TRIAL: IET.tv and Engineering & Technology Reference

The University of Liverpool has trial access to two new resources from the Institution of Engineering and Technology: ‘IET.tv’ and ‘Engineering & Technology Reference’ until Friday 21st August 2015.

IET.tv is a searchable collection of engineering video content, including lectures and presentations from IET events, seminars from universities and research institutions, teaching and coursework material and interviews with experts from industry and academia.

Engineering & Technology Reference provides access to an authoritative collection of technical articles and real-world case studies written by practising engineers and researchers.

Click here to access ‘IET.tv’ (University login required off campus).

Click here to access ‘Engineering & Technology Reference’ (University login required off campus).

After viewing IET.tv and Engineering & Technology Reference, please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

NEW RESOURCE: SAE Digital Library Technical Papers

University of Liverpool staff and students now have access to a new online resource; ‘SAE Digital Library: Technical Papers’ from SAE International.

Access this resource via the library catalogue at SAE digital library  (University login required off campus)

SAE Digital Library provides students and researchers in aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle engineering access to SAE Technical Papers - more than 42,000 papers dating back to 1998.

SAE Technical Papers are written and then peer-reviewed by at least three industry experts, and are the go-to source for the latest advances in technical research and applied engineering information.

TRIAL: SAE Digital Library

The Library has obtained a trial of SAE International's Digital Library until 2nd December 2014, and encourages staff and students to review this new resource. Let us know whether you find this resource useful.

Access this resource from
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=http://digitallibrary.sae.org/quicksearch/ (University login required off campus)

SAE Digital Library provides students and researchers in aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle engineering access to:

SAE Technical Papers - more than 94,000 papers dating back to 1906.

SAE Standards - 27,000 standards relating to processes, practices, and products throughout the mobility industry.

SAE eBooks – 130+ technical books written by experts in fields such as Brakes, Electronics, Engine & Powertrain Systems, Engine Testing, HEV, Lightweight & Advanced Performance Materials, Safety, Vehicle Dynamics & Chassis.

SAE Magazines – magazines such as Automotive Engineering International, Aerospace Engineering and SAE Off-highway Engineering, which chronicle a century of advancements in the mobility industry.

After trying SAE Digital Library please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments. Do get in touch, we really want to know what you think about this resource.

TRIAL: SAE Digital Library

The Library has obtained a trial of SAE International's Digital Library until 12th June 2014, and encourages staff and students to review this new resource. Let us know whether you find this resource useful.

Access this resource from
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=http://digitallibrary.sae.org/quicksearch/  (University login required off campus)

SAE Digital Library provides students and researchers in aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle engineering access to:

SAE Technical Papers - more than 94,000 papers dating back to 1906.

SAE Standards - 27,000 standards relating to processes, practices, and products throughout the mobility industry.

SAE eBooks – 130+ technical books written by experts in fields such as Brakes, Electronics, Engine & Powertrain Systems, Engine Testing, HEV, Lightweight & Advanced Performance Materials, Safety, Vehicle Dynamics & Chassis.

SAE Magazines – magazines such as Automotive Engineering International, Aerospace Engineering and SAE Off-highway Engineering, which chronicle a century of advancements in the mobility industry.

After trying SAE Digital Library please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments. Do get in touch, we really want to know what you think about this resource.

Resource of the week: ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library

What is it?

ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information.

The University of Liverpool Library has taken out a new subscription from January 2013, giving university staff and students full-text access to ASTM standards, books and papers.

ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international standards, which are used around the world to improve product quality and enhance safety.

Why use it?

Use ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library if you would like to access the full-text of any ASTM standard or other publication by ASTM.

To search for a specific ASTM standard, just enter the standard number in the first search box (e.g. E646).  The most recent version of the standard will be at the top of the results list and you can download the PDF.

You can also search by keyword and limit your search to Standards or Engineering Publications (which includes journals, symposia papers, manuals and e-books).

Visit the Standards and Patents LibGuide to access ASTM and other standards, including the full text of British Standards.

Resource of the week: Knovel

What is it?

Knovel is a key source of technical information for engineers and scientists.

It provides an interactive platform for e-books and databases and gives fully searchable online access to hundreds of handbooks, data books, dictionaries, encyclopedias and technical reference books.

Why use it?

Knovel allows you to search across a very broad range of data, pull out what’s relevant and manipulate that data for your own purposes using its interactive tools.

You can use Knovel to look up a chemical formula, compare properties of substances or research alternative energy sources.

Knovel’s Data Search allows you to search by numeric data and properties from graphs, equations and tables in e-books quickly and easily. You can manipulate data values and export them into other applications, such as Excel.

Visit the Knovel LibGuide and investigate its links to videos and Webinars to show you how to make best use of Knovel.

From 10 September to 1 December 2012, Knovel is running its University Challenge, with a chance to win iPads and other prizes.  There are two new questions each week, which you can answer using Knovel.

CSA databases withdrawn

We have not renewed our subscription to the CSA databases collection (formerly on the CSA Illumina platform, more recently on the ProQuest platform).

Usage of these databases had declined substantially since we introduced Discover, and analysis of their coverage showed that the journals they covered were already included in Discover and/or other databases like Web of Science, Scopus and BIOSIS.

If you were a regular user of CSA databases please contact your liaison librarian to discuss alternative sources.

New ProQuest platform replaces CSA Illumina

The CSA Illumina site and the old ProQuest platform have now been combined into a new ProQuest platform which allows searching of any combination of CSA databases and ProQuest databases.

The previous sites will exist until June, but we have already updated our links to the main ProQuest and CSA databases and would encourage you to try it out.

As part of the transition, many of the more niche CSA databases have lost their identity and have been subsumed into larger databases.

So if you were a regular user of databases like:

Aerospace and High Technology Database
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Entomology Abstracts
METADEX
Water Resources Abstracts

(and we know from our usage statistics that most people are already searching larger clusters of CSA databases) then please take a look at the new ProQuest platform and familarise yourself with the new arrangement of databases. For example, the databases above are now part of:

Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
Engineering Research Database
Biological Sciences
Materials Research Database
Environmental Science and Pollution Management

respectively. We plan to stop linking to the old CSA Illumina site from the library catalogue and LibGuides by the end of February.

The new platform is also home to:

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest Historical Newspapers (apart from the NY Times which should appear soon)
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
British Periodicals

Results from the old sites will still appear in the More Results area of DISCOVER until EBSCO create new 'connectors' to search the new ProQuest platform.

ScienceDirect eBooks in 2011

Throughout 2011 we will have access to around 7,800 additional eBook titles on ScienceDirect. This is part of a usage-driven acquisition trial with Elsevier and the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.

We now have access to all eBooks in the following subjects on ScienceDirect:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Business, Management, Hospitality and Tourism
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Energy
Engineering
Environmental Science
Finance
Forensics
Immunology and Microbiology
Materials Science
Mathematics
Media Technology
Medicine and Dentistry
Neuroscience
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
Physics and Astronomy
Psychology
Veterinary Science
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

At the end of the year we will be able to retain access to a number of titles of our choice, up to a maximum value.

Major purchase of CUP ebooks

We are delighted to announce that we have purchased all Cambridge University Press e-books published between 2005 and 2010, and prior to 1993 - some 4,732 titles in all. Furthermore, we will purchase their 2011 and 2012 lists too.

The titles include scholarly monographs and contributed volumes for which CUP have electronic rights, but not textbooks. By early 2011 CUP plan to make new e-books available on the platform at the same time that the printed book becomes available.

The Cambridge Books Online site has no restriction on the number of simultaneous users who can access it, and its e-books are presented as simple PDF files that we know readers prefer. Each chapter has been assigned it own DOI (Digital Object Identifier). This allows you to build a stable link to any chapter, which will work off-campus too, by just adding the chapter's DOI to the end of this URL: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/

Catalogue records will be uploaded shortly but in the meantime you can search Cambridge Books Online or browse by subject:

Humanities
Social Sciences (you'll find Archaeology and History here!)
Science & Engineering
Medicine

Off-campus access is available via EZproxy as usual.

TRIAL: CRCnetBASE e-books

We have a trial of CRCnetBASE until 14th May 2010.

CRCnetBASE is the science and technology e-books platform from the CRC Press imprint of Taylor & Francis Group. It includes over 5,000 titles, and they presented in PDF chapters without restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.

We are trialling the full list of subjects available (just click on the subject to trial the titles available):

Biomedical Science (539)
Business & Management (696)
Chemical Engineering (158)
Chemistry (786)
Clean Tech (153)
Computer Science & Engineering (286)
Economics (767)
Engineering - Civil (365)
Engineering - Electrical (748)
Engineering - General (127)
Engineering - Mechanical (377)
Engineering - Mining (28)
Environmental Science & Engineering (610)
Ergonomics & Human Factors (127)
Food & Nutrition (561)
Forensics & Criminal Justice (284)
Geoscience (29)
Healthcare (104)
Homeland Security (74)
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing (252)
Information Technology (402)
Life Science (756)
Material Science (481)
Math (447)
Medicine (353)
Nanoscience & Technology (113)
Occupational Health & Safety (110)
Pharmaceutical Science & Regulation (268)
Physics (401)
Polymer Science (102)
Public Administration & Public Policy (70)
Social Sciences (537)
Statistics (279)
Water Science & Engineering (213)

We may already access to some of the titles in CRCnetBASE through Taylor & Francis's main e-books platform. It is possible to purchase individual titles, or to purchase or subscribe to collections.

After trying CRCnetBASE please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

Emerald backfiles now available

We have purchased the backfiles of Emerald journals and access is now available. These backfiles include 68,000 articles from over 120 journals back to Volume 1. Emerald publish mainly in the field of business and management, but also publish a number of engineering journals.

We have updated SFX / find it @ liverpool and are in the process of updating our catalogue records.

Over 475 additional Springer journals

For 2009 we have expanded our Springer big deal to include an additional 479 titles for virtually no additional cost. The additional collections include Springer's:

- Chinese Library of Science
- Russian Library of Science
- Versita (previously known as Central European Library of Science)
- titles that have transferred to Springer in recent years
- titles from imprints acquired by Springer in recent years (including the Current Medicine Group and Humana Press)

Some of the more notable titles now available include:

American Journal of Criminal Justice
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
Human Nature
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, and JETP Letters
JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A & B
Science in China Series A-G
Stem Cell Reviews and Reports

You can browse the available titles in the library catalogue, and they have all been activated in SFX (find it @ liverpool).

Taylor & Francis collections for 2009

From 2009 we will no longer subscribe to the Taylor & Francis Full Collection, but will instead subscribe to their Social Sciences and Humanities collection, together with the new Informa Healthcare collection.

This change was precipitated by the transfer of the Taylor & Francis medical and healthcare journals to Informa Healthcare, a separate division of Informa plc.

Our analysis showed that it was only the medical content within the Taylor & Francis STM Collection that meant that the overall collection provided acceptable value for money. The 'rump' Science & Technology collection would have provided us with poor value. Furthermore, there were several poor value subscriptions tied into the ST Collection, and by dropping the collection we have been able to cancel the worst of these.

The consequences of this decision are:

We can still access over 700 Social Sciences and Humanties journals on the Informaworld platform. Our access typically extends back to 1997 and we will update our records, as previous years have been digitised since we originally catalogued this collection.

We have lost access to about 300 Science & Technology journals on the Informaworld platform. Where we hold (or held) individual subscriptions to titles in this collection we will still have access (to the subscribed years).

We have temporarily lost access to nearly 160 Medicine and Healthcare journals on the Informaworld platform. Once our subscription to the Informa Healthcare collection is active we will once again be able to access these journals, back to Volume 1.

We will soon have access to all titles on the Informa Pharma Sciences site (where we currently access Current Medical Research and Opinion) back to Volume 1. This will include the Expert Opinion series of titles (and about 20 title which are also hosted on Informaworld).

We will continue to be access the complete backfiles over 120 journals in the following subject areas:

Behavioral Science (i.e. Psychology)
Business, Management and Economics
Geaography, Planning, Urban and Environment

because we (or JISC) have purchased the backfiles in perpetuity.

Multi-Science e-journals collection now available

We now have access to all of the journals published by Multi-Science Publishing. We have licenced this collection as part of the Knowledge Exchange initiative.

We previously subscribed to 5 Multi-Science journals:

Building Acoustics
International Journal of Architectural Computing
International Journal of Space Structures
Journal of Low Frequency Noise and Vibration and Active Control
Wind Engineering

but our online access only extended back to the year that our subcription started.

This new collection provides access to all available years (usually back to 1999 or 2000) and currently includes 9 additional titles:

Adsorption Science and Technology
Advances in Structural Engineering
Energy & Environment
Energy Exploration & Exploitation
International Journal of Aeroacoustics
The International Journal of Multiphysics
International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology
Noise & Vibration Worldwide

Multi-Science are launching 7 new titles in 2009 and we will have access to these titles too:

International Journal of Aerospace Innovations
International Journal of Innovation Science
International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles
The Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows
International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics
International Journal of Flow Control
International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinary Fluid Sciences

The agreement is due to last until 31st December 2011 but we are free to opt-out at the end of 2009 or 2010.

12,000 e-books purchased on SpringerLink

We have purchased all of the English-language Springer e-books published between 2005 and 2008 (including books not yet published) - some 12,000 in total. This includes collections in:

Architecture and Design
Behavioral Science
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Business and Economics
Chemistry and Materials Science
Computer Science (including Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Humanities, Social Science and Law
Mathematics and Statistics (including Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Medicine
Physics and Astronomy (including Lecture Notes in Physics)
Professional and Applied Computing

Springer are the world's largest publisher of STM books and are at the forefront of e-book provision. They publish every title simultaneously in print and online on their SpringerLink platform, and provide e-books in PDF format with each chapter in a separate file. This means that viewing and printing from Springer e-books is the same as from Springer e-journals.

Each e-book will appear in the library catalogue soon, but in the meantime you can see the e-books that we have purchased by going to http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/books/?Language=English&sortorder=asc&cb=2005&ce=2008. (Unfortunately the 'access indicators' in SpringerLink do not appear when accessed via EZproxy. On-campus users can see the books with reassuring green access indicators by going to http://www.springerlink.com/books/?Language=English&sortorder=asc&cb=2005&ce=2008).

Blackwell journals now in Wiley InterScience

As of July 30th we believe that we have access to all the Blackwell Publishing journals that we should have access to, including subscribed titles that are outside the NESLi2 collections, and to our purchased Blackwell Publishing backfiles.

Wiley-Blackwell report that 1.6 million additional articles from Blackwell journals have been successfully loaded onto Wiley InterScience. After a few additional downtime hours they have now made the Wiley InterScience site live again. There may be intermittent service in the short term while they stabilize the site. They have also now permanently shut down the Synergy site.

They have redirected most links to their nearest equivalent on Wiley InterScience. However, they are still working on the OpenURL links which currently redirect to the Wiley InterScience homepage rather than the journal page, as they should. These links will be back in place in a few days. If you are not familiar with Wiley InterScience then please use the online tutorials or sign up for a free online webinar here: http://www.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/tutorials

To view the full list of Wiley-Blackwell journals go to http://www.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/. You will see here several new subject areas which they have added to now reflect the full depth and range of the Wiley-Blackwell list. Wiley InterScience now includes 1,400 current journals, and 660 titles with backfiles back to volume 1. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology will continue to be hosted on a separate site: http://www.blackwellreference.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/subscriber/uid=919/beos_subscriber

There is still some missing content from Blackwell which they are working through. This includes some issues, articles, parts of articles (e.g. article loaded in xml but not in PDF) plus some missing metadata and articles which need to be fixed due to special character rendering issues. The full list of missing content which they are working through will be listed on their transition site: http://www.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/transition and this will be updated weekly.

Work is well underway on the new Wiley-Blackwell online platform which will include many of the best features of Synergy as well as InterScience and which we will be launching in early 2009. More information about this new service will be provided in due course.

Blackwell Synergy site ceases June 30th

Following the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley and Sons, the Blackwell Synergy site will cease to be available after June 30th 2008. All content on the Blackwell Synergy site, including current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print, will be transferred to the Wiley InterScience site as of 1st July 2008.

A completely new, 'next-generation' Wiley-Blackwell site will be launched in 2009 that we are promised will include the best features of both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience and which will introduce innovative new functionality and capabilities.

Wiley-Blackwell assure us that:

- all Blackwell journal access rights will be transferred, enabling continuous access to our licensed content
- existing Synergy URLs and links will redirect to the content on Wiley InterScience
- they will work with link resolver vendors (e.g. our SFX / find it @ liverpool service from Ex Libris) to redirect links to Wiley InterScience
- DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are persistent and so will continue to work after the move to Wiley InterScience
- they have upgraded Wiley InterScience to accommodate the addition of Blackwell books, journals and customers
- the accounts for all registered users on Blackwell Synergy will transfer to Wiley InterScience so that users continue to receive the journal E-TOCs and other alerts that they have signed up for

Note that:

- Wiley Interscience does not include icons to indicate whether you are entitled to full-text access (but the new Wiley-Blackwell site coming in 2009 will)
- the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology will remain on its existing platform for now
- Linguistics Abstracts Online will remain on its existing platform for now