In this recording,  I am sharing my thoughts on different ways to use Web 2.0 tools to keep engineering students uptodate about new information resources, with Elsevier’s Engineering Information Marketing Manager, Alicia Burns.  I am also highlighting  the new tagging feature in Engineering Village that is aimed at helping students to share their citations related to their projects with the other members of their group.

Listen:  Jay Bhatt talks about using 2.0 to reach Millennials 
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What is Tagging? How do I use Tagging and Groups features available in Engineering Village? How do I receive RSS feeds for my searches in Engineering Village?

On June 15, 2007, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opened the patent examination process for online public participation for the first time.

See The Peer to Patent Project for more information. (In the first month since the launch of Peer-to-Patent on June 15: 1078 people have signed up to be reviewers).

See ‘Community Patent Review’ for tutorials to learn more about the prior art, the Peer to Patent Project and the goals of Community Patent Review.

The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced it will extend the duration, increase the maximum number of applications, and expand the scope of applications eligible to participate in the Peer Review Pilot. 

“The pilot is being conducted in cooperation with the Peer-to-Patent Project, organized by the New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy. The pilot is extended for an additional 12 months and will end on June 15, 2009″.

View the USPTO announcement about its extension at : USPTO announcement

See details in Information Today’s Weekly News Digest at: The Peer to Patent Project has been extended

Excerpt: “Peer-to-Patent, founded by professor Beth Noveck, is the first social networking project with a direct link to decision making by the federal government. Data from the first year of the pilot shows that an open network of peer reviewers can improve the quality of information available to patent examiners.”

“A company started to commercialize technology developed at Drexel University has gotten funding, a new CEO and its first contract, making it a potential model for companies spinning out of colleges and universities.

Y-Carbon Inc. got $500,000 from three sources: the Nanotechnology Institute; the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, a consortium of four Pittsburgh-area companies; and a subcontract from the Baltimore-based Advanced Technologies unit of British defense giant BAE Systems for work funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

“[Y-Carbon Inc.] will be able to solve a large number of energy, environmental and health problems … that don’t have a good solution at the moment,” said Yury Gogotsi, who led the team that developed Y-Carbon’s technology and is the company’s founder and chief science officer.”

Source:  Philadelphia Business Journal at:  Nanotech firm is on a roll
NOTE: See Philadelphia Businesss Journal to locate the print version of this article since at present full electronic access to this article is not available.

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Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) is an organization that provides access to several Open Access Journals.

These are:

Molecules  since 1996. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences since 2000. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

Sensors since 2001. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

Marine Drugs since 2003. Fully covered by SCI-Expanded.

Entropy since 1999.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health  since 2004.

Materials since 2008 (new).

Energies since 2008 (new). Energies, An Open-Access Journal of Related Scientific Research, Technology Development and Studies in Policy and Management, is the most recently launched Journal.

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) provides an international forum for refereed original contributions, reviews and focus issues covering all aspects of materials science, including theoretical analysis, synthesis and processing, phase and structure analyses, characterization, properties, engineering and applications.

From 2008 the journal will be published in an open-access model, with all content completely free to read. There is no publication charge, as the costs of publication will be covered by the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).

See: Science and Technology of Advanced Materials for more information

PAIR is the Patent Application Information Retrieval system that displays information regarding patent application status. There is both a Public and Private side to PAIR. “ Public PAIR ” only displays issued or published application status. For more information, please refer to: Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR).

See also: Search for patent applications

As Ed Eckel, I also I learned about this from a presentation by Charlotte Erdmann (Purdue University Library) at the ASEE Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

Source: Ed Eckel’s blog – World of Engineering
(Note: Ed used to work at Drexel’s Hagerty Library a few year’s ago)

See also: Patents at Mach 2: Technology on the Cutting Edge. Workshop at the ASEE 2008 Conference

TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) are collaborating on this pilot project.

See: TRAIL – Technical Report Archive and Image Library and Browse Technical Reports by Title.