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Project I Seminar Library and Internet Search. By Hanim Salleh Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional 7 July 2001. Presentation Outline. Uniten’s Library collections and service Reference Sources Internet Sources Relevant Websites
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Project I Seminar Library and Internet Search By Hanim Salleh Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional 7 July 2001
Presentation Outline • Uniten’s Library collections and service • Reference Sources • Internet Sources • Relevant Websites • Engineering Search Engine • Design Standards • Professional Bodies
UNITEN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS • Nearly all of the 50,000 volumes of books, journals, printed and non-printed materials • Library of Congress classification system . • Collection : Open CollectionReference CollectionReserved Book Collection (RBC)Journal CollectionAVA CollectionSpecial Collection
A ,B -- GENERAL WORKS, PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGIONC ,D -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY, HISTORY: GENERAL AND OLD WORLDE & F -- HISTORY: AMERICAG, H -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION, SOCIAL SCIENCESJ , K -- POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAWL ,M -- EDUCATION, MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSICN. P -- FINE ARTS , LANGUAGE AND LITERATUREQ, R -- SCIENCE, MEDICINES , T -- AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGYU , V, Z -- MILITARY SCIENCE, NAVAL SCIENCE, LIBRARY SCIENCE Library of Congress Classification
Books in all subject areas which is open access and may be borrowed Class No. A - M (3rd FLOOR)Class No. N - Z (4rd FLOOR) OPEN COLLECTION REFERENCE COLLECTION (2nd Floor)Dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, handbooks, guidebooks, atlases, yearbooks, bibliographies, indexes and abstracts, standards, gazetteers ;For reference only
Heavily used textbooks, periodicals articles and course notes assigned as required reading by lecturers. Complete sets of past year examination question papers and syllabuses Course guides and examination papers from overseas professional institutions Manuals and course guides RESERVED BOOK COLLECTION (RBC - fifth floor)
The most important, contain current information 1.Hardcopies current and bound journals on the second floor and are for reference only. 2. CD-ROM format (available through our Campus Network) UNITEN Library Members only; terminals (2nd Floor). 3. Online Databases Journals. JOURNAL/SERIAL COLLECTION
Journal of fluid engineering Journal of manufacturing science and engineering Engineering structures Journal of materials in civil engineering Journal of structural engineering Journal of environmental engineering Journal of hydraulic engineering Journal of hydrology engineering Journal of energy engineering Journal of engineering mechanics Electrical engineering journal Engineering with computers JOURNALS: ENGINEERING
ENERGY: Asian energy bulletin Asian energy bulletin Asian energy journal Asean energy review Journal of energy resources technology from ASME Journal of energy engineering VIBRATION Journal of vibration and acoustics Journal of sound and vibration JOURNALS : Other Related Area
IEEE ExploreCampusThe new features of IEL Online Engineering Village CampusEngineering journals, abstracts, full-text options, 1980--date NSTP E-Media current news from NSTP group of publications. Kompass.com CampusAccess information on companies, key products. Tiara source of information for the businessmen, students, their parents and teachers, scientists, engineers and researchers and the professionals alike On-line Databases
IDEALIBRARY Applied sciences, Biomedical sciences, Economic, Business, Law & Finance, Math., Engineering, Life science, Physical & enviromental, Psychology and Social sciences Grolier Encyclopedia Online General databases consist of Encyclopedia Americana Online, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online, The New Book of Knowledge Online, Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea and The New Book of Popular Science. Abstract and Full-text options. On-Trial Databases
Schmidt Periodicals GmbH Back-date journals and serials. Provides more than 2 million back volumes of periodicals from all over the world. Information Quest scientific, technical, medical, and business full-text journals Springer Online Databases Provides full-text journals of Springer Publications On-Trial Databases (Cont.)
ProQuest Digital Dissertations Provide disertations available in the PDF Format. National Information Services Corporation (NISC) natural and social sciences, arts and humanities. Some titles provide comprehensive coverage of particular geographic regions, such as Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia or the Arctic & Antarctic. On-Trial Databases (Cont.)
Reference sources On papers (Journals, books etc) Digital Information (Internet, hyperbook etc) Objective/ Focus: best resources to meet the information need. provide facts and statistics
Gateway Sites by professionals, high quality web-based resources. e.g WWW Virtual library: vlib.org/Overview.html Librarians Index to the Internet (www.lii.org) Direct Method: Entering Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) Subject Directory Method : general according to subject Search Engine Method : search by keyword Meta Search : searches several engines simultaneously; should only be used after a search as been narrowed and refined. Internet Resources
Bias/Objectivity (.gov - government, .edu -educational, .com-commercial, .mil-military, and .org-organization) Authority who? contact link? Web Site Evaluation Purpose audience? Currency last revision.? Content unique? Links only? Facts/opinion? Reviewed? Organization /Ease to use links work?load quickly?
Patent Search www.uspto.gov www.patents.ibm.com Engineering sites www.icrank.com - for ME www.vlme.com - virtual Library ME www.eevl.ac.uk - general engineering Unit Conversions Engineering Sites
EI CompendexWeb - Engineering Index Online. NSSN:A National Resource for Global Standards, an ANSI-sponsored service. ASCE's Civil Engineering Database- 80,000 ASCE records since 1975.EELS - Electronic Engineering Library, Sweden EEVL E-journal Search Engine- Search 150+ Full Text Journals. ICE - Internet Connections for Engineering from Cornell U. NASA Tech Reports Servers - search several data bases. NASA ThesaurusRecent Advances in Manufacturing-one-stop information service on world class manufacturing and research. U.K. Engineering Search Engine - aproduct of EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library) Measurement Converter via Java Engineering, Scientific Unit Converter(links provided by UNITEN library) Engineering Search Engine
NIST (National Institute of Standarads and Technology): www.nist.gov ANSI (American National Standard institute) : web.ansi.org/public/std_info.html ASTM (Ame. Standards of testing Materials) : www.astm.org NSSN (National resource for Global Standard) : www.nsss.org Global Engineering Documents : standard center- //global.his.com/ Standards center : www.document-center. com Design Standards
The Institution of Engineers Malaysia National Society of Professional Engineers The Institution of Mechanical Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE) NACE : www.nace.org NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Assoc.) : www.nema.org Professional societies
Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc http://www.sem.org/ International Gas Turbine Institute http://www.asme.org/igti/ Fluid Power Society - the international organization for fluid power and related motion control professionals : http://www.ifps.org/ materials research society http://www.mrs.org/ Professional Societies (cont.)
The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) www1.jaring.my/iem/
ASHRAE -American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineerswww.ashrae.org
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