July New Book Arrivals

A listing of all new book arrivals for July is now available. It includes titles for both Engineering and Science. To view click on the link "New Book Arrivals" on the right hand menu.

Research postgraduates - please tell us your information searching habits

We are anxious to ensure that our training for new PhD students in Science & Engineering is relevant and up-to-date and would like to ask current research students what information services they really find useful in practice.

Please could you help us by completing a SHORT questionnaire (approx. 5 minutes) at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lGdePEZJBk8CCrzpVGrkHQ_3d_3d
We should be very grateful for your feedback by the end of August.
Thank you.

IEEE Xplore Mobile

IEEE Xplore Mobile (beta) has now been introduced and gives you the power to search articles in the IEEE Xplore digital library from any web-enabled phone. Just visit http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org on your phone's browser.

June New Book Arrivals

A listing of all new book arrivals for June is now available. It includes titles for both Engineering and Science. To view click on the link "New Book Arrivals" on the right hand menu.

Paying to publish for Open Access - RIN Guidelines

“The Research Information Network and Universities UK have produced a guide (March 2009) to provide advice on paying open access publication charges: that is, fees levied by some journals for the publication of scholarly articles so that they can be made available free of charge to readers, immediately upon publication. The guide also sets out recommendations for universities and other research institutions, publishers, research funders, and authors.”

New journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry

We have registered for the following new RSC journals during the periods of free trial access as listed below.

Energy and Environmental Science
Free online access available until December 2009
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/EE/Index.asp

Integrative Biology
Free online access available until December 2010
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/ib/index.asp

Metallomics
Free online access available until December 2010
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/MT/index.asp

Analytical Methods
Free online access available later in 2009 until December 2010
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/AY/index.asp

Nanoscale
Free online access available later in 2009 until December 2010
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/NR/index.asp

Polymer Chemistry
Free online access available in 2010 until December 2011
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/PY/index.asp

2008 Journal Citation Reports released for the latest impact factors

The 2008 JCR contains more than 400 new titles, including more than 350 titles that will have their first published Journal Impact Factor.

The release of the 2008 Journal Citation Reports includes the first-ever update to the newly introduced Five Year Impact Factor and Eigenfactor™ Metrics in JCR Web. Eigenfactor™ Metrics use citing journal data from the entire JCR file to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships.
Connect to the JCR via our subscription to Web of Knowledge.
For more details about JCR see http://isiwebofknowledge.com/products_tools/analytical/jcr/