Schedule for the RET class in the Library
Drexel-NSF Research Experiences for Teachers Program: RETAIN Technologies in the Delaware Valley
Friday, July 22nd from 9 am-10:30 am, Room L13C (Lower Level) in the Library
Books
Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas.
To find additional books on any topics, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching .
Grant and Funding Opportunities
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What is FSAE?
Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers). The first competition was started back in 1978 and was originally called the Mini Indy.The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car.
The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules whose purpose is both to ensure onsite event operations and promote clever problem solving.
SEE: Rules & Important Documents and Drexel Racing Formulae SAE
FSAE Facebook Group: Drexel Formula SAE Information Resources and Tools
This group will serve to enhance awareness of various information resources available to participating Drexel students so that they can efficiently use them in their design of the prototype race car for this competition. You can post any material or books you need on the wall of this group. My Facebook ID is bhattjj@drexel.edu
See also ‘Searching SAE Literature’ from ‘Engineering Library Instruction’ Blog and Mechanical Engineering – Materials Engineering Senior Design from ‘Englibrary’ blog.
What is Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe Database?
Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe:
Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe 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. Also searchable from within any of Drexel’s CSA databases. A complement to COS Expertise.
Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Funding:.
Click on Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe.
How can I find out where I can present my papers?
Use Community of Science (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. Approximately 10,000 conferences are listed each year along with 1,200-1,500 special issues. Also searchable from within any of Drexel’s CSA databases.
Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Funding:.
Click on Community of Science (COS) Papers Invited
Grant and Funding Opportunities
Community of Science
A database for researchers which includes an expertise directory, funding opportunities, MEDLINE and the Federal Register.
CoS Expertise
Detailed professional information about nearly 480,000 scientists, scholars and researchers.
CoS Funding Opportunities
A searchable and browsable database of funding information.
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.
Databases/Indexes for Funding
See also Research Guides for Grants and Prospect Research
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.
“Drexel University chemical engineering professor Yossef Elabad is developing ways to increase battery life through the use of fuel cell technology. Mr Elabad says he is particularly interested in direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, which can potentially fuel portable applications at a power density far exceeding that provided by lithium-ion batteries.”
Read the full article at: Drexel chemical engineer announces fuel cell developments
Drexel IEEE Technical Poster Symposium
The Drexel IEEE Graduate Forum (DIG) is proud to organize The First Annual Technical Poster Symposium on
Friday, March 07,2008 in the Bossone Atrium.
This is an Opportunity for Drexel’s Budding Engineers and Scientists to Exhibit and be Recognized for their Research Initiatives. The Symposium will Feature Lectures Delivered by Leading Scientists in the Fields of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Drexel Research Students are encouraged to submit abstracts for this event by Monday, February 25, 2008.
For Symposium and Abstract-Submission details: See DIG Symposium 2008
PubMed
Search results from PubMed can be directly downloaded on your desktop through RSS feeds.
To set up an RSS feed:
(1) Run your search in PubMed
(2) Select RSS Feed from the Send to menu.
(3) Click Create Feed and copy the XML icon into your RSS Reader.
An RSS reader is required to use this service on your computer and retrieve new items from PubMed. RSS feeds can also be retrieved in your bloglines account by subscribing to the feed.
For More information, see:
RSS Feeds Available from PubMed
For more information on feeds feom other electronic journals and databases,
See Blogging as a tool : innovative approaches to information access and Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries
IEEE Xplore RSS feeds
RSS feeds for new issues of IEEE journals are available for all titles.
Feeds are available individually from each journal’s main page in IEEE Xplore.
To see one example, visit the Proceedings of the IEEE main page. Click on ‘RSS’ icon and copy and paste the URL into your Feed reader to get feeds of new articles from this Journal.
RSS feeds can also be found through the Table of Contents Alerts service, which continues to offer notification by email.
Jeff Abrahamson from the Computer Science Department at Drexel University has an informative page on various aspects of LaTex. This page also provides a link to the LaTex thesis template that can be used by Drexel students writing their thesis.
As we continue to replace the print bound journal and index collections at Hagerty with available electronic journal coverage, we have purchased more electronic content and indexes available to the entire University community. We now own the electronic backfiles to 549 journals not previously accessible online to Drexel Libraries. These titles are contained within several Springer Online Archive packages and the American Institute of Physics Archive that have been purchased with funds provided by the Provost for replacing our print journals. Fifty-eight of these titles replace Hagerty’s bound print holdings; the rest are additions to our collection.
Please see the following pages for the individual journal titles included in each collection:
AIP Digital Archive
See also American Institute of Physics Digital Archive
Springer Link Historical Archives Chemistry and Materials Science
Springer Link Historical Archives Computer Sciences
Springer Link Historical Archives Earth and Environmental Sciences
Springer Link Historical Archives Engineering
Springer Link Historical Archives Mathematics
Springer Link Historical Archives Physics and Astronomy
To access any Journal from these collections, use ‘Journal Title’ Search Page from our online catalog or go to find e-journal.
In addition, we now have access to:
Applied Science and Technology Retrospective (1913-1983)
Provides access to seven decades of information from the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field – many of them peer-reviewed journals. Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983).
Note: Applied Science & Technology Full Text: Wilson Omnifile covers literature in applied science and technology related fields from 1982 onwards.
Choose Applied Science & Technology subject area.
Patent Lens can be used to search the full-text of over 8 million patents and applications. It is updated weekly with bulk data obtained through subscriptions with WIPO, USPTO, EPO and IP Australia.
For information on what is covered, see Current Coverage.
For more information: See ‘About Patent Lens’
The Patent Lens also integrates INPADOC legal status and patent family information from over 60 countries directly into the search results. This data can help to give an idea whether a patent application related to one of interest was filed in other countries, and possibly whether patents are in force or applications are still pending. Further information on a patent or application in a particular country of interest (which may have different claims pending or allowed than the parent application, depending on that country’s laws) may then be obtainable from that country’s patent office.
See Intellectual Property Tutorials for tips on How to read a patent, Top 10 things you should know about patents and Inventorship among many other useful tutorials available.
