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Urban Planning Databases

Full-text available Indicates some full text is available.
index/abstracts Indexes, sometimes with abstracts (no fulltext).

Full-text available 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.

Full-text available 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.

Full-text available Florida Building Code
Resource of information for building and construction codes for the state of Florida.

Full-text available 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.

Full-text available 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.

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

Full-text 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.]

Full-text available 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.

index/abstracts 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.

index/abstracts 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