Lehigh Loans Volumes for ASTM Digital Library

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is working diligently on completing the ASTM Digital Library, a compilation of all of the journals, manuals, and "special technical publications" (meetings and papers) published since the beginning of the organization in 1898.

Many Lehigh University faculty, staff, and graduates have contributed to these publications over the years. Recent years are already scanned and mounted, but much of the material from earlier years is out of print and even the Society does not have copies.

Enter the Lehigh University Libraries to the rescue by loaning over 100 volumes to the Society, who scanned them and returned them, intact. In return for our generosity, the ASTM has given us free access to the ASTM Digital Library.

The ADL http://enterprise.astm.org/ can be browsed or searched full text for author, keywords, and even the ASTM Committee or Symposium topic. Results are displayed with a "narrow your search" option that categorizes the authors, dates, sources, or committees most often found.

Accessing an article first displays the copyright agreement and every page has a copyright statement, a new practice seen on several publishers' web sites. There are no links to cited/citing references. The ADL is listed in ASA, on the Database Finder page at http://databases.lib.lehigh.edu/finder.   

-- Sharon Siegler
 

Article posted November 20, 2008
 

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