Advanced Searching

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Engineering Village

• Advanced Searching

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Agenda

• What is Engineering Village?
• Setting up a personal account
• How to search Engineering Village
• How to use search results intelligently
• How to use the Ei Thesaurus

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About Engineering Village

• www.engineeringvillage.com
• Engineering Village is a discovery platform where
  researchers can search multiple databases
  containing a range of reliable sources
• Premium bibliographic databases
• Reference databases
• Patent databases
• Engineering news and more

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Getting Started Personal Account

• Use Personal Account to
• Set up e-mail and RSS alerts
• Tag Records
• Create groups
• Save records and searches

Register to create your personal account
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Quick Search
Select the database(s) youd like to search
Enter keyword and select search field
Select limit and search options
Stuck? View search tips or Context specific help
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Expert Search
Browse indexes to locate precise terms
Use large term entry space for command line query
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Define fields using search codes
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Managing search results
Results Manager -Select records -Choose display
format -Save, email, print, or download results
View results count and sort results
Link to full-text on publisher site (when
available)
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Too Many Results?

• Limit by field, document type, treatment type,
  publication years, language, etc.
• Check thesaurus try narrower terms
• Try autostemming off
• Truncate with care
• Cat? cat, catalyst, catapults, caterpillar,
  etc.
• Use boolean connector
• Quickly and easily refine searches using facets

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Faceted Search Results

• Facets include
• Database (when searching multiple)
• Author name
• Author affiliation
• Controlled Vocabulary
• Year
• Language
• Classification Codes
• And more

Select terms to include or exclude from search to
intelligently refine results
View record counts within facets and exports to a
chart to analyze trends in results
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Including Excluding Terms from Facets

• Including Terms
• Excluding Terms

sign appears between intitial keyword and
terms included from facets
- sign appears between initial keyword and
terms included from facets
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Not enough results?

• Click thesaurus for broader terms, synonyms, term
  variations, irregular forms, etc.
• Link via Fi main headings or classification codes
• Browse indexes for variants of author names, etc.
• Turn autostemming on
• Use truncation ( ) for simple plurals
• Quick and dirty search for a few good articles
  they scan indexing for subject headings
• Use Boolean correctors

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The Ei Thesaurus

• Records on Engineering Village are indexed
  according to the Ei Thesaurus controlled
  vocabulary.
• The thesaurus is updated annually, so it includes
  the most current terminology available. Also,
  since the thesauri have evolved over time, this
  function can be used to trace the usage of
  controlled terms.
• The thesaurus function allows you to identify
  controlled vocabulary terms, find synonyms and
  related terms and improve your search strategy
  with suggested and narrower terms.

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Thesaurus
Thesaurus Options - Select Search to search
any terms - Select Exact Term to find Thesaurus
details for a known Ei controlled term - Select
Browse to scan an alphabetical list of index
terms
Click terms to see Thesaurus details. Select
terms to include in search
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Thesaurus
Click on to see more Information about the
term
Selected thesaurus terms are automatically added
to your search form
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Other features

• In addition to the features reviewed today,
  Engineering Village offers
• Expert searching with Boolean Operators
• Saved record folders
• Linking to OpenURL resolvers
• Linking to document delivery services
• Ask an expert
• RSS feeds
• Blog This!

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

• What is RSS?
• An XML format for distributing content on the
  internet
• Also known as syndication
• Why is RSS Important?
• Content is delivered to the reader as it is
  updated
• Better focus on the content by avoiding
  distractions such as pop-up advertisements and
  e-mail spam
• Set up alerts so youre notified any time a new
  record that fits your search criteria is added to
  the database

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Click the RSS icon if youd like to be updated
when new records are added that fit the search
criteria.
Copy the link provided and paste it in your RSS
Aggregator to receive alerts
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RSS Feed From Engineering Village
Give the post a title
Paste url from box on Engineering Village
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RSS delivered to your reader
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Blog This

• Link from a blog to a record of interest on
  Engineering Village
• Create current awareness by highlighting new
  publications in a popular subject area
• Create a forum from which to collaborate with
  colleagues in your area of research
• Share information with an audience outside your
  organization

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Blog This
Click the Blog This button in the records
abstract or detailed view.
Copy the code from this box in the screen that
appears and paste it into your blog post.
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Blog a Record
Give the post a title
Paste the link from the Engineering Villages
Blog This Box
Publish
Once published, the title will link to the
records abstract.
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Create Groups

• Share records with a group, your institution, or
  the entire Engineering Village community

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Tag Records

• Search other users tags to gain new perspectives
• Tag records with keywords for easy retrieval or
  to share with other users

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