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Thursday 3 March 2026

  • Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School - :: Carl Selinger, an independent consultant in various industries including aviation and transportation, has written a timely book for engineering students called Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills For Success in the Real World 1. He is also... (13:26 | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Tuesday 4 January 2026

  • Submitting News Items to Engineering Journals - Writing on ELDNET-L, Barbara Shader of the Robert E Kennedy Library, posted the following query:One of our editors for the College of Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has compiled a list of engineering journals that she alerts whenever... (09:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 19 November 2025

  • EEVL Announces New Subject Specific Ejournal Search Engines - :: Four new search engines, indexing freely available e-journals published in computing science, engineering, mathematics, and all three subjects together, are now available from EEVL, the "Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing." The four engines are:Computing: searches the content... (10:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 17 September 2025

  • Paranoid Engineers - :: We received a copy of Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoarda Benvenuto in our library this week. The book is published by Birkhäuser, and edited by Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico... (09:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 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 24 August 2025

  • Communication Patterns of Engineers - Review by Christina Pikas - :: Christina Pikas, who maintains On Christina's Radar, has written a concise, informative review of the book, Communication Patterns of Engineers, by Carol Tenopir and Donald W King. The review appeared in the online journal, E-STREAMS Vol. 7, No. 7... (12:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 20 August 2025

  • Palm PDA Resources for Engineering - :: Matthew Miller, professional engineer and creator of palmsolo's Life with PDAs , has compiled a list of engineering applications which are compatible with a Palm powered PDA.... (14:41 | 0 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)

Wednesday 21 July 2025

  • Full-Text of Proceedings - What's Available? - :: At SLA in Nashville in June, I learned that Materials Research Society has made their proceedings available online, from their 2000 MRS Spring Meeting. SPIE offers the SPIE Digital Library, which includes all proceedings from 1998, #3245 to the... (15:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 14 June 2025

Wednesday 19 May 2025

  • Engineering Librarians Collaborate on Three Mile Island Book - :: Word just came by that TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and its Impact, by Bonnie Anne Osif, Anthony J. Baratta, & Thomas W. Conkling, has been published by Penn State University Press.... (13:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Thursday 6 May 2025

  • Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 - :: Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 has been released:The Science and Engineering Indicators, a biennial report series published by the National Science Board, is designed to provide a broad base of quantitative information about U.S. science, engineering, and technology... (11:45 | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 6 April 2025

  • Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists - :: This interesting article by Donald Christiansen, from the Feb 2004 issue of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer, discusses Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists. Excerpt:The problem manifests itself in other ways. Many technical articles now include references to Internet addresses, as opposed... (09:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 29 March 2025

  • GlobalSpec Introduces “The Engineering Web” - :: From Information Today:March 29, 2004 — GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering, has launched a new interface, added more powerful search functionality, and has introduced a specialized search engine it is calling “The Engineering Web,” which it says... (10:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 9 March 2026

  • New Information Literacy SIG for Engineering - :: A new information literacy discussion group has emerged: ELD-ILit is an electronic discussion list addressing issues related to information literacy and library instruction within engineering libraries or engineering disciplines. ELD-ILit is sponsored by the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of... (11:41 | 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)

Monday 9 February 2026

  • News from IOP - The information below regardings developments to the Institute of Physics' (IOP) Electronic Journals service was received in an e-mail from the IoP.*Electronic Journals Quick Guide* A new step-by-step guide to our Electronic Journals service is now available online. A good... (09:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Wednesday 7 January 2026

  • ACS President Weighs In On Soaring Journal Prices and Open Access - :: ACS President Charles P Casey is featured in the 5 Jan 2026 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. His column, Challenges for Chemists, Chemistry, and ACS, addresses a number of issues, including rising costs of journals, and the open... (11:22 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 2 January 2026

  • Elsevier to Close Three End-User Portals - :: From Infotoday: "December 29, 2025 — An in-house employees’ newsletter, Elsevier Today, dated Dec. 3, revealed that a company review of portal operations had decided that “the contribution of this form of marketing to S&T;'s [science and technology] current... (08:59 | 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)

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)

Thursday 27 November 2025

  • New Web Sites of Interest - :: New and interesting web sites, featuring descriptions from the EEVL Catalogue.Ethics in Computing. "Ethics in Computing is a guide to topics such as privacy, intellectual property, computer abuse, commerce, social justice and speech issues. It also covers basic ethical... (15:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 19 November 2025

  • SME SourceTM and NanoGuitars - :: ebrary and SME Launch World’s Largest Full-Text Database of Publications in Manufacturing Engineering. The new database is called SME Source™, and includes: 4,000 books, journals and technical papers in manufacturing engineering, including the nine-volume Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook... (12:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 9 November 2025

  • EEVL Announces OneStep Industry News and OneStep Jobs News - From EEVL, The Internet Guide To Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, comes word of two new services for scanning industry news and jobs announcements.EEVL: the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, is delighted to announce the launch of two new,... (23:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Wednesday 17 September 2025

  • Engineers and Weblogs - :: Karen Auguston Field, Chief Editor of Design News, describes Why Every Engineer Needs a Weblog.... (18:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 5 August 2025

  • Engineers Without Borders - International - :: "Engineers Without Borders - International constitutes a network of several humanitarian organizations ... that have emerged over the past 20 years or are emerging in several countries around the world. All these organizations share the same mission, which is... (11:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 11 July 2025

  • Sci-Tech and Engineering Resources, and Ed Krol - :: Remember Ed Krol? I do, I bought an early edition of The Whole Internet - it still sits on my shelf, and was written during the pre-browser days. Ed's retired now and enjoying life. :: I just discovered SciTechDaily... (16:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)