Engineering Village EV: A platform FOR engineers BY engineers

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• Engineering Village (EV) A platform FOR
  engineers BY engineers
• Presented by Sandra Grijzenhout, Product Sales
  Manager
• SUWECO Elsevier Road show 9-11 May, 2007

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Agenda

• What is Engineering Village (EV)?
• Whats new (since February 07)
• Online Demo

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EV The most comprehensive platform for
technology coverage

• Different kinds of relevant materials, not just
  abstracts databases
• Compendex 1969
• Inspec 1968
• GEOBASE 1980
• Referex Engineering (e-books)
• Ei Patents
• NTIS National Technical and Information
  Services database
• CODIE AWARD Winner 2006! For Best Content
  Aggregation
• Service

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Compendex

• The most comprehensive engineering database
  covering all fields of engineering. In total 175
  engineering disciplines are covered!
• General engineering (11)
• Civil engineering (15)
• Chemical engineering (15)
• Electrical engineering (35)
• Mining engineering (12)
• Mechanical engineering (12)
• gt5,000 journals / 1,500 conference proceedings ?
  Global coverage
• gt 11 million (11.649.942) records / 1969 /
  weekly updates/Ei Thesaurus

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INSPEC

• Leading international abstract database for
  physics, electrical engineering, electronics,
  computer science and astronomy
• gt3,740 journals / 1,500 conference proceedings
• gt10 million records (10.252.148) / 1969
• Weekly updates, 450,000 abstracts added in 2005
• Inspec thesaurus
• Material Identity number on EV platform is
  hyperlinked

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GEOBASE

• Multidisciplinary bibliographic database in the
  field of earth sciences covering
• human and physical geography
• geology
• geomechanics
• ecology
• international development
• oceanography.
• gt 1.6 million records (1.663.041) / 1980
• 2,000 international journals
• The abstracts are indexed with the help of three
  thesauri GEOTREE for subject indexing, REGTREE
  for regional indexing and ORGTREE for organism
  indexing.

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Searching the platform
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Search results page plus option Refine Results
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Link out to the abstract or the full text article
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EV new launch February 2007

• Whats new?
• Record Tagging
• Referex Engineering Enhancements
• Additional Improvements
• New facet added to refine results
• Improved help files

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Users are taking control

• Across the web, users are assigning keywords or
  tags to pages, postings and images

• Users are determining
• What an item is about
• Why its relevant
• What items are important to them

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Tagging Whats the use?

• Organize personal pages of interest
• Search by others tags
• Share your interests

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Organize Search - Share

• Like most researchers, engineering researchers
  need
• Tools to better organize content
• Ways to find more relevant content
• Engineering researchers cite greater need to work
  in groups and collaborate
• Sharing research takes on added importance

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Introducing tagging on Engineering Village

• Users can assign keywords (tags) to any record
• Search for records by user tags
• Chose to disclose my tags to
• All EV users
• All users within my institution
• Just my working group
• Just me

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Find a meaningful record
Tag widget
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Users choose with whom they share

• Public Everyone
• My Institution
• Private Just me

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Users personalize meaning

• Users assign any keywords they find meaningful
• Examples
• Nanotubes
• Automotive
• Project 521
• Patents
• Your tags can be edited

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Tags search enhances discovery

• User tags provide new perspectives and keywords
• Search by user tags
• Public, Institution, Private, Group
• View tag clouds
• Order by Alpha, Popularity or Most recent

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Tag search yields results lists
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Groups encourage sharing

• Create groups of research collaborators,
  co-workers, and friends
• Tag records only for group members
• Group members see all tags for their group
• Chose to email newly tagged records to group

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Tagging gives user control over content

• Users apply keywords relevant to them
• Helps users ORGANIZE meaningful research
  information
• Enhances ability to SEARCH
• Creates new options for SHARING information
• Enforces Engineering Villages leadership position

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Referex Engineering Enhancements
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Delivering more content

• 54 new titles added in Summer 2006
• 400 total
• Updated editions of premium titles
• More titles to be added again Summer 2007

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Functional enhancement overview

• Search across sources
• Keywords and facets
• More manageable downloads
• Hit-highlighting

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Search across sources

• With a single search
• 219K e-book pages
• Millions of database records

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Return faceted results
Displays number of e-book pages
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Refine and analyze results
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Enhanced record format
Read a page or the entire book
Compendex controlled vocabulary applied
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Enhanced PDF document

• Faster load times
• Single page load
• Enhanced Navigation
• Top bar, TOC, Start section
• Hit-highlighting
• Shows points of relevance

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Referex Enhancements

• Content continues to grow
• Search across sources
• Page faceting
• Compendex keywords applied
• Hit-highlighting
• Improved PDF navigation

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Usage Reporting Enhancements
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COUNTER II usage reporting

• Available mid-March 2007
• Already COUNTER II certified
• Features departmental tracking
• For corporate cost reallocation
• Includes workstation tracking
• Provides estimates of the size of the active user
  community

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Additional Improvements
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Serial Title facet added

• In response to customer demand
• Helps evaluate a publications focus on a topic

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Upgraded help files

• Completely re-written
• Employs new software with
• Help search
• Indexes
• Context sensitivity
• Big user support improvement

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Some URLs

• www.engineeringvillage.com
• to access the platform and its content
• www.ei.org
• for information on all Ei products
• http//reports.ei.org
• to view the statistics un/pw needed to login
  (is provided by our Helpdesk upon request and
  for customers only)

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WHY Engineering Village?

• Engineering Village is a vital resource for
  current awareness, new product information,
  technological forecasting and competitive
  intelligence
• By providing access to EV you will support your
  engineering researchers in the best possible way!