SYNTHESIS: Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.

It includes lectures such as:

Artificial Organs
Sensory Organ Replacement and Repair
The Transmission-Line Modeling (TLM) Method in Electromagnetics
Computational Electronics
Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth

See Published Titles for all titles published so far this year.

For a list of titles currently in production and due to publish in the coming months, go to:
Forthcoming Synthesis Lectures

Email alerts on upto FIVE subject areas can be activated by completing the online registration form.

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Knovel K-News features instructional tips on how to find specific data or information using online scientific and technical books availble through Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References' . Spring 2008 edition of K-News provides demos on Basic Searching, and Interactive Graphs and Tables.

Within 'Did you know..' category, it features: 'Did you know that Knovel can search the Tensile and Compressive properties of thousands of materials?' and within Knovel Solution categoty, 'Manufacturing Plastic from Soybeans?' is highlighted.

To access 'Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References' from the Library's web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel.

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"This book is an introduction to heat and mass transfer oriented toward engineering students. It may be downloaded without charge.

Revised versions are posted regularly; the version number is given on the titlepage verso. Visit this page again to obtain updates.

Please note that this material is copyrighted under U.S. Copyright Law. The authors grant you the right to download and print it for your personal use or for non-profit instructional use. Any other use, including copying, distributing or modifying the work for commercial purposes, is subject to the restrictions of U.S. Copyright Law and the Berne International Copyright Convention."

Source: Heat Transfer Textbook - Open Access Textbook
Authors: John H. Lienhard IV, Professor, University of Houston and John H. Lienhard V, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Read also: New Podcast: Professor Lienhard on his Open Access Textbook from the MIT Libraries News Blog

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Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv online provids 3D model of the human anatomy. It includes Interactive Functional Anatomy and Complete Human Anatomy -- both are 3D interactive human models.You can also export images, animations or text and rotate the model, adding or removing layers to show structures.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Medicine/Biomedical Sciences and then click on Primal Pictures.anatomy.tv or go to Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv

Examples of 3D anatomy models include: Interactive Head & Neck, Interactive Spine, Interactive Shoulder, and Interactive Foot among many others.

Note: You will need to enable pop-ups for optimal viewing.

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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.

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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

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Synthesis Digital Library is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.

August 2007: New Titles Published in the Computational Electromagnetics series, the Communications series, and the Digital Circuits & Systems series

New titles include

Fundamentals of Electromagnetics 1: Internal Behavior of Lumped Elements (Voltmer) within Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics series
Fundamentals of Electromagnetics 2: Quasistatics and Waves (Voltmer) Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics

Here is the list of current Synthesis series available at present. Click on each series title to access available electronic lectures within that series. See Synthesis Series for more information.

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Following titles have been recently added in the Knovel Database for engineering and scientific online books.

Adhesion aspects of thin films. Volume 1 [electronic resource]
Adhesion aspects of thin films. Volume 2 [electronic resource]
Adhesion measurement of films & coatings. Volume 2 [electronic resource]
Adhesion measurement of films and coatings [electronic resource]
Chemical physics of nanostructured semiconductors [electronic resource]
Ecological aspects of polymer flame retardancy [electronic resource]
The statistical nature of strength and lifetime in polymer films and fibers [electronic resource]
Surface contamination and cleaning [electronic resource]
Thermal oxidation of polymer blends [electronic resource]
Thermal stability of engineering heterochain thermoresistant polymers [electronic resource]

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NIST Data Gateway-provides easy access to many (currently over 80) of the NIST scientific and technical databases. These databases cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines.

See NIST Scientific and Technical Databases

Some useful data sites include:

Biometrics
Biotechnology
Chemical Kinetics
Construction
Environmental Data
Fire
Industrial Fluids and Chemical Engineering
Materials Properties
Physical Reference Data
Thermophysical and Thermochemical

NIST also provide access to NIST Chemistry webBook and NIST Ceramics webbook. Updates on NIST databases are also available with RSS feeds.

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Drexel Libraries now subscribe to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database! HSTM provides access to citations for journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations
in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Four separate bibliographies are included in the database: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. HSTM is updated quarterly and covers resources published from 1975 to the present.

You'll find this database listed with Databases/Article Indexes for History and in the alphabetical list of databases.

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The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology is an authoritative first reference source for the increasingly broad and multidisciplinary field of materials. Subject areas include: Functional Phenomena, Fundamental Core Theory, Structural Materials, Structural phenomena, Functional Materials and Polymers and Materials Chemistry. It is available electronically.

Access: The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology

See also Electronic Reference Books for other important encyclopedias.

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Comprehensive Composite Materials provides a unique reference source for scientists and technologists in the field of composites research. The six volumes covers key aspects of naturally occuring and synthetic composite materials, including: history reinforcements, matrix materials, mechanical properties, physical properties, theory, structural design, structural analysis, manufacturing processes, quality assurance, test methods, applications, recycling and disposal. It is available electronically.

Access: Comprehensive Composite Materials

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ENGnetBase has broken out its holdings into 4 smaller netBASE sections, in addition to being searchable all under ENGnetBase.

ENGnetBASE
This award-winning site offers a critically acclaimed collection of best-selling engineering handbooks and reference titles. Additionally, this wide-ranging digital library has spawned the following vertical collections focused on specific engineering disciplines:

CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE
ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE
MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE
INFOSECURITYnetBASE
MATERIALSnetBASE
POLYMERSnetBASE
TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE

Each of the small netbase sections can also be found under Databases /Article Indexes page.

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ThermoDex contains records for selected printed and web-based compilations of thermochemical and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances. You can select one or more compound types and link them to one or more property terms, and ThermoDex will return a list of handbooks that could contain these data. Due to copyright and technical considerations, the actual data are not contained in ThermoDex. ThermoDex is based primarily on the holdings of the Mallet Chemistry Library at the University of Texas at Austin. Links are provided to identify library holdings in your area. Click on the link 'Find in a Library' , enter location information for example, zip-code 19104, and click on 'Go' to see if local libraries have the item you are looking for.

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Our blog has 'Search this blog' box on the top right corner. Use this box to find out if information about a topic of your interest had been posted earlier. For example, to find out whether any tips about 'standards' were posted, type 'standards' in the search box.

You will find two entries: ILI Standards Infobase and Architectural Graphic Standards Online

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Engineering Library Instruction is a new Instruction blog to help students develop their information seeking skills for their research projects. The most recent entries include 'How do I obtain full papers from the Proceedings of the SPIE and other conferences that are not available in the library?' and 'Engineering Resources Videos' that demonstartes various engineering databases in a video format.

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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."

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Knovel University Challenge kicks off its spring 2007 season on February 5th and will run through April 5th. The University Challenge provides students the opportunity to master their research and analysis skills while competing for 9 prizes. This year's winners will receive a $1500 scholarship or 1 of 8 iPod Shuffles. The University Challenge is open to students of hard sciences, mathematics and technology-related courses of study at universities with access to Knovel Library or Knovel K-Essentials.

To participate in the fall Knovel University Challenge, go to 'Take the University Challenge' page starting Wednesday, Sept. 13th.

To access Knovel, go to Library Databases and click on Knovel. For more information on Knovel, please refer to Knovel - Engineering and Scientific online reference books

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Knovel K-News features instructional tips on how to find specific data or information using online scientific and technical books availble through knovel.

To access knovel from the Library's web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.

Knovel K-News also provides RSS feeds of new content added, instructional tips and other announcements. Click the XML icon to view the K-News blog edition.

There are several new books added in Knovel recently. These include:

Engineering Materials for Biomedical Applications
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials
Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety
Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals
Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering and Design

See New Titles for all recently added titles in Knovel, Premium titles , and All Titles for a complete collection of all titles available in Knovel.

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SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) journals online now provides RSS feeds of its new journal articles. To receive RSS feeds for new SIAM articles, go SIAM Journals Onlie, and click on the link for the journal you are interested in, for example, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. Right click on the XML button in the bottom right of the screen, below the journal cover image. and copy and paste the URL into your feed reader to receive feeds of new articles. Please refer to 'Blogging as a tool : innovative approaches to information access' for more information on how to use Bloglines (a web based free service to subscribe to different RSS feeds. Please also refer to "Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries" to learn more about feedreaders and other electronic resources that provide RSS feeds.

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According to a recent article published in E-Composites.com, MSU/DOE Fatigue Database for Composite Materials is one of the world's largest open-access libraries on wind turbine materials and the largest in the United States. It is used by researchers around the globe. This data is available from the Sandia National Laboratories web site.

Read the full article at:

One of nation's largest databases for wind energy research

Online Abstracts and Reports of the applied wind energy research are also available through Sandia's Wind Energy Technology web site.

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KnowledgeSpeak newsletter reported that Publisher McGraw-Hill Professional has announced the addition of video news (90-second video segments) bring scientific news to life from ScienCentral, Inc., to AccessScience, its online encyclopaedia of science and technology.

AccessScience can be accessed at: AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill : [electronic resource] the McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology on the web.

The most recent video News entry is on Nano Bones. AccessScience also provides RSS feeds of new articles added. The AccessScience RSS feed delivers headlines and links back to the latest Encyclopedia articles, news stories, and announcements posted on the AccessScience home page.

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The 2005 data are now available for Journal Citation Reports on the Web. Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate journals and their impact and influence in the research community. Covers more than 7,000 of the worlds most highly cited, peer-reviewed journals in the physical and social sciences. Offers access to citation statistics from 1997 onward Enables users to sort data by: Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Total Cites, Total Articles, Cited Half-Life and Journal Title.

Access from the Library Website: Databases by Title and then click on Jounal Citation Reports.

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Here are some electronic encyclopedias and reference works available to Drexel Community.

AccessScience-McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Comprehensive Composite Materials
Encyclopedia of Agrochemicals
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical engineering
Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology
Encyclopedia of Chemical physics and Physical Chemistry
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science andTechnology
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine

You can find other electronic encyclopedias or handbooks by searching in our online catalog. For example, to locate electronic handbooks in the area of Mechanical Engineering, use 'mechanical*' and 'handbook*' as keywords in 'Advanced Searching' feature and by limiting to 'All Electronic Resources' option. See 'Mechanical* and Handbook*' to see what onlines books are available.

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Knovel K-News features instructional tips on how to find specific data or information using online scientific and technical books availble through knovel.

To access knovel from the Library's web site, go to Engineering Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.

Knovel K-News also provides RSS feeds of new content added, instructional tips and other announcements. Click the XML icon to view the K-News blog edition.

Most recent issue of Knovel K-News provides instructional tutorial on how to find 'Enthalpy of Formation for Terephthalic Acid', April 2006 issue provides tutorial on how to find 'Enthalpy of Combustion for Alcohol', and October 2005 issue provides information on ' New Web Interface Enhancements' in Knovel.

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Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. Among the several journals ASME publishes are Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Journal of Heat Transfer and Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. Access to these and all other journals (except Applied Mechanics Review) is available at:

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) - Complete Listing of ASME Journal Titles.

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ResearchBuzz reported a very interesting and useful feature of HubMed which now provides Charts Tracking Keywords. Excerpts: "It's an interface to the medical literature search engine PubMed that's simplified and very easy to use. Nice if you're not a professional medical researcher and find the PubMed interface overwhelming. HubMed also offers keyword-based RSS feeds for tracking additions to its database. HubMed also offers charts as well. Run a search. On the results page look to the right and you'll see a results count: "Results 1-20 of" however many results you got. Next to that will be a small chart icon." For example, searching for Biomaterials and then clicking the chart icon finds
16 papers with titles or abstracts containing the word 'biomaterials' in 1975; Number of papers with the term 'biomaterials' in titles or abstracts increased to 480 in 2005. (NOTE: the icon for 'charts' is not clearly visible; It is very small)

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IBISWorld US Industry Reports provide access to information on every industry in the US Economy, publishing the largest collection of Industry Market Research Reports in the US with over 700 reports. Each report is written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Each IBISWorld report is 25-30 pages long and updated every 4 months.

To access, go to: Electronic Databases by Title and click on IBISWorld or simply click on IBISWorld

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The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data collections hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include PCT (Patents), Madrid (Trademarks), Hague (Industrial Designs), Article 6ter (State Emblems, Official Hallmarks, and Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations) and others.

Access available from: The Intellectual Property Digital Library .

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As reported in Knowledgespeak earlier this month (May 8th, 2006), the new Emerald Engineering web portal will be officially launched at the 2006 ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) 113th Annual Conference and Exposition to be held in Chicago from June 18-21, 2006. Access to the whole of Emerald Engineering is completely free of any restrictions until September 2006.

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According to the New York Times, (May 8, 2006), "The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, proposed last week by Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, and John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, would require 11 government agencies to publish online any articles that contained research financed with federal grants. If enacted, the measure would require that the articles be accessible online without charge within six months of their initial publication in a scholarly journal."

Access the Full article through our Library's new TimesSelect content from New York Times online,

TimesSelect content.
After logging in, locate the article by typing the article title in the search box.
(Note: TimesSelect provides access to articles published in The New York Times since 1981 in the online Archive.)

There are already some updates and comments about this article on several other blogs.
See Georgia State University Library's 'Issues in Scholarly Communication' entry 'The New York Times on the Federal Research Public Access Act'. Stevan Hernad, who moderates 'American Scientist Open Access Forum', also has a response at 'Strengthening the US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)' . See also 'Taking aim at scientific journals ' and ‘More on the FRPAA’ in Peter Suber’s http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html">Open Access Newsblog.

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Several Computer Science faculty members have published their technical reports which can be accessed from Drexel's Computer Science Department's web site. The primary objective is to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly/technical information on a non-commercial basis.

Access these reports at: Computer Science Technical Reports

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Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote Open Access Initiatives. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites. Advanced search is also available. Among the journal titles included are: E-Journal of Soft Materials, E-Polymers, Paint and Coatings Industry, Magentic Resonanace in Medical Sciences, etc. The full collection can be accessed from Databases by title page and then click on Open J-Gate. You can also access directly from J-Gate.

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We have expanded our access to all three Web of Science Indexes (Science Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Index; Social Sciences Index). We were previously subscribing to access only through 1990, but we can now access citations from the index from as far back as 1980. This expansion is a joint effort with the College of Information Science and Technology, that allows for more robust citation retrieval and report creation.
To access, please go to Engineering Databases and click on Science Citation Index or check out the expanded index coverage from Science Citation Index (Web of Science).

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CoS links researchers worldwide through products designed to meet the information needs of the scientific R&D community. Among various resources included are an expertise directory, funding opportunities, a funded research directory, profiles of researchers, MEDLINE and the Federal Register.

To access: Click on CoS

We will be presenting a poster on CoS during the Research Day.
Our poster number is 442F on row 28.

Continue reading "CoS (formerly Community of Science) poster on Research Day" »

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Nanomaterials Database is a powerful, free tool for the nanotechnology community to research nanomaterials from many different suppliers worldwide. The Nanomaterial Database currently contains 1,337 nanoparticles from 90 suppliers. To access, go to: The Nanomaterial Database.

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The ILI standards database is a bibliographic standards database. It covers over 600,000 worldwide standards. Over 250 major Standards issuing authorities are covered, from the US, Europe, the international bodies ISO and IEC to Japan and Australia. Any ASTM standards can also be requested through ILI Standards Infobase.
(NOTE: Depending on the budget availability, approval decisions on standards will be made)
To access ILI Infodisk or to use any of the standards available within the database, please contact Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian, Hagerty Library room 313, Phone: 215-895-1873.
List of Standards included: ILI Standards

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Architectural Graphic Standards (AGS) is a comprehensive source of architectural and building design data and construction details. Sections include: Concrete, Masonry, Metals, Woods and Plastics, Thermal and Moisture Protection, Energy and Environmental Design, Electrical, Mechanical and several others. It can also be accessed from: Electronic Databases by Title and then click on 'Architectural Graphic Standards Online.

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