Quick Reference Guide

Expert Search

(October 12, 2000)

What is Engineering Village 2?

 

Engineering Village2 provides instant access to the latest engineering research on the desktop. A powerful way to search across multiple databases, including Compendex (over 5 million engineering literature abstracts), engineering web site abstracts, patents, engineering handbooks, and industry specs and standards.

 

What is Expert Search?

 

Expert search was designed for searchers who have been trained in information retrieval and are familiar with Boolean and proximity operators, nested logic, field searching, truncation and stemming of search terms.  Expert Search was designed for flexibility, precision and control of the search process.

 

Getting Started

 

Go to http://www.ei.org/engineeringvillage2

 

Institutional Login

 

If your institution has ID/Password access enter the Ei Engineering Village2 user name and password.  Institutions with IP domain access will enter Engineering Village 2 directly.

 

Reference Services

 

Ei Village 2 provides a variety of reference services to assist users.  Click on the "Reference Services" button. The following reference services are available:

 

Ask an Engineer

Post questions to a Senior Village Engineer whenever you cannot find needed technical information.  Senior engineers have agreed to respond to questions e-mailed to them within 24 hours

 

Ask a Librarian

Ei's technical librarians provide search assistance over the phone or via e-mail for Compendex and other Ei Village 2 databases.

Search questions on engineering topics may also be referred to the Reference staff of Linda Hall Library.

 

Network of Experts

The Network of Experts is a searchable database of over 15,000 North American experts in areas of engineering, technology, and applied physics. It allows searchers to identify experts.

 

Select a Database

 

Use the click down menu to choose one of the following databases:

Compendex

Compendex Last Two Weeks Only

Website Abstracts

US Patent Office

CRC Press Handbooks

Industry Specs and Standards

 

Expert Search of Compendex

 

Compendex - provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and technical reports. Sources for the records are from over five thousand journals, conference proceedings and reports.  As of the year 2000 there are over five million records are in Compendex, with coverage starting from 1970.

 

Boolean Operators
Operator

Examples

Use Boolean operators to refine, expand or limit your search. Use the Boolean operator and to refine your search, the or operator to expand your search and the not operator to limit your search.

AND

OR

NOT

digital signal processing AND impedance boron OR cadmium petroleum

transportation NOT motor transportation

 


 

Proximity Operators
 
Examples

The NEAR operator finds records in which the chosen search terms are close to each other.  Order of relationship is not specified. Records where the terms are closest will be at the top of  the result list if sorting by relevance is chosen.

NEAR

Bridge NEAR piling*

 

Nested Logic
 
Examples

To avoid unintended results, use parenthesis to specify the order of Boolean operation.

(  )

Graph languages AND ((Aalbersberg , I* WN AU) OR (Engelfriet, J* WN AU))

 

Truncation
 
Examples

The asterisk * at the end of a search term is a truncation symbol or wildcard, that allows searching of terms with a variety of endings

*

optic*

(will retrieve such terms as optic, optics, optical, etc).

 

Stemming
 
Examples

The dollar sign $, inserted at the beginning of a search term, is used to search for words that have the same linguistic root as the term

$

$compute

(will retrieve compute, computer, computing).

 

Searchable Fields

 

To search specific field(s), us the WN (within) operator and the field abbreviation code(s).  The field codes are listed to the left of the search template.  Note:  If no field code is specified for the Compendex database, the entire record will be searched.

 

Compendex Searchable Fields
Abbr.
Examples

Abstracts – Search for words in the abstract.

 

AB

(solar cycle WN AB) OR (diurnal variation WN AB)

Author Affiliations - Search for the institution to which the first author is or was affiliated at the time of publication. It is strongly recommended to select author affiliation from the Author Affiliation Index.

 

AF

(Intel WN AF) OR Pentium

Authors - Enter last name first, followed by a comma, then a space, and the first name or initial.  Truncate with an asterisk (*).  It is strongly recommended to select name(s) from the Author Index and paste them in to your search.

 

AU

Bernstein, R* WN AU)

CODEN –  CODEN’s are unique six character codes for journals and other serial publications.

 

CN

JENMDT WN CN

Document Type - Searches may be limited to Journal Articles (JA), Conference Articles (CA), (conference papers) and Conference Proceedings (CP).

 

DT

JA WN DT

CA WN DT

CP WN DT

Ei Subject Terms (Controlled Vocabulary) - Use of appropriate Ei Subject Terms, assigned to each Compendex record by Ei indexers, retrieve highly relevant citations. It is strongly recommended that you use the Ei Subject Terms Index and paste them into your search.

 

CV

pattern recognition WN CV

Identifiers/Free Language – Identifiers are free language terms and phrases assigned by Ei indexers.

 

FL

(Signal sampling OR Phase angle OR Switching

strategies) WN FL

ISSN - Eight digit International Standard Serial Numbers assigned to journal and serial publications.

 

SN

0733-9399 WN SN

Keywords - A Keywords search will include Ei Subject Terms, Identifiers, Title Words, and words in the Abstract fields of each Compendex record.

 

KY

Semiconductor WN KY

Language - A search may be limited to a particular language.

LA

French WN LA

Publishers – Search for the publisher's name. It is strongly recommended that you use the Publishers Name Index.

 

PN

(IEEE WN PN) AND (image processing WN TI)

Publication Titles/Serial Titles - Enter an exact match for the journal or conference, use a truncated form of the title, or use words from the title. It is strongly recommended to select publication titles from the Publication Titles Index and paste them into your search.

ST

(Polymer* WN ST) AND (Palmer, D* WN AU)

Title Words - A title search limits searching to just words in the title. It is helpful in subject searching, searching for known titles, and for bibliographic verification

 

TI

electric power AND (distribution cost* WN TI)

 


Using Indexes of Terms

 

Use of indexes is recommended to increase the quality of retrieval. Click on Index of Terms; select the Index; find the term; highlight it; then

 use Ctrl/C and Ctrl/V to paste the term into the search template. There are five Compendex indexes in Expert Search:

 

·       Ei Subject Terms – An alphabetical list of Ei Subject Terms assigned to each Compendex record by Ei indexers.

·       Author – An alphabetical list of authors. An author's name is listed exactly as it appears in the document, although in inverted form.

The author John A. Smith may appear in several variations (Smith, J. A.; Smith, John A.; Smith, John Arnold etc.).

·       Author Affiliation – An alphabetical list of author affiliations. Author Affiliation is the institution to which the first author is or was

affiliated at the time of publication.

·       Publication Title – An alphabetical list of Compendex Journal or Publication titles.

·       Publisher Name – An alphabetical list of publishers.

 

Limiting Search by Year

 

To limit a search by year or range of years use the drop-down menus to specify the year(s) limit.

 

Search history

 

The search history for the current session is displayed below the search box.  The last three searches are displayed.  Click on Expand to see the entire search history. Click on Contract to display only the last three searches.  When the browser is closed, the search history is deleted.

 

Clearing a Search

 

After finishing a search on a topic, and before beginning work on a different topic, click on reset so nothing remains from the previous search to affect the new search.

 

Viewing, Saving, Printing and E-mailing Records

 

Search results will be displayed to the right of the search query boxes.   Records are displayed in a short format.

 

From a search results list, one can:

 

·          Change sorting of retrieved records, if desired, from sorting by relevance to sorting by publication date (the most recently added records will be displayed first.

·          Change record range  (1-25, 26-50, etc.) by clicking on the record range pull-down menu at the top or bottom of each search results page.

 

Viewing records

 

·          See individual abstracts or tagged format by clicking on the Abstract link or Tagged Format link under the short record. A tagged record lists each field separately. Each field is identified by a two-letter code

·          To change the Viewing format use the pull-down menu "Selected Results:" at the top of the results list.

·          Select the records wanted by checking the box next to the desired records or click on the hyperlink Select All Shown (which selects records currently displayed). If additional records need to be viewed use the record range pull-down menu to view and select additional records.

·          Use the View pull-down menu and select the desired viewing format: Citation, Abstract, Tagged format.

Click on "View" to see the records in the chosen format.

 

Note: When records are displayed, both authors and Ei Subject Terms are hyperlinked.  By clicking on an author's name, the system will retrieve records by that author.  By clicking on an Ei Subject Term, the system will retrieve records on that subject

 

Compendex Displayed Field Codes (Tagged Format)

 

AB

Abstract

AC

Affiliation city

AF

Corporate or institutional affiliation of the first author.

AN

Ei accession number.  Ei assigns the accession number as items are received for indexing and abstracting.

AS

Affiliation state

AT

Author of the abstract (abstract by article author, edited author abstract)

AU

Up to 16 authors are listed per article.  Author names are listed as follows: last name, comma, blank space, first name and/or initials.  The use of first names and/or initials usually follows the format used in the original article.

AV

Affiliation province

AY

Affiliation country.  Note: Information on affiliation location varies.  Some include city (AC), state (AS) and country (AY); others, particularly non-U.S. may include only the country (AY)

BN

ISBN (International Standard Book Number)

BR

Book review number

CC

Conference code

CF

Conference name


 

CL

Ei Classification Codes (codes are comprised of a numeric classification scheme that segments the literature into approximately 800 technical fields.  See the Ei thesaurus for the Ei classification code scheme.

CN

CODEN (six character codes for journals and other serial publications)

CV

Subject terms, controlled vocabulary term or descriptor from the Ei Thesaurus.  As many as twelve-controlled vocabulary terms may be included in a record.

DS

Code for internal use

DT

Document type.  JA (Journal article); CA (Conference Article); CP (Conference paper)

EC

Editor affiliation city

ED

Editor/Compiler

EF

Editor affiliation/corporate Division/Department.

ES

Editor affiliation state

EY

Editor country

FL

Free Language term or identifier selected from the text of the article and/or abstract. As many as 10 free language terms may be included in a record.

IS

Issue number

JC

Ei Journal classification code

LA

Language of the article

M1

Different version of meeting date

M2

Another version of meeting date

MC

Meeting city

MD

Meeting date

MH

Main Heading  (Ei Subject Term selected from subject terms in the Ei Thesaurus.)

MN

Monthly abstract number (used in The Engineering Index Monthly)

MS

Meeting state

MT

Monograph title

MV

Meeting province

MY

Meeting country

NR

Indicates the number of references included in the article.

PC

City in which the publisher is located

PN

Name of the publisher

PP

Pagination of the article in the source publication.

PS

State in which the publisher is located

PV

Publisher province

PY

Country in which the publisher is located

SC

Sponsor city

SD

Serial date

SE

Serial abbreviation

SH

Subheading (used only in records before 1993)

SN

ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)

SP

Sponsor Name

SS

Sponsor state

ST

Serial title

SV

Sponsor province

SY

Sponsor country

TR

Treatment codes define orientation or approach to the subject of the article. May include any number of the following:  Applications (A); Biographical (B); Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey (E); Experimental (X); General Review (G); Historical (H); Literature Review/Bibliography (L); Management Aspects (M); Numeric/Statistical (N); or Theoretical (T)

TT

Translated Title into English

VO

Volume number

XP

Total number of pages

YN

Yearly abstract number

YR

Year of publication

 

Full-text Online

 

Subscribers to Science Direct have online access to the full text of 500 Elsevier Science technology journals.  Go to the abstract record and click on the link for Science Direct.  This will open a brief description of the article with the Table of Contents in another browser window.  There are two choices to view the full text.  Under Summary Plus, choose either Article or Journal Format –PDF.  The Article format allows viewing in HTML format.  PDF format will open Adobe Acrobat Reader in another window

 

Document Delivery

 

To order a document, click on the link for Document Delivery below the abstract.  Follow the link to Linda Hall’s order form.  Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO provides document delivery.  The Library is committed to filling every in-scope, properly cited request within twenty-four hours.  Consult with the Librarian whether your organization has a Document Delivery agreement with the Linda Hall Library.


Saving records

 

Select records wanted by checking the box next to the desired records or click on the hyperlink Select All Shown (which selects records currently displayed). Use the record range pull-down menu to view and select additional records.  View the records using the  “Select Results:” feature, which will display those selected records on the same web page.

 

Go to the browser file menu, click on “Save As,” save the file to disk with a “.txt” file extension, and then open that file in your word processing program.  Alternately, Highlight and copy text, then open a document in your word processor.  Position the cursor where the text is to be inserted, click on edit, then on paste.

 

Printing Search Results

 

Select records to be printed by checking the box next to the desired records or click on the hyperlink Select All Shown (which selects records currently displayed).  If additional records need to be viewed use the record range pull-down menu to view and select additional records. View the records using the “Select Results:”  feature which will display those selected records on the same web page.

Depending on the web browser do the following:

 

For Internet Explorer

·          Go to File, Print or <Ctrl><p>, or use the print icon at the top of the browser.

·          This invokes the printer on the personal computer.

·          In institutions, it invokes the printing procedure sequences of the public terminal that is in use.

 

For Netscape Communicator

·          Go to File, Print or <Ctrl><p>, or use the print icon at the top of the browser.

·          This invokes the printer on the personal computer.

·          In institutions, it invokes the printing procedure sequences of the public terminal that is in use.

 

Another option in Netscape is

·          File, Print Preview, to check the total number of pages that will be printed, or to identify page numbers wanted for printing.

·          Go to File; Print; Print range, ¤ Pages from: o to: o

 

Note: Not all public terminals have printing capabilities or there may be printing charges by page.  Check with the reference librarian or computer lab technician for assistance with printing.

 

Emailing Search Results to an E-mail Address

 

Select records to be e-mailed by checking the box next to the desired records or click on the hyperlink Select All Shown (which selects records currently displayed).  If additional records need to be viewed use the record range pull-down menu to view and select additional records.  View the records using the “Select Results:” feature which will display those selected records on the same web page.

Depending on the web browser your are using:

 

For Internet Explorer

For Netscape Communicator

·                      Go to File

·                      Send 4 Page by E-mail.

·                                     Go to File

·                                      Send Page

 

    This invokes email capabilities to send a web page to an e-mail address.

Note: Public terminals may not have email capabilities.  Check with the reference librarian or computer lab technician for assistance with e-mailing.

 

 

 

Finding Related Information in Compendex or in Website Abstracts

 

A searcher may find related records when searching the following databases: Compendex, Compendex Last Two Weeks Only, or Website Abstracts.  Review Abstracts records and determine which record is most relevant to your information need.  Go to the upper right hand corner of the record to a box with the following heading: "Search for Related Information: "Click on the hyperlink.  The Ei search system will retrieve related records from the same database.

 

 

Finding Related Information in Other Databases

 

A searcher may want to find related information in other databases. Go to the upper right hand corner of the Abstract or Tagged record to a box with the following heading "Execute the original query in a new database:" Click on the hyperlink for the appropriate database.  


Expert Search for Website Abstracts

 

More than 10,000 web sites are abstracted and indexed with descriptors from the Ei Thesaurus.  All websites are selected, reviewed and evaluated based on research value, technical content and relevant information. Search for keywords only.

 

Searchable Fields
Examples
Keywords - A Keyword search will include Ei Subject Terms and words in the Abstract fields of each record. Enter words or phrases; omit punctuation, articles or prepositions.
Semiconductor material WN KY

 

 

Expert Search for U.S. Patents

 

Full-Text Patent database, which currently contains over 6 million patents. Records cover the period from January 1, 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date.

 

Searchable Fields
Examples
Keywords - Enter one or more search terms in the search box.  Enter words or phrases; omit punctuation, articles or prepositions. The search engine autostems terms entered to expand the possible variations of a term.

 

Nanolaminate composites WN KY

Application Number - Search for the Application Number assigned by the US Patent and Trademark Office to patent applications.  Omit any punctuation in your search. The series code is not included in this field, so more than one document may be retrieved based on a single serial number.

 

769422 WN AP

Assignee/Company - Search for the name of the individual or organization to which ownership of the patent was assigned.  Note: the inventor's name is not necessarily searchable in the Assignee Field. You may need to search both fields.

 

Sigma Laboratories WN AF

Inventor - Search for the inventor's name.  Type last name first name. Do not insert a comma between names.

 

Yializis, Angelo AND

Ellwanger,  Richard WN AU

Patent Number - Search for the unique patent number assigned to a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office.  Omit any punctuation in your search.

 

5912069 WN PT

Title - Enter one or more terms in the search box. Enter words or phrases; omit punctuation, articles or prepositions.

 

Metal nanolaminate composites WN TI

 

Expert Search for CRC Press Handbooks

 

CRC Press has developed online access to a database of engineering handbooks in over 25 fields of engineering.  CRC Press Handbooks can be searched by keywords only.

 

Searchable Fields
Examples
Keywords - Enter one or more search terms in the search box.  Enter words or phrases; omit punctuation, articles or prepositions.

 

first radiation constant WN KY

 

Expert Search for Industry Specs and Standards

 

Industry Specs and Standards is a collection from over 300 standards developing organizations worldwide including ASTM, ISO, IEC, API, ASME, ANSI, IEEE, BSI, CSA, SAE, AWWA, AWS, and UL.  Select the field you wish to search by using the drop-down menu above the input box. Select either Keywords. Title, Publisher, Document Number.

 

Searchable Fields

Examples

Document Number - Enter the Document Number.  Omit any punctuation in your search.

 

For AAMI TIR 18-97

Use   TIR18 WN NO

Keywords - Select the field you wish to search by using the drop-down menu above the input box.  Select either Keywords. Title, Publisher, Document Number.

 

RF AND Radiated WN KY

Publisher - Enter the name of the publisher of the standard.

 

AAMI WN PN

Title - Enter one or more terms. Enter words or phrases; omit punctuation, articles or prepositions.

 

Guidance Electromagnetic Compatibility WN TI