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IET Agreement renewed from 1st September
Inspec and Inspec Archive
The Inspec database from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), offers comprehensive scientific and engineering information. The Chest Agreement for the database has recently been renewed. Inspec contains over 10 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing (A & I) to articles from 4000 journals, 2200 conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology.
The Inspec Archive covers the period from 1898 – 1969. It provides fully searchable electronic access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering.
The IET Digital Library
The IET Digital Library holds more than 80,000 technical papers from all IET journals, magazines, conference publications and seminar digests.
Institutions wishing to subscribe to Inspec, the archive and the IET Digital Library can find the details on how to subscribe at http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/data/existing/inspec_2008. Subscribers must complete an order form, service provider form and a licence form. Institutions with existing subscriptions should submit their paperwork as soon as possible.
A subscription to IET Digital Library can also be ordered separately in which case only a licence form needs to be completed. Please see http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/data/existing/iet_digital_library
Training and support materials
IET have a range of training slides and user guides for various service providers. Also, there is a range of posters, flyers and other freebies that can be used to promote of the databases within libraries.
IET offers a range of training options. These can be delivered to train individual librarians, groups of librarians, or faculty staff/ researchers. The training can be tailored to the needs of the trainees. It normally comprises an overview of the database and some search examples.
If you are interested in any of these options then please contact nicola.garwood@eduserv.org.uk. If there is sufficient interest in training then it may be possible for us to arrange some regional training sessions.
