European Patent Office (EPO) provides access to the European and International patents.
See: European Patent Office – Advanced Search option to find International patents. See ‘What does each of the patent databases included in the EPO database contain’ and ‘Search tips’ for more information.

Other International Patent sites:

Australian Patents
Canadian Patents
International Patent and Intellectual Property Offices
UK Patent Office

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

(more…)

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.

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.

Title: Scholarly use of information:
Graduate students’ information seeking behavior

Authors: Carole George, Alice Bright, Terry Hurlbert, Erika C. Linke, Gloriana St. Clair, and Joan Stein
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Abstract
Introduction. This study explored the graduate students’ information behavior as it informs their process of inquiry and scholarly activities.

One of the findings of this research study indicates that “Graduate students rely on library personnel for help finding and using resources and they also rely on academic personnel. This places librarians in a key position to affect students’ and faculty information behavior.”

Read the full article at:

Scholarly use of information:
Graduate students’ information seeking behavior

Applied Engineering Technology paper in collaboration with the Library:

Paper ‘LIBRARY EXPERIENCE FOR APPLIED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS’ was presented in the Engineering Technology Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

This paper would not have been possible without the invaluable assistance I received from Joshua Roberts – Assistant Information Services Librarian and Dr. Vladimir Genis, a faculty member in the Applied Engineering Technology Program of the Goodwin College of Professional Studies.

I will be at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference next week. There, I will be representing Drexel at the Engineering Libraries Division of the ASEE. See Get Acquainted Handout to learn about what nation’s engineering libraries are doing and their interest areas from futuristic perspectives. I will also be presenting a paper titled ‘LIBRARY EXPERIENCE FOR APPLIED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS’ – Session 3448 in the Engineering Technology Division of the ASEE. This paper would not have been possible without the invaluable assistance I received from Joshua Roberts – Assistant Information Services Librarian and Dr. Vladimir Genis, a faculty member in the Applied Engineering Technology Program of the Goodwin College of Professional Studies.

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.