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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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!

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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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.

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Our weekly drop-in sessions are  now up and running here in the Library.

To remind you – these sessions are open to all staff, researchers and students from the Engineering Faculty. This is an opportunity to receive advice and guidance from the  Library Engineering Team on information sources for teaching, research, projects and dissertations.

Sessions run from 12.00-2.00pm in Training Room 1 or 2 (check on the day). If you’d prefer to book a slot you can do so via  E.N.Gineer@lboro.ac.uk.

Our next sessions are: Thursday 5th March, Tuesday 10th March, Thursday 19th March and Tuesday 24th March.

Comments or questions? Please use the reply box below or contact us directly – http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/about/StaffList.html

The second issue of Magnet, the quarterly Library newsletter for engineering students, is now available online. Included in this issue is news about the Engineering Drop-In sessions (offering one-to-one advice for students, researchers and staff on information sources), the Student Hub and a number of new full-text databases.

Much of the content of this month’s issue is relevant to staff and students alike. So please take a look and let us know what you think!

 
Just to remind anyone not yet signed up that the Library 
Engineering Team is offering two training sessions to help you 
catch up on what's new in the world of engineering information
here at Loughborough. The sessions will cover four new full-text
databases, and more:
- SAE Digital Library
- IEEE Xplore
- SPIE Digital Library
- Construction Information Service
- Standards (British and ASTM)
***and lots of freebies and prizes to boot!!***

We will be running the session twice on:
Tuesday 20th January, 10-12                                      
Thursday 22 January, 2-4
both in S006 (Chem Eng IT Lab)

There will be plenty of time for hands-on practice, so feel free
to bring any specific queries you may have about these or other
Library databases and services.

To book, please email Theresa Doherty(t.m.doherty@lboro.ac.uk)
stating:
* Your name
* Your dept
* Category: PhD student/Research Staff/Academic Staff
* Which session you would like to attend

We look forward to seeing you there!

 Photograph by Russell Bassman, taken from www.flickr.com

Here’s the latest pick and mix from the Internet Resouces Newsletter:

Plenty this month for transport engineers, focussing on initiatives to improve UK transport -

The Campaign for Better Transport  is a national body operating since 1973. Take a look at their informative site to view their ongoing campaigning and research initiatives.

For an advisory perspective on integrated transport policy, backed by independent research, try the website of the Commission for Integrated Transport: CfIT . As outlined on their website: ‘The Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) is an independent body advising the Government on integrated transport policy. CfIT takes a broad view of integrated transport policy and its interface with wider Government objectives for economic prosperity, environmental protection, health and social inclusion’.

The Confederation of Passenger Transport UK is ‘the government-recognised trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industries’ [website]. Its origins stem back to the first trade association of the transport industry formed around 1890.

Identifying appropriate policies for delivering sustainability in urban transport is the aim of KonSULT – the Knowledgebase on Sustainable Urban Land use and Transport. ‘KonSULT is designed to help policy makers, professionals and interest groups to understand the challenges of achieving sustainability in urban transport, and to identify appropriate policies. It has been developed with support from the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund’. [website]

Building Design announces itself as the ‘architects’ website’ and is packed with information. It features sections on sustainability, buildings, practice and a full archive of back issues. It also includes BD Magazine.

And finally, for interested bloggers, http://engineeringandmaths.wordpress.com/ is a blog from City University, London, with a similar focus to ours. Take a look for a different perspective on all things engineering! 

As always, feedback welcome!

Fire engineering is a fairly new field.  Luckily the Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh have made their catalogue freely available online.  This indexes not only books and journals, but journal articles in the fields of:

• fire & rescue services
• fire prevention, fire protection
• community fire safety
• health & safety management
• environment
• disasters
• hazardous materials

Take a look at http://www.fireservicecollege.ac.uk/Library/ and click on Library Catalogue.

Any comments? Use the box below!

‘IOPscience is a new online service for journal content published by IOP. It contains more than 300,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. It’s been designed to give you easy access to scientific, technical and medical content. In IOPscience, one simple search returns three sets of results, expanding your research scope even further. As well as regular peer-reviewed content from IOP Publishing journals, users can also find pre-prints from eprintweb.org (a free service, based on the arXiv.org at Cornell University), and editorial and news from IOP community websites, alongside their search results’.

To access the database please go to http://iopscience.iop.org The trial is available until 31st December 2008.  A User guide is available at http://herald.iop.org/iopsciguide/m1/exl//deliver/IOPScienceUG.pdf   We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please use the Comment Box below.