1. www.imeche.org INTRODUCTION TO THE IMECHE VIRTUAL LIBRARY

2. AGENDA 01Introduction: key benefits 02Overview of resources 03Logging in 04Ebooks 05Ejournals 06Technical data & literature searching 07Business data 08Contacts

3. Key benefits The Virtual Library offers you online access anytime anywhere to 40,000 ebooks & ejournals No need to buy expensive handbooks - access them for free Develop new skills and learn about new techniques Management texts for chartership and CPD help you to develop and manage your career Find technical and business data to support reports and presentations International research resources for anyone in R&D INTRODUCTION

4. WHAT’S AVAILABLE 30,646 ebooks 9,169 ejournals Technical data and literature Business resources Historical info

5. LOGGING IN TO THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY Access the Virtual Library by logging in to the IMechE website (or registering for a username and password) Then click on Virtual Library in the left-hand menu

6. EBOOKS: EBRARY Access 539 engineering and management ebooks Save and annotate titles to your personal bookshelf Download chapters and books to PCs, tablets and smartphones

7. EBOOKS: KNOVEL Search across 400 core engineering reference books available in full-text. You can download, print or save individual chapters as PDF files

8. EBOOKS & EJOURNALS: SPRINGER Search and download full text content from the 3707 ebooks and 244 ejournals in the engineering collection of Springer, the world’s 2 nd largest STM publisher

9. EBOOKS & EJOURNALS: SCIENCEDIRECT Every member has free access to up to 20 articles or chapters per year from the 26,000 ebooks and 2,500 ejournals on ScienceDirect, the online platform of Elsevier, the biggest STM publisher in the world

10. EJOURNALS: EBSCO Full text access to 3,400 technical journals and 3,000 trade journals and magazines from a wide range of publishers

11. EJOURNALS: IMECHE PROCEEDINGS Members have free access to all full text articles from IMechE journals, except those published in the last 12 months

12. TECHNICAL DATA: KNOVEL Knovel's 'Data Search' option enables you to look up a huge range of material properties, while its online 'Interactive Equation' function helps you solve technical problems fast

13. TECHNICAL DATA & LITERATURE: EFUNDA & ENGINEERING VILLAGE Find engineering reference data, including formulae, datasheets and unit conversion tools in Efunda Engineering Village is the world’s most comprehensive engineering abstracts database Search for summaries of articles or reports published in the last 130 years

14. BUSINESS DATA: EBSCO & MINTEL EBSCO Business Source and Mintel contain over 15,000 UK, global industry and company reports to help you research new business opportunities, markets and competitors

15. THANK YOU For more information please contact: library@imeche.org +44(0)20 7973 1274 www.imeche.org