Transportation Libraries and Information Centers

Address:
Napier University
Redwood House, 66 Spylaw Road
Edinburgh, EH10 5LR.
United Kingdom

Collection Information

Description:
TRI Resource Centre provides current issues of key journals for perusal by academic research staff, but past issues are stored and loaned by Napier University Library. The serial titles at TRI Resource Centre supplement the transport titles held in the university library. TRI can call on more than 150 current transport serials through the networked NUL OPAC in the TRI Resource Centre. Documents housed in TRI Resource Centre are intended to supply both ephemeral information on grants or calls to tender, and also to house reference materials together with grey literature required for research purposes.

Subject Strengths:
Transport Infrastructure, Transport Economics and Policy, Transport and the Environment, Transport Informatics, Transport Modelling.

Special Collections:
Transport Infrastructure, Transport Economics and housed in Napier University Library on behalf of members of TRI.

Hours: TRI Resource Centre is accessible between 9.00 and 17.00; M-F

Open to the Public: yes

Any Conditions: Stock may not be borrowed from the TRI Resource Centre.

Interlibrary Loan Policies: All ILL requests are directed through Napier University Library. Napier University staff and PG students working on TRI projects receive free ILLs, but all visitors would be required to pay full costs plus an administrative charge to Napier University Library.

Loan Fees: All TRI Resource Centre stock is reference material therefore not for loan, but external users of Napier University Library could pay a fee to obtain loans of journals.

Photocopy Fees: Journal articles from back issues may be copied at Napier University Library where copy cards can be puchased for one pound, or five pounds.

Service Fees: On-line searches of Transport related databases will be performed at cost plus 40% overhead.

Cataloging System: Dynix system of Napier University Library.

Online Catalog Internet Address: Telnet 146.176.1.6 login repac, option 1, option n.

Online Database/CD-ROM services: STN, Dialog, and BIDS, Transport CD

Additional Information: TRI Resource Centre is being developed using funding from SHEFC for TRI infrastructure development.

Library Publications:
TRICAB ( TRI Current Awareness Bulletin)

Library Network Affiliations:
Napier University Library and receives access to NUL services.