Ontario Engineering Librarians’ Interest Group

Does anyone have any thoughts or comments on the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science by Morgan & Claypool? It’s an e-book collection of in-depth “lectures” written by experts in various fields of engineering, but heavily weighted toward electrical and computer eng. When I first saw it at ASEE in 2005 there were very few lectures available. Now 40-50 lectures are available and another ~20 are coming online this spring.
I understand that York, Toronto and Ottawa have recently subscribed. I’m interested in how it’s being promoted and used, and if there’s interest in recommending it to OCUL.

–Mike White (Queen’s)

In a recent STLQ posting, Randy Reichardt reports on a new student web site created by ICIS, publishers of ICIS Chemical Business Americans (formerly Chemical Market Reporter). Randy also reports that ICIS has included in the new site the last complete set of CMR chemical prices from Aug. 28, 2006.

Mike White