university library of hannover and technical information library the innovative competence and...

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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