TechXtra is provided by the ICBL and Library at Heriot-Watt University.

Using TechXtra, anyone can 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. TechXtra searches over 4 million items from 31 collections in technology, and provides several additional services.

For full details of the improvements, please see the TechXtra News Blog http://techxtranews.wordpress.com

Changes include:
New full text indicators on search results pages, which show the likely availability of full text.
Faster searching of the Arrow and CISTI databases, where you can find Australian and Canadian research.
Updated RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing) database.
Over 100 new sources of job announcements and industry news in the OneStep Jobs and OneStep Industry News services.
A new TechXtra SRU service.
More free magazine subscriptions.

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

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.

Searching TechXtra is easy.

Source: TechXtra.com

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