty on Contracts; Clerk and Lindsell on Torts; Civil Procedure (White Book).

Guides

Publisher

Sweet & Maxwell