UNIVERSITY LIBRARYOF HANNOVER AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION LIBRARY

The innovative competence and service centre

for literature and information supply

Martin Boemeke, IATUL 02.-06.06.2002, Kansas City, Mo,USA

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Engineers are always looking for an

easy way to find information they are

interested in!

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Table of Contents:

1. Engineers ways of research

2. Origins of the Engineering Subject Gateway, ViFaTec

3. The Engineering Subject Gateway/ViFaTec

3.1. Idea of the Gateway

3.2. Realization

3.3. Features

4. Summary and Perspective

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The two main aspects of information for engineers:

- To solve a (technical) problem,

- To prepare a well founded decision.

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Advantages of asking his/her colleagues

- Same way of thinking,

- Using the same technical terms

- Seem the trustworthiest

- Misunderstandings can be cleared right

away.

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Disadvantages of using his/her colleagues for a first search for information:

- Very exclusive information

- Other people of the working team might be

excluded from the flow of information

- Limited Number of contacts  

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Most important terms for an information source:

- Easy to handle

- Fast Access without a time limit

- High relevance of the information

- High quality of the information

- Reliable information

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Here you can find the Technical Information Library, TIB:

From the Website: http://www.welt-atlas.de/

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Today the Technical Information Library, TIB is the

Central National Subject library

for technology and natural sciences in

Germany !

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Idea of the gateway

- Originates from 1998, went first online in April

2000.

- The integration of new media into the library

world

- The urge to meet the demands of Science,

Industry and other users for current and high

quality information.

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The goals of the engineering subject

gateway, ViFaTec:

to offer competent and

compact information

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Technical Literature

Software

Services

Products

I n f o r m a t i o n s o u r c e s

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The offered features:

 - A Meta-Search Engine

 - TIBORDER

 - GetInfo

 - Subject Guide

- Specialised Search Engine. 

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Technical Literature

TIBORDERExternalLiterature

Metasearchengine for technical Literature

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Databases

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- Online Contents Technik

- SAE Technical Papers

- NASA Technical Report Server

- SPE Papers

- DEPATISnet 

Examples from the list of Databases

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TIBORDER

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GetInfo

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Subject Guide

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To filter the results of the Subject Guide through:- Link Collections- Technical Literature- Organisations- Research Projects- Products/Services- Events/Conferences- Discussion Lists- Software- History/Museums

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In the sector technical literature are listed: - Technical bibliographic databases- List of books, new acquisition- The current collection of technical literature from the technical Information LibraryTIB or of amazon- Collections of journals- Important reference books

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Search Engine

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Results for the Search Term : Screw

ViFaTec 143 hits

Alta Vista: 831,135 hits

Google:

2,420,000 hits

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