Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. Among the several journals ASME publishes are Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Journal of Heat Transfer and Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. Access to these and all other journals (except Applied Mechanics Review) is available at:

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) - Complete Listing of ASME Journal Titles.

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ResearchBuzz reported a very interesting and useful feature of HubMed which now provides Charts Tracking Keywords. Excerpts: "It's an interface to the medical literature search engine PubMed that's simplified and very easy to use. Nice if you're not a professional medical researcher and find the PubMed interface overwhelming. HubMed also offers keyword-based RSS feeds for tracking additions to its database. HubMed also offers charts as well. Run a search. On the results page look to the right and you'll see a results count: "Results 1-20 of" however many results you got. Next to that will be a small chart icon." For example, searching for Biomaterials and then clicking the chart icon finds
16 papers with titles or abstracts containing the word 'biomaterials' in 1975; Number of papers with the term 'biomaterials' in titles or abstracts increased to 480 in 2005. (NOTE: the icon for 'charts' is not clearly visible; It is very small)

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IBISWorld US Industry Reports provide access to information on every industry in the US Economy, publishing the largest collection of Industry Market Research Reports in the US with over 700 reports. Each report is written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Each IBISWorld report is 25-30 pages long and updated every 4 months.

To access, go to: Electronic Databases by Title and click on IBISWorld or simply click on IBISWorld

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Sites discussing the influence of the development of nuclear energy on popular culture, history, and society including those that discuss the history of the development of nuclear energy either for military or power production purposes. This excellent compilation of web resources on atomic bomb and nuclear energy can be accessed from the site Atomic Age.

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Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues provides a broad, balanced range of annotated references for the study of nuclear issues. This searchable collection includes books, articles, films, CD-ROMs, and websites. All annotations have been reviewed by members of the library’s prestigious National Advisory Board.

Access is available at: Alsos Digital Library.

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Atomic Archive site is a member of the Nuclear Pathways project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library effort. Nuclear Pathways' goal makes information on historic and current nuclear issues more accessible and comprehensible to the public, educators, and students from middle school through graduate programs.

Access is available at: Atomic Archive
See Nuclear Pathways Project for more information on this initiative.

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The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data collections hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include PCT (Patents), Madrid (Trademarks), Hague (Industrial Designs), Article 6ter (State Emblems, Official Hallmarks, and Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations) and others.

Access available from: The Intellectual Property Digital Library .

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As reported in Knowledgespeak earlier this month (May 8th, 2006), the new Emerald Engineering web portal will be officially launched at the 2006 ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) 113th Annual Conference and Exposition to be held in Chicago from June 18-21, 2006. Access to the whole of Emerald Engineering is completely free of any restrictions until September 2006.

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Randy Reichardt reported in his STLQ blog that the Institute of Physics will now provide access to a new open acess journal - Environmental Research Letters. See also a recent entry in Knowledgespeak, which is considered as the world's first online news service to report all the relevant developments within the STM publishing industry, on a daily basis.

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Webometric indicators are provided to show the commitment of the institutions to Web publication and to the worldwide Open Access to knowledge. If the web performance of an institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases in the volume and quality of their electronic publications. Laboratorio de Internet is a research group of the CINDOC - CSIC that acts as an observatory of the academic and scientific research activities and publication on the Web. Every January and July this site will offer a ranking of universities and research centres worldwide according to the webometric indicators of their institutional web domains

Some imortant compilations: Top 500 R&D Institutes
Academic Ranking of World Universities
(Last updated August 2005).

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According to the New York Times, (May 8, 2006), "The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, proposed last week by Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, and John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, would require 11 government agencies to publish online any articles that contained research financed with federal grants. If enacted, the measure would require that the articles be accessible online without charge within six months of their initial publication in a scholarly journal."

Access the Full article through our Library's new TimesSelect content from New York Times online,

TimesSelect content.
After logging in, locate the article by typing the article title in the search box.
(Note: TimesSelect provides access to articles published in The New York Times since 1981 in the online Archive.)

There are already some updates and comments about this article on several other blogs.
See Georgia State University Library's 'Issues in Scholarly Communication' entry 'The New York Times on the Federal Research Public Access Act'. Stevan Hernad, who moderates 'American Scientist Open Access Forum', also has a response at 'Strengthening the US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)' . See also 'Taking aim at scientific journals ' and ‘More on the FRPAA’ in Peter Suber’s http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html">Open Access Newsblog.

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Several Computer Science faculty members have published their technical reports which can be accessed from Drexel's Computer Science Department's web site. The primary objective is to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly/technical information on a non-commercial basis.

Access these reports at: Computer Science Technical Reports

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IEEE career focussed event information:|

Where? Bossone ECE Seminar Room 303
Time: 3:30pm
The event has participation from:
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
College of Engingeering
School of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems
Steinbright Career Development Center
Drexel University Libraries
IEEE

More information is available at: IEEE career event

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TechXtra is a suite of ten freely available services which simplify access to a multitude of different types of technology information from a host of different sources. TechXtra facilitates immediate access to the freely available full-text content of hundreds of thousands of eprints, technical reports, theses, articles, news items, job announcements and more. In cases where the full-text is not freely available, TechXtra provides links to vendors for pay-per-view options. TechXtra searches a combination of digital repositories, journal databases, technical reports servers, web information, news sources and more, all with a focus on technology information.
Read: About TechXtra for more information.

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TheComputer Science and Software Engineering Guide is now updated. The new guide can be accessed from:
Computer Science and Software Engineering.

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Guide is now updated. The new guide can be accessed from:
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
See Engineering Subject Guides for research help in all major engineering disciplines.

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The Chemical Engineering Research Guide is updated. The new guide can be accessed from:
Chemical Engineering.

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The Engineering Statistics Internet Handbook, jointly developed by NIST and SEMATECH, is aimed at helping engineers, scientists, and managers incorporate statistical methods into their work more efficiently and effectively.
To access, go to: The Engineering Statistics Internet Handbook.

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Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote Open Access Initiatives. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites. Advanced search is also available. Among the journal titles included are: E-Journal of Soft Materials, E-Polymers, Paint and Coatings Industry, Magentic Resonanace in Medical Sciences, etc. The full collection can be accessed from Databases by title page and then click on Open J-Gate. You can also access directly from J-Gate.

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