Engineering Village has a new search engine

Submitted by k.kunal
on Tue, 09/15/2020 - 13:43

Engineering Village is migrating to a new search engine. The new engine will enable the Engineering Village platform to better leverage new search technologies in the future.  After completion of several rounds of customer trials and feedback, the new search engine will be rolled out to all customers on September 30, 2020.  

New features and benefits 

The new search engine will offer several benefits to Engineering Village users: 

  • Fresh indexing of existing content to "fix" some common issues, such as the ability to search only the first author of a publication and better handling of

Engineering Resources for COVID-19 Research

Submitted by bokeefe
on Wed, 05/13/2020 - 13:52

For those of you who are working COVID-19 research, the Engineering Solutions team at Elsevier created an Engineering Resources page for COVID-19 where you will find information and resources relevant to the engineering community. The page includes guidance, early detection technologies, the latest innovations in engineering, personal protective equipment (PPE), personal hygiene engineering control measures, and more.  Elsevier worked in partnership and support with ASHRAE, Dunedin and Taylor & Francis.  The Engineering Resources COVID-19 page can be found here. 

Additional resources from

Engineering Village Completes Migration to New Identity Management System

Submitted by bokeefe
on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 14:05

Engineering Village is pleased to announce the completion of the migration to Elsevier's new Identity Management System.    

The new Identity Management System improves users’ sign in, registration, remote access experience, and enables Single Sign On access across Elsevier products. In addition, the new system allows users access enhanced personalized features and remote access outside institutional IP ranges.  

The new Identity Management System provides the following benefits: 

  • A consistent, simpler user experience for signing in and creating an Elsevier Account, including improved

Improved Login Process

Submitted by bokeefe
on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 13:24

Engineering Village will integrate with Elsevier's new Identity Management System in mid-March 2020, which will improve users’ sign-in, registration and remote access experience, as well as allow for Single-Sign-On across Elsevier products and services in the future. 

This new system will provide a more intuitive user experience especially for end users that take advantage of a variety of Elsevier products and services. There will be some minor changes in the sign-in or registration process when outside of your institutional IP range. 

Please click here to see what may change for you and

Increased Download Limit for Better Big Data Analysis

Submitted by s.juttu@elsevier.com
on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 17:37

The Engineering Village team is constantly watching research trends and talking to users about their research needs.  One trend that continues to grow is the increasing need for big data analysis.  Engineering researchers want larger data sets.  The team at Engineering Village has responded with an increase in the number of records that can be downloaded during a session from 500 to 1,000 records.

EV extends analytics capabilities with 'Inspec Analytics'

Submitted by s.juttu@elsevier.com
on Thu, 10/24/2019 - 19:30

Engineering Village (EV) is continuously updated to ensure that it remains the premier choice of engineering researchers worldwide as they utilize EV to make informed choices about their research. Analytics is one of the key pillars of value in EV, and the recent addition of ‘Engineering Research Profile’ (ERP) to its Compendex database provides users with unique insights into the research output of institutions. With Inspec Analytics (IA), EV now expands these capabilities to the Inspec database as well.

EV users with access to Compendex & Inspec

Compendex Tags Open Access Articles

Submitted by s.juttu@elsevier.com
on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 03:54

Open access (OA) documents are an important and growing part of engineering research.  Peer-reviewed scholarly articles in engineering research literature are increasingly available online, without restrictions. Starting August 2019, Compendex will have over 1 million documents tagged as Open Access. Each Open Access document is peer reviewed and free to read and download. 

Researchers will find Open Access documents indicated in 2 ways within Compendex:

  • Open Access indicator at the end of an article title – Each open access article will be
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Compendex Value Page

Submitted by bokeefe
on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 19:17

Compendex on Engineering Village helps engineers quickly assess the engineering research landscape with ease. As the broadest and most complete engineering literature database in the world, it covers 190+ engineering-related disciplines and content dating back to 1884.

If you have an engineering research question, it’s likely that Compendex can help you answer it.

To help you get a broad overview of what’s available, Engineering Village now contains a Compendex overview page. It gives a visual overview of publications years, document types, and subject areas.

Collaborate With Colleagues Using Engineering Village

Submitted by bokeefe
on Thu, 06/06/2019 - 19:54

When you come across some great search results, you may want to share those insights with colleagues.

Engineering Village just added a “share search” feature that allows you to quickly capture a search result page and forward it on to a colleague. Whether you’re working on a collaborative project with another engineer or simply found something of interest that’s worth passing on, the “share search” feature helps you do it quickly.

With Engineering Village’s other personalization features, you can also “create alerts” to stay on top of new

EV is a CODiE Finalist ... Again!

Submitted by s.juttu@elsevier.com
on Mon, 05/06/2019 - 18:32

Engineering Village was named a 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist in the "Best Content Search & Discovery Solution" category, which recognizes the best search technology that delivers added context to end users and drives a more productive, intuitive search experience. It is noteworthy that EV was named the Winner of the 2018 CODiE award in the same category. This marks the second consecutive year that EV has been named a CODiE finalist. 

 

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information

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