Dbs & Db Producers
Thursday 17 March 2026
- IEEE Xplore 2.0 Coming March 26 - :: All subscribers to any products available on IEEE Xplore are aware of the impending upgrade next week. If you're not aware, and are considering subscribing, check out the information on the new upgrade available on the IEEE Xplore Release... (13:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 10 March 2026
- Update - Free Resources Containing Searchable Abstracts in Science, Technology and Engineering - :: In an earlier post, Sarah Kirby compiled a list of free resources with searchable abstracts in scitech areas. In February, she updated the list with additional sites, which have been added to the master list of resources.... (11:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 16 February 2026
- Free Resources Containing Searchable Abstracts in Science, Technology and Engineering - :: Earlier this month on ELDNET-L, Sarah A.V. Kirby advised that she was "compiling a list of free resources that contain searchable abstracts for multiple science/technology/engineering journals, magazines, and government publications. The abstracts have to be free, but the articles... (14:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 7 February 2026
- Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News - :: Today's ITI NewsBreaks has a few items of interest:Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News - "Dialog and DataStar will shift to Thomson Scientific & HealthCare. Its general manager will be David Brown, who will report to president and... (10:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 20 January 2026
- Engineering Village 2 Upgrade - :: Engineering Information released its latest upgrades to Engineering Village 2 last week, on January 13th, 2005. The major enhancement was the introduction of Easy Search with faceted searching features. Easy Search presents the user with a small, single search... (15:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 16 December 2025
- Enhancements Coming to EV2 - :: The latest version of Engineering Village 2 is scheduled for release in mid-January 2005. Details of the forthcoming enhancements are available at Librarian's Corner, at Ei Update. The major change is the introduction of Faceted searching - from the... (09:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 6 December 2025
- The Indexing of SAE Publications in Compendex - The Ongoing Discussion - :: Recently, a thread began on ELDNET-L, regarding the lack of indexing of SAE publications in Compendex. Please note that for all ELDNET-L posts listed below, permission has been obtained from each author to do so. One post, part of... (12:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 30 November 2025
- Knovel Updates Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds - :: Knovel has updated Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds. Sixteen new interactive tables (57,000 records) on thermodynamic, physical, and transport properties of organic chemical compounds have been added. Nine of these have Equation Plotter and... (09:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 November 2025
- EnCompassWEB™ Now Available - :: EnCompassWEB, the new platform from Engineering Information, is now available. Included are the databases, EnCompassLIT and EnCompassPAT, once known as ApiLIT and ApiPAT, when they were maintained by the American Petroleum Institute. From Ei Update:This month, Engineering Information will... (09:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 8 November 2025
- Inspec Archive Added to Engineering Village 2 - :: From Information Today Newsbreaks:Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. announced the availability of the IEE’s Inspec Archive to the Engineering Village 2 Web-based discovery platform. The Inspec Archive is the result of the digitization and enhancement of the Science Abstracts Journals,... (11:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 November 2025
- EBSCO Adding Full-Text Conference Papers, Open WorldCat Pilot User's Perspective - :: From today's NewsLink:EBSCO Publishing has entered into an agreement with All Academic, Inc. that will provide researchers with access to a collection of full-text conference papers from scholarly societies. The partnership with All Academic will bring nearly 25,000 full-text... (13:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 20 October 2025
- 1-2-3 RedLightGreen - :: Dana sent the following note about RedLightGreen:RLG's RedLightGreen service has been out of pilot testing since August. It's available to the general public at no cost 24/7 and also produces Google search results for each title viewed out of... (14:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 21 September 2025
- IEEE Title Change - Again! - :: George Porter notes the following title change (actually a split into two new titles). This is one of those "what the - ??" moments, that makes you wonder if someone at IEEE lost it for a moment when this... (11:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 13 September 2025
- Indexing of ASEE Proceedings in Compendex - :: Much discussion has ensued recently on ELDNET-L, regarding the coverage of the annual proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education. The 1997 and 1998 proceedings are in Compendex, but some editions have not been indexed yet. Rafael Sidi,... (14:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 7 September 2025
- Scopus - Review by Peter Jasco - :: Peter Jacso writes a free monthly column, Peter's Digital Ready Reference Shelf, providing in-depth reviews of online databases and information services. This month, Peter tackles Scopus. My copy printed at 10 pages. Quoting from the September column's announcement:SCOPUS, a... (13:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- H.W. Wilson Announces Full-Text Science Database - :: From InfoToday:H.W. Wilson has announced a new 100-percent, full-text science database, available exclusively on WilsonWeb.com. Science Full Text Select combines the full-text content of all the Wilson science databases, delivering articles cover to cover from 320 sources in total.... (11:48 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 10 August 2025
- Engineering Information Retrieval Pilot Tutorial - :: In July, Jay Bhatt, Information Services Librarian (Engineering), Hagerty Library, Drexel University, posted a message to SLA-ENG about a tutorial designed to assist undergraduate engineering students at Drexel in the use of Engineering Village 2. From the tutorial introduction:Welcome... (09:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 26 July 2025
- Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project - :: Interesting article from Information Today, by Barbara Quint, on OCLC expanding its library locator service for books, to include Yahoo!:OCLC (http://www.oclc.org) has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. Last October, I reported on a... (09:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 22 July 2025
- IEEE Presentation from Nashville SLA Conference Now Available - :: The slide presentation from the annual IEEE Customer Breakfast session on Jun8, 2004, at the Nashville SLA conference is now available for viewing. From the IEEE site:IEEE Announces New Initiatives at Special Libraries Association Conference – Presentation Now Available... (10:02 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 July 2025
- Yahoo! and Google's Inclusion of WorldCat records - :: Hello again. I'm back from a two-week break. Geoff is still away, and will return on July 26. He was married on July 9th in St John's, Newfoundland. I attended the wedding, and played guitar during the ceremony. ::... (10:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 28 June 2025
- ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science upgrades - :: From the Thomson site: "Thomson ISI is pleased to announce that the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM upgrade and simultaneous upgrades of Web of Science® and Journal Citation Reports® on the Web are now available for librarians and administrators to... (15:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 25 June 2025
- Applied Mechanics Reviews Online Database - Buh-Bye - :: According to information sent to our library from Philip DiVietro, Director, ASME Technical Publishing, the Applied Mechanics Reviews AMR Abstracts database is to cease on July 1, 2004. We have access to it, but when I checked it just... (13:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 22 June 2025
- IEEE Support Site for Libraries - :: While at SLA in Nashville earlier this month, I learned of IEEE's great library support page. Divided into two sections, the page offers information about training for libraries, and tools for libraries. Selected items include an IEEE Xplore tutorial,... (11:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 18 June 2025
- IEEE News from SLA - :: I attended the annual IEEE Breakfast at SLA last week in Nashville. Despite being semi-conscious from lack of sleep, I was able to scribble a few notes, and hope that I can translate them into something coherent for STLQ!... (14:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 7 June 2025
- Report from SLA 1 - :: I am in Nashville attending the annual SLA conference. A few items of interest:The MRS Online Proceedings Library is now available from the Materials Research Society. Proceedings published since 2000 are available, cost is $4,200US/12-month access. Knovel: more titles... (14:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 1 June 2025
- IoP Joins CrossRef Search - :: The Institute of Physics has joined CrossRef:The Institute of Physics is pleased to be participating in CrossRef Search, a new initiative enabling users to perform cross-publisher, full text searches of the latest scholarly research. CrossRef Search is available free... (13:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 25 May 2025
- Science.gov 2.0 Launches with New Relevance Ranking Technology - :: From Information Today, 25 May 2004:Science.gov has served as the gateway to reliable information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations since its launch in December 2002. Now, the interagency alliance has launched Science.gov 2.0, hailing it... (15:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 28 April 2025
- WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE FOR LIBRARIES - WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE FOR LIBRARIES, VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4, APRIL 2004 Read this issue online: http://www.ieee.org/products/whats-new/wnlib/wnlib0404.xml CONTENTS: 1. IEEE Scores Victory for Scholarly Publishing with OFAC Ruling 2. Study Shows IEEE Journals Priced 39% Below Market Average 3. Journal... (17:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 April 2025
- New Products and Services - :: Wiley has released a new database called Organic Reactions:Organic Reactions is a comprehensive database of important synthetic reactions, together with a critical discussion of the reaction and tables that organize all published examples of the topic reactions. Chapters that... (10:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 11 March 2026
- Googling IEEE Xplore - Interesting blurb from "Whats New @ IEEE For Students" about people finding their way to technical papers through Google... 8. GOOGLE USERS FLOCK TO IEEE XPLORE IEEE recently announced that researchers worldwide can now locate technical papers published by IEEE... (13:52 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 2 March 2026
- Librarians' Involvements With Vendors - A Commentary - :: Brian Simboli, Science Librarian at E.W. Fairchild Martindale Library at Lehigh University, offers the following commentary on the subject of vendors soliciting input from and working with librarians to improve their products:I was rather surprised this week to come... (11:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 17 February 2026
- Reviews of Three US Government Databases/Info Services - Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State U) has made available self-archived copies of reviews from The Charleston Advisor of three important US federal databases/information services: 1) Energy Citations DatabaseThe Energy Citations Database (ECD) is a bibliographic database developed by the Office of... (15:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 January 2026
- Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers to be in 19th Century Masterfile - :: Catherine has already mentioned this, but it's worth repeating. In 2004, The Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900, Royal Society of London, will be added to the 19th Century Masterfile database. The 19th Century Masterfile is primarily a non-scientific/technical database,... (11:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 January 2026
- CSA Releases Version 6.4 of their Internet Database Service - :: From an e-mail received today:The major change featured in this release is the new "Remove Duplicates" feature, allowing users the ability to remove duplicate results when searching multiple databases. A Remove Duplicates button has been added to the search... (14:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 19 December 2025
- Engineering Information announces electronic backfile dating to 1884 - :: Engineering Information, a division of Elsevier, has announced the forthcoming availability of the Engineering Index Backfile. As of December 2003, the backfile will be available exclusively via the Engineering Village 2 platform. Backfile subscribers will have desktop access to... (09:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 15 December 2025
- Ovid Opens Full-Text Journal Articles to Pay-Per-View Access - :: From InfoToday: "December 15, 2025 — Ovid, a leading online service for medical, health sciences, and pharmaceutical information, has announced a new PayPerView Service for the full text of medical journals. The service is designed to open access to... (10:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 December 2025
- CSA Hot Topics - :: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts produces monthly Hot Topics, which they describe as "Comprehensive information on current issues with an overview of the subject, key citations with abstracts, and links to web sites." The two most recent Hot Topics are the... (12:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 December 2025
- Dialog Announces New Web Service to Facilitate Content Integration for Web Sites, Enterprise Networks - "CARY, N.C., USA (December 1, 2025) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today announced the launch of its Dialog Application Programming Interface (API), a... (16:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 December 2025
- Inspec Archive Grows, New Coverage Offered - :: Barbara Quint reports in Infotoday that Inspec will extend its archive from 1968 back to 1898. The XML file will be made available to purchase in Spring of 2004. In addition, Inspec is launching Section E of the database,... (12:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 25 November 2025
- Web of Science to Expand Back to 1900 - :: Thomson ISI announced today an initiative which will expand coverage in Web of Science to include bibliographic data published between 1900-1944. Nearly 850,000 articles from approximately 200 journals are being added, and will represent the highest impact scientific literature... (13:48 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 20 November 2025
- EPA Launches Science Inventory - :: The US Environmental Protection Agency has launched the EPA Science Inventory:The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional... (12:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 22 September 2025
- Databases and The Ethics of Sharing Passwords - :: Randy Cohen writes perhaps my favorite column, The Ethicist (ID and PW: podbay), for the NYTimes Magazine. He is the author of The Good, The Bad & The Difference: How to Tell Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations. In... (05:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 29 August 2025
- August issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries - The August issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries has been released and is available to read on the Web at: http://www.ieee.org/products/whats-new/wnlib0803.htm Stories in this issue include: 1. Google to Display IEEE Abstracts in Search Results 2. 2004 IEEE... (00:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 28 July 2025
- Arson at U Georgia's Main Library, ISI Highly Cited.com, World Nano-Economic Congress - :: The second floor of the University of Georgia's Main Library annex was deliberately set on fire last night, causing much damage to the collection. :: From the 28 July 2025 Search Engine Watch:ISIHighlyCited.com calls itself "an expert gateway to... (14:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 May 2025
- EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine and RAM: Recent Advances in Manufacturing database - Roddy McLeod sent a note about EEVL's E-Journal Search Engine. The Engine indexes >100 full-text, free engineering e-journals, most of which are available w/o registration, and are not indexed elsewhere. The search engine is very simple: you can search by... (10:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)