Urban Planning Databases

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Select from among many indexes in this all-in-one resource.  Search them simultaneously or individually.  Of interest to Urban Planning are the following: Civil Engineering Full-Text Collection, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt, GeoRef, National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts, Safety Science and Risk, and Water Resources Abstracts.

City of Boca Raton Municipal Code

This resource offers information on every service in the city of Boca Raton including developmental, fire, police, and recreational.

Florida Building Code

Resource of information for building and construction codes for the state of Florida.

Index to Current Urban Documents

This resource is the only regularly published guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.

General OneFile

A comprehensive source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service)

TRIS Online is a collaborative effort between the Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academies, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of Transportation, to provide a public-domain, web-based version of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database as a component of the National Transportation Library, and to enhance transportation research, safety, and operations by sharing knowledge and information.

Urban Studies & Planning: A Sage Full-Text Collection

Provides access to the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics.

Web of Science

Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

WorldCat

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, WorldCat is a global network of library content and services that uses the Web to let your institution be more connected, more open and more productive. Books located in this utility can be requested through FAU's Interlibrary Loan system.

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