News from the Web

 

 

Direct from the Internet Resources Newsletter here are the latest extracted engineering-related snippets. When you’ve looked at these, try clicking on the link to the newsletter itself - it’s always packed with interesting website news.

AccessEngineering

http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/

AccessEngineering is a redesign of the premiere online engineering resource, formerly known as McGraw-Hill’s Digital Engineering Library.

ENER-Plast

http://www.enerplast.eu/

ENER-Plast is a European Community funded project, supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme.

The objective of ENER-Plast is to provide the European polymer and its associated industries with the information, resources and tools needed to reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impact.

Engineering History and Heritage

http://www.engineeringhistoryandheritage.com/

A new journal, Engineering History and Heritage provides an indispensible historical perspective on existing structures and infrastructure around the world.

International Journal of Social Robotics

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1875-4791

A new journal from Springer.

This journal is a periodic publication which consolidates high impact contributions from researchers and developers in the field of social robotics, offering readers a holistic view of this emerging industry.

Refresh your research skills over Easter

• Did you know that the Library now provides access to over 17,000 electronic journals?
  

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• Do you know how to receive email alerts from the databases and journals in your research areas?
• Do you know what RSS newsfeeds are?
• When involved in research projects can you manage your references easily?

If your answer to any of these questions is ‘no’, then the Library can provide the answers in one of the three sessions which are running during the Easter vacation.  They are exclusively for Academic staff and Research Associates.

The sessions are:

Tracing research information, Monday 30th March 2.00-4.00pm, SM1.09 
- This will update you on the range of new information sources and services available from your desktop, as well as explaining how to use Journal Citation Reports to identify high impact journals within appropriate subject areas. Book at:   http://pdwww.lboro.ac.uk/eventdetails.asp?run=8470

Keeping your research up-to-date, Thursday 2nd April, 2.00-4.00pm, SM1.09
- This session provides an overview of the latest electronic current awareness services that enable  you to keep-up-to date, including email alerts and RSS newsfeeds. It will help you assess and set up the ones that are ideal for you.    Book at:  http://pdwww.lboro.ac.uk/eventdetails.asp?run=8471

RefWorks, Tuesday 21st April, 10.00am-12.00 noon, SM1.09
- Thise session outlines the benefits of the bibliographic software tool RefWorks, as well as how to import and manage references in RefWorks using folders and descriptors. 
Book at:   http://pdwww.lboro.ac.uk/eventdetails.asp?run=8472

Please book early to ensure that you get a place. They are all also listed on the Staff Development’s online booking system: http://pdwww.lboro.ac.uk

ticTOCs – a new way to keep up to date

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ticTOCs is a new scholarly Journal Table of Contents (TOCs) service which helps you keep up to date with what is being published in 12,000 journals from 430 publishers. You can carry out a keyword search to discover the table of contents matching your research and you can quickly load the relevant references you find into RefWorks. You can retrieve the full text where we have a subscription and you can also import RSS feeds into your favourite feed reader such as Google Reader or BlogLines. Access is from www.tictocs.ac.uk.  It is a free service but registering enables you to store your newsfeeds.

Library celebrates Loughborough’s contribution to Engineering

In celebration of the National Science and Engineering Week, the Library has on display books (and related objects) written by members of the Science and Engineering Faculties.

See a collection of water collection pots and latrine slab from the Water, Engineering & Development Centre (WEDC), as well as many text books, research monographs and reference works authored by members of the Engineering Depts here at Loughborough.

You may also be amused (horrified?) to see what luxury items you could purchase in the place of some of our pricier library resources.   Check out the display cabinets next to the issue desk to see what resource costs as much as a 5-bed detached house…

We’d love to hear what you think!  Use the comments box below.