Access to MyiLibrary is now available

Access to MyiLibrary is now available from the Databases and Indexes to Articles menu of the library website.

MyiLibrary is a platform that provides access to ebooks. At this point, we have only licensed titles from Oxford University Press although this is likely to expand in the future. The ebooks are formatted at Adobe Acrobat PDF files and can be used by multiple users at the same time. Printing and saving are supported to the extent allowed by the publisher.

A more complete description of what is offered in our subscription is available on the MyiLibrary About:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=564

Life Science Analytics added to Business Source Complete

Over seven thousand company profiles will be added to the Company Profile authority in Business Source Complete

Every Life Science Analytics (LSA) company profile contains detailed and accurate company information drawn from the MedTRACK database, including product details, management information and company news for private and public biomedical companies.

The entire LSA report collection is refreshed every two months, ensuring that the collection remains an invaluable and up-to-date compendium of company information.

New Databases: Phase Diagrams and Bioscience reference books

The ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center allows subscribers to explore, search and view more than 11,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 2400 systems from their Web browsers.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE provides a collection of over 200 reference works and books on topics such as bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, epidemiology, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and toxicology. A complete title list of all the resources included is available.

Common Errors in English

We’ve recently discovered a very useful – and somewhat addictive – website, Common errors in English. Although it’s not directly about engineering, the site could be helpful in writing papers, developing presentations, or writing cover letters. It’s full of advice about grammar and spelling quandaries you might find familiar: should you use “an” for a word, like Xray, that starts with a vowel sound, but isn’t a vowel? Should you use affect or effect? E.g. or i.e?
You might even come across a mistake you didn’t realize you had been making – I didn’t know “please RSVP” was redundant.

Announcing SPIE Digital Library

Access to the SPIE Digital Library is now available from the Databases and Indexes to Articles menu of the library web site. Individual title access to publications in this resource is also available through SFX.

SPIE Digital Library includes more than 120,000 technical papers. These papers were published either in the SPIE Proceedings series or in one of the four SPIE journals. Full text coverage begins 1990 or the first date of the journal publication (whichever is first). Also included are citations and abstracts for most journal papers published since 1992.SPIE journals and proceedings are core information resources for the subject areas of optics, photonics and imaging.

Approximately 15,000 papers added annually.

The SPIE Digital Library gives you full text access to the following publications:

• Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS): Vol. 1 (2007) – present
• Journal of Biomedical Optics: Vol. 1 (1996) – present
• Journal of Electronic Imaging: Vol. 1 (1990) – present
• Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS: Vol. 1 (2002) – present
• Journal of Nanophotonics (JNP): Vol. 1 (2007) – preasent
• Optical Engineering: Vol. 29 (1992) – present
• Proceedings of SPIE: Vol. 1200 (1990) – present

Free and convenient patent printing

Printing patents from the US or European websites can be frustrating and time-consuming. If you already have the number of the patent you'd like to print, print2pdf.org quickly produces a free, easily printable pdf of patents. Unfortunately, this service is only available for US patents, and you can't search patents from the site, but the convenience it offers for printing makes it a great tool.

If you'd like to use print2pdf, make sure you link to ".org" and not ".com" – while the commercial site may be helpful for those willing to pay to for a better patent searching interface, it's not free.