• The Engineering Library now has two wireless laptop computers that can be used in the library to access library information. You can check them out at the Circulation Desk
• You no longer need a password to access the Lexis-Nexis database from your UC.EDU desktop!
• EEVL: the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library was featured in the December 1997 issue of the ASEE Engineering Libraries Newsletter. This database provides access to engineering resources in the UK. It includes a search engine for over 32,000 UK engineering web pages, a liquid crystal database, a jet impingement database and a list of research projects. You might want to have a look.
• Institute of Physics,PhysicsWeb, The Web site for Physicists, is FREE until April 6, 1998. It includes patent news, book reviews and a list of online resources.
• Check out the LIBRARY WORKSHOPS being offered Winter Quarter. I am happy to come to faculty offices to help you get started using the REVEAL table-of-contents service or any of the other online databases! If time permits, I am also available for graduate students and others. Let me know at lucy.wilson@uc.edu or 556-1455lk

November 1997:

• We have added a list of CD-ROMs that can be checked out to the list of resources in the guide to the library.
• We now have trial access to the full text of recent Springer-Verlag and Wiley InterScience journals.
• Check out our newly redesigned Journals Online and Databases Online pages.

October 1997:

• Science Citation Index is finally available from your desktop! This database shows now only who has cited your work, but also what ohter works cite the same work(s) that you do.
• Between now and Thanksgiving we have TRIAL access to all the Cambridge Scientific Databases. We have PERMANENT access to the Cambridge Environmental Sub-Files. I have created a What's NEW page to more fully explain all this.

August-September 1997:

• Electronic reserves is now available for all Engineering and Math faculty. If you want your reserve materials made available electronically check the box on the pink reserve request form.

July 1997:

• The PhD Qualifying Exams for Mechanical Engineering are now available online. We are expanding online reserves for FAll Quarter. Materials can now be made available through the UCLID reserve sub-system as well as from our webpage.
• The following links are currently up in test for UC.EDU users
  • Zentralblatt
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Institution of Chemical Engieers

    NOTE: To view these three journals you will first need to download the REAL PAGE viewer which is available from this webpage. You will then be linked to the Institution of Chemical Engineers titles from this webpage. Your REAL PAGE viewer also gives you permanent access to all the other titles listed on this webpage that are NOT starred, e.g., Journal of Materials Chemistry, Interntional Journal of Control, Journal of Network and Systems Management, etc.

• Please note that you can get INSPEC, the principle database for physics, electronics and computing, on your DESKTOP through the Public Library of Cincinnati.
  • telnet://plch.lib.uc.edu
  • choose:
    • 5. Other Electronic Resources
    • 4. OCLC FirstSearch
    • Enter your library card number

      (As a U.C. student or faculty member you can get a Public Library card at any branch. The closest is in Clifton at 351 Ludlow.)

    • 6. Engineering and Technology
    • 8. INSPEC - covers January 1969 to the present, updated weekly.

June 1997:

• We have started to work on redesigning the FRONTPAGE to make it simpler and, we hope, more intuitive. Please send your comments to Lucy Wilson.
• Electronic Reserves can now be made avaliable through UCLID. You can request this option when you put material onreserve in the Engineering Library. Guidelines and restrictions are listed on the back of the Reserve Form.

March 1997:

• This month we added a search engine to the site, and a separate one on the electronic reserves pages. Let me know what our think of them!
• We have added links to the Ohio Supercomputer Center and to the Cincinnati EPA Library from the homepage.
• And, we have set up two pages of primary content
  • The Electronic Journals Page links you to the full text of journals that are currently available to the U.C. community.
  • And the Databooks Page of databooks and datasheets.

February 1997:

• Solid State Communications Online is available full text for the month of March if you access it from uc.edu. They do make you register! Let me know if you have comments. (Send them to Lucy Wilson.)
• Also in March the Engineering Library has the cd-rom index CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS (CEABA) for a one month trial. You will need to come to the library to try it. Send your comments to Jim Clasper.

January 1997:

• ENGINEERING INFORMATION VILLAGE (http://www.ei.org) is available for you to evaluate. You can email me (lucy.wilson@uc.edu) for the username and password.