EEVL

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EEVL EMC issues for IMESH

• Roddy MacLeod
• Senior Faculty Librarian, Heriot-Watt University,
  and
• EEVL Services Manager
• From August EMC Hub Co-ordinator
• PINAKES A Subject Launchpad
• Internet Resources Newsletter

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Summary

• Content
• Technical
• Bus challenges
• Challenges Concept, Volatility, of Resources,
  Cross searching, International collaboration,
  Complex engineering landscape

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Wee bit of EEVL EMC background

• EEVL - Gateway for Engineering, UK based
• eLib Project since 1995
• 3.5 staff fte salaried plus small number of
  volunteers
• Based at Heriot-Watt University
• Becoming the E in EMC Hub

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EEVL is...

• EEVL Catalogue of 4,400 Engineering resources -
  Java
• UK Engineering Search Engine - Harvest
• Engineering E-journal Search Engine - Harvest
• 40 Day archive of 100 Engineering Newsgroups -
  NWI
• Manufacturing bibliographic database 30,000 -
  Isearch
• 2 small specialist bibliographic databases -
  Isearch
• Offshore Engineering Information Service (bib
  events) - Word
• Engineering Internet bibliography - Word
• USTLG Membership database - Isearch
• EEVL is not just a Catalogue of Internet Resources

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Technical, etc.

• In-house software - Java
• Dont use ROADS
• Catalogue Whois (Cross Roads Test Server)
• Catalogue Z Target to EDINA for Compendex/EEVL
  cross searching
• Sell UK records to Ei Village, work with EDINA
• Web based templates, Use own Classification
• Dont use Dewey, etc., or Thesaurus (as yet), or
  DC or MARC
• EMC ?

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Challenge Maintenance

• Catalogue of 4,400 resources is volatile
• 2 Days/month linkchecking
• Maintenance
• Volunteers
• Comment on record facility
• Employ students, filter

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Challenge Growth

• Commercial 1341
• Society/Institution 666
• Higher Education Dept 705
• E-journal 598
• Resource Guide/Directory 520
• Document 437
• Research Project/Centre 344
• Governmental 223
• Software 195
• Courseware/Training 190

• Reference 179
• Database 141
• Mailing List 115
• Recruitment Agency 94
• Conference Announcing 85
• Publisher 74
• Patents/Standards 64
• FAQ 39
• Video 29
• Library Catalogue 11

Limited UK, Unlimited International new
resources
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Challenge Cross-searching

• Limited need for multi-disciplinary searching
• Occasional need for multi-national searching
• Frequent need for inter-disciplinary cross-media
  searching (i.e. within Engineering), especially
  UK materials
• Frequent need for intra-disciplinary searching
  (i.e. within Engineering)

Importance of DNER for Engineering
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Cross-Searching EEVL, then?
http//www.eevl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cross/adv-xeevl.pl

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EASIER

• Cross-searches EEVL Catalogue, UK Engineering
  Search Engine, Newsgroup Archive (cross media)
• Simple, one-step, user-friendly
• Fast
• Delivers double-ranked results
• Expand to
• Other parts of EEVL (databases, future Harvests)
• AVEL, CTI Engineering, EELS, CEN, EMC, etc.

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Challenge International Collaboration

• AVEL
• Offered EEVL software
• Co-develop EEVL Classification scheme
• Exchange of advice, keep informed
• Promotional activities, articles, etc
• Mirror?
• Others? CEN, Scout
• EMC Maths, Computing, RDN?

More Collaboration
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Challenge Engineering Landscape

• EEVL, CEN, EELS, AVEL, AERADE, Ei Village,
  Signpost,
• MathSciNet, ISI, INSPEC, EDINA Compendex, BIDS
  RSC, CSA,
• Silverplatter, ASTI, STN, RICS Library Direct,
  Thomas Telford,
• MCB, Kluwer Online, Wiley Interscience, Elsevier
  ScienceDirect,
• 100s of Trade publications e.g. Engineer Online,
  Miller Freeman,
• BSI, ILI, Esp_at_ceNet, SPE, IBM Patent Server,
  Aslib Index,
• Computergram, ASCE, Avery, NTIS, NASA Technical
  Reports
• Server, Chest Software, rswww.com, ESDU, CTI
  Engineering,
• 10s of Professional societies, e.g. IEE, IMechE,
  AIChE, (SENN)
• Alta Vista, Yahoo!

Complexity Competition for attention
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