Thursday 29 October 2009

Webcast: Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing of the Future

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5 PM Finnish time

A free webcast about climate change and greenhouse gas regulations as economic issues for chemical companies.

Speakers:
Fokko Wientjes, Director for Sustainable Development, DSM
Matthew Bateson, Managing Director, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Simon Davies, Senior Manager/Climate Change, KPMG

Registration and more information here.

ScienceDirect scheduled outage

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 3:00AM (Finnish time) Sunday, 1 November to 12:00AM (Finnish time).

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Electronic text books for TKK courses

About 150 books used on TKK courses can also be used in electronic form. Most of these can be found on the ebook platforms MyiILibrary and DawsonEra, some titles also on the other ebook platforms in use. The individual books are also catalogued in the Teemu database.

To use the DawsonEra service, users have to sign in with their unix-id and service password. Remote use of the other services requires signing in to Nelli, according to the general instructions for remote access.

Please respect the material's copyrights. Suspected breaches of copyright can cause loss of access for all TKK users. Only print/save according to the stated limitations within each service.

CrossFire/Reaxys training course 11.11.2009

The user interface program of Beilstein and Gmelin databases will change in autumn 2010. CSC offers users at TKK this training session, which teaches search strategies in the new workflow tool Reaxys and includes refined structure, reaction and data searching. Differences between the current Commander interface and Reaxys will also be handled.

Registration and more details and can be found here.

Monday 19 October 2009

Wiley InterScience Site Maintenance

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted on the indicated date and time.

DATE: Monday  -  October 19, 2009
TIME: beginning — 11:00 Finnish time
DURATION: up to 1 hour

Friday 9 October 2009

Trial use: Morgan & Claypool's digital library of engineering ebooks

The whole collection of Morgan & Claypool's Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is now in test use until 23.10.09.

"The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. We believe that they offer unique value to the reader by providing more analysis and depth than the typical research journal article." (The quote and more information from their web page).

The material can be accessed directly or via the Nelli-portal (quick links -> ebooks). For remote use first log into the Nelli-portal.

Please give feedback on the usefulness of the material in the comments or by email to Infot.TKK at gmail.com.

DawsonEra - Ebook Platform Now in Use at TKK

A new Ebook platform DawsonEra has been taken to use and the first 14 books are already available for reading online. The collection will grow with time and include titles from all fields related to TKK and the new Aalto University.

The service can be found through the Nelli-portal or directly from here. Users have to sign in with their unix-id and service password to access the site. The individual books will also be catalogued in the Teemu-database.