Elsevier Engineering Information

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Elsevier Engineering Information
Engineering Village 2 Compendex, INSPEC CRC
Press Handbooks
IATUL June 2003
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Agenda

• What is EV2 ?
• Compendex INSPEC
• Records and Links
• Compendex Usage
• Ei Thesaurus
• CRC Press Handbooks
• CHEST Consortia
• Demo
• Questions

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What is EV2 ?

• Engineering Village 2 is Eis interface for
  engineering technical resources
• Compendex, INSPEC
• CRC Press Handbooks
• Patents, US and European
• Standards
• Scirus - web search interface
• Links to full-text journals

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What is EV2 ?

• Personal Profile
• email alerts, save searches, save results
• print, email and export results
• Reference services, ask a librarian, ask an
  engineer
• Thesaurus terms, look up tables
• Links via Cross-Ref to full-text publishers
• Link to local library holdings, OPACs

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What is EV2 ?
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Compendex

• Comprehensive, interdisciplinary database for
  engineering
• All fields of engineering
• 6000 journals
• 1500 conference reports / proceedings
• 7 million records
• From 1970
• Weekly updates

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INSPEC

• Leading international database covering physics,
  electronics, computing and IT
• 3500 journals
• 1500 conference proceedings
• 7 million records
• From 1969
• Weekly updates

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Searching Compendex INSPEC

• Broadest possible range of topics within
  scientific, applied science, engineering and
  technical disciplines
• 14 million records, from 1969
• Up to date information every week
• International journal coverage
• Thesaurus terms, helping end-users to explore
  more

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Searching Compendex INSPEC

• EV2 offers individual database searching and
  cross-searching of Compendex and INSPEC
• View results online, de-duplicate results

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Searching Compendex INSPEC
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Records

• Bibliographic information
• 200-300 word abstract
• Keywords highlighted in RED
• Ei controlled terms - thesaurus terms
• Full-text links via Cross Ref, Science Direct etc
  etc...
• Links to local library holdings, OPACs
• Other links, e.g. google author search
• Document delivery link

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Records
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Link to Science Direct
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Link to Science Direct
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• Thesaurus

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Ei Thesaurus

• New unique thesaurus for Compendex and INSPEC
• June 2003
• Search and browse terms
• View and select within hierarchy, broader,
  narrower and related terms
• Transfer to search database

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Ei Thesaurus
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Ei Thesaurus
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Results List
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Result Abstract
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Compendex Backfiles

• Digitize Ei Index (backfiles)
• 1884 - 1970
• Option to subscribe or purchase
• Access only on EV2
• Unique to Ei
• 4TH QUARTER 2003

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CRC Press Handbooks

• ENGnetBASE full-text handbooks
• Available online via EV2
• Searchable PDF full-texts
• 171 titles

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CRC Press Handbooks

• CHEMnetBASE
• ENVIROnetBASE
• MATHnetBASE
• STATSnetBASE
• FOODnetBASE
• FORENSICnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE
• ITKnowledgeBASE
• InfoSECURITYnetBase

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SUMMARY

• Engineering Village 2
• Compendex and INSPEC
• CRC Press Handbooks
• Backfiles 1884
• Thesaurus