July 8, 2009
Inspec are very pleased to announce the addition of full scientific formula displays on the Inspec database record citations. While Inspec is not a full text database, the result of this new capability allows for these scientific formula displays to appear within abstracts and other fields on the full record displays and Result Lists.
Also included in the database update is a simpler, more streamlined searching functionality. Learn more about it, and the scientific formula display, on this page. Any questions or comments, please let us know!
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Posted by Becky Jones
July 7, 2009
Culled directly from the Internet Resources Newsletter, here is the latest engineering-related internet news. As ever, do take a look at the newsletter itself which is always packed with links to both useful and intriguing sites.
Building Sustainable Design (UBM Built Environment’s latest brand) is a new monthly magazine for building services engineers, architects, clients and all construction professionals who care about sustainable, low energy design in the built environment.
EngineeringDaily.net is a news/articles/discussions magazine by and for in-the-trenches practitioners.
Anyone interested in RSS feeds may like to view the following:
Royal Academy of Engineering News Releases
http://www.raeng.org.uk/feeds/rssnews.aspx
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Posted by Sharon Reid
June 8, 2009
Photo by Duke Yearlook, www.flickr.com
We’ve come across a really interesting online exhibition put together by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Entitled ‘Women and engineering, emancipation from drudgery’ it charts the fascinating history of the struggle women encountered before gaining recognition and acceptance as engineers. The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and the Electrical Association for Women and their efforts to educate and help them are also featured.
Adding a local flavour, you’ll see by clicking on the link to ‘The Woman Engineer’, the journal of the WES, one of the first editions has a cover shot of women working in the gauge shop at Loughborough College!
Link here to the full exhibition.
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Posted by Sharon Reid
June 2, 2009
The IEEE legacy collection is part of IEEE’s plan to digitize all papers from its technology journals including key papers that chronicle the development of today’s information age. More than 250,000 historic papers have recently been added to the database. With the addition of these historic publications, dating back to 1913, you will have access to a repository of papers by visionaries in the electrical and electronics engineering professions. Notable additions to the collection include the Proceedings of the IEEE as well as the Computer Magazine, dating back to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. The collection also includes a number of conference proceedings dating back to the 1950s.
Explore the history of Engineering at:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp
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Posted by Becky Jones
May 19, 2009
Extracted from the May edition of the Internet Resources Newsletter, just three items to tempt you with this time. Once you’ve looked at these, do try the newsletter itself – there’s usually something for everyone!
Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology
The Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology (JASET) is an open access, peer reviewed, double blind, journal for the dissemination of applied technical scholarship.
Project Leadership: Building and Improving Teams 09
The Barbican, London, 19th May.
“Increasingly the project management community is debating the role of leadership within projects, having realised that the plethora of systems, processes, procedures and IT software created in the past couple of decades is still not guaranteeing a successful project outcome. Is project leadership the key skill that has been missing our attention?”
SearchPetroleum.net
SearchPetroleum.net (SP.net ) is a search engine created specifically for the petroleum industry. It displays the most relevant and highest quality petroleum websites.
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Posted by Sharon Reid
May 5, 2009
- Photo by jasonEscapist, taken from www.flickr.com
Give us a piece of your mind!
If you could change ONE THING about the Library – what would it be?
If the Library had more space, how should we use it?
Now’s your chance to have your say about the Library through our User Survey. It’s short – five minutes max, so just go to: http://picture-box.lboro.ac.uk/Public/UCCASS/survey.php?sid=76 and tell us how it is!
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Posted by Sharon Reid
April 20, 2009
Photo by Jumping Lab, taken from www.flickr.com
Once again we’re offering drop-in sessions for anyone struggling to find the engineering information they need. Skilled advice is at hand on how best to utilise our electronic information resources.
So, don’t waste time pondering, come and see us for some one-to-one help.
This term our popular drop-in sessions will be held in our Library-based Engineering Team office every Tuesday and Thursday from 5th May to 18th June, 12.00-2.00pm. Either book a slot via E.N.Gineer@lboro.ac.uk or simply knock on our door (we’re in Open3, halfway down the room on the right hand side).
Member of academic staff? Your students could benefit from our advice. Please give us a mention!
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Posted by Sharon Reid
April 7, 2009
SciFinder Scholar is a premier resource for chemical and related scientific information, including chemical engineering, medicinal chemistry and biology. The Library is due to move from its existing client version of SciFinder Scholar to the web version. From 10th April access to the current version will be discontinued.
Access to the new version will be by a simple registration process. Just follow the link from the Library’s password page (log in to this page with your University username and password). Please use the Remote Working Portal for off-campus access.
SciFinder is available via MetaLib and coverage is from 1907 onwards. The new web version retains all the best features from the client version but also includes new ones such as Keep Me Posted and a related references facility.
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Posted by Sharon Reid
the Library we are currently pondering whether separate blogs for each faculty are the way to go, or if we shouldn’t have a single blog for all of our users. Personally, we’d be sorry to say goodbye to Broadcast – but the question is – would you? If you would, grab hold of our proverbial ankles, screaming “don’t go!” using the comments box below…
