Concert Presentation

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• Concert Presentation
• 2002

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Who is Ei?
Washington University, St. Louis,USA
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Our History
1884 Print Publications 1970 Compendex
(COMPuterised ENgineering InDEX) 1980s CD-ROMs
1994 Internet Access 1995 EngineeringVillage
1998 Part of Reed Elsevier Group/ Elsevier
Science 1999 Engineering Direct,
ComputingVillage, PaperVillage 2000
EngineeringVillage 2 2001 PaperVillage2 2002
ChemVillage
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Databases in EV2

• Compendex
• Inspec
• ENGnetBASE CRC Press Handbooks
• Techstreet Industry Specs Standards
• US Patent Office/ESPACENET
• Scirus

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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

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Subjects in Compendex
Mechanical Energy Chemical Optics Civil A
ir 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
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INSPEC on EV2

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

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

• Electrical/Electronics and Computers/Control
• Over 20,000 more abstracts than INSPEC

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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)

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Scope and Coverage

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

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Full Text Cross-Ref (www.crossref.org)

• Operated by Publishers International Linking
  Association, Inc. (PILA) in the US
• 149 publishers participating in CbossRef,
  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 EV2 abstract -gt connected to publisher's
  website -gt 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
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CRC Press Full Text Handbooks

• International publisher of technical handbooks
• 150 Handbooks now online
• Full text searching in PDF database
• Access via ENGnetBASE
• Hyperlink searching from EV2

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CRC Press Handbooks
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Full Text PDFs
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EV2 Unique Features

• Links to Full Text
• Results Manager
• Links to Local Holdings
• Personalization
• Online Usage

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Links to Local Holdings

• allows EV2 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 holdings 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

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Links to Local Holdings How?

• Read LH documentation
• Contact customer.support_at_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

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Abstract page with a link to LH
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The Popup Window
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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

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Online Usage Reports

• Go to http//www.ei.org/ev2/ev2ur.by_cust
• Enter username/password
• Updated every Monday

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Online Usage Reports
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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

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Elsevier Engineering Information are pleased to
introduce the new release
A Java/XML platform
Available November 2002
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Elsevier Engineering Info. comments Clearer
navigation and new page designs. Database
descriptions and search tips have been added to
the various interfaces.
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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.
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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.
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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

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Changes to Compendex

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

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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

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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

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USPTO

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

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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.
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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
  full-text links in Links to Local Holdings

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New EV2 interface Sneak Preview

• Launch and online demos in October.
• Look out for email notifications from Ei!

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PaperVillage 2

• PaperChem 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
  world-wide technical literature on pulp and paper
  including 500 journal titles and 90,000 volumes

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Engineering Information is proud to introduce.
An online information service for applied
chemistry and chemical engineering research
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• We offer the databases
• Chimica
• Chemical Business NewsBase
• Beilstein Abstracts
• Patents
• CRC Press Fulltext Handbooks

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• 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

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• Chemical Business NewsBase - 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
• ChemVillage is the only source for unlimited
  access to CBNB

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• 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

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• 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

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

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• 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.

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

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Ei thank you for your time