Website of the Month

The AWEA is a national trade association representing wind power project developers, equipment and service suppliers, parts manufacturers, utilities, and researchers. One of their goals is to provide up-to-date information on operating wind energy projects, developing wind energy projects, companies working in the wind energy field, new technologies and policy developments related to wind and other renewable energy development.

Engineering Library Web Site of the Month October 2009: The Information Bridge.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information created the Information Bridge web site to provide free public access to over 210,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations from the DOE’s report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by the DOE, the DOE contractors, and DOE grantees. Older documents are added as they become available in electronic format.
The Information Bridge contains documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission.

Engineering Library Website of the Month – September 2009
TRIS Online: http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/index.do
TRIS Online is a bibliographic database funded by the sponsors of the Transportation Research Board, and selected federal transportation agencies. TRIS provides excellent coverage of transportation topics. It is especially useful for identifying publications produced by local, state, and federal government agencies. It also indexes more scholarly publications.

The OneLook Dictionary Search site provides one stop searching of over 1,000 online accessible dictionaries with definitions for over 13,000,000 words. The entire collection of dictionaries can be searched from one search box or individual titles can be selected for searching from a browsable list of titles. The site attempts to link to dictionaries from all subject areas including technology. With such a large number of dictionaries it is not surprising that the quality of the dictionaries and their entries varies considerably. Online are usually more up-to-date than print dictionaries so site is a good choice for finding useful definitions for newer terms such as cloud computing.

Nanotechweb.org is a global portal for information about nanotechnology created by the Institute of Physics. It was created to provide information for manufacturers, investors and academics, and others interested in nanotechnology. It features breaking news and the latest journal papers from around the world, plus an event calendar and invaluable research tools. Users can interact with the site and each other by providing content and opinion at all levels.