Elsevier Engineering Information Engineering Village 2 Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS E-Books Slovak Technical University Bratislava May 17th 2004 Nick Turner, Regional Manager Sandra Grijzenhout, Product Sales Manager

2 AgendaAgenda What is EV2? Compendex & INSPEC Records and Links Ei Thesaurus Engineering Index Backfiles E-Books, CRC, and Referex NTIS Database Promoting your electronic resources Demo Questions

3 What is EV2 ? Engineering Village 2 is Ei’s interface for engineering & technical resources Compendex, INSPEC E-Books Patents, US and European Standards Scirus - web search interface Links to full-text journals

4 What is EV2 ? Personal Profile – alerts, save searches, save results – print, 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

5 What is EV2 ?

6 CompendexCompendex Comprehensive, interdisciplinary database for engineering All fields of engineering 5000 journals 1500 conference reports/proceedings 7.7 million records From Weekly updates

7 INSPECINSPEC Leading international database covering physics, electronics, computing and IT 3500 journals 1500 conference proceedings 7.8 million+ records From Weekly updates

8 Broadest possible range of topics within scientific, applied science, engineering and technical disciplines 15 million records, from Up to date information every week International journal coverage Thesaurus terms, helping end-users to explore more Searching Compendex & INSPEC

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

10 Searching Compendex & INSPEC

11 RecordsRecords Bibliographic information 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, OPAC’s Other links, e.g. google author search Document delivery link

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13 Link to Publishers website/E-Journal

14 RecordsRecords

15 Link to full-text on Science Direct

16 Link to Science Direct PDF

17 Thesaurus

18 Ei Thesaurus New thesaurus for Compendex and INSPEC Search and browse terms View and select within hierarchy, broader, narrower and related terms Transfer to search database

19 Ei Thesaurus

20 Ei Thesaurus

21 Results List

22 Result & Abstract

23 Engineering Index Backfiles

24 Engineering Index Backfiles Digitize Ei Index (backfiles) Option to purchase & own Access only on EV2 Unique to Ei

25 CRC Press Handbooks

26 CRC Press Handbooks: ENGnetBASE full-text handbooks Available online via EV2 Searchable PDF full-texts 207 titles

27 CRC Press Handbooks CHEMnetBASE ENVIROnetBASE MATHnetBASE STATSnetBASE FOODnetBASE FORENSICnetBASE POLYMERSnetBASE ITKnowledgeBASE InfoSECURITYnetBase NANOnetBASE MATERIALSnetBASE NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE

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29 Referex Handbooks

30 Referex E Books – from Elsevier Referex Engineering aims to be the leading electronic reference collection in engineering with unparalleled breadth and depth Fully utilizes search technology from market leading discovery platform, Engineering Village 2 Comprised of over 350 reference titles in 3 core collections

31 ReferexReferex Each collection is comprised of 100+ handbooks, monographs and professional reference texts – Mechanical and Materials – Electronic and Electrical – Chemical Petrochemical and Process

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33 Searching Referex E Books

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36 NTIS Database

37 NTIS Database National Technical Information Service US Federal Government Database Summaries of Gov sponsored research, development and engineering International contribution: – Japan Ministry of Trade & Industry – UK Dept of Trade – German Min. Research & Technology – French Center for Sci Research (CNRS) 2.1 million records Link to full-text reports on US Gov website

38 Cross-SearchingCross-Searching

39 Promoting your electronic resources Communication is key! Training/workshops – on site/WebEx Library webpages Promotional material – print/electronic (e.g. QRG’s) Newsletter Usage statistics Contact me when you need help!

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