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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