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News to Use

Database alerting services & personal accounts
Would you like to be alerted to new The following databases provide Email Alerts and/or Table of Contents Alerts.

• Engineering Village 2 (Compendex) Save records or receive search updates via e-mail alerts. See left side of homepage of EV2 under Personal account to register for this service

• IEEE Xplore provides an email alerting service  You may be surprised that IEEE's database is mentioned here for you MAE folks, but many of your students have found it to be valuable for their research.

• IOP (Institute of Physics) Electronic Journals provides TOC alerting service enables you to receive the Tables of Contents of your favorite IOP journals as soon as issues are published online.  IOP also allows you to keep a "filing cabinet" of online papers of interest to you & make notes online related to these papers.

• Web of Knowledge (Science Citation Index) provides Email Alerts and Table of Contents Alerts.

New Databases

AAIA Online Technical Information: Meeting Papers
1963-present (citations); 1996-present (full text). Updated quarterly. Access to papers (approximately 4000/year) presented at conferences of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and related societies. "Meeting Papers" section contains citations and scanned images of actual documents; "Citations Database" contains citations only to older papers. Full-text available in PDF can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Business Knowledge Research
This database is geared more for the College of Business Faculty and students, but researchers in other disciplines may find it useful.
1995-present. The Conference Board provides the researcher a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and U.S. and global economics. Research information includes studies of 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, and more. Information is also provided on industry overviews and forecasts, consumer demographics, economic statistics, corporate management practices, and company financial data

Reminders

• Computer accounts are now required to access the UTA Libraries computers.  Students, faculty, and staff must activate their Windows NT Account.  Students and faculty/staff having difficulty activating their NT accounts can request assistance from the Office of Information Technology Help Desk within Sam's Click Cafe in the Central Library.
  Non-UTA affiliated persons may obtain one day guest accounts at the OIT Help Desk in the Central Library or at Information Service Desks in the Architecture and Fine Arts Library and the Science and Engineering Library.  Persons under the age of 18 must have a signed Parental Consent Form.  The guest accounts expire at midnight of the same day.

• Reserves (Print & Electronic)
  To Place course work and/or homework assignment on Reserves, or contact Donna Kelley for assistance.

• Online Syllabi
  Add my contact information to online syllabi for library help:  Barbara Howser / 817-272-7519 / email address howser@uta.edu

• Request library instruction for classes on searching the various databases and learn about new resources and services available in the library.  Click here to see what the options are.  If you require a different approach or venue, please contact me.

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Useful Web Sites

Internal Revenue Service - The Digital Daily - 1040 Central