An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. The Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs. Provided by Knovel.
This 14th Edition has been extensively revised to ensure its accuracy and enhance its readability with many new features. The Merck Index is a one-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables, and 450 Organic Name Reactions. In addition, the Knovel on-line version contains almost 1000 retired monographs. About 4,000 of the entries cover drugs and pharmaceuticals, 2,000 describe common organic chemicals and laboratory reagents, another 2,000 cover naturally occurring substances and plants, 1,000 focus on the elements and on inorganic chemicals, and approximately 1,000 pertain to compounds of agricultural significance. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds. In addition, there are more than 700 new and completely revised monographs, thousands of new references, trademarks and uses added to previous edition’s monographs.
Access: Merck Index Online (14th Edition)
It can also be accessed from Electronic Databases by Title page. Scroll down and click on the Merck Index.
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.
IEEE recently released several new research options for its IEEE Xplore online delivery platform, which powers IEEE online subscriptions for organizations and individuals. New features available through IEEE Xplore 2.4.2 include: Citation (Known Item) Search, allowing for the quick retrieval of documents by commonly used citation information; Tabbed Search Results, providing users with a more efficient reorganization of search results; Improved Author Search, ability to download citations in REFWORKS, etc. among several other new features. This release also includes test features: Application Notes, which consolidates practical and applied content for working engineers and Technology Surveys, which provides concise, expert summaries of two leading edge technologies with links to key papers in the field.
For full information on these and other features on IEEE Xplore, please see
IEEE Xplore Release 2.4.2 – November 2007
Source: IEEE Xplore® Upgrade Provides New Tools for Researchers
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
Key Engineering Electronic Databases
Ei Compendex and INSPEC
Google Scholar
IEEE Xplore
HUBMED
ScienceDirect
Web of Knowledge
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
(more…)
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.
“In a lecture that dips into both the anatomy and history of the semiconductor, Grant Willson offers some provocative thoughts on whether industry can continue improving on this most useful of inventions. He describes how steady advances in miniaturization enabled the astonishing progress of microchips over the past 40 years. Today, says Willson, you can buy a transistor for less than the cost of a single written character in your local newspaper. When he began at IBM in the 1970s, the silicon wafers produced were only 1.5 inches in diameter; now they’re bigger than pizzas. Willson delves into the technological changes that both enabled printing on circuits to grow smaller, and the final product to grow larger.”
Source: Scitech Library Newsletter
See the video of the Lecture at: Nanofabrication Technology: A view of the Future in Nanotechlogy Public Lectures
