Engineering Village Beta, preview new features and product enhancements

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Mon, 07/11/2016 - 04:14

This week, we made Engineering Village Beta search and retrieval available to our customers. As our product, user experience and development teams continue to improve Engineering Village we'd like to share their progress along the way. This month, Engineering Village Beta is featuring our new Results page preview, which plan to launch in August with your input incorporated. We believe the refreshed Results page will make your research more effective, but don't take our word for it - access the new Results page in Beta then tell us what you think. 

How to use Engineering Village Beta:

1.

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Highlights from ASEE's 123rd Annual Conference & Exposition 2016

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 05:18


ASEE's 123rd Annual Conference & Exposition took place June 27-29 in the Big Easy - New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference boasted attendance from over 4,000 leaders across 500 university and college engineering schools. In fact, nearly 90 percentof all U.S. engineering colleges are ASEE members.

ASEE Annual gives librarians, professors, deans, instructors and students a chance to present papers, thought-leadership sessions, network with colleagues and collaborate across academic institutions. It's also a reunion of sorts for the many friendships that started through ASEE divisions. The

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Women in Engineering - Hazel Screen, Engaging communities in sustainable design

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 03:32

Today's spotlight: Hazel Screen, Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Materials

In celebration of #WomeninEngineering, and our June 23rd sponsorship of National Women in Engineering Day in the United Kingdom, we are spotlighting Hazel Screen, Professor and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering & Materials at the Queen Mary University of

London. Learn how Dr. Screen's team is working to develop enhanced rehabilitation aids and prosthetic parts for people. Read Hazel Screen's full interview - Elsevier Connect's Women in Engineering 
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Join Engineering Village at ASEE!

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 23:48

Join the Engineering Village team at ASEE!  Drop by our booth or schedule time to meet with us at one our activities. 
Please also follow @EngVillage #ASEEAnnual for the latest news at the conference.
 

Sunday, June 26 – Tuesday, June 28: Elsevier Booth #519
Engineering Village is hosting “Quick Feedback” sessions with Engineering Village User Experience Specialist, Heather Singleton. Customers will be asked to discuss new designs, concepts, and ideas we have for Engineering Village! Schedule time with Heather. 

Monday, June 27: ELD panel 1:15-2:45

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Women in Engineering - Sarah Bell an environmental engineer researching sustainable urban water systems

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 03:24

Celebrating Women in Engineering

Engineering Village (official sponsor) has partnered with Elsevier Engineering journals to support National Women in Engineering Day (NWED16) in the United Kingdom on June 23rd. In support of #NWED2016, we've launched an international campaign to raise the profile of #womeninengineering. We have interviewed outstanding female engineers to learn about interesting engineering projects that they have worked on over the years to better understand their research and what motivates them.

Today's spotlight: Sarah Bell,
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Now available: Create Custom Names for Saved Searches and Alerts

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 20:33

 

You can now assign a name to your Saved Searches and Alerts.  By default, Saved Searches and Alerts are assigned a name based on the search query used.  With this new feature, you have the option of replacing the default name with any name you choose up to 32 characters.  

Benefits 

  • Creating custom names for Alerts and Saved Searches enables you to better organize and track your research. 
  • Additionally, researchers and librarians who use project codes to track research time or activity can assign a name based on a project code or description.

Steps:

  1. Create an Alert or Saved Search
  2. On the
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New: Recently Published Alerts delivers only the latest engineering research content to your inbox

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 20:31

Recently Published Document Alerts

Engineering Village Alerts are sent weekly on Fridays and contain all documents loaded that week, which match your saved topical Alert choices.  Now, if you only wish to see the most current articles published, you can turn ON the Recently Published Alerts feature, which will limit Alerts to documents that are published only within the past year.  It's simple!

Steps after creating an Alert

  1. On the top menu bar, select Settings, then Alerts & Searches
  2. In the Recently Published column, change OFF to ON
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Why Engineering Village is better than other search tools

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 14:31

Engineering Village: Make your research more effective webinar

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 07:40

Engineering Village is the essential engineering literature and patents platform. We invite you to join our April webinar as presenter, Michael Schwartz, Information Specialist in support of Elsevier’s suite of engineering products, demonstrates the advanatages of conducting engineering research in Engineering Village, as opposed to other non-engineering specific search tools such as, Google and Google Scholar. Michael will also highlight Expert and Thesaurus search, as well as, how to apply our innovative tools to speed search and discovery for more effective research.

Refresh your knowledge

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GEOBASE & GeoRef Webinar: Canada's Disappearing Glaciers, podcast, webcast and more information

Submitted by Megan Stalnaker
on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 20:43

Thank you for joining the Climate Change Challenges: GEOBASE & GeoRef webinar presented by Kevin Lindstrom, Physical Sciences and Engineering Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Kevin highlighted insights derived from the University of British Columbia's in-depth engineering geoscience research, including a podcast by Bob McDonald of CBC's "Quirks & Quarks" where he interviewed, Dr. Garry Clarke, who is leading the way in deglaciation research at the University of British Columbia.  If you'd like to listen to the podcast or learn more about Dr.

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