Books

To find books on a particular topic, search in our online catalog using ‘Advanced Keyword Searching ‘feature and using appropriate keyword representing that topic.

Examples:

Business Plans
Entrepreneurship
Ventures and Technology
Emerging Technologies

Interdisciplinary Databases to find journal articles
Databases/Article Indexes for Interdisciplinary Research

Key Business and Entrepreneurship Databases

Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in biomedical technologies in magazines and newspapers

Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
Business & Industry
Business Insights
Business Source Premier
Expanded Academic
Factiva Global news and business information service, international business, company/industry research
Faulkner’s Advisory for IT Studies
Hoover’s Companies, Industries and Market Intelligence
IBISWorld Industry Reports
Mintel Reports – Market Research
Proquest
Tablebase - Statistical Data on Companies, Industries, Countries and Markets

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A panel discussion/seminar focussed specially for new incoming graduate students. Light refreshments will be provided.

” IEEE Graduate students forum invites you to a panel discussion about things involved in research. Topics to be discusses by our distinguished panelists include the qualities of a good Research Assistant. In a nutshell “What does it take to be a good Research Assiatant” will be covered in the seminar. The panel includes Professors, Mentors and Graduate Research Assiatants.”

Date/Time: 27th september 2006, 4 pm.
Venue : Bossone 303 Conference Room.
Contact : pranam@gmail.com
RSVP to : skb25@drexel.edu / pranam@gmail.com

Knowledgespeak reported recently that The Journal of Physics: Conference Series, an open access (OA) journal published by the UK based non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), has announced that the proceedings of SciDAC 2006 is now available online in volume 46 of the journal. As an open-access journal, every volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series is completely free to read online.

The main goal of the new Engineering Library Instruction blog is to help engineering students develop their information literacy skills.

Access by going to: Engineering Library Instruction blog

Among the categories included are: Applied Engineering Technology and Construction Management and Electronic Databases Search Tips.

iDEA is a centralized virtual space to access unique digital resources produced by the Drexel community. Administered by the Drexel Libraries, iDEA is commited to providing permanent open access to the digital works of Drexel University. A centralized Web portal and storage system for collecting, organizing, indexing, accessing, and preserving–in digital format–the intellectual output of an institution. Institutional repositories provide open and free access to a wide range of digital items, both published and unpublished.

See: Drexel University Archives announces iDEA: Drexel’s institutional repository and DREXEL E-REPOSITORY AND ARCHIVES HELP for more help. See College of Engineering for recent content added in this Repository.

Suman Datta, a recent graduate from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, recently discussed an opportunity of starting a support group of students (Job Club) in Science and Engineering to our Career Services Library Assistant, Jenny Roberts. See below for more information from Suman’s note to Jenny:

‘If you’re out on the long lonely road of a job hunt and want to form a support group to share information, exchange ideas and generally have a good time making new friends and meeting people, here is your chance.

You must be:

* a recent graduate (B.S., M.S., Ph.D., )
* Major: Science and Engineering
* Unemployed

Please contact Suman Datta at sd338@drexel.edu for more information.

The NIST Metallurgy Division has long played a major role in the generation, evaluation and use of alloy phase diagrams. Between 1982 and 1990, an international effort to evaluate binary phase diagrams was coordinated by the Metallurgy Division and ASM. Phase diagrams are available online.

Access : Phase Diagrams & Computational Thermodynamics

Also availble from NIST sites are: NIST Technical Reports and Publications. These include NISTIR 6927: Databases for Computational Thermodynamics and Diffusion Modeling Workshop Report and NISTIR 6460: Thermal Spray Coatings Workshop among several others.

Here is a quick overview of what’s new with ISI Web of Knowledge

Author Finder – Find the right author, right away. Distinguish between authors with the same name; available in Web of Science and Current Content Connect. .

RSS Alerting – Integrate crucial data into your workflow. Get custom RSS feeds to receive search, citation, and tables of content alerts from ISI Web of Knowledge.

You will need to register in ISI Web of Knowledge the first time. After searching in Web of Science, you can save your searches. Use ‘Search History’ and then click on ‘Save History’ icon. You will need to fill up ‘Save Search History’ form with a name for your alert, a brief description, and an option to receive an email alert for your query. If you are only interested in receiving RSS feeds, do not mark ‘Send Me Email Alerts’ box.
Click on ‘Save’ and you will notice an ‘XML’ icon that provides the URL for the RSS feed for your query.

Improved topic search results – Get more complete search results with the new implied “AND” between search terms.

See various training sessions on how to use Web of Knowledge efficiently at Web of Knowledge Recorded Sessions.

The first recorded session is the update on new features recently added to the ISI Web of Knowledge.

Drexelphysics blog had earlier announced some other new features in Web of Knowledge. According to this blog, “You will notice a new box at the beginning of your results list with options to “Refine” your search by Subject Categories, Sourch Titles, Document Types, Authors, and Publication Years and more. When you select one of these “Refinements” you will get a listing with the number of hits for each. Then you can select from the sorted options. Cool! AND you can continue to refine your results and for more options, you can use the analyse tool. NOW you can analyse sets upto 100,000 records.”

Brian Gray from the Case Western Reserve University provides some excellent information on various engineering resources in his e3 E-Resources for Engineering Education Blog. Most recently, he pointed out a very useful resource called Nanomedicine Lab Registry. From Brian’s blog, here is more information about this resource.
“The Nanomedicine Lab Registry was compiled from Medline abstracts containing specific nanomedicine keyphrases. It only includes laboratories with 5 or more publications. It uses a database of citation histories compiled from open source journal article reference lists and a major OCR (optical character recognition) campaign on their entire reference library. It also provides information on recent high impact articles in various subject areas covered by the Registry.”

See also other useful compilations such as Bioinformatics, Gene Theraphy, Nanomedicine and Stem Cells at Websites from the Ion Channel Media Group.

LEGAL RESEARCH GUIDE: Finding Facts from Virtualchase is a compilation of electronic reference sites. Some of the sites included here are: Airport & City Code Converter, helps to convert airport or city codes to airport or city names and vice versa. It also provides market data including the number of domestic markets served, the daily average number of passengers, the average price of a one-way fare, and the daily average number of miles flown. Another site City Search (Find a County) provides a utility for looking up counties by city. Enter a city name to find a list of matching counties. Alternatively, you can display all cities within a state and the counties in which they reside. If you follow the link for the county name, the utility displays a list of all cities within the county.