Compendex & Inspec databases
on Engineering Village Platform: features & functions
1. Compendex
• Subject coverage • Bibliographic record structure
• Ei Village Platform Searches approaches and tips • Quick search • Expert search • Thesaurus search • Browse indexes
• Manage results: features & functions • Refine results: faceted search • Access to full text • Search history • Download records • RSS feed • Blog this
Topics 2. Inspec
• Subject coverage • Bibliographic record structure
• Ei Village Platform (exploring same features & functions)
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Compendex: acess
Acess through website library
About Compendex: Quick Facts
The most comprehensive bibliographic engineering database
• Over 15 million records from 1970-present
• 190 engineering disciplines
• Publication from over 55 countries
• 3.600 journals, 4.100 conference proceedings, trade magazines & technical reports indexed annually
• 1.000.000 records added annually
• Weekly updates
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Compendex subject coverage
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List of available Compendex fields
List of document types
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Click names for more papers by the authors
Over 30 languages available
Find more papers from this journal
Detailed Record (structure) (1)
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Summary of article content
Standard index terms Primary topic
Additional dominant words and phrases in source
Broad groups of Related subjects Digital Object
Identifier
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Detailed Record (structure) (2)
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4 searches approaches
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Seach tips • Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT
• Truncation (*) to search for words that begin with the same letters
• Wildcard (?) to replace a single character
• Terms are automatically stemmed, except in the author field
• Terms in braces or quotation marks to search for an exact phrase
• NEAR or ONEAR to search for terms in proximity. ONEAR specifies the exact order of terms (laser NEAR/4 diode)
• Browse the author look-up index to select all variations of an author's name
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Search Codes
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Browse indexes to locate precise terms
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Use Register to:
• save records and searches
• stay up-to-date with Search Alerts and document Citation Alerts
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Getting started: Register (Personal Account)
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Quick Search
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Number of records found
Detailed view of record
Managing search results
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Access to full text, if available
Compendex – Ei Village Access to full text
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• Limit terms to individual fields
• Check thesaurus – try narrower terms
• English only
• Recent publication years or latest updates
• Specific document types
• Specific treatment types
• Turn autostemming off
Too many results?
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Too many results?
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• Truncate with care
• comput* → computer, computing, computerized, etc.
• Use correct Boolean connector
• Use Facets to refine search
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Compendex – Ei Village Refine results: Faceted Searching
Faceted metadata have the information organized on several dimensions, allowing to look at the same information from different sides
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Combine more than one key word within a facet or between facets by clicking the check boxes next to each key word.
Limit to or Exclude one or more keywords in or between facets from your initial search
Refine results: Faceted Searching
Download Data
View Chart
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Including & Excluding Terms From Facets
“+” sign will appear between the initial key word and the added terms from the facets.
- button will appear between the initial key word and the excluded terms from the facets.
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Search history
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Personal Account Required
Combine search numbers For flexible query building
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RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Content is delivered to the reader as it is updated
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Copy the link provided and paste it in your RSS Aggregator to receive alerts via RSS feed.
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Download records to reference manager software (1)
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Download records to reference manager software (2)
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Blog This
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About Inspec: Quick Facts
Produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET ), its records are selectively chosen from trusted scientific and technical literature sources
• Over 13 million records from 1969-present
• Over 5.000 journals and other serial titles indexed 1.000.000 records added annually
• Over 700.000 records added annually
• Over 2.500 conference proceedings added annually
• Weekly updates
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List of available Inspec fields
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List of document types
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Inspec subject coverage
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Detailed Record (structure) (1)
Click names for more papers by the authors
Find more papers from this journal
Internal Inspec code to identify the publication
6-character representations of source titles
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Inspec – Ei Village Detailed Record (structure) (2)
Summary of article content
Standard index terms
Additional dominant words and phrases in source
International patent classification code (WIPO).
Digital Object Identifier
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