Monthly Archives: February 2010

TRIAL: ShipIndex

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http://shipindex.org/

Ship Index will be on trial 2/25/10–3/25/10. Now extended to 4/12/10.

Send com­ments to Blynne Olivieri

Cre­ated by Peter and Mike McCracken, Ship Index tells you which books, mag­a­zines, and online resources men­tion the ves­sels you’re research­ing. With 143,937 entries in the free data­base and 1,278,431 entries avail­able with pre­mium access, you’re bound to find use­ful infor­ma­tion here.

TRIAL: Naxos video library

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http://UWashington.naxosvideolibrary.com

Trial avail­able 2/23/2010 — 3/23/2010

Naxos pro­vides a stream­ing video library of clas­si­cal music per­for­mances, opera, bal­let, live con­certs and doc­u­men­taries. Watch the world’s great­est opera houses, bal­let com­pa­nies, orches­tras and artists per­form on demand.

Key fea­tures include:

1. Over 250 full-length videos, avail­able any­time, any­where
2. Cre­ate cus­tom clips: edit and add them to indi­vid­ual playlists
3. Sub­ti­tles avail­able in over 5 languages

Com­ments to Judy Tsou

CRC netbases: changes to platform and access url’s

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CRC net­bases came up on a new plat­form 2/16/2010. UW cur­rently sub­scribes to STAT­Snet­Base and ENGnet­Base, both col­lec­tions of e-books and e-reference.

These col­lec­tions may be searched together at:
http://www.crcnetbase.com/
Note: if you search the entire col­lec­tion, mark the check box in the upper right hand cor­ner to limit to full text.

or sep­a­rately:
ENGnet­Base:
http://www.crcnetbase.com/page/engineering_ebooks

STAT­Snet­Base:
http://www.crcnetbase.com/page/statistics_ebooks

CHEM­net­Base remains on its own plat­form and does not change its url. http://www.chemnetbase.com/

TRIAL: Design and applied arts index

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http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=3237474
Pass­word: Welcome

Trial avail­able 2/9/2010 — 3/10/2010

Send com­ments to Angela Weaver

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the lead­ing source of abstracts and bib­li­o­graphic records for arti­cles, news items, and reviews pub­lished in design and applied arts peri­od­i­cals from 1973 onwards. An indis­pens­able tool for stu­dents, researchers, and prac­ti­tion­ers world­wide, DAAI cov­ers both new design­ers and the devel­op­ment of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th cen­tury, sur­vey­ing dis­ci­plines includ­ing ceram­ics, glass, jew­ellery, wood, met­al­smithing, graphic design, fash­ion and cloth­ing, tex­tiles, fur­ni­ture, inte­rior design, archi­tec­ture, com­puter aided design, Web design, computer-generated graph­ics, ani­ma­tion, prod­uct design, indus­trial design, gar­den design, and land­scape archi­tec­ture. Around 1200 new records are added in each monthly update.

CANCELLED: NTIS database via CSA

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The NTIS sub­scrip­tion data­base via CSA has been can­celled effec­tive 2/2/10.

The pub­licly avail­able (free) data­base on the NTIS web­site has now been cat­a­loged and added to the dig­i­tal reg­istry.
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx

There are other gov­ern­ment tech­ni­cal report databases:

Pub­lic Tech­ni­cal Reports — DTIC Online
Defense Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/tr/index.html
Cov­ers Defense Depart­ment funded research and related research areas (NTIS acces­sion num­bers AD/ADA/AD-B/AD-D, etc.)
Back to 50s — many .pdfs (full text)

DOE Infor­ma­tion Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
many .pdfs (full text)
The Depart­ment of Energy data­base con­tain­ing full text for Depart­ment of Energy (DOE) spon­sored sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal reports back to the early 1990s.

NASA Tech­ni­cal Report Server
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp

Also, using Google can turn up NTIS acces­sion num­bers, report num­bers and links to full text reports in .pdf from a myr­iad gov­ern­ment agencies.

Science.gov is a good resource as well http://www.science.gov/> for tech­ni­cal report literature.

We are cur­rently explor­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of acquir­ing the NTIS Tech­ni­cal Reports Library.
http://www.ntis.gov/products/ntrl.aspx. This includes the full text of the reports from NTIS