| Facility type: | Libraries and Literature Databases |
| Contact email: | birgitta.sandstedt@vti.se |
| Contact info: | User name: Birgitta Sandstedt User telephone: Phone: +46 13 20 42 14 Fax: +46 13 14 14 36 Street: Library and Information Centre (BIC) City: Linköping Postcode: SE-581 95 Department name: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) |
| Website address: | http://www.transguide.org |
Description
Short technical description: BIC collects, organises, stores and disseminates information in the field of transport and communication research. BIC has the national responsibility in Sweden for providing information and for making the literature available. This special library is one of the largest in the area. It comprises 4,600 m of literature and about 1,000 periodicals. BIC has a broad contact network both nationally and internationally and is the Swedish centre in the international co-operations within OECD (the database ITRD). BIC also offers information searches and current awareness service on commission. Unique features: Special holdings are statistics, standard specifications and report series from Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) and Transportation Research Board (TRB). More than 110,000 references are searchable in the database TRAX and a list of journals is available in the database Tidskrifter. Both these databases are accessible via Internet in the cluster Transguide. Relevant standards: Financed by VTI (internal services), VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (basic external services) and by other customers through projects on commission. Specified research application: Library
Keywords
Information, transport, communication, research, references, searchable, database, list, journals, database.
Comment
Availability for outside use: Yes. 24/7 availability via Transguide and e-mail. Visitors are welcome during office hours (if possible, please let us know in advance)