Engineering Website News

Each month we search through the Internet Resources Newsletter to bring you the pick of engineering-related sites. Just two to offer you this month, but don’t forget to take a look through our archive for previous ‘best bits’ from the Newsletter.

  SubsTech is an open knowledge source in materials engineering. It is free to use and allows you to view and edit existing articles or add your own. It contains a wide range of articles covering metals, ceramics, polymers, composites and fluids. http://www.substech.com/

 Virtual Engineer at http://www.virtual-engineer.net/ is “a Search Engine and Community Portal for Engineers and other Professionals working in the Building and Construction Industries”.  It also proclaims to have “The Best Links on the Web for Engineers and other Professionals working in the Building and Construction Industries” – why not take a look and see if it justifies the hyperbole!

PEP introduce Engineering Open Choice – Good news or money for nothing?

“Professional Engineering Publishing, publishers to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, have launched a new open access service for the engineering community called Engineering Open Choice.  Engineering Open Choice gives authors the option of having their published research made available free to anyone throughout the world, on an open access basis. The service is available to authors of all papers accepted for publication, upon payment of a standard fee. ” (PEP, 2007)

The bad news is that the standard fee is £1,700 + VAT.  However, if you sign the PEP’s Licence to Publish form rather than their Copyright Assignment form, you can self-archive your refereed papers for free on Loughborough’s Institutional Repository, achieving the same end result.

For more information on the Institutional Repository, please contact your Academic Librarian.

MetaLib upgrade – 30th July 2007

Please note that the MetaLib service will be unavailable on Monday 30th July 2007 whilst the lastest upgrade is implemented. We apologise for any incovenience that this may cause.The upgraded version of MetaLib will include the following service enhancements:

• Improved user interface compliance and accessibility.
• Clustering and faceting of search results, offering the user lists of related topics harvested from the references retrieved.
• Standardised keyword searching rules following conventions used by the major search engines.

If you have any queries regarding MetaLib please get in touch with your Academic Librarian.

 

All IEEE and IET publications now available online!

In response to demand from Engineering Faculty, the Library Engineering Team has successfully lobbied for a subscription to the full-text of all IEEE and IET journals & conference proceedings and IEEE standards online.  Previously we had access only to selected IEEE journals online.  Coverage dates from 1988, with selected IEEE material back to 1952. 

 To access, please use the existing IEEE Xplore interface.  No username and password is required on-campus.  To access off-campus please use the username and password available at https://internal.lboro.ac.uk/diss/lb/uniwide/webpages/passwords.html.

 Any questions – please ask your Academic Librarian.

Latest engineering website news

We’ve been scouring the latest Internet Resources Newsletter and here’s what we picked out for you:

ARCHI-TECH magazine – “Cutting-edge information on the latest advances in the technology and building sectors. ARCHI-TECH focuses on integrating emerging technologies and systems into building design and architecture.” www.architechmag.com/

AZojono – Journal of Nanotechnology Online – contains high quality literature on all aspects of nanotechnology and related scientific, social and ethical issues. http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology.asp

Two knowledge-sharing sites:

• Buildings.com – a community resource for the buildings industry: news, articles, research. http://www.buildings.com/
• i-spark -  promotes career advancement for engineers and scientists. www.i-spark.org/

Buildoffsite is a campaigning organisation aiming to promote construction offsite. http://www.buildoffsite.org/

Into podcasts? Try Engineering News – Records (ENR.com) for a series of free podcasts of talks with key industry professionals in the areas of architecture, engineering and construction. http://enr.construction.com/people/multimedia/podcasts/default.asp

If you’re looking for a career in environmental and renewable energy Green Engineering Jobs at http://www.greenengineeringjobs.com/ may help you achieve your goal.