INTRODUCTION TO THE IMECHE VIRTUAL LIBRARY www imeche

INTRODUCTION TO THE IMECHE VIRTUAL LIBRARY www. imeche. org

AGENDA 01 Introduction: key benefits 02 Overview of resources 03 Logging in 04 Ebooks 05 Ejournals 06 Technical data & literature searching 07 Business data 08 Contacts

INTRODUCTION Key benefits The Virtual Library offers you online access anytime anywhere to 40, 000 ebooks & ejournals No need to buy expensive handbooks - access them for free Develop new skills and learn about new techniques Management texts for chartership and CPD help you to develop and manage your career Find technical and business data to support reports and presentations International research resources for anyone in R&D

WHAT’S AVAILABLE 30, 646 ebooks 9, 169 ejournals Technical data and literature Business resources Historical info

LOGGING IN TO THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY Access the Virtual Library by logging in to the IMech. E website (or registering for a username and password) Then click on Virtual Library in the left-hand menu

EBOOKS: EBRARY • Access 539 engineering and management ebooks • Save and annotate titles to your personal bookshelf • Download chapters and books to PCs, tablets and smartphones

EBOOKS: KNOVEL Search across 400 core engineering reference books available in full-text. You can download, print or save individual chapters as PDF files

EBOOKS & EJOURNALS: SPRINGER Search and download full text content from the 3707 ebooks and 244 ejournals in the engineering collection of Springer, the world’s 2 nd largest STM publisher

EBOOKS & EJOURNALS: SCIENCEDIRECT Every member has free access to up to 20 articles or chapters per year from the 26, 000 ebooks and 2, 500 ejournals on Science. Direct, the online platform of Elsevier, the biggest STM publisher in the world

EJOURNALS: EBSCO Full text access to 3, 400 technical journals and 3, 000 trade journals and magazines from a wide range of publishers

EJOURNALS: IMECHE PROCEEDINGS Members have free access to all full text articles from IMech. E journals, except those published in the last 12 months

TECHNICAL DATA: KNOVEL Knovel's 'Data Search' option enables you to look up a huge range of material properties, while its online 'Interactive Equation' function helps you solve technical problems fast

TECHNICAL DATA & LITERATURE: EFUNDA & ENGINEERING VILLAGE Find engineering reference data, including formulae, datasheets and unit conversion tools in Efunda Engineering Village is the world’s most comprehensive engineering abstracts database Search for summaries of articles or reports published in the last 130 years

BUSINESS DATA: EBSCO & MINTEL EBSCO Business Source and Mintel contain over 15, 000 UK, global industry and company reports to help you research new business opportunities, markets and competitors

THANK YOU For more information please contact: library@imeche. org +44(0)20 7973 1274 www. imeche. org