Elsevier Engineering Information Engineering Village 2 Compendex INSPEC

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

Agenda • • • 2 What is EV 2 ? Compendex & INSPEC Records and Links Compendex Usage Ei Thesaurus CRC Press Handbooks CHEST Consortia Demo Questions

What is EV 2 ? • • 3 Engineering Village 2 is Ei’s interface for engineering & technical resources Compendex, INSPEC CRC Press Handbooks Patents, US and European Standards Scirus - web search interface Links to full-text journals

What is EV 2 ? • Personal Profile – – • • 4 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, OPAC’s

What is EV 2 ? 5

Compendex • • 6 Comprehensive, interdisciplinary database for engineering All fields of engineering 6000 journals 1500 conference reports / proceedings 7 million records From 1970+ Weekly updates

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

Searching Compendex & INSPEC • Broadest possible range of topics within • • 8 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

Searching Compendex & INSPEC • • 9 EV 2 offers individual database searching and cross-searching of Compendex and INSPEC View results online, de-duplicate results

Searching Compendex & INSPEC 10

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. . . • Links to local library holdings, OPAC’s • Other links, e. g. google author search • Document delivery link 11

Records 12

Link to Science Direct 13

Link to Science Direct 14

Thesaurus 15

Ei Thesaurus • • • 16 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

Ei Thesaurus 17

Ei Thesaurus 18

Results List 19

Result & Abstract 20

Compendex Backfiles • • • 21 Digitize Ei Index (backfiles) 1884 - 1970 Option to subscribe or purchase Access only on EV 2 Unique to Ei 4 TH QUARTER 2003

CRC Press Handbooks • • 22 ENGnet. BASE full-text handbooks Available online via EV 2 Searchable PDF full-texts 171 titles

CRC Press Handbooks • • • 23 CHEMnet. BASE ENVIROnet. BASE MATHnet. BASE STATSnet. BASE FOODnet. BASE FORENSICnet. BASE POLYMERSnet. BASE ITKnowledge. BASE Info. SECURITYnet. Base

SUMMARY • • • 24 Engineering Village 2 Compendex and INSPEC CRC Press Handbooks Backfiles – 1884 Thesaurus