Engineering snippets

From October’s edition of the Internet Resources Newsletter, here are the bits and bobs we’ve extracted for you. Lots to include this month so each entry is of the short-and-sweet variety. If any warrant a longer posting please let us know and we’ll happily oblige. In no particular order:

Obtain a free subscription via TechXtra to the Automotive DesignLine Europe Newsletter.

Search for difficult to locate engineering conference proceedings through Engineering Conferences Online. This site is open access and papers largely free of charge.

The aptly named Brick Bulletin was first published in 1947 ”and features profiles of brick projects, news and technical guidance”.

One for the students: Eureka on Campus is a career magazine for budding engineering designers.

View the latest innovation in solid waste management at http://www.bigbellysolar.com/

India’s national one-stop shop on the environment and development issues is available at http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/ 

The International Journal of Project Organisation and Management is a new quarterly journal.

For anyone involved in nanotechnology the nanoHUB is a must-see resource. “The nanoHUB hosts over 1300 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more” [from website].

Conference and event news: EuroSimE 2009 takes place in Delft, The Netherlands from April 27-29 2009. Its scope will be thermal, mechanical and multiphysics simulation and experiments in microelectronics and microsystems. Process Engineering Live is a new event taking place at Manchester Central on the 10th and 11th March 2009. As the name suggests, this event will feature all things process engineering including exhibitors, workshops, seminars and industry forums.

The Forum for Applied Mechanics is designed to increase communication between UK organisations involved in experimental or theoretical applied mechanics. Members include IMechE, BSSM and the Institute of Physics.

Help your self to our books!

If you’ve not been in the Library over the summer you will notice quite a difference when you walk back in. The Library has brand new self issue machines on all floors and a new look Information and Enquiries desk.

The Library has switched to a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) circulation system which means you can quickly and easily issue more than one book to yourself at any one time.  You can also return books, view your Library account and pay any fines you owe all at the self-issue machine – although you will need to make sure you have the right money!

Staff and researchers please note that if you have had a book out for a while it may not yet have been processed to work on the new system and you may not be able to return it on the new machines. But don’t worry – Library staff will be on hand to offer help and guidance.

New resources galore!

Thanks to support from the Library Users Committee, the Library has been granted additional funding for the following new resources:

• Cambridge University Press full package (Jan 2009)
• Construction Information Service (Oct 2008)
• OSH (Oct 2008)
• Oxford University Press full package (Jan 2009)
• Sage full package (Jan 2009)
• SPIE digital library (Oct 2008)
• SportDiscus fulltext (Apr 2009)
• Taylor & Francis full package (Jan 2009)

In addition we have made one-off purchases of the following backfiles, all of which are now available.

• Emerald backfile collection
• Elsevier backfiles in Business, Management and Accounting; Environmental Science; Physical and Analytical Chemistry; Physics General

Finally from the serials review the Library will subscribe to a range of new journals.  A list of those that might be of interest to the Engineering faculty are given below. All should become available in January 2009 except where noted.

• AIAA conference papers
• British Medical Journal upgrade to include online access
• Business source complete (available now)
• Cryptography & communications
• Detail – review of architecture
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics collection
• International journal of foundations of computer science
• Journal of composites for construction
• Journal of mechanics of materials & structures
• Journal of modern craft
• Journal of the American Medical Association (Oct 2008)
• Journal of topology
• Journal of water & health
• Key engineering materials
• Local transport today
• RAIRO
• Risk management
• Royal Society of Chemistry full collection

Any questions?  Use the feedback box below!

Electronic access to all back-issues of Science

 

 Photograph by Kenny Louie: taken from www.flickr.com

With an institutional subscription to Science Classic, the Library is delighted to make available all back issues of the journal Science. Covering the years 1880-1996, this is an indexed and fully searchable full-text digital archive.

 

Access to the archive and all issues of Science to date, is via the Library Catalogue or MetaLib (click on Find e-Journal). For ease of retrieval from the Library Catalogue it is recommended you use the Browse Index and select the Serials Collection category from the drop-down menu. Key in the word ’science’ and the electronic version is the third item displayed.

 

Your feedback is always welcome (and encouraged!) via the Comments box below.

Guides to legal information

 Two helpful guides to UK and EU law have been added to Learn: Finding UK legal information and Finding EU legal information.

These tutorials provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of finding legal information at Loughborough University and are designed for either dipping in and out of selected sections or following sequentially.

Uk legal information topics covered include: Case law; Legislation; Finding journal articles and Citing legal materials.

EU legal information topics include: EU legal sources and European court cases.

Please let us know if you find these guides helpful, particularly from an engineering perspective, or if you require further information.