Lifelong Learning Resources

SCHOLARLY RESOURCES AND INDEXES AVAILABLE ONLINE THAT ARE USEFUL TO THE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER

• GoogleScholar – indexes scholarly information, including many scholarly journals. http://scholar.google.com/
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• Organization Web sites – professional organization to which you belong. See summary at http://unlenglibraryblog.blogspot.com/

• USPTO Web site http://www.uspto.gov/ United States patent and trademark information.

• European, Japanese, and other patents - http://ep.espacenet.com/

• National Library of Medicine’s PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi RSS feeds can be used for automatic tracking and updating of search results. You can also save searches on the NLM server and set up email alerts when new journals are published or new articles are published on a specified subject.

• Institutional Repositories – many educational and governmental entities keep an archive of scholarly work produced by their personnel. Read “Institutional Repositories: Hidden Treasures” in Information Today, October 31, 2005 at : http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/may04/drake.shtml. Access through individual university Web sites. Many are indexed by Google/Google Scholar or use ROAR http://roar.eprints.org/, click on "Content Search".

• Government technical reports and other information are available through agency Web sites, such as http://epa.gov, http://energy.gov/.

• Research data freely available online. For example,
o Center for International Earth Science Information Network http://www.ciesin.org
o NASA’s Global Change Master Directory http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
o Map and Biosphere Program http://www.rmrs.nau.edu/usamab/
o National Biological Information Infrastructure Program http://www.nbii.gov
o Syracuse Research Corporation’s Environmental Fate Database http://www.syrres.com/esc/efdb.htm
o StreamNet Project of the Columbia River Basin, StreamNet Library http://www.fishlib.org/

Read more information available about these data resources in Online Ecological and Environmental Data, Virginia Baldwin, ed. The Haworth Information Press, 2004.

OTHER ACCESS OPTIONS

• Corporate Library subscriptions.
• Many University Library subscriptions and resources are available to the public by going to the library and making use of them. Some, such as SciFinder Scholar are restricted to use only by UNL affiliates.
• Articles not freely available to you online may be purchased or obtained through InterLibrary Loan from your area public library.

SET UP EMAIL ALERTS OR RSS FEEDS with your favorite journals so that you will automatically get an email or a feed with the table of contents whenever a new issue is published.