Wiley InterScience service break 21.12.2009

Access to Wiley InterScience may be interrupted due to essential site maintenance on Monday  21st of December 2009 beginning at 11 am. Expected duration is up to 1 hour.

New resources for TKK and the Aalto University

The following new resources have been purchased for TKK and the Aalto University and can be accessed also via the Nelli-portal:

Nature and Science back files
We now have access to these journals from the first editions, Nature from 1869 and Science from 1880.

Kielikello database
The Kielikello database includes articles from the Kielikello journal, which covers the aspects and use of the Finnish language (in Finnish).

MOT Dictionaries 
Our MOT dictionaries have been updated and new ones have been added to the new platform. In addition we now also have in use MOT Proofing, which checks English text for grammatical and spelling errors and gives feed back on style issues.

Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science 
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis collections contain 50-100 paged "lectures", electronic books in which experts in the field have collected together the essential research on a topic. Access is available for the 125 books in Collection 2. The books are catalogued in TEEMU, but can also be accessed via the Nelli-portal.

Materials Connexion
The Material ConneXion database presents over 1400 new materials and processes, with the contact details of the manufacturers. The database can be searched by keyword, product name, manufacturer name and Material ConneXion index number. The database is designed to be used by architects and designers as well as materials researchers.

Royal Society Digital Journal Archive FREE from 23 Nov 2009 to 28 Feb 2010

The Royal Society are celebrating their 350th anniversary and to mark this special occasion making their digital archive  free to access from 23 Nov 2009 to 28 Feb 2010.

"The Archive contains every article ever published in the Royal Society's journals - from the very first peer-reviewed paper in Philosophical Transactions to the most recent interdisciplinary article in Interface."

Training on SciFinder new features - Today

Content:

+ SciFinder content at a glance
+ SF Web analyze, categorize, sorting
+ SF Web news - comments, tags, links
+ substructure search and reaction search examples ( new )

Time: 30.11.2009 1 pm - 2:30 pm.
Place: The Main Library Lecture Hall

Sorry for the last minute addition!

Training on the new Springer platform 24.11.2009

FinELib, The Finnish National Electronic Library, is organising a training session on the new Springer platform due to be out in the beginning of 2010. The 1658 journals on the SpringerLink service cover medicin, economics, technology and natural and social sciences. TKK also subscribes to the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series.

Time of the training: 24th of November 2009 form 10am to noon.
Address: Teollisuuskatu 23, 4th floor, class A414, Vallila, Helsinki
Program:
10-11 Springer LINK Training for new interface including hands on training
11-11.30 Questions & Discussion
11.30-12 eBook Usage Trends and discussion

Trainer: Timon Oefelein, Springer

Registration: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/17434/lomake.html

Informaworld service break

Informaworld will be unavailable on Tuesday, 10th November 07:00–10:00 due to essential maintenance.

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).

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.

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

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.

Elsevier Training Sessions

Elsevier offers online training sessions on the use of ScienceDirect and Scopus. Click the session name for times and further information:

Getting Started with ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect Demonstration
Getting Started with Scopus
Scopus Demonstration

The Elsevier training desk also includes recordings of previous sessions, video tutorials and other useful resources.  

Thomson Training Sessions

In September Thomson Reuters Training offers online training sessions on the following topics:


WEB OF KNOWLEDGE / WEB OF SCIENCE
Understanding Citation Metrics for Research Evaluation
Citation Reporting and the H-Index
Web of Science 1: General Search and Basic Navigation
Web of Science 2: Cited Reference Search
EndNote Web in the Web of Knowledge

ENDNOTE
Building an EndNote Library
Using EndNote in Word
EndNote Web for EndNote Users

REFERENCE MANAGER
Building a Reference Manager Database
Using Reference Manager in Word


For session times and registration, please click here

Welcome

Welcome to the blog where we let you know of all the things going on in the TKK eLibrary. Mostly I'll be posting short news of upcoming training sessions, service outages and materials in test use.