TechXtra: Searching through the hidden web of engineering, mathematics computing

Teng Soek Leng :: slteng@ntu.edu.sg
Subject Librarian for Materials Engineering, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering

TechXtra (www.techxtra.ac.uk) is a service which helps you find full text content of freely available engineering, mathematics and computing articles, books, industry news, job announcements, technical reports and technical data.

TechXtra cross-searches 25 different collections such as Aeronautical Research Council Technical Reports, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information and Euclid Mathematics and Statistics Journals. Many of the things you find through TechXtra come from the ‘Hidden Web’, which may not be indexed by Google.