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.
A new TechXtra SRU service
<http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&que
ry=management&x-categoryID=1> .
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/> .
Want more? There's a list of Ten Science Search Engines
http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/science-search-engines/
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