Georgia Tech Library News

The library now subscribes to Literature Criticism Online which provides access to Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC), and Short Story Criticism (SSC). This outstanding reference literature database offers biographical and bibliographical information on over 3,000 20th century and contemporary literary figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and literary theorists), as well as scholarly and popular commentary and criticism from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.

To access Literature Criticism Online use the A to Z list of databases at http://www.library.gatech.edu/search/databases.php

Corp Tech is an online directory of 100,000 high-tech companies and their key executives. There are 17 primary industry groups (biotechnology, defense, energy, environmental, photonics, etc.), plus many detailed “product codes”. Exclusives include searching by female or minority ownership, government contractor status, and source of capital. Also searchable by SIC and NAICS codes, plus standard geographical variables.

Georgia Tech is one of about 10 universities participating in a soft rollout of SciFinder on the web. For the first month or two, our number of seats will be increased to encourage everyone to try the web version.

Please note the following about the web version of SciFinder:

• Everyone must register and create a user name and password.
• Windows computers require a Java plug-in to perform structure searches.
• Mac computers can search the web version with the exception of structure searching. A structure searching solution for Mac is in the works.
• Remote, off-campus access is available for the web version!

To register and begin searching, please go to the following web page: https://www.library.gatech.edu/sfs/sfs.php

Value Line is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 97 industries, the stock market and the economy. Unique features include providing a beta figure and timeliness ranking for each stock. To access Value Line use the use the A to Z list of databases at http://www.library.gatech.edu/search/databases.php

The CIA World Factbook provides a complete snapshot of the nations of the world at the current time. The amount of data is absolutely amazing. Need to know about the environmental problems of Madagascar? How about the main exports/imports of Bahrain? What kind of government does Argentina have? When is independence day celebrated in Australia? How many miles of railroads are in Turkestan? What military forces are in Hungary? These and many more questions can be answered using the CIA World Factbook, http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

Click on the link to REGISTER by using the “Sign up for an Individual Account” option, and start using RefWorks immediately! This trial will remain active until 3/31/08.

The Group Code for Remote Access is: RWGAITech

Send your comments about RefWorks to lori.critz@library.gatech.edu

Want to know more about it before you get there? Check out the Library’s subject guide on International Affairs! From the Library’s top page click on Resource Guides, then on International Affairs, and then on “Country Information, Multinational”. Nationmaster (http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php) is one of the listed sites, and gives statistics on nations of the world. Some of the most popular statistics include richest, most murderous, most educated, most generous, and more.

SciFinder Scholar 2007 Windows and Mac clients are now available for downloading from the Library web page. Clients are compatible with Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4.

SciFinder Scholar 2007 new features include: [more info]

• Categorize your reference answer set
• Combine answer sets
• Export commercial chemical records into Excel answer sets
• Explore from substance displays
• Print structures in a grid layout

Full-text, extensive collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of Congress. It contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide range of subjects, dating back to 1789. More than 300,000 documents (11 million pages) from 1789 to 1969 are included in this digital collection of the Serial Set.

GA Tech campus now has access to Elsevier’s Referex Engineering, a searchable database providing access to the full text of over 300 engineering books, including handbooks, reference books, academic or scholarly books, how-to-guides and titles focussed on technique and practice, as well as specialized professional information. The collections cover the following areas in engineering: materials and mechanical; electronics and electrical; and, chemical, petrochemical and process.

Referex can be searched by itself or can complement your searches in Compendex and INSPEC.