The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and online sci-tech publishing and journal hosting service provider Scitation recently announced the initial rollout of the comprehensive new ASME Digital Library (http://www.asmedl.org).
The ASME Digital Library consolidates the Society's numerous publications, including its 22 journals, into a single, seamless resource. More than 100 ASME annual conference proceedings volumes, as well as ASME Press e-books, will also be available via the Digital Library.
The library begins an incremental rollout in January 2008 and will become fully functional in spring. Subscription access to current transactions journals, journals dating back to 1990, and more than 30,000 conference proceedings papers, both current and archival, will be made available on a single platform. Also included will be ASME Press e-books dating back to 1999.
With the ASME Digital Library, engineers, scientists, and librarians will have a full range of information, features and services facilitated by the Scitation platform. These include free cross-journal searching, the ability to view individual articles online before the journal is printed, extensive links to primary publishers and databases, and a complete suite of personalisation tools.
In addition to its own publications, AIP's Scitation online platform hosts content from many science and technical publishers. This includes American Physical Society, AVS Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing, Acoustical Society of America, Society of Rheology, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, The Electrochemical Society, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Institution of Engineering and Technology and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
