ENGINEERING LIBRARY BLOG

The trial of GeoRef, GeoRef in Process and GeoBase on different platforms have been set up. This will allow users an opportunity to compare the platforms in areas such as search results, search interface, how results are displayed, ease of exporting citations, etc.

If you are keen to try it out, please go to “Databases” at Library homepage (www.ntu.edu.sg/library) and select via alphabetical order the name of the platform.

Users may provide feedback at http://webx.ntu.edu.sg/survey/se.ashx?s=725689BC7A6B8D1B

Our Library has set up a trial for the database, GeoScienceWorld(GSW). A little info about GSW… GeoScienceWorld provides online access to publications in the geosciences; it is built around a core database of peer-reviewed journals such as Clays and Clay Minerals, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Journal of the Geological Society, Seismological Research Letters, etc. GSW can be accessed from the library’s database page under the ‘Announcements’ section.

IEEE Xplore database now has the following 5 highly-cited journals from American Institute of Physics (AIP) and  AVS .

Applied Physics Letters (AIP)
Journal of Applied Physics (AIP)
Review of Scientific Instruments (AIP)
JVST A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films (AVS)
JVST B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures (AVS).

Full text of the articles are not directly available from IEEEXplore. Users will need to link out to Scitation for the fulltext :

1. Click the link ‘Browse AIP/AVS Applied Physics Articles’ on the interface. 

2. Click on the journal name which you want to access.

3. Click View Contents.

4. Select the artcle and click on FullText: PDF link.

5. The following 2 options are available to access the full text.

Option 1: Click on the DOI link – Users will be brought directly to the article in Scitation where they can click on the PDF to get fulltext.

Option 2: Click on the SFX link  button  – Users will be brought to the SFX page. Select the fulltext option and click “GO”.  Users can click the  PDF for full text .

The ResearcherID.com is developed by Thomson Reuters which is the vendor who produces one of the mostly commonly used citation analysis database Web of Science (https://venus.wis.ntu.edu.sg/lib_databases/Subject.aspx?subjValue=CITATION) which NTU has subscription to. And the data source fro ResearcherID.com is also from Web of Science itself.

What is ResearcherID.com?
(From ResearchID FAQ page at http://www.researcherid.com/resources/html/faq.html)
ResearcherID is a website where invited researchers can register for a unique researcher ID number. At this site, users can: Update their profile information; Build their publication list using Web of Science search services or uploading a file; Select to make their profile public or private. Registered as well as non-registered users can search the Researcher Registry to view profiles and find potential collaborators. Continue Reading »

The Gmelin Database is the sister database to Beilstein, covering inorganic and organometallic compounds from 1772 to date. Again based on a German publication, the Gmelin Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, the database currently comprises over 2.5 million compounds, including glasses, alloys, ceramics, minerals and coordination compounds, 1.9 million reactions and 1.3 million citations.

CrossFire Gmelin also contains over 500,000 titles, abstracts and keywords. It is now possible to search reactions in Gmelin in the same way as the Beilstein database.

Gmelin has wide application outside the chemistry field, as it contains information for (among others) materials scientists, biologists, biochemists, medicinal chemists, geologists and mineralogists.

To access Gmelin, users need to install Gmelin on their local PCs and read the installation instructions for more details. Gmelin database can be acessed through “Library Databases -> Materials Science -> Gmelin”

To install Gmelin database, click here.

Searching journal articles and conference proceedings just got easier with “Web of Science” and “Conference Proceedings Citation Index”, previously called ISI Proceedings. This powerful combination lets you easily discover which proceedings are the most influential. You’ll see who is citing proceedings, and discover new research directions.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Conference proceedings depict the leading edge of research, revealing emerging trends and new ideas before they appear in journals. Conference Proceedings Citation Index, a Web of Science database, lets you use cited reference searching to see the full impact of conferences and other professional meetings. You can track the influence of papers, authors, and conference series. And you can see how conferences influence all aspects of your research. Continue Reading »

How much time do you spend on downloading and renaming full-text articles? And does it prove to be challenging to find the downloaded articles back?The Scopus Document Download Manager makes it quick and simple to download and organize several full-text articles simultaneously, saving you plenty of valuable time. This new service also helps you to easily and quickly organize downloaded results on your own computer without complicated default naming options.

The Document Download Manager allows you to collect, organize and download up to 50 full-text articles simultaneously in just a few clicks directly from the Scopus results list, a task that would need approximately 150 clicks without the Document Download Manager.
You can then choose your personal naming convention and destination that suits your own filing system and the preferences will be remembered the next time you return to Scopus.

The Document Download Manager is available in Scopus from February 19, 2008, and is designed to facilitate faster and more efficient downloading and organizing of entitled full-text articles.

Click here to read more about the Document Download Manager. We trust that you will find this enhancement valuable to the literature research process.

The first ePub title released by IEEE, ” IEEE Applications & Practice Magazine” is an add on to the existing IEEE Communications magazine. The ePub is a new publishing  method that allows for faster and timely publication of significant and technically reviewed articles, tutorials, technical reports  and application notes for engineeering  practitioners. The first series of the magazine in two issues  focuses on the growing  technology of  RFID.  Articles include overview of the field, market trends, aplications, public policy and future evolution of the technology, RFID infrastructure and leveraging  RFID in healthcare. The second series covers the topics on  100 GB Ethernet and optical LAN technologies. 

To access this magazine, users should log on to IEEE Xplore database, and visit the IEEE Communications magazine web page.

Access IEEE Xplore database here