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February 17, 2011:

First newsletter of the library Lib4RI: UPDATE #01

At the same time with the opening celebration the first newsletter of the library Lib4RI is published. There are 3 or 4 issues planned per year. Read in UPDATE #01 among other things about the merger of the libraries of the four research institutes and the new resources available at Lib4RI.

The newsletter comes out in english and german and can be picked up in the library or downloaded as PDF (#01english / #01deutsch).

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January 26, 2011:

Invitation - Opening of Lib4RI, the new joint library of Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL

Dear Colleagues at Eawag, Empa, PSI und WSL

You are cordially invited to celebrate with us the opening of Lib4RI, which will take place at the main sites of the library on 10 February 2011! The libraries of Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL merged on 1st January. The new Lib4RI website gives you access to all library resources and services and will be online on 10 February 2011. With this, you, our users, will have an up-to-date electronic library with access to a considerably increased range of information.

Celebrate with us the start of Lib4RI and enjoy being inspired by the invited artists at our Apéro. You will find the programme of the opening event at http://www.lib4ri.ch/programm_eroeffnung_lib4ri.pdf. We look forward to your registration on our website http://www.lib4ri.ch by 3 February 2011.

Kind regards

Your library team

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Dezember 23, 2010: New joint library for research institutes

Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL are intensifying their cooperation by fusing their respective libraries. The joint library, "Lib4RI" (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain: Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL), will bring synergies and increased efficiency. It will allow the four institutions to make much-needed additions to their stock of literature as early as 1st January 2011 and this after a planning phase lasting only a few months. Lib4RI organisation and administration will be the responsibility of Eawag. Lib4RI Director will be Lothar Nunnenmacher.

The existing inventories will remain at their respective locations and, via the NEBIS lending association, will be accessible to all staff, regardless of the research institute they work at. There will also be an improved, state-of-the-art, electronic library. The new Lib4RI website, scheduled to go online on 10th February 2011, will provide access to all library services and resources. The roll-out will coincide with the official opening of the new library - at 9.30am at PSI, at 1pm at WSL and at 4.30pm at Eawag. Invitations to the opening will be sent separately.

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September 22, 2010: NEBIS Catalog with a new search interface: NEBIS recherche

NEBIS has a new search interface, http://recherche.nebis.ch/.

NEBIS recherche allows a simple and quick access to the NEBIS Catalog, which contains about 4.2 million titles of the NEBIS library network (books, series, journals, non-book-materials).
The search can be carried out in a well-established search engine, the results list is sorted by relevance. You can refine your search, e.g. by publication year, document type or availability.

The library team would be happy to assist you and answer your questions concerning the new search interface.

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August 27, 2010: New list of the electronic journals of the Eawag-Empa library

From now on we have a new alphabetical list of all the electronic journals of the Eawag-Empa library available for you. You can access this via http://sfx.ethz.ch/sfx_nebis/az/EAWAG-EMPA, the link can also be found on our website www.library.eawag-empa.ch/.

The A-Z-list is a service of SFX, a product from ExLibris, and is updated daily.

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August 27, 2010: The Federal geoportal is online

The Swiss Confederation is offering a publicly accessible portal for geographical information, services and geodata. It can be accessed via www.geo.admin.ch.

The platform unifies geographical information on the environment, transport, energy, agriculture, forestry, development planning, landregulations, telecommunications, population, health, economy, and many other issues. Furthermore, historical map material allows e.g. the reconstruction of the development of landscape (e.g. glaciers) or cities.

The geoportal includes more than 60 data sets from different Federal Offices and links to 20 specialised Federal data portals. With the keywords search option the desired information can be easily found. The data can be viewed in a map viewer and printed out. They can be ordered from the relevant Federal Office for a fee and are available in different map scales and formats.

The geoportal is operated by the Federal Office of Topography, swisstopo.

More information can be found on News - geo.admin.ch.

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August 26, 2010: Web version of Perinorm

Starting from now Perinorm runs in a web browser. The link is www.perinorm.com.
Perinorm is a bibliographic database containing international standards like ISO, EN, IEC and technical regulations and standards of several european countries.
Please find further information on standards here.

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June 18, 2010: Trial access: SpringerMaterials (expired)

The direct link to SpringerMaterials is: http://www.springermaterials.com

SpringerMaterials offers electronic access to Landolt-Börnstein "Numerical data and functional relationships in science and technology. New Series" (400 volumes). It is the world's largest data resource for all areas of physical, chemical, material, and engineering sciences.

SpringerMaterials consists of 91,000 online documents with 165,000 chemical substances and material systems, 3000 properties and more than 1 million literature citations. The database is run by Springer and updated quarterly.

The numerous search options allow searches for substance/elements, properties, molecular formulas and CAS Registry Numbers to be done.

More information on SpringerMaterials can be obtained here.

The trial of the database lasts for the time being. Please send your feedback to maura.vonmoos@eawag-empa.ch.

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June 18, 2010: Trial access: Academic Search Complete until 13.08.2010 (expired)

Academic Search Complete can be accessed via http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h.

Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with more than 7900 full-text periodicals (including 6800 peer-reviewed journals). In addition it offers abstracts for about 12,000 journals, monographs, conference proceedings, etc. The full-text content (PDFs) goes back as far as 1887. Furthermore, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1300 journals.

Academic Search Complete is a product from EBSCOhost and is updated daily. In providing full-text, EBSCO is dependent on publisher publication schedules and publisher policies such as restrictions on full-text access of the most recent issues (embargo periods).

There are several ways a search can be carried out and the list of publications can be browsed (via "Publications"). In order to save and retrieve your search history and create email alerts you need to create a My EBSCOhost account, whereas RSS feeds can be activated without registration.

Further information on Academic Search Complete can be found here.

This trial lasts until August 13, 2010. We are looking forward to your opinion and are pleased to receive your feedback at maura.vonmoos@eawag-empa.ch.

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April 30, 2010: Trial access: BioOne until 30.06.2010 (expired)

Starting from now Eawag and Empa have access to the online platform BioOne via www.bioone.org.

BioOne offers access to the newest issues of 160 research journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Most of the approx. 120 participating publishers are nonprofit publishers. 45% of the titles are exclusively available online through BioOne and approx. 70% are currently ranked by ISI.

BioOne is created by a not-for-profit organization. The database consists of 3 collections: BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 include mainly ISI ranked titles and titles not available elsewhere online, respectively. The open access section provides free content to 12 titles.

It is possible to browse or search BioOne. Further you can create a "My BioOne" profile, what allows you to save searches or activate an email alerting service and RSS feeds.

An information brochure can be downloaded here.

The free 2-month trial lasts until end of June. We are interested in your opinion and would be pleased to receive your feedback to maura.vonmoos@eawag-empa.ch.

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