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Improvements to the TechXtra Technology Search Service

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We have received this news from TechXtra:

Numerous improvements have been made to TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ the free technology search service.

TechXtra is provided by the ICBL and Library at Heriot-Watt University.

Using TechXtra, anyone can find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.

TechXtra searches over 4 million items from 31 collections in technology, and provides several additional services.

For full details of the improvements, please see the TechXtra News Blog

http://techxtranews.wordpress.com/

Changes include:

• New full text indicators on search results pages, which show the likely availability of full text.

• Faster searching of the Arrow and CISTI databases, where you can find Australian and Canadian research.

• Updated RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing) <http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ram/index.php> database.

• Over 100 new sources of job announcements and industry news in the OneStep Jobs <http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepjobs/> and OneStep Industry News <http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepnews/> services.

• More free magazine <http://techxtra.tradepub.com/> subscriptions.

Further collections will be added to TechXtra in the future. Details will be announced on the TechXtra News Blog <http://techxtranews.wordpress.com/> .

Katharine Widdows : 05 Jun 2009 11:46 |  Tags: Compsci E-Resources-News Engineering Manufacturing Maths Search Technology |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Warwick Library igoogle widget

We have now developed an igoogle widget which will search the University of Warwick Library catalogue.

Add this to your iGoogle home page by clicking the Google button below:

Katharine Widdows : 19 Feb 2009 11:03 |  Tags: Catalogue Google Library Search Web2 |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem