Synthesis Digital Library – REMINDER

A year ago, Waldo Library obtained collection one of the Synthesis Digital Library, containing 100 fifty to two hundred page books in engineering and computer science.  Each of these books is basically an extended lecture, authored by an expert engineer, and available in Adobe PDF format for easy downloading, reading, printing, and emailing.  This would make some of these books ideal to use as textbooks for the classes you teach.  Here are some selected titles in the collection.  You can see all the titles using the link above.   Please take advantage of this collection!  (Note: You will need to enter your BroncoNet ID and password to access these titles and the collection itself.)

Digital Control in Power Electronics (By Simone Buso and Paolo Mattavelli)

Engineering Ethics (By George D. Catalano)

Engineers within a Local and Global Society (By Caroline Baillie)

Essentials of Applied Mathematics for Scientists and Engineers (By Robert G. Watts)

Intelligent Autonomous Robotics: A Robot Soccer Case Study (By Peter Stone)

Learning Programming using MATLAB (By Khalid Sayood)

Power Electronics for Modern Wind Turbines (By Frede Blaabjerg and Zhe Chen)

Quantum Computing for Computer Architects (By Tzvetan S. Metodi and Frederic T. Chong)

RFID Explained (By Roy Want)

Understanding Circuits (By Khalid Sayood)

Springer engineering eBooks

In addition to our purchase of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (1997 – present), Waldo Library has also purchased a number of other Springer electronic book collections in the last year. The full text of most of these books is available to the WMU community only.

Some of the largest eBook collections we have from Springer are the following:

Advances in Database Systems (19 books)

Advances in Industrial Control (35 books)

Advances in Materials Research (5 books)

Advances in Pattern Recognition (10 books)

Advances in Polymer Science (95 books)

Communications and Control Engineering (19 books)

Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (6 books)

Computational Imaging and Vision (11 books)

Decision Engineering (12 books)

Electronic Materials: Science and Technology (5 books)

Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (18 books)

Foundations of Engineering Mechanics (9 books)

Frontiers in Electronic Testing (19 books)

Fundamental Materials Research (7 books)

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (7 books)

Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering (8 books)

Green Energy and Technology (6 books)

Heat and Mass Transfer (5 books)

History of Mechanism and Machine Science (6 books)

Human-Computer Interaction Series (8 books)

IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering (7 books)

Information Retrieval Series (15 books)

Information Security and Cryptography (3 books)

Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage I (9 books)

Information Technology: Transmission, Processing, and Storage II (10 books)

International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (70 books)

International Series on Biometrics (4 books)

International Studies in Entrepreneurship (19 books)

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering (28 books)

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (163 books)

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (36 books)

Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology (5 books)

Mechanical Engineering Series (22 books)

MEMS Reference Shelf (3 books)

Microtechnology and MEMS (8 books)

Monographs in Computer Science (8 books)

NanoScience and Technology (26 books)

Nanostructure Science and Technology (17 books)

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design (19 books)

Power Electronics and Power Systems (8 books)

Power Systems (17 books)

Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems (22 books)

Solid Mechanics and its Applications (55 books)

Springer Series in Optical Sciences (50 books)

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (58 books)

Studies in Computational Intelligence (210 books)

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (90 books)

Understanding Complex Systems (23 books)

Trial Resource – Knovel Engineering eReference Books

Waldo Library is currently running a free trial of the Knovel engineering e-reference books platform.  This trial ends: November 22, 2008.  You can access the trial via campus computers or from your laptop while logged into the campus network.

The trial link is: http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/browse (Warning: If you try to access this from off-campus, you will get a username and password prompt.) If you do access this trial, please give Knovel and me your feedback using Knovel’s feedback form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eyArtfHYfCIC7Hfj73IR1A_3d_3d

Knovel’s comprehensive, reliable database delivers information, from the hard-to-find to the most commonly used, along with the tools needed to perform analysis, all on one simple platform.

Knovel provides easy access to current references that focus on emerging trends. You can save hours of research time per week and improve the quality and quantity of your work with access to analysis tools that sort and filter tables, locate points on graphs, manipulate data to your specific needs and solve equations.

Subjects covered by Knovel include:

Adhesives, Coatings, Sealants & Inks
Aerospace & Radar Technology
Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology
Ceramics & Ceramic Engineering
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
Earth Sciences
Electrical & Power Engineering
Electronics & Semiconductors
Environment & Environmental Engineering
Food Science
General Engineering & Engineering Management
Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
Metals & Metallurgy
Oil & Gas Engineering
Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics & Toiletries
Plastics & Rubber
Safety & Industrial Hygiene
Textiles

Synthesis eBooks at Waldo

Waldo Library is proud to present the Synthesis Digital Library (published by Morgan and Claypool Publishers).  This collection of 100 eBooks covers various areas of engineering and computer science, including the following: artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, communication networks, energy, entrepreneurship, robotics, and solid state materials.  Each book is in full text PDF format and contains from 50 to 100 pages.  What is more, the books can be saved, printed or emailed.

Cool Sites 7/3/08

Hope you find some of these sites and tools useful…

TRAIL – Technical Report Archive and Image Library - a new initiative sponsored by the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), to digitize and provide free access to federal technical reports prior to 1975.  The PDFs currently available on this site are crisp, clear, and very readable.  URL: http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/index.php (Thanks to Jay Bhatt at the Drexel University Library for his blog posting reminding me of this service).

Google SketchUp - one of a number of very useful and free Google Tools, this latest one provides free software for creating and sharing 3D models.  This might be useful as a tool in engineering design classes.  The basic software is free to download and use, the more advanced software (SketchUP Pro 6 costs $495).  URL: http://sketchup.google.com/

ChemSpider – a search engine that scans the web for chemical structure data.  This is the thing of the future. URL: http://www.chemspider.com/

Voluminous – Software that enables you to download, keep track of, and read your free eBooks from the Web. This software is not free.  Costs about $30 (U.S.). URL: http://voluminous.wooji-juice.com/

PAIR – Public Portal to Patent Applications - I learned about this from a presentation by Charlotte Erdmann (Purdue University Library) at the ASEE Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.  This search tool enables the researcher to view relevant documents in the patent application process. URL: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair

 

Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences

Waldo Library now has an online subscription to the Elsevier Science Direct title Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences (2004).  This excellent reference work has several hundred full text PDF articles covering the biology and ecology of forest trees and their economic utilization.  This resource is particularly useful for our Paper Chemistry and Imaging department.  Indeed, eight of the entries have been written by professors in our PCI department.   See the list below:

AbuBakr, S  PAPERMAKING | The History of Paper and Papermaking, Pages 691-694
PAPERMAKING | World Paper Industry Overview, Pages 694-700 

Aravamuthan, R G  PULPING: Chemical Pulping, Pages 904-910

Cameron, J H  PULPING | Mechanical Pulping, Pages 899-904

Fleming, P D  PACKAGING, RECYCLING AND PRINTING | Printing, Pages 678-686

Joyce, M.K.  PAPERMAKING | Coating, Pages 736-744

Parker, P  PAPERMAKING | Tissue Grades, Pages 730-736

Peterson, D  PULPING | Environmental Control, Pages 939-945 

You can access the Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences either from the link above or from the following proxied URL: http://libproxy.library.wmich.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780121451608

New SpringerLink E-books Package at Waldo Library

Waldo Library recently began subscribing to a subset of SpringerLink Ebooks.  This collection is mainly focused on engineering.  You can browse the collection (when on-campus) by clicking here.   Books we have full-text access to will have a green box next to the title of the book.  (When off-campus or using a laptop with a wireless connection, you will be prompted for your BroncoNet ID.)  These materials are only available to the Western Michigan University Community.

You can browse through books in any of the subject areas.  Or you can click on the link to “Engineering” books on the right-hand side of the page, under the Subject category.

Sample titles that we subscribe to include:

Abstraction Refinement for Large Scale Model Checking
Ad Hoc Networking Towards Seamless Communications
Adobe® Acrobat® and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
BioMEMS
Fundamentals of Switching Theory and Logic Design
Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems
Thermal and Power Management of Integrated Circuits

Waldo Library has eBooks also!

While you’re checking out the FreeTechBooks.com site (see previous posting), don’t neglect to peruse the over 30,000 electronic books in the fields of engineering and computer sciences that Waldo Library has subscribed to.  These books are ALL searchable through the WestCat Library Catalog.  Hence, relevant e-book titles will show up when you do a keyword or subject search for books in any area of interest.  Below are the newest collections, some of which you might already be familiar with.  NOTE: These eBooks are only available to members of the WMU community, with BroncoNet ID’s and passwords.

Tip 1: You can add the WestCat keyword (actually the location code) for one of these collections to a guided keyword search to restrict searching to that collection.

Tip 2: You can add the words “electronic resource” to a guided keyword search to restrict your search to e-books and other electronic resources.

Collection: Engineering  Pro
WestCat Keyword: engprobk24
New for this year, 571 engineering ebooks are available and cataloged, and more are to be added each month.

Collection: IT Pro – IT and CS books
WestCat Keyword: itprobk247
Last year, 4285 titles were available and cataloged, this year 4990 are available and cataloged, with more being added each month.

Collection: Netlibrary - books of all kinds with many IT and CS related books
WestCat Keyword: netlibrary
24796 netlbrary ebooks available and cataloged. 6622 added this year.

Collection: Safari Tech Shelf – IT reference books
WestCat Keyword: safari
Last year, around 120 books were available and not cataloged. This year 1199 are available and cataloged. It is possible to do chapter level bookmarking in Safari.

Note: Collection descriptions given above and the search tips are courtesy of Keith Kelley, Systems Manager at Waldo Library.

Free online technical and computer science books

Check out the FreeTechBooks.com site. This site lists and links to hundreds of free computer science and technical books at publishers’ and authors’ sites. Books cover computer programming, mathematics, electric circuits, digital signal processing, database management and information management.

Source: October 12, 2006 posting at Sukdev’s World.