eResource of the month: IEEE Xplore

A post by Science Faculty Librarian Colin Theakston

Here’s one for all you budding Engineers, Physicists and Computer Scientists out there – IEEE Xplore.

If you don’t know already, then let me tell you that the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is a trusted gateway to science-based peer-reviewed—journals, conferences, standards and eBooks.

IEEE Xplore can therefore help you expand your current knowledge base by helping you discover highly focussed scientific resources. It does this by providing you with access to more than 6 million full-text peer reviewed documents. The database is crammed full of easily searchable peer-reviewed materials; and offers users the opportunity to search by title, author, abstract, keyword, affiliation, and even more!

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eResource of the month: BIOSIS Citation Index

A post by Faculty Librarian Colin Theakston

Some of you may not know this, but the BIOSIS Citation Index is included within Web of Science.

This database includes cited references to primary journal literature on biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms. It covers original research reports and reviews in botany, zoology, and microbiology, and related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology, and interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology.

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eResource of the month: IET Inspec database (being trialled during February – March 2023)

Each month we spotlight one of our databases to highlight the range of resources available to our users. This month, Science Faculty Librarian Colin Theakston turns the spotlight on a database we have on trial.

Our status as a research active university means that we are frequently approached by data-providers who are keen to have us trial their databases, obviously they do this as they are hoping we might subscribe to their product.  Truth be told, if the feedback is good enough we often do!

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