Georgia Tech Library News

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.

Did you know that faculty member and stand-up comedian Dr. Pete Ludovice (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and Dr. Bill Hunt (Electrical and Computer Engineering) host a radio show? It’s called “Inside the Black Box” and it’s a science and technology show for listeners who are not technically inclined (or “normal people” as the show’s hosts like to call them). The show is broadcast on Radio Sandy Springs and topics include “Albert Einstein - Physics and Hairstyles,” “Pluto Getting the Boot,” and “Nerds & Geeks.”

Thirty five of these shows can be found in SMARTech at:
http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/13667 - Check them out!

Faculty and students now have unprecented access to at least 100 major research journals via the World Wide Web as Georgia Tech has become a participant of JSTOR and its fully searchable electronic database. Subject areas include math, statistics, literature, asian studies, economics, political science, history and more.The New York Times recently ran an article on JSTOR.

The Georgia Tech Library is very pleased to announce that the Georgia Tech Community now has access to the Television News Archives at Vanderbilt (TVNA) collection, which holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major US national broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN – and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming, including ABC’s Nightline since 1989. Access this collection from the Library’s web page using the following path: Search & Locate > Search the Databases > T > Television News Archive at Vanderbilt (TVNA).

The Library is pleased to announce online access to our Morningstar Mutual Funds subscription. Expanded content includes analyst reports for 1500 stocks and tools for portfolio analysis. A powerful feature allows for screening by more than 50 criteria.

You now have more access to digital reference to answer questions covering everything from art to science, medicine, literature and law through xreferplus, a online collection of 100 reference works.

The Georgia Tech community now has access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 (Full coverage from 1998 to the present) through SPIE Digital Library. The collected papers and research articles covers topic such as optics, photonics, electronic and biomedical imaging, sensing, communications and fiber optics, and micro- and nano-technology. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.

The Georgia Tech community now has online access to many full-text unclassified, government-sponsored research reports from NASA and other federal agencies through the NTIS Technical Reports Server.