Resources for Town & Regional Planning

Support for this subject is provided by the CASS liaison team.

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We're here to help all members of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. Using the CASS liaison team email address will ensure that the appropriate person responds to your request or enquiry.

	Susan Reid (College Lead) 01382 384089 email Susan Reid		Iain Gillespie 01382 384101 email Iain Gillespie
	Sharon Nangle 01382 384102/385931 email Sharon Nangle		Mairi Robb 01382 385552 email Mairi Robb
	Philippa Sterlini 01382 381141 email Philippa Sterlini

Library Catalogue
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CrossSearch
- Use CrossSearch to search many databases at once. (What is CrossSearch?)
  Use the box below to search ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (CSA), EconLit, JSTOR, SCOPUS, Social Sciences Citation Index and University of Dundee Library catalogue.

Electronic resources password information

Journal indexes
- Web of Knowledge . Journals index with abstracts. Select Shibboleth, and login with your University of Dundee username and password.
- SCOPUS . Journals index with abstracts. Login off-campus via the "Athens/Other Institution login" and select the UK Access Management Federation and then University of Dundee.
- ASSIA. Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts Login with your University of Dundee username and password.
- AVERY. Coverage includes urban planning, landscape architecture and historic preservation. Login with your University of Dundee username and password.
Other e-resources
- Electronic books
- Census dissemination unit (via MIMAS). When you reach a login page, select the UK Federation link.
- IHS Technical indexes (Construction Information Service)
- NEXIS. Includes online UK and international newspapers.
- UK Borders: boundary datasets of the UK
Image resources
- 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+ licence. 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." Type 'University of Dundee' then login with your username and password.
- Digimap: online Ordnance Survey maps and mapping data. Login via UK Federation.
- Historic Digimap: Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1843-1996. Login via UK Federation.
- Digimap on YouTube: official user guides from YouTube
- JISC MediaHub. JISC Media Hub provides a single point of access to video, image and sound resources from many different providers, including Associated Press, the Biochemical Society Archive, Channel 4, Culverhouse Classical Music, Gaumont, Getty, Imperial War Museum, ITN, Reuters, Royal Geographical Society, St Georges Hospital Medical School and Wellcome. It includes television news, documentary films, still images and classical music, and covers a wide range of academic subjects. The content is licensed for educational and research use, and access is provided via an easy-to-use interface, which can cross-search all the available collections.
- SCRAN - Scottish Cultural Resources Network. A digital cultural and historical resource. Select Shibboleth login, then the University of Dundee, and login with your username and password.
Internet resources
- Association for Project Safety
- Congress for the New Urbanism
- Department for Communities and Local Government
- Directgov: Public Services
- Dundee City Council: Planning Division
- Dundee Civic Trust
- Environmental News Network
- European Environment Agency
- Forestry Commission
- Geoplace: resources for geospatial information
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- National Association of Homebuilders
- National Housing Federation
- Natural England
- Legislation.co.uk
- Planetizen: Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
- Planners Web: city & regional planning resources
- Planning and Markets: an electronic journal
- The Planning Inspectorate (from the Planning Portal - the UK Government's online planning and building regulations resources for England and Wales).
- The Planning Report
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
- Scottish Government
- Scottish Parliament
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- TAYplan - The Strategic Development Planning Authority for Dundee, Perth, Angus and North Fife
- UK Local Government Information
- United Kingdom Parliament
- Urban Conservation Glossary
- Urban Land Institute
- Intute: Internet resources for your subject