Indexing capabilities across Engineering Village help users find more relevant search results. Now, Inspec on Engineering Village has just made it easier to find astronomical objects.

Astronomical indexing within the Inspec database enables users to search for individual astronomical objects. These could include items like constellations, galaxies, star clusters and nebula. Astronomical Indexing is a way of controlling the literature by collecting together celestial objects with standardized designations.

Using the Astronomical indexing, a user can limit to a celestial object in the form of

In 2018, Engineering Village helped users improve their research success by adding valuable standards and patents content, improving the search experience, and de-mystifying the engineering research landscape at institutions across the globe.

Whether you’re new to EV or a seasoned veteran, the below year-in-review summary can help you get up to speed on the latest and greatest product enhancements. Or, if you’d like to see how engineers are using EV to produce results, read these two new solution stories. The first shows how an engineer found a permanent solution to a gas condensate plant

A patent is a government authority or license that provides a sole title to an invention or innovation for a certain length of time, protecting the originator’s rights to sell, make, or use an invention.

Since engineers are often on the front line of innovation, understanding the patent landscape around a field of interest is of utmost importance. A patent literature search is often done to ensure that proprietary innovations are just that – proprietary – and help engineers and their institutions avoid litigation or wasted time.

Still, patent literature review is sometimes overlooked as part

Standards are cornerstones of engineering research, design & development, and manufacturing. Along with documentation like journals, books, patents, and more, standards help organizations build the world.

In a continuation of our strategy from the beginning of the year, Compendex on Engineering Village has added the complete set of active standards from ASCE, the American Society of Civil Engineers. This renowned society provides “technical guidelines for promoting safety, reliability, productivity, and efficiency in civil engineering.