EEVL, the new UK based virtual library for Engineering, now live!

[Roddy MacLeod]

EEVL, the new UK based virtual library for Engineering, now live!

http://www.eevl.ac.uk/

The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) went live 
on Friday 13th September.  The EEVL gateway to Internet resources 
in Engineering will be extremely popular with the engineering community 
and will solve one of the main problems facing users of the 
Internet - locating useful resources from the millions available.

Earlier in the summer EEVL launched two useful services for engineers, 
the EEVL Engineering Newsgroup Archive, and the Offshore 
Engineering Information Service, both of which have proved 
successful.  Now EEVL's Main Service, its searchable database of 
high quality engineering networked resources, will be freely available 
to anyone anywhere in the world with an Internet connection and 
appropriate World Wide Web browsing software.

The database, containing descriptions and links to over 1300 Internet 
resources in engineering, has an extremely user friendly interface, 
and allows practising engineers, academics, researchers, students, and 
information specialists to search or browse for engineering resources 
by title, keyword, or subject.  The database is actively managed by 
a team of engineering information specialists, with headquarters at 
Heriot-Watt University Library, in Edinburgh, UK.  Resource 
descriptions and links are checked regularly, making EEVL the 
premier site on the Internet for locating UK engineering sites.  
Resources in the EEVL database include Web sites for engineering 
e-journals and electronic newsletter, engineering 
companies, professional societies and institutions, engineering 
departments within higher education, government sources, engineering 
email lists, resource guides and directories, research centres, 
recruitment services, software, and more.

EEVL fills a large gap for engineers and industrialists as far 
as Internet resources are concerned and it is likely that EEVL 
will become the first port of call for anyone looking for 
Engineering information on the Internet.

EEVL is funded through the Electronic Library Programme (eLib), 
managed by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) on 
behalf of the UK Higher Education funding councils.  The EEVL 
Project lead sites are Heriot-Watt University Library, and the 
Heriot-Watt Institute for Computer Based Learning 
(ICBL).  Partner sites are the University of Edinburgh, Napier 
University, Cambridge University, Imperial 
College of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Nottingham 
Trent University, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).

For more information, see the Web site at: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
or
contact Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager, Heriot-Watt University.  
	Tel 	0131 451 3576
	Fax 	0131 451 3164
or
email eevl at icbl.hw.ac.uk