Journal of fluid mechanics archive

We have fulltext online access to the Journal of fluid mechanics archive: all issues back to vol 1, 1956. Search the library catalogue.

Follow the link that says 'Journal of fluid mechanics [electronic journal]' and choose 'View this journal online' - either 1956-1996 or 1997 onwards. Requires Athens login off-campus.

ESDU access enabled

The ESDU database provides validated engineering design data, methods and software for the design process. We now have access, with Athens login both on and off campus.

Searching for images - free photos you can use

Everystockphoto.com is a search engine for Creative Commons licensed photos.

In most cases, these will be photos you can include in presentations and other works without breaking copyright.

Everystockphoto.com currently indexes over 724,871 photos

Referex e-books

We now have access to Referex Engineering: 293 electronic books from Elsevier.

Access Referex via Engineering Village 2, which we already use to search the Compendex database for journal articles and conference papers: http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/ (Off campus, login to Athens first.)

Referex Engineering Collections:

Mechanical and Materials – Selection draws on publishing programs of Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier and Academic Press. Handbooks and practical guides cover automotive, metallurgy, maintenance and more.

Electronics and Electrical – Comprehensive range of books for electrical power engineers, electronics engineers and circuit designers, embedded systems & computer engineers and communication engineers.

Individual book titles will be aded to the library catalogue in due course.

SenseWeb data mapping project from Microsoft Research

MSR SenseWeb is “a research portal that lets users visualize and query real-time data using a geographical interface such as Windows Live Local and allows data owners to easily publish their live data using web service interfaces”.

Universities and individual researchers can publish their data to SensorWeb, as long as they accept the data publishers' agreement.

The SenseWeb FAQ’s give more information about the project and how to contribute.

Enhanced journal articles from the RSC

The RSC have announced that from February 2007 “RSC journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the “semantic web.”

In practice, this means that readers of RSC journals who click on named compounds and scientific concepts in an article will be able to download structures, understand topics and to link through to electronic databases.

The RSC have called this intiative Project Prospect and you can find out more about it on the project web site.

The University of Liverpool has a subscription to all Royal Society of Chemistry journals so if you read these journals you should be able to benefit from this intiative.

Get the most out of ScienceDirect & Scopus - CANCELLED

The Library is hosting a training session on ScienceDirect and Scopus, presented by Christopher James of Elsevier.

The session is being held on Friday 9th February at 10.30 am in the Harold Cohen Library Seminar Room.

ScienceDirect was recently relaunched with a completely new look and improved fnctionality, and Scopus has steadily added new features since its original launch. Scopus has proved a real hit with researchers because of the intuitive way that it allows search results to be refined.

The session was originally aimed at Library staff but there are additional places now available. If you would like to attend please email Terry Bucknell.

UPDATE: THIS HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED

Library catalogue enhancement - Spell Check, further developments

As promised in November, the spell check feature in keyword searching on the Library Catalogue now has French and Spanish, as well as Medical and Legal dictionaries added to the Catalogue's "Did you mean...?" feature.

Happy multilingual searching!

Web based training for Web of Science and Endnote Web

Thomson Scientific offer free web based training for users of Web of Science and Endnote Web. The training is provided online using the WebEx conferencing tool so you need a computer with internet access and a telephone to participate.

If you’re interested in the training then a schedule of upcoming training events is available.

If the timing of the training isn’t convenient you can look at recorded training modules.

Science.world

The British Library and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a science gateway.

The planned gateway will be called Science.World and will be available to anyone interested in science.

The objectives of the Science.World initiative are to:

• Search dispersed, electronic collections in various science disciplines;
• Provide direct, seamless and free searching of open-source collections and portals;
• Build upon existing and already successful national models for searching;
• Complement existing information collections and systems; and
• Raise the visibility and usage of individual sources of quality science information.

(read the press release.)

Methods in Enzymology and other Elsevier book series

We now have online access back to 2000, to the following Elsevier book series:

• Methods in Enzymology
• Advances in Agronomy
• Advances in Applied Microbiology
• Advances in Catalysis
• Advances in Ecological Research
• Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
• Advances in Genetics
• Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry
• Advances in Inorganic Chemistry
• Advances in Microbial Physiology
• Advances in Parasitology
• Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry
• Advances in the Study of Behavior
• Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

You can access all of these book series through the library catalogue.

New developments in Scopus

The Scopus database has enhanced some of the services it provides to make it more useful. They include:

• More Pre-1966 Records : Scopus has begun an initiative to add millions of pre-1996 abstracts in chemistry, physics, mathematics and social sciences.
• RSS Feeds : You can now setup an RSS feed with just one click.
  
• HTML Feeds : HTML feeds allow you to convert your Scopus search result/RSS feed into an HTML version that can then be displayed on any website. Besides article title, a feed can now also display cited-by count, publication year, source title and the first 5 author names of the article. You can customis an HTML feed to share the look and feel of your page. All article titles in such an HTML feed are linked back to Scopus.
• Exact Author Searching : This should help you refine an author search. Choose “show exact matches only” check box on the Author Search form, Author Selection and Author Lookup pages.

To find out more read the Scopus newsletter.