GEOBASE and GeoRef Enhanced Map Features

Submitted by Sally Fell
on Wed, 05/31/2017 - 10:08

Location based information adds additional insights to basic research and data analysis. GEOBASE and GeoRef users have access to updated map features on the Engineering Village platform. The Show map feature enables users to put their research results into geographical context by visually representing the location of the document topics retrieved via a search within GEOBASE or GeoRef. Researchers can click on any of the map points and refine their search to that location. Additionally, maps have been updated to include a high quality terrain map and links to the GeoFacets database.

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GeoRef
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Customize your output with new sort features

Submitted by Pierre van Doorn
on Thu, 05/11/2017 - 13:18

Engineering Village has added the ability for users to select up to 10 different ways to sort records before downloading, printing or emailing records.

What is new?
Users of Engineering Village can now sort their output in a way to make record analysis easier to and keep their research organized.  For example, a user who wants to identify all papers by a specific author within their selected records set can sort by author name, and then output the records in the sorted format.

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Introducing Engineering Village Chat: Talk to Product Specialists 24/7

Submitted by Pierre van Doorn
on Fri, 04/21/2017 - 10:50

All Engineering Village users can now get support from Engineering Village product specialists 24/7 via the new Chat support feature.

Users can get immediate help from Engineering Village support team members at any point during their research activities, any time of day and any day of the week. The support specialists have a deep knowledge of both the product platform features and content.  Users can interact with a support team member in real time which enables follow-up questions and further clarification on inquiries.

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product release; customer support

Customize your Search with your favorite search fields

Submitted by Pierre van Doorn
on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 13:03

Engineering Village makes it easier to use favorite fields for future searching. Users can now employ a new option for customized and personal searching. Result: less time and fewer clicks are needed to construct a new search, saving valuable research time. 

What has changed?
The researcher’s most-used or favorite fields can now be saved and used every time the researcher logs in as a registered user.  The user does not need to spend time choosing fields from the drop down list each time a new search session is begun. Searching becomes easier!

How it works
Registered users can customize the

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Numeric search enables deep investigations across Ei Compendex & Inspec on Engineering Village

Submitted by Pierre van Doorn
on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 14:49

New functionality allows searches by meters, temperature, data bits and more than 60 other measurement units

By Marilynn Larkin

Summary: Engineers will no longer be stymied by the many ways numerical data appears in the literature. Forget about searching on qualitative terms such as “big,” “short,” “heavy” or “shallow.” Numeric search—new functionality for Compendex and Inspec on Engineering Village—lets you search directly on the specific terms that matter to you, and receive standardized results in the format of your choice.

Streamline your searches

Numerical data is often used by

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numeric property search

Numeric Search: Work faster, Open Up New Lines of Investigation on Compendex/Inspec

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 23:51

By Marilynn Larkin

Research projects that involve building an 11 km tunnel through an urban area…a new way to produce high-strength steel that might be patentable…a design for an airport surface communications system that needs compliant radio communications technologies….

What’s the fastest way to get the information you need to complete your engineering projects? Numeric search – an easy-to-use feature that overcomes the major obstacle to identifying relevant research based on numeric data.

Enjoy the power

Historically, trying to locate relevant research using numeric data has been

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numeric property search
numeric filter
compendex
Inspec
product release

Engineering Village: 2016 Highlights

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 17:51

By Sally Fell

As we close out 2016, the Engineering Village team would like to thank our customers and wish you the very best for 2017.  We will continue to evolve the Engineering Village platform to meet our customer’s changing needs.  Let’s take a look back at the achievements made this year:

Grant Funding – Users who want to identify grant funding resources or track projects sponsored by funding agencies can use three new grant funding fields in Compendex, GEOBASE, EnCompassLIT, Chemica and PaperChem.

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2016 highlights
numeric search
grant funding
API

Gender in the Global Research Landscape: Focus on Engineering

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Fri, 12/09/2016 - 17:32

By Marilynn Larkin 

Gender diversity issues pervade all scientific disciplines in all key arenas, including the workplace, publishing and leadership/innovation. In a recent Engineering Village webinar, Dr. Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Elsevier’s Vice President, Global Academic Relations and co-chair of Elsevier's Gender Working Group, and Nita Patel, founder of the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference and Systems and Software Engineering Director at L-3 Warrior Systems, explored the issues and highlighted initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality.

Elsevier is keenly

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WIE
diversity & inclusion
women in engineering
gender research

Navigating Your Engineering Career Path: A Unique Strategy

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Fri, 11/11/2016 - 01:30

By Marilynn Larkin

Work…family…career planning…hobbies. How can you take that dream engineering job and ensure you don’t put the rest of your life on hold or on the back burner? Dr. Christine Grant, Academic Resilience Strategist, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Dean of Faculty Advancement at the North Carolina State College of Engineering shows you how in Engineering Village’s Navigating Your Engineereing Career Path webinar, now archived and available for viewing free of charge.         

Dr.

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women in engineering
Women in STEM
Dr. Christine Grant
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Get the most out of Engineering Village with the new Get Started tutorials

Submitted by Pierre van Doorn
on Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:15

‘’These five quick paced, fun videos cover search options in Engineering Village that grab students’ attention and gets out that all important message of using quality research with just a few clicks to save time.You can use this in the classroom, at the reference desk and it’s also great for virtual reference. I recommend you check it out!’’

Bonnie Osif, Engineering Librarian at Penn State University                

Time - we all want more of it!

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