Industrial Technology

Guides to the Internet | Reference Resources | Academic & Research Institutions | Conference | Document Delivery Services |
Electronic Journals | FTP Files | Gopher Resources | Indexes & Abstracts | Listservs and Newsgroup | Newspapers | Online Library Catalogues | Organisations | Patents | Professional Bodies & Associations | Publishers' Catalogues | Standards | Statistical Data

Guides to the Internet

• BUBL LINK:600 Technology (applied sciences)
  Links to engineering, medical sciences, agriculture and related technologies, home economics (including food research), management, chemical engineering, manufacturing and building.
   

• Edinburgh EngineeringVirtualLibrary
  Excellent site of over 3,000 annotated useful information resources in engineering. Highly recommended.
   
• Einet-GalaxyEngineering and Technology Page
  Addresses all areas of engineering and is quite comprehensive.
   

• SciCentral:Best Engineering Online Resources
  SciCentral is a science and engineering meta directory maintained by professional scientists whose mission is to identify and centralize access to the most valuable scientific resources online. SciCentral currently constitutes a gateway to over 50,000 sites pertaining to over 120 specialties in science and engineering.
   

• The World-WideWebVirtual Library: Industrial Engineering
  Links to academic programs, societies, journals, software, commercial professional entities, and other related WWW libraries.

References Resources (General reference, Dictionaries, Directories)

General Reference

• Michigan Electronic Library (Michigan Library)
  A goldmine of information for general references, like addresses, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc. as well as general information.
   
• My Virtual Reference Desk - My Facts Pages
  Bob Drudge's excellent website for all kinds of reference tools - dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

Dictionaries

• BioTech's Biotechnology Dictionary 
  "...most of our 8300 + terms deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics  (with) some terms relating to ecology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine."
   
• MantecDictionary
  Largest Internet dictionary on management and technology.
   
• OneLook Dictionaries,The Faster Finder
  Recommended for people who need to look up word definitions quickly. Some 300,000 words in 107 dictionaries are searchable.
   

• YourDictionaries.com
  Compiled by Robert Beard, "this website indexeson-linedictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words and phrases. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality". YourDictionary.com provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. More than 1,500,000 people a month visit YDC. Highly recommended.

Directories

• Huntingfor E-Mail Addresses
  This useful directory allows you to search for e-mail addresses.
   
• World Fax& Telephone Numbers Register
  To find a directory, select a country from the list. There is also a list of email address directories, plus a page of other telecom related links.

Academic Research & Institutions

• Government's R&DInstitutions (MIMOS)
  Lists the major R&D institutions in Malaysia.
   
• Industrial ResearchInstitute
  The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) is a non-profit organization of over 291 leading industrial companies, --representing such industries as aerospace, automotive, chemical, computer, and electronics
   
• MalaysianScience and Technology Information Centre (MASTIC)
   
• Yahoo!- Education : Higher Education : Colleges and Universities
  Access to universities & rsquo; and colleges & rsquo;homepages around the world. Arranged by country.
   
• Yahoo!- Science:Engineering:Industrial Engineering: Organizations
  Lists links to over 70 institutes related to industrial engineering.

Conferences

• Yahoo!- Science : Engineering : Industrial Engineering : Conferences
  Lists conferences in industrial engineering. 

Document Delivery Services

• DocumentDelivery Services (British Library)
  Provides copies of journal articles and theses, as well as loans books on request. All services are fee-based.
   

• DocDel.net 
  DocDel.net attempts to organize the valuable tools available via the Internet. However, it is not an archive for all document delivery related sites.

Electronic Journals

Directories

• UKYList of Engineering Journals and Newsletters
   
• Engineering,Scientific, and Technical Databases

Individual Titles, A-Z

• IndustrialTechnology - the magazine for product design engineers and machine builders
  Britain's biggest magazine for product design engineers and machine builders.
   
• InternationalJournal of Industrial Engineering 
  Provides contents pages of issues from 1994 onwards.
   
• TheInternational Journal of Engineering Design & Automation 
  Abstracts of articles published fromVol.1,1995 onwards.
   
• Journalof Industrial Teacher Education 
  Full text of journal from Vol.32, no.1, Fall 1994 onwards.
   
• Science & TechnologyReview
  Full text of journal from 1995 onwards.

FTP Files

• List of WWW Archie Services
  List of Archie gateways in the World Wide Web. Archie allows you to search for ftp files. Find any ftp file on over one million sites.
   

Gopher Resources

• VeronicaSite
  Access Veronica sites listed here. Veronica allows you to search for Gopher sites. 

Indexes & Abstracts

• RAM Simple SearchPage
  "Recent Advances in Manufacturing RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in well over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings." 
   

• STN Easy
  Access to selected databases of STN International, covering information on chemistry, biochemistry, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, physics, math, computer sciences, engineering, international patents, and general science, including CAS Registry Numbers and Material Safety DataSheets. A fee-based service, but you can try their free demo.

Listservs and Newsgroup

• CataList,the official catalog of  LISTSERV  lists
  From this page, you can browse any of the 15,075 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites.
   

• Deja News
  You will be able to access discussions on specific topics by doing a keyword search of the Usenet news archives.
   

• Directory ofScholarly & Professional E-Conferences
  "The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-conferences screens, evaluates and organizes discussion lists, newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S,Muck's, Mushes, mailing lists, interactive Web chat groups etc. (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagological and professional activities."
   

• Liszt, the mailinglist directory
  Searchable directory of over 85,000 listserv, listproc, majordomo and independently managed mailing lists.
   
• Mailbase ElectronicMailing List Service
  Provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community. Has 1,791 discussion lists, and 124,249 members worldwide. Search by subject or name.
   
• Tile.net
  Index includes both e-mail discussion groups and Usenet newsgroups. Also includes e-mail forms for subscribing.

Newspapers

Directories

• MediaINFO Links
  Excellent site to locate newspapers all over the world. Has its own search engine for titles.

Individual Titles, A-Z 

• Berita HarianOnline
• CNN Interactive
• Dinamani Tamil Daily
• Star Online, Malaysia
• Sarawak TribuneOnline
• Utusan MalaysiaOnline

Online Library Catalogues

• EuropeanOnline Public Access Library Catalogues
• NationalUniversity of Singapore
• Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia
• Universiti Malaya
• Universiti MalaysiaSarawak
• UniversitiPutra Malaysia
• UniversitiUtara Malaysia Library
• ULWorkstation - Library Catalogs
• WebCATS:Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web

Organizations

• United Nations and other International Organizations (UNDCP)
  The best site for information on and from the United Nations. Also has links to other international organizations.

Patents

• Where to find patent information on the Internet
  Access websites of Patent Offices all over the world.
   

• STO'sInternetPatent Search System
  This is the home page for Source Translation  &Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System, a way for people around the world to perform patent searches, and access information on the patenting process.
   

• U.S.Patent Data Access(U.S. Patent Office)
  "database of patent front-page information (title, abstracts, company, inventor's names, patent number...Possibility to browse the U.S. Patent Classifications Database." Free access. 

Professional Bodies & Association

• International TechnologyEducation Association
  All about the Association and its activities. Links to their e-journals, Internet resources, research, etc.
   

• NAIT Home Page
  The National Association of Industrial Technology (NAIT) is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the improvement and expansion of Industrial Technology programs in institutions of higher education and the continuing professional development of graduates of these programs. You can obtain information about the Association, links to related Websites, and conferences.
   

• The NationalAssociation of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators (NAITTE) 
   
• Society of  ManufacturingEngineers
  Homepage about the society, its activities, publications, conferences, awards/grants, etc. 

Publishers' Catalogues

• Publishers’CataloguesHome Page
  You can gain access to publishers & rsquo; catalogues from all over the world.

Standards

•  BritishStandards Institutions (BSI)
  The British Standards Institution's electronic catalogue of standards. One can search and order a standard.
   
• InternationalStandardisation of Organisation (ISO)
  Check out the standards issued by the International Organisation for Standardization and if necessary order a copy online.
   
• JapaneseIndustrial Standards
  You can search for standards published in English via their search engine.
   
• National Standards SystemsNetwork
  Has a search engine to search for standards from 13 databases, including ANSI, ISO, ASTM, IEEE, etc.
   

• SIRIM ONLINE
  SIRIM is the Malaysian national organisation for standardisation and industrial development under the Ministry of  Science and Technology. This Homepage provides information on the Institute and its activities. The USM Library subscribes to SIRIMLINK. Please enquire for service.
   

• TheWorld-wideWeb Virtual Library : Standards and Standardization Bodies
  Provides links to international, regional and national and other standardisation bodies and companies. Also has links to specific sets of standards.

Statistical Data

• Infonation(U.N.)
  Provides current statistics of 185 countries, e.g. population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrolment, illiteracy, homicides, etc.
   
• InternationalData Base
  Provides current statistics of 185 countries ,e.g. population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrolment, illiteracy, homicides, etc.
   

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