Keeping current: What's new in engineering information

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Keeping current What's new in engineering
information?

• Online Information 200812.00 - 12.30 Wednesday
  3rd Dec
• STM Information in Focus Theatre C
• Roddy MacLeod
• Heriot Watt University
• R.A.MacLeod_at_hw.ac.uk
• http//www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/online2008update
  .ppt

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Keeping current What's new in engineering
information?

• Selected news sources
• News and development trends, including news from
  publishers and content providers exhibiting at
  Online 2008, and selected other players
• Handouts URLs and Stands
• http//www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/online2008update
  .ppt

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News sources
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News sources

• RSS Feeds

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Industry News sources
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Publishers newsletters etc
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Newsletters
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From the source
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2008 Update

• General news and strategic partnerships
• New services
• New eBooks
• New journal titles
• Open Access developments
• Social networking
• RSS

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News and developments
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News and developments
FIZ Karlsruhe / STN International

• Compendex file reloaded. Now has SLART
  (simultaneous left and right truncation)
• INPADOCDB - new patent file, the largest
  international patent database.
• The Derwent Patent Citation Index - reloaded as
  PCI with coverage extended to include the
  Belgium, Spain, France and the Netherlands. 
• FIZ Karlsruhe and Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG)
  developing eSciDoc e-research platform

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News and developments

• MetaPress and Woodhead Publishing Limited -
  partnership
• Adept Scientific and Knovel partnership
• Infinity Science Press - acquired by Jones
  Bartlett Publishers
• ASCE making its journal collection available to
  UK universities through the NESLi2 Small and
  Medium Publishers initiative.
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Elsevier, Springer ScienceBusiness Media, Taylor
  Francis, Wiley-Blackwell
• ICE/Thomas Telford - partnering with pub2web to
  deliver a new online platform for all ICE
  journals, archive, manuals and new ebook content.

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New services

• Engineering Conferences Online

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New services

• OpenSIGLE

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New services

• Search.optics.org

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New services

• nanoHUB

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New services

• Emerald EarlyCite

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New services
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New services
GeoRef via Engineering Village
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eBooks
Taylor Francis

• Spons Architects Builders, Civil Highway
  Works, External Works Landscape, and Mechanical
  Electrical Services annual Price Books print
  plus free download in eBook form, and with costs
  estimating software package.
• 1504 engineering eBooks

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eBooks
Inderscience

• Sustainable development, Shipping and Transport
  Logistics
• 150 William Andrew titles available on Referex

Engineering Village
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eBooks
Springer

• 2,800 titles in engineering
• New eBook series
• Green Energy and Technology
• Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Energy
• New Handbook eBooks
• Springer Handbook of Robotics
• Springer Handbook of Speech Processing
• Springer Handbook of Mechanical Engineering

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eBooks
Wiley Blackwell

• Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for
  Homeland Security
• 2009 Encyclopedia of Structural Health
  Monitoring

Morgan Claypool

• Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and
  Computer Science. Research development
  overviews.
• NESLi2 agreement for Synthesis Digital Library
• New subject areas to be covered in 2009
• Mathematics Statistics, Optics, Tissue
  Engineering, Information Concepts, Retrieval, and
  Services, Web Engineering, Data Mining and
  Knowledge Discovery, Human-Centered Informatics,
  Synthetic Biology, Visualization

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New journals

• Currently about 23,000 scholarly journals being
  published, by about 2,000 publishers (independent
  publishers, learned societies, university
  presses)
• Each year about 1.4 million articles are written
  annually by some of the 5.5 million researchers
  worldwide
• The number of articles increases by 3 each year
  the number of journals published increases 3.5
  each year

Source STM
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New journals
Inderscience

• European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and
  Management
• Int. J. Advanced Mechatronic Systems
• Int. J. Auditing Technology
• Int. J. Bio-Inspired Computation
• Int. J. Biomechatronics and Robotics
• Int. J. Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Int. J. Computational Economics and Econometrics
• Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology
  
• Int. J. Critical Accounting
• Int. J. Critical Computer-Based Systems
• Int. J. Economics and Business Research
• Int. J. Environmental Engineering
• Int. J. Financial Markets and Derivatives
• Int. J. Global Warming
• Int. J. Granular Computing, Rough Sets and
  Intelligent Systems
• Int. J. Industrial Electronics and Drives
• Int. J. Information and Decision Sciences
• Int. J. Leisure and Tourism Marketing
• Int. J. Materials Engineering Innovation

• Int. J. of Business Continuity and Risk
  Management
• Int. J. of Business Performance and Supply Chain
  Modelling
• Int. J. of Data Mining, Modelling and Management
• Int. J. of Innovation in Education
• Int. J. of Intelligent Engineering Informatics
• Int. J. of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining
• Int. J. of Organisational Design and Engineering
• Int. J. of Quality Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Remanufacturing
• Int. J. of Structural Engineering
• Int. J. of Tourism Anthropology
• Int. J. of Ultra Wideband Communications and
  Systems
• Int. J. Pluralism and Economics Education
• Int. J. Power and Energy Conversion
• Int. J. Power Electronics
• Int. J. Process Systems Engineering
• Int. J. Quality and Innovation
• Int. J. Rapid Manufacturing
• Int. J. Renewable Energy Technology

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New journals
IEEE

• 2008
• IEEE Transactions on Haptics
• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth
  Observations and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

• 2009
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence
  and AI in Games
• IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
• IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and
  Networking
• IEEE Photonics Journal
• IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine

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New journals
IET
IET Power Electronics
World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), and
Imperial College Press (ICP)

• Advances in Environmental Research and
  Development
• Asia Pacific Journal of Climate Change
• Confluentes Mathematici
• Journal Of Topology And Analysis
• International Journal of Applied Mechanics

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New journals
Earthscan

• Intelligent Buildings International
• Climate Development
• International Journal of Intelligent Computing
  and Cybernetics
• 2010 - International Journal of Structural
  Integrity

Emerald
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New journals
Professional Engineering Publishing for IMechE

• Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology
• Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (Open
  Access)
• Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  (Open Access)
• 2009 Conference proceedings journal in
  materials science and engineering (Open Access)
• 2009 - Biofabrication (new title)
• 2009 - Fluid Dynamics Research (new to IOP)
• 2009 - Journal of Semiconductors (formerly
  Chinese Journal of Semiconductors (new to IOP)

American Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
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New journals
Taylor Francis

• 2008
• International Journal of Fashion Design,
  Technology and Education
• International Journal of RF Technologies
• International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
• Journal of Building Performance Simulation
• The IES Journal part A Civil Structural
  Engineering

• 2009
• Engineering Studies Official Journal of the
  International Network of Engineering Studies
• Footwear Science Official Journal of the
  Footwear Biomechanics Group

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New journals
Sage and Hindawi

• Journal of Dental Biomechanics (Open Access)
• Urban Studies
• 2009 - International Journal of Robotics Research
  (Multimedia Archive)
• Hindawi now more than 50 engineering titles

Sage
Hindawi
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New journals
Wiley Blackwell
Springer

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering
• Building Simulation
• Evolutionary Intelligence
• International Journal of Automotive Technology
• International Journal of Material Forming
• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
• Journal of Micro- and Nano Mechatronics
• Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
• KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
• Logistics Research
• Nano Research
• Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
• Sports Engineering
• European Transport Research Review
• International Journal of Control, Automation and
  Systems
• International Journal of Precision Engineering
  and Manufacturing
• Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics
• International Journal of Social Robotics
• Memetic Computing

• Security and Communication Networks
• Asian Journal of Control
• Steel Construction Design and Research
• Journal of Flood Risk Management (free access
  2008)
• Librarians can opt in for complimentary access
  - will retain online access to content 2008 and
  2009, with or without a paid subscription in
  subsequent years
• Energy and Environmental Science
• Proceedings of the ICE Urban Design and Planning
  
• Proceedings of the ICE Engineering and
  Computational Mechanics
• Dams Reservoirs (on behalf of the British Dam
  Society)
• 2009 Proceedings of the ICE, Engineering History
  and Heritage

RSC Publishing
ICE / Thomas Telford
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Open Access

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
  Engineers (IEEE) is considering a hybrid OA
  journal program.
• Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering
  and Technology (IRCSET) adopt OA mandate.
• Still no mandate from the EPSRC, though they have
  launched DReSNeT

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Open Access

• SAGE and Hindawi agree to jointly launch and
  publish a suite of fully Open Access journals.
  SAGE - editorial development, marketing, and
  promotion, Hindawi - publication process.
  Articles on the Hindawi platform, funded by
  author charges
• Hindawi Open Access Institutional membership
  programme

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Open Access

• Taylor Francis extend "iOpenAccess" option to
  cover 300 journals in the physical sciences,
  environmental and agricultural sciences,
  development studies and medical and bioscience
  journals.
• Option to make their articles available to all
  via the Journal's website, and to post to
  repositories, for a one-off fee of 3250.

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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking

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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking

• BSI British Standards - LinkedIn group
• Taylor Francis Built Environment Facebook
• SciTechNet(sm) Science and Technology Social
  Networking Services - devoted to describing and
  documenting online social networking services in
  the Sciences and Technology.

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RSS
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RSS
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RSS
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RSS

• How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content. White
  Paper from research funded by Annual Reviews,
  PNAS, MetaPress, and Nature Publishing Group
• Extract a publisher must actively back all of
  the navigational options for its readers and not
  try to pre-judge any of them. collaborate with
  Googlepublish XML catalogues containing the
  meta-data of its articles support
  deep-linking, OpenURL linkingpromote its
  content to the key AIsand provide RSS feeds of
  recent content for other sites, such as portals,
  to pick up. 

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RSS
11,000 journal TOCs from multi-publishers via
ticTOCs

• ticTOCS screen dump

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Keeping current What's new in engineering
information?

• Online Information 200812.00 - 12.30 Wednesday
  3rd Dec
• STM Information in Focus Theatre C
• Roddy MacLeod
• Heriot Watt University
• R.A.MacLeod_at_hw.ac.uk
• http//www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/online2008update
  .ppt