1. www.ei.org Geobase on Engineering Village Functionalities and Research Opportunities

2. www.ei.org GEOBASE Overview Multidisciplinary bibliographic resource deeply indexing literature across earth sciences, geology, geomechanics and environmental sciences Most extensive resource available for international literature within these fields 178 electronic customers worldwide ~2.2 M Euro in electronic revenue

3. www.ei.org About GEOBASE Bibliographic abstracting and indexing database offering multidisciplinary coverage of human and physical geography, geology, geomechanics, oceanography, ecology and development studies 2,000 international sources include: Peer-reviewed titles Trade publications Book series Conference Proceedings Over 100,000 records added annually ~ 1.5 million records from 1980 to present Extensive non-English literature coverage Records indexed by Subject, Region and Organism

4. www.ei.org This presentation will cover: Geobase as a part of Engineering Village: available search fields, Indexes and limits. An example examining Compendex & Geobase covering different focal points on a subject and how they compliment each, other. An example of a rounded and comprehensive view of a subject area using Compendex, Geobase and patents.

5. www.ei.org Available Indexes Navigate between indexes using the drop down menu. Author, Author Affiliation, Controlled term and serial title

6. www.ei.org Available Search Fields & Limits Focus your search by using the list of fields available for Geobase Limits include Documents type, Language, Year and Updates

7. www.ei.org Searching multiple databases Search strategy recommendations: Formulate a clear search query. If the question has more than one aspect, break the question into search concepts. Use the controlled vocabulary facet to select a range of search terms. Combine newly discovered terms into a search strategy Search the appropriate databa se for your search. Find more search terms from retrieved records while searching

8. www.ei.org Example The design of reinforced concrete buildings to be earthquake resistant Search strategy could be: (earthquake OR seism*) and reinforced concrete Limit field to subject/title/abstract

9. www.ei.org The Controlled vocabulary reveals dual treatment of the subject. GeobaseCompendex

10. www.ei.org Discover different perspectives in coverage CompendexGeobase

11. www.ei.org What the results tell us? Both databases include engineering perspectives. Both databases cover each other’s disciplines. Geobase covers environmental engineering perspective and Compendex covers structures and materials. In Compendex the emphasis is on Structural Members & Shapes (50) Structural Design, General (47) Strength of Building Materials; Mechanical Properties (43) Earthquake Resistance (33) Earthquake Measurements & Analysis (28) Numerical Methods (21) Buildings and Towers (19) In Geobase the emphasis is on Seismic Response (8) Earthquake Engineering (7) Structural Response (5) Building (4) Finite Element Method (3) Numerical Model (2) Seismic Design (2) Performance Assessment (1) Reliability Analysis (1) Safety (1)

12. www.ei.org Discover the development of the field through the years using the Year facet. Use the download data function and save to Excel. In Excel, you can create different Visualization charts of the data. Patents and research in the field through the years.

13. www.ei.org Combining patents to reveal products and applications in the subject area Reinforced concrete in the patents databases in 2006

14. www.ei.org Results analysis via facets Leading companies and universities that are researching the field can be found in the assignee facet. Geographical distribution.

15. www.ei.org What is being currently applied for in this field can be found in the patent type facet Include the applications. The assignee list will reveal the companies and universities actively researching the field.

16. www.ei.org Full text options Full text of bibliographic Records is available Through subscriptions or document delivery services Patents full text PDFs are available For direct download.