Update on engineering information resources

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Update on engineering information resources

• Online Information 200512.45 - 13.15 Thursday
  1st December STM Information in Focus Theatre
  CRoddy MacLeod
• Heriot Watt University
• R.A.MacLeod_at_hw.ac.uk

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Update Engineering information resources

• Where to find news on Engineering information
  resources
• Publishers and content providers exhibiting at
  Online 2005
• Some other players
• Some interesting developments trends
• Plug my book, article in Free Pint
• Handouts URLs and Stands

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Stand 41 Information World Review
December Sector update on Science, Technical and
Medical
http//www.iwr.co.uk/
http//www.vnunet.com/feeds/rss/iwr
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Stand 117A Research Information
http//www.researchinformation.info/
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EContent Magazine
http//www.econtentmag.com/
http//www.iti-infocentral.com/
http//www.econtentmag.com/rss/rss_feeds.aspx
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Knowledgespeak
http//www.knowledgespeak.com/
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Trade news
http//www.engineeringtalk.com/indexes/categorybro
wsenk.html
http//www.engineeringtalk.com/indexes/categorybro
wsenk_rss.xml
http//www.engineerlive.com/
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Recommended News Sources in Engineering
http//www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/newsfeed.htm
http//www.eevl.ac.uk/onestepnews/
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• Confessions of a Science Librarian
• http//jdupuis.blogspot.com/
• EngLib, for the scitech librarian
• http//www.englib.info/
• Scitech library question
• http//stlq.info
• Engineering Resources
• http//englibrary.blogspot.com/
• Science Library Pad
• http//scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/
• E3 Information Overload
• http//blog.case.edu/bcg8/

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Newsletters
http//www.cas.org/STNEWS/stnewscover.html
http//www.knovel.com/knovel2/news.jsp
http//www.inderscience.com/highlights
http//www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/
http//www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss
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Stand 226 STN International/Fiz

• INSPEC database reloaded with new features
• INSPEC Archive 1898 1969
• Patent databases added
• PATDPASPC
• RUSSIAPAT
• GBFULL
• EPFULL

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Stand 164 CSA

• CSA is back on Dialog!
• ASEE conferences (1996 -) 10,000 papers
• Increased coverage in EEE, Nanotechnology, etc
• Controlled Vocabulary List - Technology Terms
  now available through CSA Ilumina
• TRD reloaded
• 30-40 new full text partners
• Added value such as data sets, tables and diagram
  

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Stand 165 Sage Publications

• SAGE Journals Online - 158 increase in online
  usage via the new platform!
• New Textile Research Journal
• Journal of Building Physics broadens scope

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Stand 70 Elsevier Engineering Information

• USPTO and Esp_at_cenet Integrated search
• RSS Alerting
• Faceted searching and faceted browsing for
  visualizing search results.

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Stand 70 Elsevier

• Scopus
• Content Selection Committee appointed.
• Outsourced selection of Scopus content to this
  board of scientists and librarians.
• JISC negotiated package for HE/FE

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Stand 20 IEEE

• IEEE Xplore Ver 2.1
• New journals
• IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• Archival content digitised
• Searchable via New Yahoo! Search Subscriptions

http//ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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Stand 20 IEEE

• IEEE Xplore Ver 2.1
• New journals
• IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• Archival content digitised
• Searchable via New Yahoo! Search Subscriptions

http//ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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Stand 20 IEEE

• IEEE Xplore Ver 2.1
• New journals
• IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• Archival content digitised
• Searchable via New Yahoo! Search Subscriptions
• IEEE Spectrum new look
• 5 new IEEE technical journals in 2006
• COUNTER compliance

http//ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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Stand 240 IEE / Inspec

• Scitation IEE Digital Library
• Digitisation of IEE Journals 1872-1993
• New Information Security and Intelligent
  Transport Systems
• Inspec Current Awareness services Scitation
  Research Alerts

http//www.ieedl.org/
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Stand 170 Emerald

• Launch of EngineeringFirst.com in January
• Advanced automation
• Materials science and technology
• Electronics manufacture and packaging
• Computational mathematics
• 13 out of 15 engineering titles included in ISI
• Rising quality of papers in Emerald engineering
  journals

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Stand 5 CISTI

• NRC Research Press
• Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering monthly
• New Features Full-text HTML RSS Feeds
  Panoptic- search engine Osprey (Online
  Submission and Peer Review system)
• CISTI Library Services
• Outsell Inc rated CISTI first overall for
  document delivery.
• Secure Desktop Delivery Project Team won two
  awards for excellence in information management.

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Stand 66 Springer

• Chinese Library of Science 36 journals
• Russian Library of Science - 143 Russian journals
  published in English
• Springer Online Archives Collection- 2 million
  records

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Stand 186 Taylor Francis

• New journals 2006
• Geomechanics and Geoengineering An International
  Journal
• Virtual and Physical Prototyping
• Journal of Digital Forensic Practice
• Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
• Energy Sources, Part B Economics, Planning,
  Policy
• Informa events in Sensors, Forensics and Energy

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Stand 86 Wiley Interscience

• More Online Books
• Acquisition of three Tribology journals
• Encyclopaedia of Computational Mechanics
  publishes online
• Citation Tracking Goes Live

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Stand 86 Wiley Interscience
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Stand 248 Thomson Scientific

• Derwent World Patents Index
• New Manual Codes
• Additional coverage from Germany, Taiwan and
  India
• Delphion integrates DWPI data in end-user
  workflows
• Inspec via ISI Web of Knowledge
• Techstreet enhanced access to standards

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Stand 76 Institute of Physics

• New Journals in 2006
• Bioinspiration Biomimetics
• Biomedical Materials
• Journal of Instrumentation  
• RSS feeds of latest papers IOP journals
• http//syndication.iop.org
• CrossRef forward linking

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Stand 267 BSI Business Information

• New BSI eShop facility
• BSI education website www.bsieducation.org  
• BSI and ISO Technical Committee for
  Nanotechnologies
• PAS 712005 Vocabulary Nanoparticles is
  available electronically free www.bsi-global.com/n
  ano
• New standards for recording finger, face and iris
  information just published. BS ISO/IEC 19794
  www.bsi-global.com/biometrics

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Stands 150, 154, 190 Ovid

• Books_at_Ovid 5 collections
• McGraw-Hill Total Series (23 titles)
• McGraw-Hill Science Series (15 titles)
• McGraw-Hill Technology Series (8 titles)
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary Series (12 titles)
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia Series (6 titles)

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Stand 173 Knovel

• Knovel and GlobalSpec Partnership
• New content DIPPR
• Enhancements to website

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Morgan Claypool

• 5 Synthesis lectures now available, 20 more by
  end 2005, and 100 next year
• Lecture format short, focused, in-depth view
  of rapidly changing topics
• 25 Development Partner institutions in Europe and
  North America

http//www.morganclaypool.com/
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Inderscience

• New Journals
• International Journal of Industrial and Systems
  Engineering
• International Journal of Machining and
  Machinability of Materials
• International Journal of Product Design and
  Manufacturing for Sustainability
• International Journal of Signal and Imaging
  Systems Engineering
• International Journal of System of System
  Engineering
• 2006 Journals Catalogue available
• New quarterly newsletter HIGHLIGHTS
• Feb 2006 Free access all titles
  info_at_inderscience.com

http//www.inderscience.com/
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Society of Petroleum Engineers

• SPE Technical Journals Online in 2006
• SPE Drilling CompletionSPE Production
  FacilitiesSPE Reservoir Evaluation
  EngineeringSPE Journal

http//www.spe.org/
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IHS

• ESDU - Validated engineering design tools,
  methods and software for Engineers
• New industry packages include
• Aerostructures
• Power Generation
• Aerospace
• Construction
• Marine industries

http//www.ihsurc.com
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EEVL Xtra
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Trends in 2005

• 5.8 percent growth for STM publishing industry
• Forward linking
• RSS
• Aggregation
• ScienceResearch EEVL Xtra GlobalSpec Scitation
• Open Access developments
• DOAJ
• Petroleum Journals Online
• Hindawi

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PerX

• Pilot service for subject resource discovery
  across repositories of interest to academics in
  engineering
• Explore practical issues of subject resource
  discovery
• Range of digital repository sources Advocacy and
  Maintenance issues etc
• 'Engineering Digital Repositories Landscape
  Analysis' and 'Listing of Engineering Repository
  Sources'

http//www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/
http//www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/news/index.htm
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Information sources in Engineering4th ed

• Edited by
• Roderick A MacLeod
• and Jim Corlett.
• 683 pages.
• K G SAUR
• ISBN 3-598-24442-8

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Update on engineering information resources

• Online Information 200512.45 - 13.15 Thursday
  1st December STM Information in Focus Theatre
  CRoddy MacLeod
• Heriot Watt University
• R.A.MacLeod_at_hw.ac.uk