SPIE Digital Library in use

We now have full access to the SPIE Digital Library until the end of 2011. The library includes SPIE journals, conference proceedings and ebooks.

The resource can be accessed directly from the link above, but for remote use go through the Nelli portal. You can also search the database in Nelli.

New resources

Aalto University library offers the following new resources for 2011.

-  the online archive of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals

-  more Nature journals:
Nature Methods
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

-  Mary Ann Liebert - full collection
Includes 69 journals in biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and sustainability.

- IOS Press - full collection
Includes 78 journals in eg. computer & communication sciences, mathmematics, engineering & technology, chemistry, material science, environmental & energy sciences, neuroscience, biotechnology. life sciences, medicine and social & information sciences.

- Foundations and Trends collection
19 Foundations and Trends journals on technology and business & economics and the journals:
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics
Strategic Behavior and the Environment

- Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

- Handbooks in Economics Series

- Sage Premier
Includes 560 journals on material science & engineering, life & biomedical sciences, social science & humanities and health sciences. This has been in use since late 2010.

The following online journals were cancelled due to minimal use:

Petroleum Science & Technology
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part F- Journal of Rail & Rapid Transit
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part M- Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
International Journal of Control
International Journal of Systems Science
Advances in Applied Ceramics
Aluminium
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering
Journal of Geoscience Education

New Resource: Gartner Research Reports

Gartner is a leading international ICT research and consulting company. The Gartner Research Reports focus in the area of information management and leadership. More than 30.000 research reports are available since 1995, the annual growth is around 2500 reports.

All Aalto University staff and students can now access the Gartner Research Reports through Aalto Inside. To use the service, please log-in to Inside using the new Aalto-login (Aalto University Weblogin). On the IT-services page you can find the link to Gartner Research Reports on the bottom on the right.

Please note, that these reports may not be accessed by or given to users outside of the University.

If you have any questions, please contact infolib@tkk.fi

Statistical information from the World Bank Open Data

The World Bank is providing free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe. The databases contain statistical information on most of the nations from the following topics:

agriculture & rural development, aid effectiveness, economic policy and external debt, education, energy and mining, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor & social protection, poverty, private sector, public sector, science & technology, social development, urban development.

The World Bank Open Data resources include databases (such as World Development Indicators WDI, Global Development Finance GDF, African Development Indicators ADI and Global Economic Monitor GEM), pre-formatted tables and reports. The search results or the entire database can be downloaded and exported e.g. to Excel. 

The individual databases can be found in the Nelli portal and can also be used directly at the World Bank Open Data: http://data.worldbank.org/.

New Resource: ReportLinker market research reports

ReportLinker is a professional search engine which gives you access to an exclusive database of 1.2 million market reports and counting.
Find and download unlimited official Industry reports, Company profiles and Market Statistics.

Access to HS.fi (Helsingin Sanomat)

We now have access to Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's biggest daily newspaper. We have access to the digital paper as well as the HS archive. The pages also include the international edition of the paper, with abstracts in English of a number of daily stories and a weekly digest of edited articles from the newspaper.

In the log-in screen select 'Yrityskäyttäjä, kirjaudu sisään tästä ›'. Then click 'Kirjaudu' after the text 'Kirjaudu Yritystunnuksella. Yhteisö: Aalto-yliopisto'.

Orbis, Zephyr and Bankscope in use

Three new databases: Orbis, Zephyr and Bankscope are now in use on all of the Aalto University campuses. They can be found in the Nelli-portal.

ORBIS is a comprehensive database of companies around the world, containing information on 70 million companies. Information is gathered from nearly 100 sources and is filtered into various standard report formats. Coverage is constantly increasing: both depth of data and number of countries. ORBIS has sections of superlative coverage including listed companies worldwide, public and private banks and insurance companies plus private European companies, as well as a unique ownership database.

ZEPHYR is a comprehensive database of deal information worldwide, containing approximately 800 000 transactions. It contains information on M&A, IPO, private equity and venture capital deals. It also contains links to the detailed financial information on the companies involved in the deals.

BANKSCOPE is a database of banks' financial statements, ratings and intelligence, with up to 16 years of detailed accounts for each bank. It contains comprehensive information on banks across the globe. It can be used to research individual banks and to find banks with specific profiles for further analysis. 

Access to ACS journals restored after a service break

ACS Publications experienced a severe system disruption which resulted in a loss of access to the ACS journals. Now the access has been restored.

ACS apologize for the inconvenience caused.

New resources

Becoming a part of the new Aalto University has given us access to many new resources, mainly from the fields of economics, management, art and design. Ten new databases and more than 1500 new journals are now available, as well as three new reference works and some new tools. The full list with brief descriptions can be found here and in Finnish here.

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.

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.