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

2. Agenda What is EV2 ? Compendex & INSPEC Records and Links
Compendex Usage
Ei Thesaurus
CRC Press Handbooks
CHEST Consortia
Demo
Questions

3. What is EV2 ?
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

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

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

8. 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

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

10. Searching Compendex & INSPEC

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

12. Records

13. Link to Science Direct

14. Link to Science Direct

15. Thesaurus

16. 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

17. Ei Thesaurus

18. Ei Thesaurus

19. Results List

20. Result & Abstract

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

22. CRC Press Handbooks ENGnetBASE full-text handbooks
Available online via EV2
Searchable PDF full-texts
171 titles

23. CRC Press Handbooks CHEMnetBASE ENVIROnetBASE MATHnetBASE STATSnetBASE
FOODnetBASE
FORENSICnetBASE
POLYMERSnetBASE
ITKnowledgeBASE
InfoSECURITYnetBase

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