LATEST NOTICES
Our monthly round up of information and library developments to February 2010.
70 new e-books available in Knovel!
New-look library catalogue!
New electronic delivery service for British Library articles
Changes to library closing times
New acquisitions
New email for archive enquiries
EBSCO Science and Technology Collection
Picture gallery re-launch
New library charges
70 new e-books available in Knovel!
We are pleased to announce that we have added 70 new titles to our list of e-books available to members in Knovel.
The new e-books include key handbooks requested by users, including McGraw Hill's Manufacturing Engineering Handbook and the Electrical Construction Databook, to complement established favourites, such as the Machinery's Handbook and Formulas for Stress, Strain, and Structural Matrices.
Knovel remains one of the Virtual Library's most popular resources - members downloaded 15,000 chapters last year alone! To access Knovel, please login to the Virtual Library.
The IMechE library catalogue has a new, updated look - take a look for yourself here!
New electronic delivery service for British Library articles
Members can now receive papers and articles from the British Library in electronic format, which will speed up delivery times.
Please note that users will need to have version 6.0 or later of Adobe reader, or Adobe Digital Editions installed on their computer in order to access the document.
Adobe Digital Editions is freely available and can be installed here.
Please note that the library will be closing at 5pm on following dates:
March - 15
May - 13; 26
We apologize for any inconvenience.
New acquisitions
You can now use the library catalogue to see a list of our most recent book and standards acquisitions, and the latest papers and articles from IMechE seminars.
New email for archive enquiries
Please note there is a new email address for all archive enquiries - archive@imeche.org. Archivists Fenella Philpot (Mondays-Tuesdays) and Laura Gardner (Wednesdays-Fridays) will answer all archive enquiries.
EBSCO Science and Technology Collection
We are pleased to announce that we have secured a subscription to the EBSCO Science and Technology Collection. This encompasses over 830 leading full-text scholarly journals, covering sectors from automotive to process engineering.
It will be especially useful if you are carrying out literature reviews for a student project, or if you are trying to locate research on a particular concept.
Access is via the Virtual Library.
Picture gallery re-launch
We are pleased to announce the re-launch of the updated Picture Gallery, a resource of digitised pictures from the IMechE archive collection. The gallery can be browsed by subject area and images can be sent to friends as free e-cards. Print purchase enquiries can also be made.
The subject areas are: aircraft, cars & road vehicles, energy & power, portraits, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, industrial & machinery, railways, ships & boats, and models.
New library charges
Please note that new library charges are now in force.