New resource - Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new reference work to MIT CogNet, the Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition, 2nd ed.

Edited by Roberto Cabeza and Alan Kingstone, this reference work is the essential resource on neuroimaging and provides an accessible and user-friendly introduction to the field written by leading researchers. The core of the book covers fMRI and PET studies in specific domains: attention, skill learning, semantic memory, language, episodic memory, working memory, and executive functions.

With the addition of this important work, MIT CogNet now hosts 8 leading reference works in the brain and cognitive sciences.

To view this new resource directly, visit MIT CogNet and enter your EASE username and password when prompted.

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

The CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, eight reference works, and conference materials. Content and resources are provided by The MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work.

IEEE - New Publications for 2007

In 2006, IEEE approved six new technical journals for publication in 2007, covering such topics as biomedical circuits and systems, nanotechnology, signal processing, industrial electronics, and network and service management. These titles will be available this year via the University's IEL subscription, which can be accessed via IEEEXplore (click here and enter your EASE username and password).

The new titles are:

• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  Focusing on microelectronic issues in a wide range of applications found in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering
• IEEE Systems Journal
  Dealing with many aspects and attributes of systems: namely applications, education, engineering, human factors, management and operations, science, and modeling, simulation and analysis
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
  Discussing topics such as the theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices or techniques
• IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
  Addressing aspects of nanotechnology including theory, analysis, design, implementation; industry, research, education and policy news; opinion pieces; book reviews; introductions to new tools and techniques; patent summaries; and commercialization
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
  Focusing on the theory and applications of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation and computational intelligence to industrial and manufacturing systems and processes
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  An online-only publication publishing peer-reviewed archival quality papers that advance the state-of-the-art and practical applications of network and service management

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

IEEE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES PORTAL EXPLORES RESOURCES RELATED TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The IEEE New Technology Connections Portal offers visitors a look at emerging technologies and resources related to them. Each featured technology includes a general description, upcoming conferences, news articles, technical papers, related standards, professional organizations, and academic programs.

To read more, visit: http://www.ieee.org/web/emergingtech/home/index.html
(freely available)

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

SIGN UP FOR IEEE STANDARDS ALERTS VIA EMAIL OR RSS

IEEE Xplore now features opt-in standards alerts to keep you up-to-date on standards revisions available through email or RSS. This free service has recently been expanded to enable any IEEE Xplore user to be notified whenever a new standard or draft is published or a standard is revised. Users have the option to sign up for standards alerts based on industry or version number.

To sign up, visit:
http://ezproxy.lib.ed.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocalerts_signup.jsp
log-in using you EASE username and password, then register using your name and email address.

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

IET Journal Title Update

IET has released two new journals now available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library titled:

• IET Synthetic Biology, and
• IET Renewable Power Generation

IEE Proceedings Vision and Image and Signal Processing have been split into:

• IET Computer Vision
• IET Image Processing
• IET Signal Processing

To access these journals, visit: http://ezproxy.lib.ed.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ and enter your EASE username and password (both on an off-campus).

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

I am very pleased to let you know that we have now purchased the electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Lanaguage and Linguistics via ScienceDirect. You can either access this via the Library Online catalogue or at the direct link http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080448542

It has also been added to the resources that are searched by Searcher.

This online version supplements the written text (available in the Main Library) with additional illustrative material that is only possible in an electronic version - samples of spoken or signed language and videos of the use of language in context.

If you need any further information please get in touch.


Sheila Fisken
Liaison Librarian

NEW RESOURCE: Association for Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE)

Edinburgh University Library has purchased access to the full-text of 10 journals and 4 proceedings from the Association for Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE) via their EdITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education (http://www.editlib.org). For the majority of titles in EdITLib, full-text is available from the mid to late 1990s onwards.

Journals:

1. AACE Journal
2. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
3. Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual
4. International Journal of Educational Telecommunications
5. International Journal on E-Learning
6. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching
7. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
8. Journal of Interactive Learning Research
9. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
10. WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues

Proceedings of:

1. International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology
2. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference
3. World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
4. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications

Access is IP controlled (off-campus access information).

NEW RESOURCE: MathSciNet

A literature database from the American Mathematical Society. It comprises Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications and contains bibliographic records with abstracts (or reviews) of articles published in more than 1,800 scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings.

• It covers the years from 1940 to the present and is udated daily.
• Subject coverage is in the areas of mathematics, statistics and computer science.
• If you find an article of interest, the 'Reference Citations' and the 'Review Citations' functions will allow you to track subsequent literature in which it has been cited (see Citation Searching).
  

For further information on literature searching see the Guide to Resources in Informatics.

NEW SERVICE: EUL Catalogue 'bookmarklet'

What is a Library Catalogue bookmarklet?

Edinburgh University Library uses the Voyager system to catalogue its holdings, therefore, it is possible to create a 'bookmarklet' that will make it easy to look up items in our Catalogue. For example, if you read of a book you are interested in, and that page's URL includes an ISBN (e.g. on Amazon), you can click your bookmarklet to check if the book is available in EUL. The bookmarklet invokes an ISBN search in the EUL Catalogue and the search results are presented in a new window.

Get an EUL Catalogue bookmarklet...

Visit the following page Jon Udell: LibraryLookup (Voyager libraries). Drag the relevant link (Scotland - Edinburgh - Edinburgh University) to your browser toolbar. You now have an Edinburgh University Library Catalogue bookmarklet on your browser.

Once on your browser toolbar, it is possible to change the name of the bookmarklet, from 'Scotland - Edinburgh - Edinburgh University' to something of your own choosing, by viewing and editing the the properties of the bookmarklet.

If you want to search for journals, again it is possible to change the properties of the bookmarklet by substituting occurrences of "ISBN" to "ISSN" in the Location field.

In order for the bookmarklets to work the web page you are looking at must have the ISBN/ISSN in the URL.

NEWS: EUL E-reserve

Please be advised that the Library has made available new guidlines for staff regarding E-reserve

This will be useful for any member of staff who wishes to make available electronically material, including copyright cleared book chapters and journal articles (which are not already available online via our various subscriptions) that are likely to be in high demand, particularly for large classes.

These guidlines cover various frequently asked questions, including information on what can be included in E-reserve, copyright issues, costs etc.