Engineering Library: New Online Resources
by Helen Josephine and Kathleen Gust
What's new at the Engineering Library? More online full-text resources have been licensed for use both to replace standard print research tools and to expand research access for our users. The library has recently acquired Materials Research Society titles and the Water Intelligence Online database.
Research Tool for Online Access to Materials Research
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is a field of research and study encompassing the spectrum of materials-metals, ceramics, polymers (plastics), semiconductors, and combinations of materials called composites-their structure, properties and the creation of new materials for specific uses.
The Materials Research Society (MRS) is an organization of materials researchers from academia, industry and government created to facilitate communication and technical information exchange across the various fields of science affecting materials. Founded in 1973, MRS now consists of more than 14,000 members from the United States - as well as over 50 other countries. The papers, symposium proceeding and journals published by MRS are used by researchers in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering and other fields.
The Engineering Library has negotiated a contract to add Materials Research Society titles to the online book and journal collections. The two journal titles appear in the Stanford Libraries' Socrates Online catalog with a link to the online location.
MRS Bulletin provides a comprehensive overview of a specific materials theme, along with industry and policy developments, and MRS and materials-community news and events in the form of a monthly journal. The Bulletin is a premier source for comprehensive research trends and timely scan of professional activities. Full text is available from v.25 #3 March 2000 through the current issue.
Journal of Materials Research (JMR) is a monthly scholarly journal which contains archival papers, rapid communications and reviews spanning breakthrough developments across the full spectrum of materials research. An intensive scanning effort has been completed, and all back issues of JMR -- from 1986 through the present -- are now online.
The MRS Proceedings series are records of MRS meetings; each volume is peer-reviewed and is a "snapshot in time" of fundamental and emerging research areas. Full text of over 330 Proceedings volumes-beginning with Volume 609 (2000) and including almost 20,000 individual papers are now online. The Engineering Library has over 800 proceedings volumes in print from 1978 to the present.
The MRS Proceedings series do not have live links in Socrates yet, but you can go directly to the site using the link above.
New Water Resource Archive--Water Intelligence Online
Water, the most precious resource on the planet, is of interest to economists, environmentalists and the engineers, who create the processes to store it, treat it, move it from place to place and eventually re-cycle it.
International Water Association (IWA) Publishing based in London is a leading supplier of water, wastewater and environmental publications and leads Europe in the development of effective and sustainable approaches to water. The range of IWA groups spans 45 technical issues, including hardware (instrumentation and control), economic and statistical topics, and policy and practice in water development worldwide.
The Engineering Library now has access to the online archive Water Intelligence Online providing access to books, research reports, research papers and conference proceedings covering water, wastewater and related environmental topics published by the IWA.
The online archive consists of over 100 e-books, 150 research reports from the Awwa Research Foundation and the European Commission and topical journals such as Journal of Water and Health, Water Practice and Technology, Water Policy, and Water Research.
Abstracts of IWA publications are free to search and browse and full text can be viewed. Water Environment Research Foundation, (WERF) reports can also be searched and abstracts viewed, but require pay-per-view on an item-by-item basis.
The e-books available from IWA online run the broad gamut of ideas associated with managing water as a resource.
Communicating Science Effectively
