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Here’s the latest pick and mix from the Internet Resouces Newsletter:

Plenty this month for transport engineers, focussing on initiatives to improve UK transport -

The Campaign for Better Transport  is a national body operating since 1973. Take a look at their informative site to view their ongoing campaigning and research initiatives.

For an advisory perspective on integrated transport policy, backed by independent research, try the website of the Commission for Integrated Transport: CfIT . As outlined on their website: ‘The Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) is an independent body advising the Government on integrated transport policy. CfIT takes a broad view of integrated transport policy and its interface with wider Government objectives for economic prosperity, environmental protection, health and social inclusion’.

The Confederation of Passenger Transport UK is ‘the government-recognised trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industries’ [website]. Its origins stem back to the first trade association of the transport industry formed around 1890.

Identifying appropriate policies for delivering sustainability in urban transport is the aim of KonSULT – the Knowledgebase on Sustainable Urban Land use and Transport. ‘KonSULT is designed to help policy makers, professionals and interest groups to understand the challenges of achieving sustainability in urban transport, and to identify appropriate policies. It has been developed with support from the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund’. [website]

Building Design announces itself as the ‘architects’ website’ and is packed with information. It features sections on sustainability, buildings, practice and a full archive of back issues. It also includes BD Magazine.

And finally, for interested bloggers, http://engineeringandmaths.wordpress.com/ is a blog from City University, London, with a similar focus to ours. Take a look for a different perspective on all things engineering! 

As always, feedback welcome!

Fire! Fire! Free resource for fire engineers

Fire engineering is a fairly new field.  Luckily the Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh have made their catalogue freely available online.  This indexes not only books and journals, but journal articles in the fields of:

• fire & rescue services
• fire prevention, fire protection
• community fire safety
• health & safety management
• environment
• disasters
• hazardous materials

Take a look at http://www.fireservicecollege.ac.uk/Library/ and click on Library Catalogue.

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Take a look at ‘Magnet’!

We’re delighted to announce the launch of ’Magnet’, a newsletter from the Library Engineering Team. Aimed at all Engineering students, ‘Magnet’ will keep you up to date with new developments and resources. The first edition includes details of the drop-in sessions for project students, and how to access the new SAE Digital Library.

‘Magnet’ is available from the Library webpages at:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/about/PDFs/MagnetAut2008.pdf

Perhaps members of staff could give ‘Magnet’ a plug too! 

Feedback (good or bad) is welcomed. Please use the comments box below.

New trial to IOP Science

‘IOPscience is a new online service for journal content published by IOP. It contains more than 300,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. It’s been designed to give you easy access to scientific, technical and medical content. In IOPscience, one simple search returns three sets of results, expanding your research scope even further. As well as regular peer-reviewed content from IOP Publishing journals, users can also find pre-prints from eprintweb.org (a free service, based on the arXiv.org at Cornell University), and editorial and news from IOP community websites, alongside their search results’.

To access the database please go to http://iopscience.iop.org The trial is available until 31st December 2008.  A User guide is available at http://herald.iop.org/iopsciguide/m1/exl//deliver/IOPScienceUG.pdf   We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please use the Comment Box below.