New Electronic and Electrical Engineering Books

And another batch of books added to the Library in October!  These ones are on subjects realted to Electronic and Electrical Engineering – follow the links for details of the books on the Library catalogue:

Patterson, D, A., 2009
Computer organization and design : the hardware/software interface

Davies, P. J. , 1995
The indispensable guide to C : with engineering applications

Nixon, M. S., 2008
Feature extraction and image processing

Croft, T. and Davison, R., 2008
Mathematics for engineers : a modern interactive approach

Singh, K., 2003
Engineering mathematics : through applications

Holzner, S., 2008
Differential equations for dummies

Palm, W.  J. 2005
Introduction to MATLAB 7 for engineers

Wiese, P. R., 2003
Engineering design in the multi-discipline era : a systems approach

Bovik, A. C. , 2009
The essential guide to image processing

Koschan, A. and ,Mongi A., 2008
Digital color image processing

Petrou, M., 2006
Image processing : dealing with texture

Stathaki, T., 2008
Image fusion : algorithms and applications

Storey, N., 2009
Electronics : a systems approach

Bloch, I., 2008
Information fusion in signal and image processing : major probabilistic and non-probabilistic numerical approaches

Roberts, M.  J., 2003
Signals and systems : analysis using transform methods and MATLAB

Richardson, I.  E. G., 2003
H.264 and MPEG-4 video compression : video coding for next-generation multimedia

 Bovik, A.  C., 2009
The essential guide to video processing

Dorf, R. C., 2008
Modern control systems

New Chemical Engineering Books

The following books are all new titles added to the Library in October.  Click on the link to see the catalogue record and find where the books are shelved:

Ludwig, F. , 2009
Climate change adaptation in the water sector

National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support, 2009.
Informing decisions in a changing climate

Albright, L.  F., 2009
Albright’s chemical engineering handbook

Pabby, A. K., 2009
Handbook of membrane separations : chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and biotechnological applications

Press, R.  J., 2009
Introduction to hydrogen technology

New Architecture and Civil Engineering Books

Below is a list of Architecture and Civil Engineering books added to Library stock in October.   The links will take you to the catalogue records which show you where the books are shelved.

McIntyre, A., 2006
Library book : an architectural journey through the London Library, 1841-2006

Uren, J., 2006
Surveying for engineers  4th ed.
Gaiddon, B., et al., 2009
Photovoltaics in the urban environment : lessons learnt from large-scale
projects

Dickinson, P. R., 2004
Cracking and building movement

Cantor, S. L., 2008
Green roofs in sustainable landscape design

Watts, A., 2005
Modern construction facades

Baker, N., 2009
The handbook of sustainable refurbishment : non-domestic buildings

Littlefield, D., 2009
Liverpool One : remaking a city centre

Unwin, S., 2003
Analysing architecture

Cook, P., 2008
Drawing : the motive force of architecture

Weston, R., 2004
Plans, sections and elevations : key buildings of the twentieth century

Plummer, H., 2009
Stillness & light : the silent eloquence of Shaker architecture

Unwin, S., 2000
An architecture notebook

Levitt, D., 2010
Housing design handbook : a guide to good practice

French, H., 2008
Key urban housing of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations

Davies, C., 2006
Key houses of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations

Musson, J., 2008
The country houses of John Vanbrugh : from the archives of Country life

Plummer, H., 2009
The architecture of natural light

Barron, M., 2010
Auditorium acoustics and architectural design

New Mechanical Engineering books

Below are listed a selection of books added to the Mechanical Engineering Library stock over the last few weeks . Click the weblinks to view the catalogue records and availability for each title – in some cases we have multiple copies.

Clifford, M. et al.,  2009
An introduction to mechanical engineering: Part 1 

Gibbings, D., 2009.
Fairey Rotodyne

Lieuwen, T.C. et al., ed., 2009
Synthesis gas combustion : fundamentals and applications

Rolls-Royce, 2005
The jet engine (5th edition rev.)

New ebooks trial…take a look!

The Library is currently trialling a new e-books package called ‘Dawsonera’.   Fifty full-text electronic books are available for you to read up until Tuesday May 7th.   Find out more and connect to the Dawsonera website by visiting:  http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/news/dawsonera.html

Titles available in the trial include:

•  ’Corrosion of steel in concrete: understanding, investigation and repair’ (2nd ed) by  J.P. Broomfield
•  ’Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics’ by W.G. Pariseau
•  ’Expansive soils: recent advances in characterization and treatment ’  ed. by A.A. Al-Rawas and  M.F.A. Goosen
• ‘Innovations in hospice architecture’ by S.F. Verderber and D.B.Refuerzo

To view these and see what else is on offer, just click on ‘Ebook catalogue’ on the Dawsonera website.   You can also find out what other titles could be added in the future – and let us know if you’re interested in any of them - by clicking on “Advanced search”, and selecting “include not owned”.   Whether or not you’ve you’ve used e-books before, have a look and let us know what you think!

If this has whetted your appetite, you’ll be pleased to hear that the Library subscribes to many other e-books.  You can find them by searching the Library Catalogue;  from the A-Z listing at http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/info/e-books.html; or by following the ‘Resources for your subject’ link on the Library website, clicking on your department, and then on the link ‘Ebooks’.  

New Engineering books recently added to stock

After a fairly quiet February, I can report a batch of new books recently added to library stock:

Meirovitch, L. Fundamentals of vibrations 621.01:534 MEI

Cook, Albert M., Cook and Hussey’s assistive technologies : principles and practice 362.4 COO

Childs, Peter R. N., Mechanical design 621.82 CHI

New Mechanical Engineering titles in January

These books were added to the stock for Mechanical Engineering in the last few weeks.  Click the weblinks to view the catalogue record and availability for each title.

Atala, Anthony
Principles of regenerative medicine, 2008

Hansen, L. Scott
Learning and applying solid edge V20 step by step, 2008

Thomas, W. John & Crittenden, B.
Adsorption technology and design, 1998

Web of Knowledge Interface upgrade – 3rd February

UPDATE: The date of the upgrade has been altered to Sunday February 3rd

From early 2008, the traditional Web of Knowledge user interface you might be used to will be replaced by an upgraded version with a number of new features. This new interface is currently available from the Web of Knowledge site to provide you with time to familiarise yourself with the new layout and functionality of the WoK service – look for the “Access New Version” button at the top of the screen to try it out.

One of the most important new features is the All Databases search, which replaces CrossSearch.

The All Databases search allows you to:

• Search across all ISI Web of Knowledge databases your institution subscribes to
• Retrieve up to 100,000 results, automatically sorted by the journal cover publication date
• Easily refine and analyze your search results

Help on using the new interface is available online via the Web of Knowledge website. There are also quick reference cards available for download in PDF format, some hardcopies are also available from your Subject Librarian:

• Web of Science Quick Reference Card
• Endnote Web Quick Reference Card

Please contact your Subject Librarian for advice or if you have an queries about using the upgraded service.

With the scheduled upgrade, dual access to ISI Web of Knowledge will be discontinued, and all users and institutions will access the new version.

New e-Journals for Engineering

Following a change in the subscription arrangements, the library is very pleased to offer access to 8 more electronic journal titles from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. We will no longer receive any of the ASME titles in print-format, but many users will be very happy to have online access to the ASME journal content instead.

The new titles added to our existing electronic holdings are:

• Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
• Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
• Journal of Electronic Packaging
• Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology
• Journal of Medical Devices
• Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
• Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
• Journal of Solar Energy Engineering

Currently, you can find these journals by browsing the A-Z list of ejournals under “J”. Otherwise, you will be able to link directly to the full text of articles from these titles if you come across article references in one of our subscription databases (e.g. Web of Knowledge, Compendex)

Now you CAN find these titles by searching for the them using the ELIN resource.  Add them to your collection to receive regular email Table of Contents updates.

If this is your first visit to the Engineering & Design blog, please take a few moments to browse earlier posts to see if there is anything of interest to you. Users registered with the WordPress site can leave comments for any post. Otherwise please feel free to pass on any feedback or suggestions for anything else you think would be useful to post on this blog site directly to your Subject Librarian.

Thanks.

ZETOC versus ELIN

It sounds like an old Japanese monster movie but I’m talking about nothing more scary than Table of Contents alerting services today.

Some of you, especially if you are doing research work, may already be registered with the ZETOC service managed by the British Library to set up alerts and receive the Tables of Contents of your most frequently read journal titles by email.

The e-Library Information Navigator (eLIN) service linked from the library homepage will allow you to set up a collection of links to those journals you refer to most frequently and will also mail you Table of Contents (TOC) alerts for those titles.

The process is as simple as logging in to ELIN or registering an account with the service if you haven’t used it before. After that, you can use the Journals search page to look for your favourite Engineering & Design titles then ‘Add to your Collection’.

By default, all titles in your Collection will automatically send you TOC alerts to the email address you registered. You may find the ELIN service a bit more straightforward to use, the convenience of having links to your favourite journals saved in one place will stop you having to browse the epic A-Z e-journal listings and there’s even some evidence that the ELIN service can get TOC alerts out to you faster than ZETOC…

If you’ve any queries or problems using the service or would like more information about ELIN, don’t hesitate to contact your Subject Librarian.