Delphion patent service October 30, 2007
Posted by Jenny in e-resources.Tags: Access and Passwords, eresources, patents
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The Delphion patent service is a fully searchable database containing full-text U.S. and foreign patent documents.
The Library is renewing its subscription to Delphion Premier service for 2007/08 and there are about 10 individual subscriptions remaining within the Library’s subscription at a discounted price.
Users of Delphion must register individually to obtain a username and password once the subscription is taken.
Some of the databases included in this package:
- US Applications
- US Granted
- European Applications
- European Granted
- Patent Abstracts of Japan
- German Applications
- German Granted
- WIPO PCT Publications – abstracts, full document images, and full text from over a hundred countries including the U.S.
- INPADOC – information on worldwide patent filings
To subscribe to the package, please contact the Library at: e-resourceshelp@imperial.ac.uk
Suggesting books and other resources for the Central Library and Maths Library October 29, 2007
Posted by Jenny in Book suggestions.Tags: Book suggestions, Central Library, Maths, Maths Library, Physics, projects, research
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We actively encourage you to suggest books and other resources you feel should be added to any of our collections (either in the Central Library or in the Mathematics Library).
To find out what is being published at the moment, click on the tabs at the top of the blog page – either Physics – New titles being published or Maths – New titles being published for up to date relevant information.
You can email me on j.evans@imperial.ac.uk with your suggestions.
Graduate Schools Information Retrieval lecture October 29, 2007
Posted by Jenny in Student Information.Tags: postgraduates, research, teaching, Training
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If you are a new PhD student, the Information Retrieval lecture, given by Adrian Clark will be very useful to you.
Content in this lecture includes:
- Resources relevant to you (from journals to theses, e-prints, technical reports, patents and standards);
- Electronic access to resources and relevant password info;
- Access to other libraries;
- Inter Library Loans;
- MetaLib the Library portal;
- Bibliographic databases;
- SFX – link to full text;
- Citation indexing;
- Reference management software;
- Current awareness services;
- An introduction to PILs (the Postgraduate Information Literacy programme).
The next lecture will be held on Monday the 26th November. You can book via the Graduate Schools WebCT site, but if you are having problems accessing this, you can contact them via email on graduate.schools@imperial.ac.uk to ask for help.
If you have attended this lecture already and would like a follow up session specific to your subject area/research topic, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the blog or by email j.evans@imperial.ac.uk
Recommended textbooks for undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses October 29, 2007
Posted by Jenny in Book suggestions.Tags: Book suggestions, Central Library, Maths, Maths Library, Physics, recommended reading, textbooks
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Each year in May, the Library puts out a call to teaching staff from the current academic year to ask them to re-check and re-submit their recommended textbooks for the next academic year.
We need this information to ensure we have enough copies of all textbooks in stock for our students to use. It also allows us to check for updated editions of current textbooks.
If you need us to resend last years list, please contact me, either through the comments section of this blog, or by emailing me at j.evans@imperial.ac.uk. If you were not teaching last year, or were teaching a different course, can you please fill out the form found here or at least email me a copy of the list or a link to a URL where the list can be found.
We also need to know if there are no suggested textbooks for a course.
Please let me know if you have any questions about this process.
New Physics books – October 2007 October 19, 2007
Posted by Jenny in New Books.Tags: Central Library, New Books, Physics
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Please find below, a link to the list of new books purchased for the Central Library physics collection in October.
New Physics books – October 2007
Please remember to check the library catalogue to see if they are on the shelves and if they are not, you can place a hold.
Please do let me know if you have any suggestions for titles to be added to this collection.
New Maths books – October 2007 October 19, 2007
Posted by Jenny in New Books.Tags: Central Library, Maths, Maths Library, New Books
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Please see the attached list for new mathematics books received in the Maths Library and the Central Library in October.
New Mathematics books – October 2007
Remember to check the library catalogue first to see if the item is on the shelves, if it isn’t you can place a hold on the item.
Do let me know if you have any suggestions for titles to be purchased for either library.
Zetoc service downtime – Tuesday 30th October October 16, 2007
Posted by Jenny in e-resources.Tags: Database, eresources, service downtime
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In order to carry out maintenance (including possible replacement of a processor
board) to the server on which Zetoc runs, it will be necessary to take Zetoc out of service for a period of about one hour. Consequently Zetoc will be unavailable from 9 am (GMT) on Tuesday, 30th October. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you.
