TechXtra expanded coverage

TechXtra, a free service for finding material in engineering, mathematics and computing, has added new sources to its cross-search. It is now possible to search across 31 major collections (over 4 million items) for articles, eprints, technical reports, books, theses & dissertations, teaching & learning resources, the latest industry news and job announcements.

In addition, TechXtra has partnered with GlobalSpec to offer a free Patents and Standards search facility. There are also new, free, trade magazine subscriptions.

The new collections now covered by TechXtra's cross-search include:

• Emerald - TechXtra indexes a subset of Emerald Journals relevant to Engineering & Materials Science. Around 6,000 articles are indexed from approximately 15 Journals. Full text content is available to Emerald subscribers, or by pay-per-view.
  
  
• JORUM - a searchable repository of learning and teaching resources for academic and support staff in the UK. TechXtra indexes around 1,500 JORUM objects. An Athens username and password are required to access the actual resources.
  
  
• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library - TechXtra indexes a sample subset file from the ICE Virtual Library of papers produced between 1836-1998. Over 5,500 papers are indexed (including the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers). Full text content is available by subscription, or by pay-per-view.

These collections join arXiv, CISTI, CiteSeer, DOAJ, Inderscience, IoP, NASA Technical Reports, and many more in the TechXtra cross-search. For a full list of the collections covered by TechXtra, see: http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/index.html?action=collectiondetails

Many new feeds have been added to TechXtra's OneStep News service at http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepnews/ The new feeds include:

• Platts - Nuclear, Metals, and Electric Power news.
• Building Design & Construction News
• IEEE Spectrum
• Brightsurf Science News
• PhysOrg News
• SPIE NewsRoom
• Control Design News
• Wireless Net News

In the majority of cases, the full text of items found through TechXtra is freely available. This includes the 8,000 Australian theses, nearly half a million articles in computer and information science from CiteSeer, items found via ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World), thousands of eprints from arXiv in mathematics and computer science, 300 earthquake engineering technical reports from Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports, many articles from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), theses and dissertations from NDLTD, learning resources from the National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS).

Further information on the new services is available at: http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/news/press-release5.htm