Process Engineering – Complimentary Magazine Subscription
TechXtra operates an affiliation scheme through which numerous free magazine subscriptions are available to qualifying professionals.
Complimentary subscriptions to Process Engineering have recently become available to qualifying individuals in the UK.
Process Engineering offers practical advice from qualified engineers and scientists on the technical and management challenges faced by engineers in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil/gas, food processing, rubber/plastics and utilities sectors.
Every issue of the magazine contains:
- the latest news, views and developments from the process sectors
- in-depth features and case studies of equipment in action, along with research and technology developments
- industry-specific supplements like Food Xpress, Chem Xpress and many more
- equipment focus – looking in-depth at selected technologies each month
Many more free magazine subscriptions are listed in the A-Z.
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
Complimentary Research Report on Assembly, CAM, and Process Planning
TechXtra, the free science search engine, operates an affiliation scheme through which numerous magazines, white papers, webcasts, reports and other documents are available for free download.
The following complimentary research report, offered by Aberdeen Group, is available: Assembly, CAM, and Process Planning for Today’s Manufacturing Engineer: Boosting Production Productivity while Lowering Costs. This report offers guidance to manufacturers looking to boost production productivity, lower production costs, and improve quality with better manufacturing planning and preparation…
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
OneStep Jobs now includes SPIEWorks: Current Job Postings
Job vacancies in optics, photonics, aerospace, astronomy, nanotechnology, coatings, etc, from SPIEWorks have been added to TechXtra OneStep Jobs.
OneStep Jobs includes details of many thousands of job vacancies from top sources in one place.
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
White papers, webcasts and other free downloads available via TechXtra
TechXtra, the free science search engine, operates an affiliation scheme through which numerous White Papers, webcasts and other documents are available for free download.
Here are some examples:
“A Smarter Start: Preparing Data with SPSS Statistics Base“ Webcast. Before you can analyze your data, you must prepare it for analysis. SPSS Statistics Base offers an array of techniques and features to help users validate data in order to ensure more complete, effective, and accurate analysis.
“Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations“ White Paper. Explore the process of lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management.
“Protecting Your Network Against the Growing Danger of Web Attacks“ White Paper.
“Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet” White Paper. Is it okay for employees to spend time on social networking sites, shopping online or downloading pirated music? What are the risks associated with web surfing?
More white papers, downloads and podcasts available internationally are available.
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
Free Pipeline and Gas, Processing, and Processing & Control News magazines
TechXtra operates an affiliation scheme through which numerous free magazine subscriptions are available to qualifying professionals.
Here are three sample magazines which are available internationally or in Europe:
Pipeline & Gas Journal is the recognized authority worldwide on industry standards and Best Practices in oil and gas pipeline design, construction, operations, maintenance and integrity.
Processing is recognized across the process industries as the leading source for up-to-date product and equipment solutions. The targeted audience is readers who purchase instrumentation, control systems, pumps, motors, compressors, valves, and other processing equipment.
Processing & Control News Europe presents and reports 6x a year on the latest products, suppliers and solutions that are available and valuable to the European processing professionals. It covers every aspect of process engineering including process and plant control, plant operation and quality control, maintenance, energy and health, safety and environmental issues.
Many more free magazine subscriptions are listed in the A-Z.
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
Hindawi added to TechXtra search service
Hindawi is now cross-searchable from TechXtra, the free search service for engineering, mathematics and computing. Hindawi becomes the 32nd collection to be added to TechXtra.
Hindawi is an academic publisher with open access journals in the fields of engineering, life sciences, mathematics, and physical sciences. In February 2007, Hindawi announced its full conversion to open access, making it the only publisher with fully developed open access journals spanning such a wide range of subjects in science, technology, and medicine.
To search Hindawi and 31 other collections in engineering, mathematics ad computing, go to the TechXtra home page.
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
Numerous improvements to TechXtra, the free technology search service
TechXtra has been very busy!
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
A number of improvements have been made to TechXtra, the free service provided by 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.
Firstly, we’ve added full text indicators to search results pages in an attempt to show the likely availability of full text.
Establishing exactly whether the full text of digital resources is available to particular users, who may be accessing from various locations and in various ways, is not always a straightforward task. It can depend on the database being searched, institutional or personal subscriptions, and so on. However, TechXtra search results now include indicators as shown above, incorporating a key which uses a traffic light metaphor to provide an indication of the likely availability of full text.
Next, we’ve improved the speed of some database searches.
Searching of the ARROW Discovery Service, where you can search for Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures, is much faster and more up-to-date, as Santy Chumbe, our Technical Manager, has switched from OAI to SRU. Full text of items is available.
Searching of the CISTI database, from the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, should now also be much faster, as Santy has completed a migration from Z39.50 to SRU. Full text availability of results in CISTI is dependent on subscription or purchase.
Next, we’re now once more updating the RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing) database. RAM is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. You can also cross-search RAM from the TechXtra home page.
Next, we’ve added a lot of new sources to the OneStep Jobs and OneStep Industry News services, and tidied up existing sources:
Graduates need all the help they can get at the moment to find jobs, so we’ve added several new sources giving details of the latest job announcements to TechXtra OneStep Jobs and tidied up some of the existing feeds. OneStep Jobs now now contains details of thousands of the very latest job vacancies in engineering, maths and computing. All job vacancies are searchable, from the OneStep Jobs home page. New sources include the latest job announcements from:
- Check4Jobs,
- CareerJet,
- Catfoss Recruitment,
- RAN Jobs,
- TARGETjobs,
- JobsinHubs,
- Indeed
- Revolution Jobs,
- Guardian Jobs,
- IndustryAppointments
- Langley James IT Recruitment
We’ve also tidied up OneStep Industry News, and added some new sources. OneStep Industry News now contains thousands of the latest news items from well over 100 different sources, making it an excellent place to go to catch up with news. The new sources include items from:
- EngineeringDaily,
- Reuters Technology,
- Globalspec,
- iCivilEngineer,
- Royal Academy of Engineering News,
- New Civil Engineer news
- AZoBuild
Next, we’ve done a little publicity: Some time ago, TechXtra was featured in my post Ten science search engines, on spineless? the Heriot-Watt University Library blog. We’ve had a good response to this post.
Next, there’s now a TechXtra SRU service - this should be good for developers who want to embed or reuse techXtra search results.
As usual, there are some new free magazine subscriptions available via TechXtra. These include HRW, which provides comprehensive coverage of the Hydroelectric Industry Worldwide, and Diesel Progress.
In the near future, we hope to add some more sources to the TechXtra cross-search. It currently searches over 4 million items from 31 collections, and we have some exciting new collections lined up. Keep an eye on this blog for news about the new collections.
Please note that TechXtra is run on a shoestring. We don’t receive any external funding. So please help us spread the word by telling others that TechXtra is where you can find all sorts of information in engineering, mathematics and computing.
Thank you!
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
Heriot-Watt University Library
OneStep Jobs now includes Check4Jobs vacancies
Job vacancies in engineering, mathematics and I.T. from Check4Jobs have been added to TechXtra OneStep Jobs.
OneStep Jobs includes details of many thousands of job vacancies from top sources in one place.
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
RSS feeds for news about free trade publications, white papers and technical publications
TradePub.com PubFeeds for techxtra
This is an RSS feed for news about several hundred free trade magazines, free White Papers, and free technical publications which are available via TechXtra’s affiliation scheme with TradePub.
The publications cover all subjects. For a breakdown by subject area, see the TradePub.com RSS Feeds list. The following are examples of some subject specific feeds:
Roddy MacLeod
TechXtra Manager
TechXtra mentioned in Zen Monthly Newsletter.
Nice to see that TechXtra was mentioned in this month’s Zen Monthly Newsletter (under The results Google can’t find). TechXtra is also mentioned in Karen Blakeman’s Blog.
