Library News for Engineering

New Resource: Proxy it! Bookmarklet

Proxy it! Bookmarklet: add this bookmarklet to your web browser, and send webpages through the proxy server with one click. More info, and download it!

Expanded Resource: Knovel adds 120 more titles

Knovel's comprehensive content collection includes material properties, process and design information, best practices, equations and formulations for specific industries and engineering disciplines.

 

With Knovel's interactive tables you can show or hide rows and columns, change their order, and easily export the desired set of cells to a spreadsheet with the source citation included for easy tracking of work results. The ability to only export relevant rows and columns to Excel eliminates the need for spreadsheet cleanup before you can use the relevant values.

Using Knovel's equation plotter, you can simply select the values of interest on the curve and export them to Excel for further manipulation with the source citation included. The coordinates of a point are automatically displayed and ready for export, thereby eliminating tedious and error-prone estimates.

 

The collection includes:

 

Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th Edition)

Civil Engineer's Reference Book (4th Edition)

Dimensioning and Tolerancing Handbook

Electromechanical Design Handbook (3rd Edition)

Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures

Energy Efficiency Manual

Geoenvironmental Engineering

Handbook of Composites (2nd Edition)

Handbook of Materials Selection

Heat Transfer Handbook

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (1st Electronic Edition)

Machinery's Handbook (26th Edition)

Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (10th Edition)

 

And much more!

General Announcement: Olin Library closing early!

Friday, April 25: Olin Library and Whispers Café will close at 6:00pm due to WILD. The Arc will close at 5:30pm. Olin Library and Whispers Café will reopen at 9am Saturday, April 26.

New Resource: CHEMnetBASE & SCI-TECHnetBASE

The Libraries have subscribed to CHEMnetBASE and SCI-TECHnetBASE. These consist of full-text books from CRC Press and Taylor and Francis publishers, and are searchable and/or browsable.

Over 3,100 full-text books across the sciences, fully searchable and browsable. Topics covered include the biomedical sciences, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environmental science, ergonomics and human factors, food science, forensics and criminal justice, healthcase, information technology, life science, material science, math, medicine, nutrition, pharmaceutical science and regulation, physics, and statistics.

More info about CHEMnetBASE. More info about SCI-TECHnetBASE.

New Resource: Materials for Medical Devices Database

The Libraries now have online access to Materials for Medical Devices Database.

The Materials for Medical Devices Database brings to your desktop a comprehensive and authoritative set of mechanical, physical, biological response, and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in medical devices.

Recent additions and updates to the Materials for Medical Devices Database

Information on Specific Forms and Conditions, including Stress-Strain Curves:

Additional material records have been introduced to provide engineering property data for specific product forms and conditions, including stress-strain curves. This will enable better differentiation of materials options in design and for finite element analysis (FEA). Initially, specific data have been added to the Co-28Cr-6Mo  record and the Nitinol record.  Similar data for other materials will be added in future updates.

Orthopaedic Module

New schematics were added for the following Orthopaedic Implants:

Fixation:

• Bone Fixation Cerclage
• Intramedullary Fixation Rod and Accessories

Hips:

• Ceramic on Polymer-Semi  Constrained-Total Hip System
• Metal Femoral-Partial Hip System
• Metal on  Polymer-Constrained-Total Hip System
• Metal on Metal-Semi Constrained-Total Hip System

Knees:

• Non Constrained -Femorotibial-Knees
• Semi  Constrained-Patellofemoral
• Semi  Constrained-Patellofemorotibial
• Uncemented Resurfacing-Tibial-Knees

Biological response data have been added to the  records for:

• PMMA (material)
• CP Titanium (coating)
• Ti-6Al-4V (coating)

Wear attributes have been added to the material and coating records.

New Resource: Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

The Libraries now have online full text access to Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. (1990 - Present)

Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (commonly refered to as PE&RS: the journal for imaging and geospatial information science and technology) is the publication of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

News: 'The Scientist' Names Best Places to Work for Postdocs

The Scientist' Names Best Places to Work for Postdocs

As an annual exercise, the magazine The Scientist asks readers’ opinions about the places where they work. This month it announces the best places (according to the 3,086 respondents) for postdoctoral researchers.

The best? The J. David Gladstone Institutes, a three-part biomedical-research foundation affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco. Gladstone ranked second last year, behind the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, which fell this year to fifth place. The second-best this year was the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, in Denver.

Internationally, British institutions took spots one through four, with the Universities of Cambridge, Liverpool, and Nottingham followed by the University of Edinburgh.

Read the fine print: Only 17 international institutions (and 82 in the United States) received five or more survey responses; the magazine did not rank those that received fewer entries. —Lila Guterman

News: Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement

Harvard University has voted to adopt an Open-Access requirement for all faculty publications in the Arts & Sciences. 

For more information on the results:

The Chronicle of Higher Education

For more information on the vote:

New York Times

General Announcement: Safari Tech Books Online has been expanded!

The Libraries have expanded our subscription to Safari Tech Books Online, to the full file (rather than three most recent years) and 8 concurrent users rather than 5. We now have access to over 5,000 books from the mid-1990's to the present, including content from all top four technology publishers (Pearson, Wiley, O'Reilly Media and Microsoft Press), that represent more than 85% of the computer books sold at retail in the U.S. Please logout when finished using it.

To access the content go to:
Safari Tech Books Online