New! Chemistry Community Braces Itself for the Latest Release of ChemVillage
Technology upgrade promises faster more efficient results

On June 1 2004, Engineering Information will release the next generation of ChemVillage www.chemvillage.org, a web-based discovery platform for professionals and academics working in the chemistry field.

The release will significantly upgrade the underlying technology improving the research process. The FAST search engine and sophisticated search tools have been implemented to deliver standard-bearing search speed and functionality. Among the new features are:

• Multiple Database Searching with de-duplication
• E-mail search alerts
• Saved searches
• Search histories
• Browse-able look-up indexes
• Advanced linking options

The updated version of ChemVillage includes Chimica, a bibliographic database covering the very latest scholarly journals on applied, analytical, organic and inorganic chemistry. Additional content sources are the Chemical Business NewsBASE which provides access to industry news, Beilstein Abstracts, the leading resource for organic chemistry literature and CHEMnetBASE, an online library of critical chemistry handbooks.

Professionals, professors and students need to locate relevant research materials in a rapid and organized fashion. The latest improvements will translate to faster and easier searching for researchers.

Engineering Information is now offering live training sessions for ChemVillage. These demonstrations are given online via WebEx and are hosted by the Engineering Information Librarian, Karen Berryman. Sign up for a custom online session at: http://elsevier.webex.com.

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University of Ulster Becomes Initial Referex Engineering Customer
Specialized electronic research product has its first subscriber

Congratulations to the University of Ulster for becoming the initial customer for Referex Engineering.

Taking advantage of a free 30-day trial, the University has decided to subscribe to the Materials & Mechanical and the Electronic & Electrical collections. With the Materials & Mechanical collection the University now has access to over 110 full-text handbooks and practical guides covering subjects including aeronautical engineering, computer-aided design, production management and robotics. The Electronics & Electrical collection offers the university over 100 full-text titles comprising a comprehensive range of subjects including audio electronics, image and video processing, software engineering and video and television.

Patrick Teskey, Systems Support Librarian for the University is excited about subscribing to Referex. He suggested that the subject coverage was right on target with the school’s curriculum, and was in keeping with the University’s commitment of providing students research material electronically.

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Engineering Information and the 2004 SLA Conference
Ei continues tradition of sponsoring SLA Engineering Librarian of the Year Award

Engineering Information is pleased to announce that it will once again be sponsoring the SLA Engineering Librarian of the Year Award at the 2004 Exhibit in Nashville, Tennessee. The award recognizes the distinguished achievement in the engineering library profession, through the exceptional contribution on the job within the SLA Engineering Division or within the industry at large. Past winners of the award include Margaret Gross, Librarian and Information Officer of EMS Technologies Canada Ltd., Marilyn Redmond, Manager of Strategic Information at International SEMATECH and Charles Wenger, Dean of Library Services at the Archbishop Alemany Library, Dominican University of California.

The Special Libraries Association hopes that this year’s conference will create an environment of networking, communication, learning and other developmental opportunities for information professionals. Engineering Information products will be demonstrated at the Elsevier booth (424/425/426/428/430/432).

If you are planning to attend the SLA conference, please stop by and say hello.

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Engineering Information Travels to Salt Lake City for the ASEE Conference
Major innovations see ASEE for the first time

Engineering Information will be exhibiting at the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah this coming June (20-23).

The ASEE Annual Conference is dedicated to all disciplines of engineering education. In the past it has proven to be an excellent opportunity for Engineering Information to showcase its latest developments.

Last year in Nashville, TN, Engineering Information released thesaurus functionality on the Engineering Village 2 platform. At this year’s event, Ei will be showcasing the addition of three major products that have been added to the Engineering Village 2 platform in the past six months: the Ei Backfile, the National Technical Information Service database and Referex Engineering.

Please come by booth 105 and say hello.

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Ei Backfile Marches Toward Completion
Monumental project draws to end

Files dating from 1884 through 1969 have been loaded into the Engineering Index Backfile. Subscribers will have access to over 1.7 million historical references that cover virtually every major engineering innovation from the late 19th century through most of the 20th.

Access to the Backfile will provide users with references that have never been available electronically. For example, records include an account of the suborbital flight of Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in the Mercury Spacecraft in 1961, and an account of atomic research and events which led to the launching of the Manhattan Project in 1942.

For additional information on the Engineering Index Backfile please contact the Ei Customer Support Team at eicustomersupport@elsevier.com.

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