IMMAGE: The reference database for the international minerals industry
IMMAGE is the world's foremost reference database of abstracts and citations of scientific and engineering literature for the international minerals industry.
Covering material published from 1979 to the present, IMMAGE now contains over 100,000 records, with two to three thousand references being added each year.
To produce this high-quality, internationally recognised and reputable database, selection, abstracting and indexing are carried out by experienced and technically qualified staff and the content is indexed with controlled vocabulary and thesaurus terms.
Fields covered:
Technical research, development and operating practices for metalliferous and industrial minerals are covered in the fields of:
- Economic Geology
- Mining Technology
- Mineral Processing
- Extractive Metallurgy
- Non-Metals Extraction
Related topics include:
- Minerals Industry (including Economics, Legislation and Education)
- Health and Safety
- Environment (including Waste Treatment and Reclamation)
- Mathematical Methods and Computing
- Analysis and Instrumentation
- General Engineering
- Civil Engineering (including Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling)
- Uses
- History
Sources: Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, maps, technical reports, statistics, legislation
The IMMAGE Database is published by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB.
IMMAGE - formats currently available
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IMMAGE online – now available!
Corporate Rate £400, Academic Rate £365, Individual Member Rate £100
The IMMAGE database is now available online to all our current IMMAGE on CD subscribers. Please log in using the link on the left.
Using a powerful search engine provides an easy way to find relevant information fast. Updated frequently, IMMAGE online is an excellent way of keeping abreast with developments. It includes an Alerting Service which will inform you when new items are added in areas of interest to you.
Free access to IMMAGE online is now available to IOM3 members as a new member benefit. (Please note the automatic access is now working again.)
Non-members, you can request trial access to IMMAGE online.
IMMAGE on CD
Corporate Rate £400, Academic Rate £365, Individual Member Rate £100, Trial Disk £58.75
IMMAGE on CD has a Windows-based search engine which gives the user various search options from single-word, free text searching to sophisticated, field-specific combinations of words and phrases. Search results can be printed or saved to a file. Published quarterly (4 discs per year).
To subscribe to IMMAGE on CD or to order a trial disc, please download the appropriate form under Subscribe Now! in the left-hand box.
IMM Abstracts
Corporate/Academic Rate £350*, Individual Member Rate £240*
This is the current awareness bulletin for technical literature in the mineral industry. Published quarterly, IMM Abstracts is the hard-copy version of the IMMAGE database. It provides a useful alternative for those who like to keep up to date with the technical literature in their field by browsing through a printed journal organised by broad subject areas, rather than by searching electronically for specific topics.
* Prices inclusive of p&p to UK and Europe; subscribers outside Europe who wish to receive their copies of IMM Abstracts by air mail should add a surcharge of £15 (£20 for Australasia, the Far East and the Pacific).
IMMAGE Pay as you use
The IMMAGE Database is also available as an online, pay-as-you-use service. The service provider is European Information Network Services (EINS). Please see the EINS web site www.eins.org for passwords, cost and technical support, usually provided from regional EINS Help Desks.
Photocopy requests
All the above services are supported by an excellent photocopy/document delivery service.