Reference Shelf
Email Current Awareness Services - a list of sites provideing free Tables of Contents alerting services. These current awareness alerting services allow you to have journal and conference citations sent automatically to your email address. A keyword or author search strategy that describes your research interests is saved online. This search will then be run automatically everytime the database is updated. This is an excellent way of staying up to date in your area of scientific or engineering research.
Community
of Science (COS) - the leading Internet site for the global R&D
community. COS brings together the world's most prominent scientists and
researchers at more than 1,600 universities, corporations and government
agencies worldwide. COS provides tools and services that enable these
professionals to communicate, exchange information and find the people
and technologies that are important to their work.
Online Materials Information Resource (MatWeb) — a free materials database with information on over 25,000 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites.
ResearchIndex (CiteSeer) - a search engine that aims to improve the
dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements
in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency,
and
timeliness.
ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web
and provides a citation index.
EEVL - created by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK. This free service provides quick and reliable access to the best engineering, mathematics, and computing information available on the Internet.
Alison Chaiken's Magnetic Recording Web Sites - useful links in the world of magnetic data storage now maintained at the University of Twente.
Dictionary of Units - provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use worlwide, together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I.
UCSD Science & Engineering Library's eReference Shelf - links to helpful tools such as converters, product catalogs, encyclopedias, physical constants, alerting services etc.
