Compendex

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• #2: Welcome. This presentation will provide a tour of the basic features and functionality of the Compendex database on Engineering Village 2. No prior experience with either Compendex or Engineering Village 2 is assumed or necessary.
• #3: Welcome to Engineering Village 2, the premier web-based discovery platform for the engineering community. Engineering Village 2 offers premium bibliographic databases and features Ei’s Compendex, Inspec from the IEE, and the U.S. government’s National Technical Information Service’s (NTIS) Database Engineering Village 2 also offers users the ability to search engineering reference sources comprised of electronic books, including: CRC handbooks, Referex Engineering Engineering Village 2 also enables users to access other engineering sources, including News provided by Lexis-Nexis, Patent sites, and the All Science Web search, Scirus. All of these sources are tied together with an easy-to-use interface that supports both novice (end-user) searchers and experienced information professionals.
• #4: Welcome to Engineering Village 2, the premier web-based discovery platform for the engineering community. Engineering Village 2 offers premium bibliographic databases and features Ei’s Compendex, Inspec from the IEE, and the U.S. government’s National Technical Information Service’s (NTIS) Database Engineering Village 2 also offers users the ability to search engineering reference sources comprised of electronic books, including: CRC handbooks, Referex Engineering Engineering Village 2 also enables users to access other engineering sources, including News provided by Lexis-Nexis, Patent sites, and the All Science Web search, Scirus. All of these sources are tied together with an easy-to-use interface that supports both novice (end-user) searchers and experienced information professionals.
• #5: This presentation focuses on Compendex on Engineering Village 2 – the well-known global research database on all aspects of engineering. Global in scope, it provides comprehensive AND up-to-the-minute coverage of the world’s engineering literature. Some facts and figures: Bibliographic records from over 4,000 international research journals, trade magazines, conference material and technical reports Over 8 million records from 1969 onward About a half million records added each year – significant growth reflects volume of published literature that appears annually Weekly updates ensure currency For retrospective material, Engineering Index Backfile is now available, covering 120 years back to1884, it includes original reports of many historic discoveries and inventions – the Wright Brothers’ flight experiments, early nuclear-weapons research, the first manned space flights, etc.
• #10: For users who are comfortable with “deep” searching techniques, Expert Search gives you full command-line flexibility and functionality. Fully supports all truncation, Boolean search logic, nesting, etc. Command-line syntax is fully documented in Help. Click on the question mark (?) next to search box. Features: Larger dialog box for entering query Full list of search codes for all data fields Additional choices in Browse Indexes – treatment type, document type, language (all 30+ languages)
• #11: After hitting SEARCH, a list of citations appears. The number of hits found appears at the top of the list – here, 143. Select checkboxes for records to manage, or select ranges. Management options appear at top of page: Choose format: Citation: author, title, source & publication details Abstract: Citation, abstract & controlled terms Detailed record: full bibliographic record, with indexing, etc. Choose output options: View selections: Read records onscreen E-mail: E-mail selected references to yourself or colleagues Print: Format for paper printing Download: Save as RIS (for Reference Manager, Procite or EndNote), RefWorks or ASCII text file Save to Folder: Save references in folder for later viewing Upper right: 25 results per page appear; use pull-down menu to see next 25. If you wish, you can specify a range of references to view or download Up to 400 records can be selected. In the citations, author names appear hyperlinked; click on a name to retrieve more papers by that author. Yellow “Full Text” buttons link to full documents online (availability subject to your institution’s subscriptions). To see individual Compendex records online, click Abstract/Links for a medium record (citation, abstract, controlled terms) or Detailed Record/Links for a fuller bibliographic record (incl. treatment type, additional bibliographic details, etc.)
• #12: Suggestions for “tweaking” searches – to get answer set from thousands of references to a manageable number.
• #20: Boats is the controlled term. Click the yellow (I) to see the term’s history in the thesaurus and any broader Ei classification code that might be associated with the term. “Used for” = synonym To pick up a term to search, check the Select box to post it to the Search box at the bottom of the page.