Chemical information provider FIZ Chemie, Germany, has announced plans to present its new eBook Guide and its Infotherm thermophysical facts database at the 11th Interlending and Document Supply Conference (ILDS) from October 20 – 22, 2009. On the 50th anniversary of the Hanover Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), the German National Library of Science and Technology, this international library conference will be taking place in the state capital of Lower Saxony.
The new FIZ Chemie eBook Guide provides a full text search of e-publications across different publishers for anyone who is searching for scientific, medical or technical literature. Libraries can integrate the search engine in their library catalogue (OPAC) and set up the software so that users are only shown e-book titles to which the library subscribes or to which the library is licensed by the publisher. The eBook Guide provides immediate evidence of about 10,000 indexed e-books, including the DOI (digital object identifier). Currently the vast majority are Springer eBooks. A contract with the de Gruyter publishing house and ongoing negotiations with numerous other STM publishing houses are expected to guarantee continuous expansion of the data source.
The Infotherm database has been expanded to include various search functions. It is projected to cover about 95 percent of all values relevant for thermophysical processes and procedures which have been published around the world in specialist literature. In its new form, it is expected to save chemical engineers and process engineers from time-consuming, manual searches through endless hit lists. In addition, it also allows open search enquiries for the first time. Searchers are no longer tied to entering the concrete name of a compound.
The open query uses a new filter option by about 500 families of compounds. With this function about four million datasets on about 39,000 substance mixtures and approximately 21,000 pure substances can be explored without any redundancy. Also new is the XML-based IUPAC data exchange format in Infotherm, which guarantees fault-free and complete recording of thermophysical data from e-journals. It is also possible to export all Infotherm data in the IUPAC standard.
The ILDS 2009 is preceded by the free forum ‘Rethinking Resource Sharing in Europe’, which takes place on October 19 at the Bonatz Hall of the Hanover Conference Centre. At this forum, the initiative Resource Sharing will be presenting ideas on how knowledge resources can be made more accessible to the public through libraries. This is sponsored by the OCLC, and library software suppliers BCR and relais international.
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