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.

New resources for engineers – presentation available

 Those of you who were unable to attend the recent training sessions held by the Library Engineering team on 20th and 22nd January can find a copy of the Powerpoint presentation here. The sessions covered a number of new databases including 

• SAE Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore
• SPIE Digital Library
• Construction Information Service (CIS)
• Standards – British Standards and ASTM

To access the Powerpoint presentation click here – New resources for Engineers

Searching for a patent?

 

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Are you aware of PatBase, a recent addition to the Library’s database collection?  If you’re searching for a patent this is an excellent place to start.

PatBase is an extensive and welcome addition to the Library’s growing collection of searchable patent resources. In excess of 75 countries are included with full-text availability on over 20 million documents.  The EP, PCT, US, GB, FR and DE patent-issuing authorities are all covered and it contains over 30 million consolidated patent families.

Access to PatBase  is via MetaLib from either the Patents subject category or the Find Database link. You will need to login with the username and password specified on the Library’s Electronic journal and information services passwords web page.

There is also a very useful online guide to get you started – https://www.patbase.com/quickguide.pdf.  Alternatively, why not book yourself onto the Library’s Database of the Month course on Wed. 18th March? This session focusses specifically on PatBase. For further information and to book your place: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/skills/dbaseofmonth.html.

Questions or comments about PatBase? Please use the box below or contact your Academic Librarian directly: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/about/StaffList.html

Database trials – Avery Index to Architectural Publications

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The Library has organised two trials of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database via each of the two platforms on which it is available – CSA and OCLC. How to access each trial is detailed below. We welcome feedback – good or bad – on these trials, please contact Steve Corn,
S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains more than 440,000 thousand entries surveying over seven hundred American and international journals. These include not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Articles are included from key publications such as American Architect, Baumeister, Byggekunst, Domus, and El Croquis, as well as architectural articles from art and planning journals such as American Art Journal, Burlington Magazine, Environment and Planning A, Metropolitan Museum Journal, and Revue de l’Art. Coverage is 1934 – current, (with selective coverage back to 1741).

Via the CSA platform until 15th November 2008

To access the trial from on campus please click here

or from off campus please click here

and login with your Athens username and password.

Via the OCLC platform until 16th November 2008

To access the trial from on campus please click here

or from off campus please click here

and login with your Athens username and password.

Keeping up-to-date with Occupational Health & Safety

OSH Update is a web-based database containing an ever-growing collection of (currently) 17 databases from worldwide authoritative sources of Occupational Health and Safety information.

This aggregation of databases currently contains well over 800,000 relevant references with abstracts or keywords and will keep you alerted to hot topics such as the health risks of nanotechnology, corporate killing and corporate social responsibility, bioterrorism, management of road risks, preparedness and business continuity as well as basic health, safety, hygiene and working environment information.

There are many thousands of references that immediately link to full text documents. When you start to search you will, by default, be searching all of the 17 databases.

Check out http://www.oshupdate.com/.  You will need a username and password to access OSH Update.

Any comments – use the box below!

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!

Exciting SAE news

A significant and welcome addition has been made to the Library’s electronic resource collection. We’re delighted to tell you that the SAE Digital Library is now available! (Previously SAE papers were only available as CDs or in print within the Library building.)

 

With coverage from 1990, you can find the SAE Technical papers online from: http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/

Access is freely available on campus.

From the SAE homepage, select full text products, and then follow the link to the SAE Digital Library.

You can keyword search or use a Document number. There are also Advance search and Field search options. Once you have found the technical paper you are interested in, click on View Document to see the full text. You can read the documents on screen, or print them is you prefer.

The SAE Digital Library also features abstracts from a variety of other related professional bodies and publishers. If you find interesting articles which are not available in full text – you can always use our Inter Library Loans service: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/services/ill-home.html

If you require any assistance, or have any comments, please contact Becky Jones (Ext. 2344, email: R.Jones2@lboro.ac.uk or Tracy Marshall (Ext. 2344, email: T.M.Marshall@lboro.ac.uk). Feedback via the comments box below is also welcomed.

ICE Archive now available

The Library has recently acquired and mounted locally the Institution of Civil Engineers Virtual Library for 1836-2001 which contains full text images of archive copies of ICE journals. Access is via the following link https://access.lboro.ac.uk/ICE/index?archive=ICE&op=archive and you will need to log in with your normal University username and password in order to see the archive.  Titles in the collection include ICE Proceedings and ICE Transactions both going back as far as 1836.  All titles in the archive can also be found via the Library catalogue complete with links to the appropriate section of the Virtual Library.  If you have any queries or problems accessing this resource please contact Steph McKeating.

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.

 

Update your impact factors!

The 2006 data for Journal Citation Reports (JCR) has just been made available via the ISI Web of Knowledge Service.  JCR allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries and covers virtually all areas of science and technology. Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited and the highest impact journals in a particular field.  JCR can be accessed via MetaLib and you will just need your Athens username and password for access. 

Technical note: You might need to clear the cache/history in your browser to access the 2006 year data if it is not visible.