Urban Planning Databases

• These databases are available from home through the FAU Proxy Server. Users will need their 14-digit Owl card/library card number.
• Some databases require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• For a complete listing of journals available at this campus, see our Comprehensive Journals List.
• Use RefWorks to manage and retrieve your bibliography.  Download Write-N-Cite to format in-text citations and references within your document.
• Periodicals available in print at the Boca Raton Wimberly Library can be found in the FAU Library Catalog by searching for Journal/Magazine Title.
• If you need an article or book from Boca Raton or any other library, fill out an Interlibrary Loan Form.

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 Buildings and Building Regulations

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.

Newspapers

Search FAU Libraries' collection of major papers and hometown news.  Many full text articles available.

SimplyMap

SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Since there is some training required in order to understand a few concepts related to mapping, we highly recommend that you watch our 6 minute training video to get the most out of SimplyMap. The training video can be accessed by clicking on the "Tutorial" link in the top right corner of SimplyMap. [Users will be asked to create a personal workspace the first time they log-in to SimplyMap. This resource is limited to 5 concurrent users.]

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.

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, with over 62 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Books located in this utility can be requested through FAU's Interlibrary Loan system.

For additional resources, go to  http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/ref/rsguide/urbregplan/main.htm