Engineering Village 2

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Guide to Searching
Engineering Village 2
(1970-)

Databases in Engineering Village 2 include: Compendex, Scirus, online patents, standards, and some of the titles in ENGNetBASE. All these databases share the same interface, but do not have all fields searchable in common and each database must be searched separately. Compendex is the Internet version of Engineering Index. Abstracts come from engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are covered and the database is updated weekly. This guide focuses on Compendex.

Access Engineering Village 2
From the Auburn University Libraries e-gateway homepage:
(http://www.lib.auburn.edu)
Click on Find Articles and then click on either Indexes & Databases by Subject or Indexes & Databases by Title. If you choose the first option scroll down until you see the subject "Engineering" in the left hand column. Look a little to your right, and then choose Engineering Village 2.

QUICK SEARCH
The Quick Search offers a line for simple keyword searches aided by pull-down windows.
Search In offers searchers the ability to search by one particular field. Useful for searching for articles in a particular journal.
Limit By narrows searches to a specific document type. Useful if one only wishes to search for journal articles.
Treatment Types narrows searches to a particular type of research. Useful if one needs to find a General Review article for a topic.
Searches can be performed for any combination of years from 1970 to the Present.
Note: Recommend sort by publication year instead of the default of relevance.

EXPERT SEARCH
The Expert Search offers a command-line interface for more complex searches.

FIELDS (Compendex) Codes
Ei Subject Terms CV
Title Words TI
Authors AU
Author Affiliation AF
Serial Titles ST
Abstracts AB
Publishers PN
Keyword/Title/Abstract KY
All Fields ALL
Identifiers FL
Document Type DT
ISBN BN
ISSN SN
Language LA

Examples: (polymer* WN ST)
(crack propagation WN CV)
(metcalfe WN AU)
Note: WN means within.
All examples done in Expert Search.

LOGICAL CONNECTORS:

AND
Utilities AND deregulation
Finds records in which both terms are mentioned, but does not specify order or relationship of terms.

OR
building OR structure
Finds records in which either or both terms are present; does not specify order or relationship of terms. Useful for synonyms, i.e., rule OR law OR regulation.

NOT
utilities NOT deregulation
Finds records in which the first term is present and then excludes records in which the second term appears. Use with caution as it’s easy to NOT out
valuable records.

NEAR
bridge NEAR piling*
Finds records in which the terms are within five words of each other (an alias for W/5), order or relationship not specified.

STEMMING
$esters
Finds records that begin with any prefix and share the same root. This example will find ester, esters, esterfication, etc.

WILDCARDING
educat*

Retrieves records in which the stem and multiple endings appear, i.e., educate,
education, educating. For a stem and one additional letter, i.e., cat or cats (but not category or cater), use parentheses and the OR connector: (cat
or cats).

SAVING/PRINTING RESULTS
You have several display options once your search is complete using the View Selections, E-mail, Print, Download, and Save to Folder buttons. Records can be displayed by Citation, Abstract, or Detailed record options.

· Browse the title list and select the ones you want to save or print by clicking in the box to left of the citation. Then in the yellow box at the top, choose the format and choose the output.

· If choosing Print, then click on the Print icon in the EV2 screen to print results.

· If choosing E-mail, type in the desired email address.

Note: in all displayed records hyperlinks will lead to other indexed records associated with the hyperlink. For example, a bibliography of all articles published by the author.

ARTICLE ACCESS
Click on the yellow full-text icon at the end of an abstract for online full-text.

Finally, searchers may check to see if items are available in AubieCat before ordering. If not, documents may be ordered from the Linda Hall library and the AU library will cover the first $40 of cost for each article.
Order Instructions
· From the article abstract, click on Linda Hall Library document delivery service hyperlink.
· Click on the next Linda Hall Library hyperlink.
· Click on Online Request Form hyperlink.
· Mark these buttons on order form:
· Base Price (Academic)
· Email or FAX
· Deposit Account
· Any other options will incur charges that will be borne by the requester.
· All rush charges are at users expense.
· Print online receipt and save.
· IT IS IMPORTANT USERS COPY THE CITATION EXACTLY INTO THE ORDER, OR THE LINDA HALL LIBRARY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FILL THE ORDER.

The Linda Hall Library will send users an invoice. Please bring it to the Library ILL office where we will settle the billing. Otherwise the orderer must pay the bill.