Concert Presentation 2002 Who is Ei Washington University

Concert Presentation 2002

Who is Ei? Washington University, St. Louis, USA

Our History 1884 Print Publications 1970 1980’s 1994 1995 1998 1999 Compendex (COMPuterised ENgineering In. DEX) CD-ROM’s Internet Access Engineering. Village Part of Reed Elsevier Group/ Elsevier Science Engineering Direct, Computing. Village, Paper. Village 2000 Engineering. Village 2 2001 2002 Paper. Village 2 Chem. Village

Databases in EV 2 • Compendex • Inspec • ENGnet. BASE: CRC Press Handbooks • Techstreet: Industry Specs & Standards • US Patent Office/ESPACENET • Scirus

What is Compendex ? • Online Database for all Engineering • Access though Engineering Village 2 • Over 6 million records and references • 5000 engineering journals • 1000 conference reports and proceedings • We add 500, 000 more records per year • Coverage from 1970+ • Weekly updates

Subjects in Compendex Mechanical Energy Chemical Optics Civil Air & Water Pollution Environmental Solid Waste Management Electrical Hazardous Waste Structural Road Transportation Process Transportation Safety Materials Science Bioengineering Solid State Physics & Superconductivity 22% Conference Material

INSPEC on EV 2 • Approx. 7 million bibliographic records • 3500 scientific and technical journals • 1500 conference proceedings • From 1969

Subjects in INSPEC Physics Electrical engineering Electronics Communications Control engineering Computers and computing Information technology Materials science Oceanography Nuclear engineering Geophysics Biomedical engineering Biophysics

Scope and Coverage Electrical/Electronics and Computers/Control = Over 20, 000 more abstracts than INSPEC

Scope and Coverage Physics: Ei puts emphasis on applied physics with specific reference to engineering application, for example: Engineering Physics (optics spectroscopy, nuclear and other applied physics fields)

Scope and Coverage Mechancial Engineering: Over 20, 000 more records than INSPEC and many more records than all other information services.

Full Text: Cross-Ref (www. crossref. org) • Operated by Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA) in the US • 149 publishers participating in Cboss. Ref, accounting for over 6, 844 journals with over 5. 2 million article records in the database • Representatives from AAAS (Science), AIP, ACM, APA, Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier Science, IEEE, Nature, OUP, Sage, Springer, Taylor & Francis, University of Chicago Press, Wolters-Kluwer and Wiley • From EV 2 abstract -> connected to publisher's website -> access the full text article through the appropriate mechanism • Subscribers will go straight to the text, others will receive information on access via subscription, document delivery, or pay-per-view

CRC Press Full Text Handbooks • • • International publisher of technical handbooks 150+ Handbooks now online Full text searching in PDF database Access via ENGnet. BASE Hyperlink & searching from EV 2

CRC Press Handbooks

Full Text PDFs

EV 2 Unique Features: • Links to Full Text • Results Manager • Links to Local Holdings • Personalization • Online Usage

Links to Local Holdings … allows EV 2 users to access your library catalog through individual Compendex abstracts. Need open url. The benefits of this new feature: • No need to maintain a local holdings file on the Ei site • Access to updated library holding’s info. is a click away • Library catalog can be searched in a variety of ways: ISSN, CODEN, combination IVIP (ISSN, volume, issue and page), author, journal title and article title

Links to Local Holdings – How? • Read LH documentation • Contact customer. support@ei. org to enable the Link to LH • Provide a “link label” (text for your users to see) • Provide stable URL of your library web catalog • Provide search command URL with search • Parameter(s) of choice for query to your web catalog

Abstract page with a link to LH

The Popup Window

Personal Profile & Services End User Personal Profile: • Save Searches online • Save articles online • Create email alerts • Create personal folders • Information stored at Ei • Can be used by all end users and students • Users make their own username and password Reference Services: • Ask A Librarian • Ask An Engineer • Document Delivery

Online Usage Reports • Go to : http: //www. ei. org/ev 2 ur. by_cust • Enter username/password • Updated every Monday

Online Usage Reports

Benefits for your research: • Unlimited access to all the resources • Largest source of Compendex • All technical and practical info. on one site • Updated weekly • Part of a wider community

Elsevier Engineering Information are pleased to introduce the new release A Java/XML platform Available November 2002

Elsevier Engineering Info. comments: Clearer navigation and new page designs. Database descriptions and search tips have been added to the various interfaces.

Elsevier Engineering Info. comments: Quicker response time when searching. Search results begin on new page (not below search pages). Full Text availability on results page The downloading feature is being expanded and should work with any bibliographic utility that uses the RIS format.

Elsevier Engineering Info. comments: Search terms will be highlighted in the abstract and detailed records. This will make it much easier for users to see why they got the results they did.

Combined INSPEC and Compendex Searching • a time saving feature • will insure better results, especially in areas with most overlap (electrical and electronic engineering, computers and control, information technology & applied physics) • de-duplication of results from the first 200 hits

Changes to Compendex • A major data cleanup • Look up indexes being rebuilt with better data.

Changes to Interface More searchable fields: • New fields in Quick Search: Controlled vocabulary • New fields in Expert Search: Conference information (including sponsor & meeting location) + Accession numbers

More Improvements to Interface • Ability to search last 4 updates. This replaces Compendex: The Last Two Weeks • Treatment types limits are being added to Quick Search. Currently treatment types can only be used in Expert Search. Users will be able to limit by the type of article, e. g. general, historical slant, etc • The ability to turn autostemming on/off is being added to Quick Search

USPTO • Searchable fields have been expanded to include all the fields searchable on the USPTO site

Elsevier Engineering Info. comments: Search history has been added to Quick Search. Currently only Expert Search has a search history. Users will be able to combine searches from the same databases and interfaces to form new refined searches.

Customization • Libraries will be able to add a customized logo • Libraries will be able to customize their start page • Libraries will be able to set the number of results per page: 10, 25 or 50 • Libraries can have a graphic display next to the fulltext links in Links to Local Holdings

New EV 2 interface: Sneak Preview Launch and online demos in October. Look out for email notifications from Ei!

Paper. Village 2 • Paper. Chem: includes abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and technical reports with more than 480, 000 records. • Website Abstracts & Patents • Pricing from $6000 Coming soon: • IPST Haselton Library Catalog: search the worldwide technical literature on pulp and paper including 500 journal titles and 90, 000 volumes

Engineering Information is proud to introduce…. An online information service for applied chemistry and chemical engineering research

We offer the databases: • • • Chimica Chemical Business News. Base Beilstein Abstracts Patents CRC Press Fulltext Handbooks

Chimica: • Completely new bibliographic resource for chemists • Indexed 620 of the top internat. chemistry & chemical engineering titles • Most highly cited journals from CAS • All records contain abstracts with links to full text • Covers: applied, analytical, organic & inorganic chemistry, Health & Safety, materials science • From Jan. 1997+, currently over 175, 000 records • CAS Registry Numbers, EMTREE • Weekly updates

Chemical Business News. Base - CBNB • News Database for worldwide chemical business news • CO Reports, industry newslett. , trade journals, Newswires • 1984+, 600 Journals, 775, 000 records • Many non-English sources • Controlled Index Terms, CAS Registry Numbers, SIC Codes • Chem. Village is the only source for unlimited access to CBNB

Beilstein Abstracts • 700, 000 abstracts from organic chemistry and related journals • Coverage from 1980+ • Covers organic compounds only - allows you to keep track of the physical properties of organic compounds

Patents • US Patents database has over 6 million patents: 1976+ • European Patent Office, ESPACENET • Accessible by patent or application number, Internat. or US patent classification, or by author, title or company

CRC Press Fulltext Handbooks • Online access to its material via CHEMnet. BASE • Currently on-line & searchable in fulltext • Handbooks include: Combined Chemical Dictionary The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Polymers – A Property Database Properties of Organic Compounds

The Benefits in detail: • Enduser product: quick searching increases use - more research can improve productivity and better bottom line. No training required • Most cited journals. Focused searching. Increases relevancy • Embase EMTREE indexed terms: Increased relevancy and precision of search results • CAS registry number: use of familiar searching • Full-text linking with XML technology: Increases use. Saves time and money obtaining documents via library loan or document delivery.

Subscription Pricing: • Corporate and Academic pricing • Based on no. of relevant users or concurrent users

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