Web of Science (ISI) Interface provides access to the ISI Citation databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index.

Extensive help in using these databases is available from:

Web of Science Tutorial will give you an overview of this database and understanding of how to use it.
Web of Science Recorded Training Materials provides video based training tutorials in Recorded Training section.

See:

Web of Science search tips

New Features Update – Winter 2011 and New Features Update – Summer 2011

There are other important tutorials on  Citation Report, Citation Alerting , Cited Reference Searching, and Saving Search Histories and Alerts are also available.

Community of Science  (Old COS  Interface)
Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Funding

Click on Community of Science (Old COS Interface)

(NOTE: Use this database to create your profile with  your research Expertise,  your publications, and your funding history.)

Select  COS Workbench and click on ‘Register for Free’. Click on ‘Join’.

The Community of Science researcher database lets you identify and locate researchers with interests and expertise similar to your own. It contains over 40,000 first-person expertise records. Users may limit retrieval to a particular location or institution and may also add their own record to the database.

COS Funding  Opportunities:

This database is a compilation of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Opportunity sponsors come from the public and private sector, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies and corporations.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Funding
Click on COS Funding Opportunities

COS Scholar Universe:

This database provides authoritative information about more than 1 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Funding
Click on COS Scholar Universe.

See also:

See: Quick Reference User Guide and Instructions for tips on how to search for Funding Opportunities.

COS Funding Alert is a personalized electronic notification service of funding information. Refer to the Funding Alert Set-Up or Funding Alert Tutorial pages for help accessing or personalizing your Alert.

How can I find out about upcoming conferences where I can present my research?

Use COS Papers Invited database to find this information.

The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Funding:.
Click on COS Papers Invited

Additional Resources for finding funding opportunities:

Web of Science:

Search on your topic. From the list of  citations, refine using ‘Funding Agencies’.
Identify funding agencies sponsoring projects that resulted in paper publications which are indexed in the Web of Science Database.

NSF Fastlane Award Search

• NSF Fastlane Award Search and Funding Trends
  FastLane covers the full range of transactions between a research organization, its researchers, and NSF. See also Grant Proposal Guide.

Drexel Fellowships Office:
Search for Fellowships

Encyclopedia of Associations Online
Encyclopedia of Associations Online
Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

Research Guide:
Funding Resources

With ISI Web of Science alerts, you can receive your weekly or monthly  email alerts based on your search preferences. To set up your search preferences, go to ISI Web of Knowledge and click on ‘Register’. Enter your e-mail address, password, and name in the form and click “Submit Registration.” Once you are registered, you can set up an alert for selected journal titles by going to ‘Create My Journal List’ and Table of Contents Alerts.

To set up a cited author or cited reference alert, sign in to ISI Web of

Knowledge with your email address and password, then go to ISI Web of Science database. Perform your search. Click the Advanced Search button. Then click the “save history” button. Under “Save Search History” enter a name for the alert in the ‘History Name box. Mark the box next to “send me e-mail alerts.” Enter your e-mail address and specify the type of alert you’d like to receive. Please remember that “notify only” will not contain any bibliographic information in your e-mail. Select “biblio” or “full record” to receive the results of your search via e-mail. Click “save.”Then click Done.

The name of your alert will display on the ISI Web of Knowledge page under “Open/Manage Saved Searches” along with an asterisk, indicating that alerting is active. In the “Open/Manage Saved Searches” area, you are able to update, renew or delete your alert. There is more information about this on the ISI Web of Knowledge page.

DieselNet is an internet information service on diesel engine emissions and all related topics including emission control, measurement, health, and environmental effects. DieselNet is addressed to engineers, researchers and students working with diesel emissions, as well as to several groups of diesel engine users who have to deal with emission related problems.

Access: DieselNet

How do I find Emission standards for Nort America and Europe?

Emission standards can be accesed from: Summary of worldwide diesel emission standards
For example, U.S.  New Engine and Vehicle Emissions standards include:

• Cars and Light Trucks
  • Federal Tier 1 Emission Standards
  • Federal Tier 2 Emission Standards
  • California Emission Standards
• Heavy-Duty Truck and Bus Engines
• Nonroad Diesel Engines
• Locomotives
• Marine Engines
• Stationary Diesel Engines

See also: DieselNet Intenet Resources

McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience 2.0  is a a top-to-bottom redesign of the premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.

Access:   AccessScience

Features:

• Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition
• Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
• 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
• 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
• Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
• Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®
• The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos
• Continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos
• added illustrations, animations, and image galleries
• questions answered in our weekly Q&A

The AccessScience team interviewed both users and librarians and learned that they wanted the most useful and up-to-date technology to work for them. The new site features:

• Brand-new fast, sophisticated search capability, including semantic-based searching of our enhanced search engine, making discovery of this wide range of information easier than ever.
• Twitter
• RSS feeds
• Flash® animations
• Image galleries (including images that can be saved to your personal space on the website)
• Videos
• Federated searching
• OpenURL

What are bookmarklets?

Bookmarklets allow you to look up scientific words or terms in AccessScience that you find in almost any Web site by simply highlighting the term and clicking on the bookmarklet you have placed in the personal toolbar of your browser. To use it you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

See Bookmarklets for more information.

EndNote

Provided by the Drexel University Office of Information Resources & Technology (please follow download instructions provided by IRT), EndNote is a desktop-based tool for building your own personal citation collection. The web-based tool EndNote Web is also accessible through this product. EndNote allows users to import citations, utilize in-text citation style, and create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians use EndNote, to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly.

For more information, please refer to: about EndNote

Download: EndNote

EndNote handouts:

• EndNote 2010 Presentation ** X3 UpDate **
• Biomedical Databases Handout
• Engineering Databases Handout

See Thomson Reuters Forums and EndNote Fourm

The Community Forum provides a place for users to discuss support topics and learn. At its heart are the message boards, where members post questions and answers. Guests (un-registered visitors) may browse or search the boards for information. Registered members can post messages, track discussions, and get e-mail notifications on new posting activity. For example, EndNote forums may provide answers to your questions dealing with bibliographies while using various electronic databases.

Knovel provides electronic access to leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. 

To access knovel from the Library’s web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.

Knovel search widget allows you to access Knovel from almost anywhere on the web- email it to colleagues, embed it in your personal homepages (like iGoogle, MyYahoo or Live.com), post it to your blog, add it to dozens of other social platforms.

See: How can I use the Knovel search widget?
For more information: Knovelblogs, Knovel search widget, Knovel Search Toolbar  and Add Knovel as a Search Engine

See also: Knovel Video Tutorials  and Using Knovel in the age of You Tube

Knovel is also on Facebook.

RefWorks is a web-based software application that helps you manage citations. It helps you keep track of the sources you are using for your research and your own notes about the sources. It is web-based (no special software installation, downloads, or plug-ins required). It will also create bibliographies for you in the format you specify (APA, IEEE, etc.).

Follow the steps below to format your bibliography using ASME style:

• Click on ‘Bibliography‘ after accessing  RefWorks
• Under Output Style,  go to ‘Access Output Style Manager‘
• Select ‘ASME’ under ‘Choose Output Style’ and then click on ‘Add to Favorites’
• Then go to ‘Bibliography‘ and choose ‘ASME’ to format your bibliography using ASME style

CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX

The CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX brings together in one place the majority of the leading materials science databases, with specialist content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application. Everything from raw materials and refining through processing, welding and fabrication to end uses, corrosion, performance and recycling is covered in depth for all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.

The subfiles that make up this database can be searched separately.

The subfiles are:

Aluminium Industry Abstracts, Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts, Copper Data Center Database, Corrosion Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Materials Business File , METADEX, and WELDASEARCH

Search Help links include: Help & Support, Quick Search Tutorial, Advanced Search Tutorial, Command Search Tutorial, and Quick Reference Card.

SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows you to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, chemical engineering, material science, agricultural science, and many others. It provides search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).

It provides information on:

• More than 17 million single- and multi-step reactions
• More than 1 billion predicted and experimental properties
• The CAS REGISTRY database – the original source and final authority for CAS Registry Numbers – updated daily
• All patent records, meeting CAS selection criteria, from 9 of the major patent offices are available online within 2 days of the patents’ issuance
• Sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases, which are indexed and linked to scientific journal and patent literature

Sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases, which are indexed and linked to scientific journal and patent literature

See: Content at a glance and Scifinder Scholar Overview for more details.

Access options:

Electronic Databases by Title.
Click on Scifinder Scholar for information on how to use it either on a Library computer or on a non-library computer. (4 concurrent user limit. Password accessible.)

(Scifinder Scholar How to Guides:

These How to Guides show step-by-step examples and include tips for using a variety of features available in SciFinder. Examples of guides available include: Research topic, Substructure searching, Chemical reactions, Molecular formula to find chemical substances, and Explore by journal or patent  using bibliographic citation.

Additional Information:

Scifinder Tutorials – Web Version