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Compendex & Inspec databases

on Engineering Village Platform: features & functions

1. Compendex

• Subject coverage • Bibliographic record structure

• Ei Village Platform Searches approaches and tips • Quick search • Expert search • Thesaurus search • Browse indexes

• Manage results: features & functions • Refine results: faceted search • Access to full text • Search history • Download records • RSS feed • Blog this

Topics 2. Inspec

• Subject coverage • Bibliographic record structure

• Ei Village Platform (exploring same features & functions)

Biblioteca da FEUP 21-10-2013

21-10-2013 Biblioteca da FEUP

Compendex: acess

Acess through website library

About Compendex: Quick Facts

The most comprehensive bibliographic engineering database

• Over 15 million records from 1970-present

• 190 engineering disciplines

• Publication from over 55 countries

• 3.600 journals, 4.100 conference proceedings, trade magazines & technical reports indexed annually

• 1.000.000 records added annually

• Weekly updates


Compendex subject coverage


Compendex – Ei Village

List of available Compendex fields

List of document types



Click names for more papers by the authors

Over 30 languages available

Find more papers from this journal

Detailed Record (structure) (1)


Summary of article content

Standard index terms Primary topic

Additional dominant words and phrases in source

Broad groups of Related subjects Digital Object

Identifier





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4 searches approaches


Seach tips • Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT

• Truncation (*) to search for words that begin with the same letters

• Wildcard (?) to replace a single character

• Terms are automatically stemmed, except in the author field

• Terms in braces or quotation marks to search for an exact phrase

• NEAR or ONEAR to search for terms in proximity. ONEAR specifies the exact order of terms (laser NEAR/4 diode)

• Browse the author look-up index to select all variations of an author's name




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Search Codes



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Browse indexes to locate precise terms


Use Register to:

• save records and searches

• stay up-to-date with Search Alerts and document Citation Alerts


Getting started: Register (Personal Account)



Quick Search



Number of records found

Detailed view of record

Managing search results


Access to full text, if available

Compendex – Ei Village Access to full text



• Limit terms to individual fields

• Check thesaurus – try narrower terms

• English only

• Recent publication years or latest updates

• Specific document types

• Specific treatment types

• Turn autostemming off

Too many results?


Too many results?


• Truncate with care

• comput* → computer, computing, computerized, etc.

• Use correct Boolean connector

• Use Facets to refine search


Compendex – Ei Village Refine results: Faceted Searching

Faceted metadata have the information organized on several dimensions, allowing to look at the same information from different sides



Combine more than one key word within a facet or between facets by clicking the check boxes next to each key word.

Limit to or Exclude one or more keywords in or between facets from your initial search

Refine results: Faceted Searching

Download Data

View Chart


Including & Excluding Terms From Facets

“+” sign will appear between the initial key word and the added terms from the facets.

- button will appear between the initial key word and the excluded terms from the facets.



Search history


Personal Account Required

Combine search numbers For flexible query building


RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

Content is delivered to the reader as it is updated


Copy the link provided and paste it in your RSS Aggregator to receive alerts via RSS feed.


Download records to reference manager software (1)



Download records to reference manager software (2)



Blog This



About Inspec: Quick Facts

Produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET ), its records are selectively chosen from trusted scientific and technical literature sources

• Over 13 million records from 1969-present

• Over 5.000 journals and other serial titles indexed 1.000.000 records added annually

• Over 700.000 records added annually

• Over 2.500 conference proceedings added annually

• Weekly updates


List of available Inspec fields

Inspec – Ei Village

List of document types


Inspec subject coverage




Click names for more papers by the authors

Find more papers from this journal

Internal Inspec code to identify the publication

6-character representations of source titles


Inspec – Ei Village Detailed Record (structure) (2)

Summary of article content

Standard index terms

Additional dominant words and phrases in source

International patent classification code (WIPO).

Digital Object Identifier


Compendex & Inspec – Ei Village


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