Engineering Village Product Updates Are Coming January 8th!

In response to client requests, we are enhancing and updating Engineering Village to make your experience better. Beginning January 8, 2009, the following updates will be available:

• A re-designed “Ask an Expert” section
• A Referex Keyword Cloud of frequently appearing terms
• An expanded Expert Search character limit

The “Ask An Expert” section of www.engineeringvillage.com has always given users the opportunity to ask questions of an expert engineer, EV’s product specialist Colleen Hunter, and/or an organization’s librarian. Expert engineers have experience in a variety of disciplines, including mechanical, chemical, and industrial engineering. By re-designing the “Ask An Expert” page, we hope to make it easy for users to find answers to commonly asked questions, and to direct their more specific questions to the appropriate resource. Users will be able to sign up for online trainings and download training materials via links to www.ei.org and send feedback via email.

To help Referex users navigate through their e-book results, a Keyword Cloud will be added to all titles. The Keyword Cloud, located in the Book Details section of a search result, will show the most frequently appearing keywords in that title. By hovering over a keyword, users will be able to see how many times the word appears in the book. Clicking on a keyword will take the user to a set of results that displays the pages on which the keyword appears.

For advanced users, the Expert Search character limit will be doubled to 8,000. This will allow users familiar with advanced Boolean logic the ability to conduct more complex searches.

Beginning January 8th, information related to these updates will be available in the Engineering Village help guide, which can be accessed by clicking on the “Help” tab on the homepage. If you have any questions regarding these changes or general account information, please feel free to contact us at eicustomersupport@elsevier.com

New ACM Journals

The ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)

JOCCH publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the use of ICT in support of Cultural Heritage. Submissions are sought under two broad categories: Use-inspired Basic Research and Applied Research. Use-inspired Basic Research contributions describe results which push forward the bounds of knowledge in computing science. Applied Research contributions take state-of-the-art results from general computing science and apply them to real data from the cultural heritage sector. http://jocch.acm.org/

The ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) – Spring 2009

JDIQ’s mission is to publish high quality articles that make a significant and novel contribution to the field of data and information quality. JDIQ is a peer reviewed journal employing a double blind review mechanism. Each issue of JDIQ will include full research papers, plus one or two short concise papers. http://jdiq.acm.org/

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)

TRETS is a new peer-reviewed and archival journal that covers reconfigurable technology, systems, and applications on reconfigurable computers. TRETS is focused on research in, on, and with reconfigurable systems and on the underlying technology that supports these systems for computing or other applications. Unlike other journals, the scope, rationale, and coverage in TRETS is not limited to only certain aspects of reconfigurable technology or reconfigurable systems.

http://trets.cse.sc.edu/index.html

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science : Permanent Access Now Available

QUT Library is happy to announce that permanent access is now available to the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science.

Content is peer-reviewed and organized by series (as listed below). New titles or Lectures in each topical series are added regularly as they become available. Lectures are in PDF format, and enhanced versions including animations, code, or audio are often available. Simple (author, title, keyword) and advanced search options are provided. Intended for use by researchers, advanced developers, and students. Series and titles will be also be revised as necessary. The goal of Synthesis will grow to encompass the entire scope of its subject disciplines.

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Synthesis Series
The following is a list of the current Synthesis series and their editors. Within each of these Series are a number of Lectures (50- to 100-page ebook publications).

The list is also available at http://www.morganclaypool.com.ezp01.library.qut.edu.au/page/browseLbS.jsp

• Algorithms and Software in Engineering – Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University
• Antennas – Constantine A. Balanis, Arizona State University
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning -Ronald Brachman, Yahoo! Research and Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University
• Communication Networks – Jean Walrand, University of California-Berkeley
• Communications – William Tranter, Virginia Tech
• Computational Electromagnetics – Constantine A. Balanis, Arizona State University
• Computer Architecture – Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin
• Computer Graphics and Animation – Brian Barsky, University of California at Berkeley
• Computer Science
• Control and Mechatronics -Mark Spong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Digital Circuits & Systems – Mitchell A. Thornton, Southern Methodist University
• Energy & the Environment: Technology, Science, & Society – Frank Kreith, University of Colorado
• Human Language Technologies – Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
• Image, Video and Multimedia Processing – Al Bovik, University of Texas
• Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services – Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Information Security, Privacy, & Trust – Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Measurement & Instrumentation – Ferdinanda Ponci, University of South Carolina
• Mobile & Pervasive Computing -Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
• Power Electronics – Jerry Hudgins, University of Nebraska
• Quantum Computing – Marco Lanzagorta, Naval Research Labs and Jeffrey Uhlmann, University of Missouri – Columbia
• Signal Processing – Jose Moura, Carnegie Mellon University
• Solid State Materials and Devices – Sanjay Banerjee, University of Texas
• Speech and Audio Processing – B. H. Juang, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Technology, Management, & Entrepreneurship – Henry E. Riggs, Founding President and Trustee Emeritus, Keck Graduate Institute
• Web Engineering – James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The complete collection of lectures is available at http://www.morganclaypool.com.ezp01.library.qut.edu.au/page/coll_one?cookieSet=1
Recently published and forthcoming titles are available at http://www.morganclaypool.com.ezp01.library.qut.edu.au/page/ForthcomingSynthesisLectures

To access Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science go to the QUT Library homepage and select databases. Enter synthesis and click the Search database descriptions box. On the next page click the database name hyperlink to connect to the database. Or you may click the More details link to bring up a full one page description for this database.

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science provides access to over 100 electronic books (typically 50- to 100- pages in length) in engineering and computer science from Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Each electronic book synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. These are called Lectures.

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