Author: Lisa Ngo
SpringerMaterials: The Landolt-Bornstein Database
Landolt-Bornstein, the indispensable reference source for physical and chemical data, is now accessible online through SpringerMaterials.
Updated on a quarterly basis, SpringerMaterials includes:
- 400 Landolt-Börnstein volumes, 250,000 substances and 1,200,000 citations
- 44,000 Chemical Safety Documents
- The world’s largest and most renowned Database on Thermophysical Properties, the subset of the DDBST (Dortmund Data Bank Software & Separation Technology)
- Linus Pauling Files, the most comprehensive database on inorganic solid phases
Access is restricted to UCB faculty, staff, and students.
Engineering Library Closure – Summer 2011
The Kresge Engineering Library will be closed for renovation from Saturday, May 14 through Wednesday, August 17, 2011. It will re-open on Thursday, August 18 at 9 am.
Updates will be posted as they become available at Engineering Library News.
During the closure the Library’s print collections will be unavailable for borrowing.
Finding resources you need during the closure:
- All online journals, books, reference sources, etc., will be available as usual. Use OskiCat and Electronic Journals A-Z to find resources you need.
- For print materials held at other campus libraries, continue to pick them up at the other libraries and check them out there.
- For print materials held at NRLF, log on to OskiCat and request them as you currently do. Articles will be scanned and posted to you via email; books will be sent to another campus library that you select for pick up.
- For print materials held at SRLF or any of the other nine UC Libraries and found in Next Generation Melvyl, click the Request button, fill in the form and submit it. Articles requested will be scanned and posted to you via email. Books will be shipped to UC Berkeley’s Interlibrary Borrowing office and you’ll receive an email when they’re ready to be picked up in Doe Library, Room 103.
- Current UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students can borrow materials from Stanford and UT Austin through the Research Library Cooperative Program (RLCP). Books requested through this service will be sent to Doe Library, Circulation Desk for pickup; articles will be delivered electronically.
- For print materials not found at the above places, please request them using the Interlibrary Borrowing Service Form.
To return books: There will be an external book return bin near the Engineering Library. The exact location will be posted at Engineering Library News as soon as it’s known.
Getting help during the closure: Engineering Library staff will be on-campus in a temporary location and accessible via email.
- Email Jean, jmckenzi@library.berkeley.edu or Lisa, lngo@library.berkeley.edu with any questions
- Course reserves information: email Brice, bsulliva@library.berkeley.edu
- Send questions to Ask Us
- More information will be posted about phone service as soon as it’s available.
Engineering Library Access
The final paving phase of ADA ramp construction is expected to begin on Monday, November 8th. While construction is in progress, wheelchair access to the Engineering Library will be via the east and north sides of Evans Hall; users can then enter Bechtel Engineering Center on the 2nd floor and take the elevator one floor down. Access to the library outside of Bechtel building hours requires wheelchair users to use the new ADA ramp between Bechtel and McLaughlin instead of the elevator. Detour signs will be in place.
Deliveries and mail should follow wheelchair access routes.
For more information, contact the Engineering Library.
Engineering Library Access
Due to the construction of a new ADA ramp between the Bechtel Engineering Center and McLaughlin Hall, access to the Engineering Library will be limited beginning on September 16th. While construction is taking place, follow the Engineering Library Detour signs to get around construction work. Alternatively, users can also access the library from the second floor, where Sibley Auditorium is located. Library users can come down one floor via the elevator or walk down the internal staircase.
For more information, contact the Engineering Library.
Wiley – IEEE Press Ebooks
IEEE Press and Wiley have teamed up to provide Wiley-IEEE Press ebooks through the IEEEXplore Digital Library. The collection includes over 400 handbooks, introductory and advanced texts, reference works, and professional engineering books.
Subject areas covered include:
- Communications and networking
- Electromagnetics
- Components and circuits
- Power and energy
Being hosted on the IEEEXplore platform means that the books are full text searchable using the familiar IEEE interface and browsable by title. Books are also findable by title in OskiCat. Have an ebook reader? The chapters are in PDF format and can be downloaded and read on numerous ebook readers on the market.
IEEE publications in Google
Users who depend on Google and Google Scholar to discover IEEE publications should be aware that due to a change in indexing policy at Google, the majority of IEEE articles have disappeared from Google search results. IEEE has posted the following information regarding the problem:
“Recently we at IEEE discovered something about our IEEE Xplore usage patterns that we want to pass on to you.
We learned that the majority of IEEE Xplore article metadata records had been eliminated from Google search results. This means that anyone attempting to search for IEEE articles by using Google or Google Scholar would be less likely to find IEEE content…
In investigating the current issue, we learned that Google had changed its indexing policy regarding IEEE Xplore. In April 2010, Google decided to discard their previous IEEE Xplore metadata index and completely rebuild an index of over 2.5 million IEEE Xplore metadata records…
We hope that the entirety of IEEE Xplore metadata will soon be discoverable again via Google. In the meantime, we want to remind you that the best way to search IEEE information is to go directly to the IEEE Xplore digital library at www.ieee.org/ieeexplore. With a new version of IEEE Xplore now available with an improved search engine and intuitive new discovery tools, this is truer than ever before.” – IEEE
E-books on Knovel
If you’ve gotten used to thinking of Knovel as just another e-book collection, it’s time to take another look. In addition to having an excellent full-text searchable collection of engineering and scientific handbooks, Knovel also recently introduced interactive search tools to assist you in finding and analyzing numeric data within their publications and databases. Popular e-book titles that are searchable and accessible through Knovel include:
- Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook
- Handbook of Chemical Engineering Calculations
- Handbook of Industrial Engineering: Technology and Operations Management
Never used Knovel before, or haven’t used it in a while? The re-designed user interface makes searching easy. Try it out and see what kinds of answers Knovel can provide for you! Use the widget on the left to search directly or visit Knovel’s site for their full range of search tools.
CRCnetBASE
CRC Press has launched a new interface for its netBASE e-book collections. The new CRCnetBASE interface allows for more advanced searching and browsing and offers book chapters in hi-res PDF format or as PDF with links. Users will also now be able to register for free accounts and save books and chapters to a virtual bookshelf.
All netBASE collections, with the exception of CHEMnetBASE, have migrated to the new interface and are now searchable as an entire collection. CRCnetBASE is one of UC Berkeley’s largest collections of engineering handbooks and manuals and cover areas such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, math, environmental sciences, and more.
RefWorks
Are you looking for a way to organize your references? Need help formatting your papers in the correct style for assignments or journal submissions? RefWorks can help!
Licensed by UC Berkeley for faculty, staff, and students, RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management system that allows you to manage your references as well as share them with others. It works seamlessly with Word to build your bibliography as you write and formats your references with your selected citation style.
Find out more about RefWorks and how it can help you!
ASTM Standards Online
All active ASTM Standards, technical publications, journals, books, and symposia papers are now available online through the ASTM Digital Library. The collections’ coverage goes back to 1930 and also includes current publications.
Journals available through the Digital Library include:
- Geotechnical Testing Journal (GTJ)
- Journal of ASTM International (JAI)
- Journal of Testing and Evaluation (JTE)
Researchers looking for Redline, Historical, or Withdrawn standards should contact the Engineering Library for assistance in locating paper copies. Trying to access from off-campus? Set up the library’s proxy server.