Knovel is back again this fall with their University Challenge. Currently we rank 8th in the participating universities. We have 48 students registered and we need 52 more to guarantee us an iPod Nano as a prize. So please register now! You could win a Wii, iPod Nano or free music!
Add comment October 15th, 2008
You can now access SciFinder via the Internet. Remember when you register that you must use your UK email address or you will not get access.
Mac users will be happy to know this will work very well for them. It will also work well for you off-campus users via the proxy server. There are some differences so if you have any problems please contact Jan Carver at the Chemistry/Physics Library at 257-5954.
Add comment October 15th, 2008
This fall the UK Libraries have purchased two databases that will supplement our engineering collection. The first is the Polymer Library. You may know this database by its former name RAPRA Abstracts. It is the primary database for information on plastics, rubbers, polymers, adhesives and composites. International in scope, coverage goes back to 1972 and includes citations to academic research, business and marketing articles, and legislation. Patent coverage began in 1994. Access to this database is through the CSA Illumina platform.
The second database will fill a multidisciplinary gap in the area of textiles. World Textiles covers all areas of textiles from manufacturing to materials, technology, application and research. Coverage is from 1970 and includes scholarly sources, trade journals, conference proceedings, books and many other materials. One of its strong features is extensive indexing of non-English language and less accessible publications.
This Fall, SciFinder Scholar is going to be accessible via the Internet. Right now we still do not have a date, but as soon as it is available we will let you know. What this means for you is that you won’t have to go to specific computers or download software to access this database. UK will still have a restricted number of seats, but you will be able to access SFS from any library or computer on campus. Stay tuned!
Add comment September 17th, 2008
If you work in a library or use a library you can always be certain that change is constant in our world. Journal titles change, products change, interfaces change along with formats or access. This fall we have quite a few changes already in place or just on the horizon.
Electrical and Computing Engineering Items of Interest
For those of you in electrical and computing engineering there are some major changes. First off, the Institution of Electrical Engineers has officially changed its name to Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This is the result of a merger between IEE and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE). If you are looking for ejournals please remember to search under IET. They have also migrated to a new platform call the IET Digital Library. So there is a new look and feel to their website.
If you need to search the INSPEC database it has now moved to the ISI Web of Science from the Ei Village platform. We plan to have some in-house training this fall, so please watch for the announcement. I have been holding off with this announcement since ISI is planning to change the look and feel of their platform, but it has yet to happen. So you will need to use the current interface until the new one is announced. Training will be on the new interface. Moving INSPEC to Web of Science willl allow you to analyze your search results by author or journal as well as other criteria. If you are not familiar with searching Web of Science there are several tutorials available on their advanced search site.
Ejournals Database Migrates to Find UK Electronic Journals in September
The locally developed E-journals Database that we have all been using has been officially replaced by a new product called Find UK Electronic Journals. More details can be found at the E-journals Database Migration Page.
Proquest Purchases Cambridge
Last spring Proquest purchased CSA Illumina. Be assured that all the engineering, science, techology, medical and computing databases from CSA are still available. This platform is home to a wide variety of specialized engineering, science and, art, medical databases and more, so be sure to check it out. ProQuest is also home to the Dissertations and Theses Database and ProQuest Computing
ILI-INFODISK NOW SAI GLOBAL
I guess it is inevitable that even a standards provider has to see change. Also late last spring SAI Global purchased ILI-INFODISk. This has been a seemless transition. The only changes I expect will be improvements to their product. If you are affiliated with UK and looking for standards please check SAI Global Standards Infobase.
Add comment September 21st, 2007
How would you like to search 150 years of science and engineering articles through one portal? That is approximately 3 million articles and covers scholarly literature from 13 scientific and technical societies. Scitopia.org, billed as “the best place on earch for technology research” will debut in June 2007. Scitopia, providing a free federated vertical search will allow you to explore the most cited research and patents in one click.
Thirteen of the world’s leading science and technology societies have banded together to provide access to their journal content and conference proceedings, many of which are peer-reviewed. No longer will you need to search the individual society websites for these publications. Scitopia.org Partners:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
IEEE
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
SPIE
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Other organizations will be invited to join as the project progresses.
Read more at the Scitopia.org press release
Scitopia.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine.
Add comment April 17th, 2007
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