TechXtra, one of the Ten science search engines I mentioned a while back on this blog, has recently been improved.
TechXtra is a free service provided by the ICBL and Library at Heriot-Watt University. Using TechXtra you can find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, theses & 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. 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) database.
- Over 100 new sources of job announcements and industry news in the OneStep Jobs and OneStep Industry News services.
- A new TechXtra SRU service.
- More free magazine subscriptions.
Further collections will be added to TechXtra in the future. Details will be announced on the TechXtra News Blog.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
16 June 2009 at 5:45 am |
Thanks for this great post.