Ei-Compendex First choice for serious engineering research Quality Requirements for Indexing Engineering Conferences and Journals Document Prepared by Judy Salk Director of Product Management, Content, Engineering Village Ahmed Helmy Engineering Solutions Manager, Africa Content • Introduction • Ei Compendex & Engineering Village Overview • Content Selection Criteria • Publication Ethics and Title Re-evaluation Program • Advice for Authors and Publishers • Appendix 1 • Apendex 2 Introduction Under the umbrella of The Egyptian Knowledge Bank, Elsevier is partnering with the Ministry of Higher Education and The EKB to engage with all faculties of Engineering and Egyptian Research Centers in a long term project to support the engineering research activities and publications in Egypt. With the coordination with EKB, Elsevier will continuously organize live and online workshops, and when needed provide direct support, for all the Egyptian Engineering academic & research community focusing on best practices and international quality standards for Engineering Conferences and Journals. Working with all stakeholders to adopt Ei Compendex content evaluation criteria as a guide to the needed efforts and strategies to raise the quality, visibility and profile of the Egyptian Engineering journals & conferences, setting a clear path for the different publications to be evaluated for indexing on Compendex once it meets the needed quality standards, which in turn will raise the international recognition, visibility, and profile of the Egyptian Engineering publications. This initiative has been kick started in a live workshop lead by the Compendex Content team for the chosen representatives of Egyptian Engineering research community and institutions, on the 25th of February, 2019. EI Compendex & Engineering Village Overview | 5 | 5 Engineering Village – First Choice for Serious Engineering Researchers A specialized Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) research platform with 13 databases focused on providing the content and intelligence that engineering researchers need to perform in their fields. | 6 What is Engineering Village? - A single platform to access 13 engineering databases Compendex Ei Backfile Inspec Inspec Archive GEOBASE GeoRef Chimica CBNB EnCompassLIT EnCompassPAT PaperChem NTIS USPTO EPO WIPO | 7 Ei & Engineering Village Milestones Ei and Engineering Village are established brands 136 years of indexing engineering literature 1995 2008 1954 Engineering First beam 1884 1M Records Village (EV) circulated in Engineering Launched Engineering 1991 Large 2013 Index (Ei) Index World Wide Hadron (“Index Notes”) Web became Collider Compendex at founded 1887 >16M Records 1957 First available to the 2004 Exploration (CERN) Eiffel 1998 satellite public Rover became Tower launched Elsevier active on Mars Built in space buys Ei 2015 Dissertations Added 2017 Books & Standards Added 1970 Compendex 1977 2018 1919 Launched Trans-Alaska Formula Pipeline System discovered for the completed Compendex at chlorination of urban water 2003 > 25.2 M records 1998 Ei Backfile First Digitized 2009 th MP3 (1884–1969) Ei’s 125 Player Anniversary Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world ~23.4M records (1970 to-date) Journals and growing NEW >1.78M records 1.3M records Standards Conference Records from Ei Backfile added annually Proceedings 1884–1969 1970 to-date Compendex Full text linking via DOIs NEW 190 engineering subject areas Trade 2,291 publishers from 78 countries Journals Books/ChaptersDissertations Book Series Compendex Content Sources 1969 (Ei Backfile) ◦ 190 engineering disciplines ◦ 27,000 records added weekly ◦ 2,291 publishers Areas as Example : ◦ 3,639 journals ◦ General Engineering ◦ 88,317 conference proceedings ◦ Applied Physics, including Optics ◦ 84 book series ◦ Bioengineering and Biotechnology ◦ 87,328 dissertations ◦ Food Science and Technology Content size ◦ Materials Science ◦ 22+ million records >1970 ◦ Instrumentation, including Medical Devices ◦ 10.9 million journal articles ◦ Nanotechnology ◦ 6.4 million conference papers ◦ 1.78 million records from 1884- Diverse Coverage Artificial Intelligence 3D Printing Intelligence demonstrated by machines Creation of a three-dimensional object by joining/solidifying materials under computer control Neural Networks Computing systems inspired by biological neural networks Optical Waveguides The key elements of photonic devices to process optical signals. Industry 4.0 The current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies Steel A major component used in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, automobiles, machines, appliances, and weapons. Corrosion The gradual destruction of materials by chemical and/or electrochemical reaction with their environment Secondary Batteries A type of electrical battery which can be recharged many times after use Biomechanics The study of the structure and function of the mechanical aspects of biological systems using the methods of mechanics Nanotechnology Molecular motors: nature's nanomachines | 11 Compendex is Key for Conferences • Conferences are increasingly used as a an important channel for scholarly 34% 46% communication in engineering and computer science. 1970–2013 2014–2018 • Compendex is at the forefront of capturing this trend. 66% 54% • Increased coverage of conference papers with a focus on computer sciences and expanded geographic coverage. Journals Conferences Conference Expansion Program — Now Complete! No Permission Coverage Backfill from 2005 – 2014 194 Titles Processed Years (9 years) >1,000 New Conference Titles Number of 1,017 Project Project Forward >6,000 Conference Events Began: End Date: Flow: Conferences 2011 Q3 2014 2014+ >400K Conference Papers Abstracting & Indexing process • Thesaurus-based indexing (since 1884) • Controlled vocabulary designed and maintained by Subject Matter Experts • Domain-specific vocabulary used in indexing • Chemical & numerical data indexing • Subject-specific Indexing: → Delivers high precision & recall → Saves time → Resolves spelling variations/acronyms → Account for synonyms & homographs Controlled terms Classification Codes Uncontrolled terms Conference Info Conference Codes NEW NEW Numerical Data Indexing Chemical Indexing Indexing drives precision search and retrieval Terms and Expressions Materials used Various mechanisms Type of batteries Indexing drives precision search and retrieval Engineer is directed to term “Secondary batteries” in Thesaurus Search on Engineering Village and retrieves needed results | 15 STANDARDS in Compendex Facilitating search and discovery for students, researchers, and engineers needing important technical specifications, from the world’s most respected standards development organizations Quality + Diversity … + And more are coming in Q1 2019 Relevancy = Comprehensive Content for Delivering Better Research Results | 16 BOOKS in Compendex Increasing the breadth of valuable engineering content through the addition of more books, book chapters, and book editorials sourced from leading engineering-focused publishers. Quality + Diversity + Relevancy = Comprehensive Content for Delivering Better Research Results NEW and others… | 17 Numerical Data Indexing Problem: Numerical data values are written in myriad ways in scientific literature, making it difficult to retrieve a comprehensive result set when searching on numerical data. Solution: Numerical Data Indexing that standardizes numerical values. Benefit: Retrieval of the most complete result set when searching on numerical quantities and ranges. | 18 Numeric Search Filter for Compendex (& Inspec) Engineering Village is the only platform that enables NUMERIC SEARCH across Compendex and Inspec, via our innovative NUMERICAL DATA INDEXING technology. • One easy-to-use search filter allows you to search by scientific units and to conduct a search for a numerical range • 62 different physical and chemical properties indexed for Compendex • Over 6.5 million records available for searching within the Compendex and Inspec databases simultaneously • 460,000 different ways of writing numerical data — matched, converted and standardized Through numerical data indexing and numeric search on Engineering Village, researchers have access to documents that may not have been discovered via text-only searching. | 19 Chemical Indexing in Compendex Controlled indexing for inorganic chemical compounds, alloys and materials • Nonstoichiometry and syntax • Case insensitivity/search noise: e.g. Indium (In) or “in this paper” • Special symbols: Ba(Zr0.1Ce0.7Y0.2)O3-δ • Nomenclature: iron(III) chloride Ei Indexing Magnesium alloys (Mg) Neodymium alloys (Nd) Zinc alloys (Zn) Zirconium alloys (Zr) | 20 Author/Affiliation Search User Problem: Difficult to locate all the papers for a particular author/affiliation due to the name variances that exist for a single author. Answer: Users will now be able to search for authors and affiliations in Compendex on EV against normalized/disambiguated author and affiliation records. Value: More accurate results faster for Compendex authors and affiliations. Content Selection Criteria Successful journal selection is a combination of different factors Quality Scientific quality of the content published, but also publishing format and (ethical) standards followed Successful journal Diversity selection Relevancy There is (international) The content type and diversity in the subject are relevant to authorship and editorial the (international)