Engineering, library collaborate to add technical resources

A joint effort between two Mississippi State units is allowing expansion of technical resources for faculty and students.

The College of Engineering and Mitchell Memorial Library have cooperated to acquire electronic databases that Internet users may access from computers at the library, their offices, or home, said dean of libraries Frances Coleman.

"Among the databases we've been able to acquire is Compendex Web," Coleman said. "It is the Internet version of Engineering Index, the world's premier source of engineering abstracts." The database adds about 220,000 abstracts yearly from more than 2,600 engineering journals, conferences, and reports, she said. It covers all fields of engineering.

Compendex can be accessed from the library's World Wide Web page at <http://www.msstate.edu/Library>. Select the "electronic resources" menu option.

Other new resources will benefit faculty and students across the university, said engineering dean Wayne Bennett. "This collaboration has allowed us to acquire information that wouldn't be possible otherwise," he noted. "Colleagues in other colleges such as Arts and Sciences and Agriculture and Life Sciences will have access to catalogs and to data on literally millions of products."