Facilities Management

This Subject Guide page contains Websites, Online Resources, Journals and a Toolbox.

Websites

The websites for Facilities Management are listed on a separate page.

E-book collections

There may be useful e-books in the Myilibrary and Ebrary e-book collections. Access these from the Online Resources section.

Online Resources

The following online resources are specific to Facilities Management. Access to all general online resources is via the Online Resources section

Directgov

The U.K. Government's website

Lexis Nexis

The legal profession's most authoritative collections available online. Practice areas include Company, Commercial. Personal, Injury and Property. (Outside College you will need to log in with your Athens account to acces this database. Click here for the Athens website, log in with your Athens username and password and then click Lexislibrary from the list of options.)

Journals

• People Management
• Health and Safety Practitioner

Toolbox

How to use the Internet
The Intute Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research.

From end of July 2011, the Virtual Training Suite has been taken over by TutorPro, who will host the new site and tutorials and work with the content providers to keep the content up to date whilst moving the whole project forward into the world of smartphones, tablets and mobile devices. Access these via their KnowledgeBank section or vial the link at the start of this section.

ILRT will continue to host the popular Internet Detective tutorial, as well as the three JISC Digital Media tutorials.

Athens
Some of the Learning centre's electronic resources will require you to log in using the Athens validation service (especially if you use them outside College). You will need an Athens username and password to do this. Click on the Athens Information link on the front page of the Virtual LRC and complete and send the relevant application form. You will receive notification of your account through your student or personal e-mail account.