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About TechXtra

In a nutshell

TechXtra is a free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.

Doesn’t Google do that? Don't library portals do that? What about Google Scholar?

TechXtra searches parts of the Web that Google doesn’t, and TechXtra helps you find subject-based information, which Google doesn’t do very well. Many of the things you’ll find through TechXtra come from the ‘Hidden Web’, and are not indexed by Google.

If you’re looking for engineering, mathematics and computing information then TechXtra is for you!

If, however, your institution or library has a cross-searching service available within an institutional or library or intranet portal, you should almost certainly use that service as your first port of call. Through it, you may be able to search subscription-based services for which your institution has already paid to access. Some of the information available through TechXtra will probably not be available through your institutional or library or intranet portal, so you may want to use TechXtra as well.

Google Scholar is often good for finding articles and papers. You may also want to try it. Google Scholar doesn't cover many of the collections covered by TechXtra, and because Google Scholar covers all subjects, you may find material on irrelevant subjects that match your search terms, in it.

More than just a directory, then?

TechXtra cross-searches (hence the ‘X' in Xtra) 31 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing, including content from over 50 publishers and providers. It doesn't just point you to these databases, but ‘deep mines' them, so you can search them direct from TechXtra. TechXtra searches these databases remotely, and therefore results may at times vary from searches made in the native interfaces. In many cases, TechXtra searches only content in these databases relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing, so you are less likely to get 'false hits'.

There are also links straight through to the collections, where you can search them separately.

Who is TechXtra for?

TechXtra is for anyone who’s looking for information in engineering, mathematics and computing.

Academics, researchers, students, lecturers, practicing engineers, and anyone else should find it useful. There is a slight bias towards information from UK sources, but many of the collections are international in coverage.

Your own library may have access to many more databases and collections. Always check there as well!

Who’s paying for TechXtra?

TechXtra is an initiative of Heriot Watt University.

TechXtra is a service created using the PerX data and software outputs.

TechXtra is funded by voluntary sponsorships, inter-linking partnerships, related JISC projects and institutional contributions.

We would like to acknowledge the support of our initial seven sponsors, without whom this service would not be possible. They are:

• Emerald

• ProQuest

• IHS

• Jobs.ac.uk

• Morgan Claypool

• Inderscience