Update on engineering information resources

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Update on engineering information resources

• Online Information 200613.30 - 14.00 Wednesday
  29th Nov
• STM Information in Focus
• Roddy MacLeod
• Heriot Watt University
• R.A.MacLeod_at_hw.ac.uk

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Update Engineering information resources

• News sources
• Publishers and content providers exhibiting at
  Online 2005
• Some other players
• Some interesting developments trends
• New book
• Handouts URLs and Stands

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News sources
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• Confessions of a Science Librarian
• EngLib, for the scitech librarian
• ScienceBase
• Science Library Pad
• E3 Information Overload
• Karen Blakemans Blog

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Stand 514 Fiz Karlsruhe/STN International

• Major enhancements to Inspec
• Reloaded with enhancements left/right truncation
  in fields abstract (/AB), basic index (/BI) and
  title (/TI).
• Inspec Archive covering the years 1898 to 1968 is
  now available on STN.
• Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) enhanced
  version on STN

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Stand 304 CSA

• CSA Illumina
• Multisearch
• Ulrichs
• PapersInvited
• Community of Scholars
• COS Funding Opportunities
• RefWorks

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Stand 304 CSA

• Added 2 Materials Properties databases
• Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database
  (TPMD)
• Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database
  (MPMD)
• www.csa.com
• cindasdata.com

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Stand 334 Sage Publications

• New look to SAGE Journals Online platform
• Improved navigation
• Site level quick search
• Enhanced advanced search options
• Search history Saved searches
• My Tools tab
• Improved marked citations
• RefWorks compatibility
• Institutional branding
• Redesigned Librarians Site

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Stand 506 Elsevier

• Referex Engineering 50 new titles
• Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
• Chemical Process Safety
• The Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook
• Valve Selection Handbook and
• Newnes Electrical Power Engineer's Handbook.
• Graphing and Summary Downloads introduced
  on Engineering Village

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Stand 506 Elsevier
Download
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Stand 704 IEEE

• COUNTER-compliant
• Four new journals
• Digitized Proceedings of the IEEE, back to 1913
• IEEE Power Energy Library
• IEEE Expert Now

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Stand 704 IEEE

• 2007 New journals
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and
  Systems
• IEEE Systems Journal
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal
  Processing
• IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service
  Management
• IEEE Xplore digital library enhancements

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Stand 346 IET / Inspec

• IEE and IIE became IET
• Inspec 550,000 new articles in 2007
• New journal Micro Nano Letters.
• IET Journals name changes
• New titles in 2007
• IET - Synthetic Biology
• IET - Rewable Power Generation
• IET - Computer Vision
• IET - Image Processing
• IET - Signal Processing

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Stand 410 Springer

• Springer for Librarians
• http//www.springer.com/uk/home/librarians
• SpringerAlerts for Librarians, e-mail
  notification
• Librarian resources
• SpringerLink http//www.springerlink.com/
• Engineering Collection 1500 eBooks, 175
  journals, 10 reference works.
• Engineering eBook Collection 1500 eBooks, 300
  new titles each year

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Stand 620 John Wiley

• New engineering content on Wiley Interscience
• Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics
• IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic
  Engineering
• Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering
• Macromolecular Reaction Engineering
• Mechanical Engineers' Handbook
• RSS feeds for journal TOCs

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Wiley Interscience
RSS Table of Contents feeds
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Stand 528 Thomson Scientific

• Derwent World Patents Index Techstreet
  Delphion ISI Web of Knowledge Dialog
• ISI Web of Knowledge
• Author Finder
• Improved Topic Search Results
• RSS feeds for search results
• 400,000 research reports available from NTIS
  Database

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Stand 528 Thomson Scientific

• KnowledgeLink - created with librarians in mind.
• ISI Web of Knowledge reference cards, fact
  sheets, etc.

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Stand 614 Institute of Physics

• New multidisciplinary journals
• Environmental Research Letters erl.iop.org
• Computational Science Discovery
• Journal of Instrumentation  
• COUNTER compliance
• Nanotechnology - weekly

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Stand 642 BSI Business Information

• Publishing division of the BSI Group
• Portfolio of over 20,000 publications including
  
• Standards documents
• Online and electronic information e.g. British
  Standards Online
• Interpretative guides and books.
• Customized services
• Expert help with drafting and delivering private
  company and consortia standards
• Technical advice on import and export regulations
• Assistance with standards collections management
• Seminars and workshop programme.

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Stand 642 BSI Business Information

• Revision to BS 5400-21978 Steel, concrete and
  composite bridges.
• New Revision - BS 72122006 Code of practice for
  the safe use of construction hoists
• New product BS 8888 Technical Product
  Specification Online due early 2007
• PP 77222006 Designing safe machinery. Guidance
  for higher education to the standards and
  regulations now available for lecturers and
  students
• BS ISO/IEC 23026 Software engineering.
  Recommended practice for the Internet. Web site
  engineering, web site management, and web site
  life cycle
• BSOL New search engine provided by Endeca

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Stand 240 Knovel

• Systems Engineering and Lifecycle Management
  Supplement
• Systems Analysis and Design with UML Version 2.0
  - An Object Oriented Approach (2nd Edition)
• System Safety Engineering and Management (2nd
  Edition)
• Systems Engineering Principles and Practice
• Sensors Supplement
• thermal, optical and infra-red, mechanical,
  chemical, and electromagnetic sensors

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Stand 500 CISTI

• NRC Research Press
• Back issues now available online one-time
  purchase no annual maintenance fees and access
  is perpetual.
• Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (1974-1996)
  - available December 2006
• CISTI Library Services
• SDD One-Click - e-mail notification message with
  a URL to the document!
• CISTI Online Standards Store - partnering with
  TechStreet from CISTI Website

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Stand 430 Taylor Francis

• Informaworld

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Emerald

• ISI impact factors in Journal Citation Reports -
• Open Access Trial
• Engineering Web Portal
• Construction Innovation Information, Process,
  Management

http//engineering.emeraldinsight.com/
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Morgan Claypool

• Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and
  Computer Science
• Lecture format, provides focused treatments of
  rapidly moving areas of interest
• 2006 Collection Now Available 100 titles
• 125 additional titles planned in 2007
• Email info_at_morganclaypool.com or their UK/Euro
  agent Andrew Pitts at andrew_at_ampsales.co.uk

http//www.morganclaypool.com/
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Inderscience

• New Journals
• International Journal of Alternative Propulsion
• International Journal of Environment and Waste
  Management
• International Journal of Industrial and Systems
  Engineering
• International Journal of Machining and
  Machinability of Materials
• International Journal of Manufacturing Research
• International Journal of Reliability and Safety
• New quarterly newsletter HIGHLIGHTS
• Inderscience News Blog

http//www.inderscience.com/
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Hindawi
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Globalspec
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Society of Petroleum Engineers
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers

• Proceedings IMechE Part O Journal of Risk and
  Reliability

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Trends in 2006

• Growth of electronic reference content
• Wiley, Springer, Knovel

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Trends in 2006

• Growth of electronic reference content
• New journals

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New journals

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
• IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
  Security
• IET - Synthetic Biology
• IET - Rewable Power Generation
• IET - Computer Vision
• IET - Image Processing
• IET - Signal Processing
• Environmental Research Letters
• Computational Science Discovery
• Journal of Instrumentation

• International Journal of Alternative Propulsion
• International Journal of Environment and Waste
  Management
• International Journal of Industrial and Systems
  Engineering
• International Journal of Machining and
  Machinability of Materials
• International Journal of Manufacturing Research
• International Journal of Reliability and Safety
• Advances in Tribology
• International Journal of Microwave Science and
  Technology
• International Journal of Vehicular Technology
• Proceedings IMechE Part O Journal of Risk and
  Reliability

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Trends in 2006

• Growth of electronic reference content
• New journals
• Open Access

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OA Self-Archiving Policy http//www.sherpa.ac.uk/
juliet/

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
  Council (BBSRC)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• National Environmental Research Council (NERC)
• Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
  (PPARC)
• Council for the Central Laboratory of the
  Research Councils (CCLRC)
• EPSRC

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UKSG Publisher Price Lists
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Trends in 2006

• Growth of electronic reference content
• New journals
• Open Access
• RSS
• News, blogs, TOCs

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Trends in 2006

• Growth of electronic reference content
• New journals
• Open Access
• RSS
• News, blogs, TOCs
• Online STM sales increase 15

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Takeovers etc

• Wiley acquires Blackwell for 1.08 billion in
  major scientific information market consolidation
  
• Informa rejects Springer's acquisition bid

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New reference book

• Using the Engineering Literature
• Edited by
• Bonnie Osif.
• 614 pages.
• Routledge, 2006
• ISBN 13 978-0-8247-2964-6

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Update on engineering information resources

• Online Information 200613.30 - 14.00 Wednesday
  29th Nov
• STM Information in Focus
• Roddy MacLeod
• Heriot Watt University
• R.A.MacLeod_at_hw.ac.uk